bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
OldenBear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
Okay, that deserves a little more background info. Having never been to one, what's the deal? Is this to keep the crowd from rushing the food vendors?
I was enjoying it with my daughter but there were two armed ucpd cops there for the Minnesota game on the northwest corner of the Glade. They were nice, but it was completely unnecessary. I mean fully decked out like riot police from head to toe with semiautomatic rifles in hand. I asked them why this was necessary and they said it was just to keep us safe. There were two more at Memoral stadium guarding the Tunnel. The experience, sans that, was good. Only one food vendor serving brisket and a drink vendor and Pepsi popup tent. Fun house stuff for the kids. That was cool, but we did not like the military style police. I get that someone set a ucpd cop car on fire awhile back when they were cracking down on students for protesting, but it doesn't necessitate this. It was disappointing. Had a feeling this was coming when we hired the head of us capitol police to run campus police.Sebastabear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
This feels like some sort of alternate reality take on what is a pretty fun space. I've never seen a single armed anything at the village and I've visited it for both home games. What I have seen is a giant screen television (honestly bigger than the minitron at Memorial) showing other football games. I have seen the Chancellor dancing with Oski on the stage. I've seen live music and I have seen a tent occupied by the Calgorithm guys.
Oh and a lot of bounce houses and play areas for kids.
Yeah, but OTHER THAN THAT it's a total hellscape.
bearsandgiants said:Sebastabear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
This feels like some sort of alternate reality take on what is a pretty fun space. I've never seen a single armed anything at the village and I've visited it for both home games. What I have seen is a giant screen television (honestly bigger than the minitron at Memorial) showing other football games. I have seen the Chancellor dancing with Oski on the stage. I've seen live music and I have seen a tent occupied by the Calgorithm guys.
Oh and a lot of bounce houses and play areas for kids.
Yeah, but OTHER THAN THAT it's a total hellscape.
I was enjoying it with my daughter but there were two armed ucpd cops there for the Minnesota game on the northwest corner of the Glade. They were nice, but it was completely unnecessary. I mean fully decked out like riot police from head to toe with semiautomatic rifles in hand. I asked them why this was necessary and they said it was just to keep us safe. There were two more at Memoral stadium guarding the Tunnel. The experience, sans that, was good. Only one food vendor serving brisket and a drink vendor and Pepsi popup tent. Fun house stuff for the kids. That was cool, but we did not like the military style police. I get that someone set a ucpd cop car on fire awhile back when they were cracking down on students for protesting, but it doesn't necessitate this. It was disappointing. Had a feeling this was coming when we hired the head of us capitol police to run campus police.
bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
People can joke but it's an extreme danger nowadays that our offense is improving with a real QB. It used to be that we could go almost the entire season with no artillery fire but now it's every game at home. We need a robust military response on standby to combat itEastern Oregon Bear said:
It's been an open secret for years that Radical leftists fire off artillery from Tightwad Hill during football games. The UCPD tactical units are needed to protect and defend against the terrorists.
Is this what "sun's out, guns out" means? I always hear the youngins say that but now I finally get itPAC-10-BEAR said:
Beer, tacos, sun, guns, fun!
HoopDreams said:
Oski Village has potential. Pluses are the kids jump houses, the large screen, and the music (band or DJ)
It has food trucks and rentable tents for groups, and because it's on campus has a lot more atmosphere than Tailgate Town. For the Minnesota game they had the Pepsi Challenge which was cool. There were two small sponsor booths on the side. Hopefully that expands too.
It would have been great if they moved the Cal Athletic Fund tailgate there too, but Memorial Glade probably isn't big enough, especially as Oski Village grows. Right now, I don't think many people even know about it. I hope they will add more picnic tables or other places to sit.
I am really hopeful this can grow in size and activities as it's got potential.
Check it out.
OldenBear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
Okay, that deserves a little more background info. Having never been to one, what's the deal? Is this to keep the crowd from rushing the food vendors?
TedfordTheGreat said:HoopDreams said:
Oski Village has potential. Pluses are the kids jump houses, the large screen, and the music (band or DJ)
It has food trucks and rentable tents for groups, and because it's on campus has a lot more atmosphere than Tailgate Town. For the Minnesota game they had the Pepsi Challenge which was cool. There were two small sponsor booths on the side. Hopefully that expands too.
It would have been great if they moved the Cal Athletic Fund tailgate there too, but Memorial Glade probably isn't big enough, especially as Oski Village grows. Right now, I don't think many people even know about it. I hope they will add more picnic tables or other places to sit.
I am really hopeful this can grow in size and activities as it's got potential.
