That made me lol a littleCleareyes wrote:It's a smart move. Not only do you get name recognition but finally a classroom big enough to comfortable hold a 5000 student Contracts class, for maximum profitability.
Hey, not everyone can be a rich snob with the ability to get a box seat at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, but they deserve to watch live baseball too. You're just dumping on Cooley Stadium b/c it doesn't fit your shallow USNEWS definition of a "Top Baseball Stadium". I know for a fact that Cooley Stadium has more urinals per spectator and more square footage of concessions than Fenway Park, so it's obviously a superior facility.Cleareyes wrote:
"Yes you in row GG seat 457. Do you think that there was valid consideration?"
At least you'll be able to purchase hot dogs and big gulps while the prof is lecturing about the UCC.
Yeah, then it got renamed to Leavenworth Stadium.GotYourselfAStewGoin wrote:I believe the Astros played on Enron Field until, well, you know.
Bahahaha +1.Honeysuckle wrote:I wonder if Cooley Law will make "having a stadium named after you" an additional factor in their own (already) ridiculous rankings system ...
With 3,600 students at campuses in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Auburn Hills and Ann Arbor, Mich., Cooley is the largest law school in the country and attracts a large number of part-time students. Cooley has been expanding steadily, but just keeping the student body at its present level requires getting its name out into the public, LeDuc said.
In addition to raising Cooley's profile, the arrangement creates opportunities for the school to use the stadium, located just four blocks from its flagship Lansing campus, to host events for students and alumni and maybe even for law firm recruiting and fundraisers. Reaction has largely been positive thus far, although some critics have questioned whether the money would be better spent on other projects, LeDuc said. The money boils down to about $135,000 a year.
It's all about marketing. I've seen law schools market themselves using Leiter's rankings.nealric wrote:Sometimes I wonder if the Cooley rankings are actually kind of genius.
I mean, what better way to undermine the credibility of rankings than to produce a ranking based on objective factors that places Thomas M. Cooley at #16?
Wow. I wonder how long they are going to play that game. Eventually they are just going to have to call themselves #1.the school actually went up to #12 from #16 (in 2008 ranking vs. the 2007 ranking).
