Security Experts Tackle Safety at College Stadiums

December 28, 2007

  • December 28, 2007 at 1:33 am
    Saints Fan says:
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    Could someone brief me on the MS and Memphis, TN murder of athletes?

  • December 28, 2007 at 1:46 am
    Dread says:
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    Talk about the tail wagging the dog. You don’t need millions of dollars to study and implement some basic, but essential security measures at this level. You investigate and qualify your vendors and insist on a register of approved delivery drivers. You don’t accept any last minute deliveries or changes of drivers. You have fans walk through metal detectors and you screen any purses that may be brought in phsically or by x-ray as they do in airports. Other than that, life should go on. I for one am tired of folks trying to design every life experience to prevent the un-preventable. If these self-proclaimed experts were serious about preventing a massive attack, they ought to be looking to the skies over stadiums. Think of how easily a private aircraft piloted by a suicide aka coward loaded with explosives or toxic substances could crash into a stadium. Makes you think doesn’t it?

  • December 28, 2007 at 1:57 am
    GL Underwriter says:
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    It’s troublesome to me that, “NCAA officials turned down repeated requests to discuss the issue, even in the broadest terms.” So, does the NCAA think that by burying their head in the sand that an event won’t occur, or that they will be absolved of liability?

    Without a prior occurence of a terrorist attack, the reasonable security expectations of a university, university athletic department, administrators, security companies, or the NCAA are certainly lower. However, since 9/11, the Olympic event bombing, and the murders at West Virginia, those same entities have a new responsibility to participants, fans, and students.

    Who insures the schools? Who insures the NCAA? Do they have the financial resources necessary following a terrorist attack? Not having the resources to implement better security on the front end, or ignoring the exposure, is not a valid defense.

    If insurance carriers provide
    coverage, where are the liability underwriters and loss control experts? Why are they not requiring vigorous safety standards be adhered to as a condition of renewal of the policy?

    I’ll stay home and watch from the comfort and perceived safety of my own home. By the way, don’t the schools get revenue from the broadcast networks who air the games? Don’t the networks make money by selling advertising, for products I’ll be buying after the game? This income source provides revenue to the school and league to pay the expenses of producing the game including needed security.

    Providing proper security at an event is just the cost of doing business that must be passed on to the consumer.

  • December 28, 2007 at 3:24 am
    Dean says:
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    I dont get it! The security at college stadiums is impecable. Just look at their record. There has never been a terrorist attack. NOT EVEN ONE. Why is that? Why is that? Why is that?

    A track record of college football since the late 1800’s and not 1 terrorist attack. They have done a wonderful job, and clearly know what they are doing a lot more than these insurance people thats for sure.

    My big concern is the high schools! How come no bomb sniffing dogs? How come no snipers on the roof at EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA – IT SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY – THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING!!!

    ARE YOU WITH US OR AGAIST US?

    VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • December 29, 2007 at 5:53 am
    Anonymous says:
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    Eric Robert Rudolph . Born in 1966, Rudolph was raised in rural North Carolina. If we all live in fear want good will that do??? If the sky is falling.. VOTE American we have to stop and think Rudolph was born in the U.S.

  • January 3, 2008 at 11:07 am
    Catte says:
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    Get Real is right. The least likely “exposure” is the kind which must be first addressed through foresight and forward thinking. All sources of funding should be tapped to effectively manage this type of loss prevention and control. The fact that colleges have had no significant/broadly known “events” does not mean in any way that their standards and records are impecable. It means that the least likely exposure has yet to surface. Certainly all public forums (municipal & schools included) are exposed. The goal is not to prepare for the “unpreventable,” but to preempt, to the greatest degree possible the “un thinkable.”



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