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Mr. Hartman, I hope the university revokes your season ticket (assuming you own tickets, which is unlikely). You clearly do not understand college football, or any sport at any level. The new uniforms are symbolic of the bravery these young men exhibit every time they step on the field wearing crimson and cream. And I'm tired of people complaining about money being wasted on athletics. Maybe if you did some research before writing your letter you would know that the athletic department actually donated $3 million to OU's academic departments, helping to prevent increases in tuition or any layoffs. I think the university should continue to invest in the athletic programs as they produce a much larger return in profit then other campus related activities.

That has got to be the most asinine and totally misinformed letter I have ever read in my life.

Wow, someone sounds a bit upset. Should we also ban the use of Under Armor? Sports are full of combat related analogies. Close, high scoring games have been called shootouts for decades. How about bullet passes, linemen in the trenches, or Blitzing (from Blitzkrieg)?

While you do raise some important points regarding how collegiate athletics are used to generate profits, and how that profit is spent, your criticism's tone causes it to lose a lot of steam with me. I also highly doubt Nike forced us to wear new jerseys. Teams do this all the time. Have you seen Oregon's new jerseys? They are almost as ugly as their old, new jerseys.

This has got to be the worst garbage I have ever had to read in my life. What do you expect us to wear if we aren't going to wear uniforms made my a major manufacturer such as Nike, homemade jerseys knitted by player's mothers? The new uniforms are modeled to look similar to players in the Bud Wilkinson era, to honor them. If you honestly are offended by the battle analogy then you are way to sensitive. As has been mentioned previously sports are full of references to war and battle. Get over it. In response to your comments on the stadium, the renovations are to improve the fan experience and to use as recruiting tools. If you expect a good product to be put on the football field than you need to produce quality facilities which starts with a great stadium, which he have. I have been to most all of the big 12 schools and our stadium ranks among the top. You obviously were intrigued enough to pay the $79 dollars for your end zone seats so it's obviously working. If you don't like the way our athletic program runs things then maybe you should do us all a favor and choose a different team. To insult Joe Castiglione is even more asinine than anything you said, which is shocking. He is one of, if not the top athletic director in the country. In respect of true sooner fans, do not write into the paper again. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

First, the new scoreboard is a huge improvement. If it's modeled "to look like Times Square", then I am all for it.

Second, it's a college football game. Of course it's going to be loud. If you ears can't take it, stay home.

Third, I can hear the Pride just fine, and so can my parents who sit on the other side of the stadium. I honestly don't understand where that point is coming from. I have never heard anyone complain about the volume of the band.

Going to OU football games is one of the highlights of the Fall semester. Uniforms, music, whatever - it's all part of the experience. The team could come out wearing chicken suits for all I care, as long as they play some football, it's all good.

Dear OUDaily,
Why would you print this drivel? Why did you allow a bitter, hateful idiot to vent in our school paper?

Seriously, is this letter a joke? Your arguments honestly sound like somebody poking fun at a nerd stereotype. We're all really sorry that the head cheerleader looked right through you in high school, but life isn't always fair, buddy.

P.S. Looking up words like "puerile" and "fois-gras" and smattering them into to your pathetic little letter don't make your points any less retarded.

Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, just as all of you are entitled to think that the author of this letter is an "idiot." Did any of you ever think that the reason The Daily printed this letter was because they don't want to be biased to only the views of the people they agree with, but want to show all opinions, whether those opinions resemble their own, or your own for that matter?

I do not agree with the author in that big corporations such as Nike do not belong on campus, because those big corporations do bring in a lot of revenue for the university. But you don't see me slandering him and calling him names and telling him to pick another team. I respect his views and opinions. By calling him names and telling him to go somewhere else lowers your own self to a level that I am ashamed to call you fellow Sooners. I can't believe The Daily printed your responses to the letter, but, as I said before, they are trying to be unbiased.

"my eardrums were bleeding."

Poor baby. Might I suggest Cricket instead. Or, how about just staying home and cuddling up next to the final Twilight book.

"What does not belong on campus are corporate sponsors like Nike"

With that argument we might as well shut down half the University. This ENTIRE campus runs partly on corporate sponsors. Why do you think they call it PRICE hall, or GAYLORD hall? Why do you think companies like ConocoPhillips, Chesapeake and others are so prevalent?

I'm sorry sir, but your philosophy is flawed.

p.s. using "fois-gras" does not add validity to your argument.

And here comes the army of brainless football-obsessed drones to boost for the team!

@mouse,
Why would you respect his opinions? My respect needs to be earned. If the author had voiced his opinions in any way other than a whiny, embittered way, he might have received more sympathy. I respect the fact that he has strong opinions out of a general respect for my fellow man, but that doesn't bleed over into respect for the opinions themselves.
After all, you don't respect our opinions that writing this letter to the OUDaily was done out of hateful ignorance. I will defend my school by voicing my opposition of such mean-spirited attacks printed in our school paper, and I am equally ashamed of you.

Leimpapa,

I respect the fact that everyone has his/her own opinion, I was not saying that the author deserved my respect, but his opinion, and anyone else's opinion, gets my respect because we are all entitled to our own opinion - it's called freedom of speech. And, unfortunately, that freedom is also entitled to name-callers such as yourself. I defend my university, too, just like you. But, my being ashamed of you comes from the fact that you lowered yourself to a standard that I would like to see done away with; I do not approve of name-calling and bashing. I respect your opinion in that you don't agree with the author, but I don't respect you as a person for how your opinion was stated. A simple "I disagree with you, and here's why..." would have sufficed, but when you resort to name-calling, which, in my opinion, is childish, I lose respect for you.

@mouse
Idiocy-
1. utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.
2. the state of being an "idiot."

I see no sense in this article and feel that using such extremes for hyperbole as the author did is tantamount to a foolish act in that he wrote this to our school paper. I did not extrapolate on my opinion of this author for the sake of avoiding appearing pretentious and self-righteous like certain others choose to be. If you refer to the above definition you'll realize that I was merely trying to save time in my description of my admittedly biased opinion of the author.

In all honesty, I am not ashamed of you. I was merely pointing out the hollowness of such a statement. You're an anonymous internet poster. I couldn't care less about you as a person because I don't know you as a person. The fact that you felt you knew me well enough to be ashamed of me as nothing more than a fellow Sooner is a little sad and honestly kind of creepy. I swear, if you're the one who's always sitting outside my apartment in that shady van...