Check it out.
genuine question. How come we don't have a scene like the Grove? Obviously, that's the gold standard, but why is that we don't have a tailgating option AT ALL before games, considering that we have a on campus stadium and there are plenty of lawns and grass area? Blind to the history of it if someone can shed a light
Sebastabear said:TedfordTheGreat said:HoopDreams said:
Oski Village has potential. Pluses are the kids jump houses, the large screen, and the music (band or DJ)
It has food trucks and rentable tents for groups, and because it's on campus has a lot more atmosphere than Tailgate Town. For the Minnesota game they had the Pepsi Challenge which was cool. There were two small sponsor booths on the side. Hopefully that expands too.
It would have been great if they moved the Cal Athletic Fund tailgate there too, but Memorial Glade probably isn't big enough, especially as Oski Village grows. Right now, I don't think many people even know about it. I hope they will add more picnic tables or other places to sit.
I am really hopeful this can grow in size and activities as it's got potential.
Check it out.
genuine question. How come we don't have a scene like the Grove? Obviously, that's the gold standard, but why is that we don't have a tailgating option AT ALL before games, considering that we have a on campus stadium and there are plenty of lawns and grass area? Blind to the history of it if someone can shed a light
As a genuine answer, that's exactly what Oski Village is trying to do. Anyone can rent a tent there. The company will set up and take down the tent and I think even provide the food.
There's probably only a half dozen or so now but at some point the hope is you'd have 100 tents being rented out. We are two games into the experiment and most of the tents are being donated. Cal gave one to the Calgorithm group for example. The black bear group has been given another.
We'll see if it catches on.
Sebastabear said:TedfordTheGreat said:HoopDreams said:
Oski Village has potential. Pluses are the kids jump houses, the large screen, and the music (band or DJ)
It has food trucks and rentable tents for groups, and because it's on campus has a lot more atmosphere than Tailgate Town. For the Minnesota game they had the Pepsi Challenge which was cool. There were two small sponsor booths on the side. Hopefully that expands too.
It would have been great if they moved the Cal Athletic Fund tailgate there too, but Memorial Glade probably isn't big enough, especially as Oski Village grows. Right now, I don't think many people even know about it. I hope they will add more picnic tables or other places to sit.
I am really hopeful this can grow in size and activities as it's got potential.
Check it out.
genuine question. How come we don't have a scene like the Grove? Obviously, that's the gold standard, but why is that we don't have a tailgating option AT ALL before games, considering that we have a on campus stadium and there are plenty of lawns and grass area? Blind to the history of it if someone can shed a light
As a genuine answer, that's exactly what Oski Village is trying to do. Anyone can rent a tent there. The company will set up and take down the tent and I think even provide the food.
There's probably only a half dozen or so now but at some point the hope is you'd have 100 tents being rented out. We are two games into the experiment and most of the tents are being donated. Cal gave one to the Calgorithm group for example. The black bear group has been given another.
We'll see if it catches on.
okaydo said:OldenBear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
Okay, that deserves a little more background info. Having never been to one, what's the deal? Is this to keep the crowd from rushing the food vendors?
Unfortunately, the Oski fandom has split into two different factions: the peace-loving Oskies and the agressive Oskettes.
The armed police are there to ensure that a gang war doesn't break out.
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We're all keyboard warriors - we can't meet IRL!HoopDreams said:
BI should get a tent. Pretty sure we can raise enough here to pay for it
glutton said:
Zero food trucks at Oski's Village today. I shoukhave taken the free shuttle from West Circle to Maxwell.
Econ141 said:glutton said:
Zero food trucks at Oski's Village today. I shoukhave taken the free shuttle from West Circle to Maxwell.
Horrible - planned a whole thing with kids and there were no food trucks so no food for them and then the kids zone was the worst thing in the world. A place to throw a football through a hole but they didn't have a ball!
So NO - Oski's village is not worth it
This is totally unacceptableglutton said:
Zero food trucks at Oski's Village today. I should have taken the free shuttle from West Circle to Maxwell.
bearsandgiants said:glutton said:
Zero food trucks at Oski's Village today. I should have taken the free shuttle from West Circle to Maxwell.
This is totally unacceptable
Sebastabear said:bearsandgiants said:
If you like armed police officers with assault rifles staring at you, yes! Thanks, Chancellor Lyons. I feel safe.
This feels like some sort of alternate reality take on what is a pretty fun space. I've never seen a single armed anything at the village and I've visited it for both home games. What I have seen is a giant screen television (honestly bigger than the minitron at Memorial) showing other football games. I have seen the Chancellor dancing with Oski on the stage. I've seen live music and I have seen a tent occupied by the Calgorithm guys.
Oh and a lot of bounce houses and play areas for kids.
Yeah, but OTHER THAN THAT it's a total hellscape.
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