Clemson sells beer for baseball matches, football may be next time | Clemson Tigers Sports

Clemson – Clemson University Haven’t given an official message, but the baseball team coach has confirmed which documents recently obtained by The Post and Courier shows: Beer sales come to campus.

The university was approved for its first permanent alcohol sales license in August, and immediate renewals mean that it can sell booze seven days a week at all its major sports facilities, according to documents obtained through a request for the Freedom of Information Act.

First on the list is a beer garden on the third baseline of Doug Kingsmore Stadium, Which is expected to induce a few extra “cheer” from fans.

“It’s a ticket to stands,” Clemson Baseball Trainer Erik Bakich said on January 23rd. “We’re going to sell beer this year, which is huge. We want the noisy audience, we want the beer -drinking audience we want people to come out here and have fun. The opposite jugs are going to get warm straight In front of the section, I’m excited to see what it looks like. “

Spokesman for the university’s athletics, Jeff Kallin, said the university is in the exploratory phase of the sale of alcoholic beverages and that there is no final timeline for when they will take place on campus.

Color -coded maps obtained through the request for public registers shows designated areas with concessions, wagon sales and beer gardens, where “the sale and consumption of beer and wine are allowed,” a state The Ministry of Taxation spokesman confirmed.

The only and very notable exception is Memorial stageWhere alcohol is already served in suites and clubs. No card has been approved for concessions or sales to the masses at football matches.

It looks like Clemson will try to sell alcohol on a smaller scale before increasing to sell to over 80,000 fans at football matches in the fall.

Clemson is rare among major conference institutions where he does not sell alcohol for games, along with the universities of Utah and Brigham Young. In an increasingly expensive era of college athletics, where revenue sharing with athletes is a threatening reality, there is a need for Clemson to pull in any available handle to make money.

Most of Clemson’s athletic venues have a map in the archive at the SC Department of Revenue, which describes where alcohol can be sold, including basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse and football.

The card for basketball Littlejohn Coliseum Has blue color coding throughout the stands and even outside the arena, giving approval for sale of “wagon”. There are also eight purple blocks indicating approval for concession sales around the venue’s course, as well as orange “beer garden” areas at the arena’s four corners.

Several concession areas have been posted on the baseball stadium map, including one near the entrance and another behind the left center field. There is also a blue ring around the stadium indicating approval for car sales.

There are also shorts for the football program’s indoor training facility and the administrative McFadden building, although they are mostly color-coded green to indicate bartender service for special events.

This is an important distinction, because when in May, postings were posted outside the Memorial Stadium and Littlejohn Coliseum, which indicated that Clemson had applied for alcohol permits at these venues, a university spokesman said the institution was only sought to store alcohol for special events and that there was no one. Plans to sell alcohol to sports competitions.

The Department of Revenue confirmed that the university needed a license for storage, but not necessarily the types of licenses they applied for.

Clemson has not yet formally confirmed that it will sell beer at its athletic events. The university has also not announced whether a particular brand has secured a sponsorship agreement on alcohol or its donation rights.

Meanwhile, Clemson has taken other steps to generate dollars prior to scheduled revenue sharing with athletes, which will cost more than $ 20 million a year if and when NCAA’s settlement of antitrust is approved in April and comes into force in July.

The university introduced a student athletics fee that will generate up to $ 7.5 million a year. The Athletic Department revealed a new revenue -creating arm, Clemson Ventures, which will try to raise money through company sponsorships, content and live events.

Beer sales at football matches could generate a few more million dollars a year for the athletics department. According to Knoxville News-SentinelThe University of Tennessee brought in $ 3.3 million from beer sales in 2022.

Clemson University has three licenses for its athletics facilities, all of which expire in November 2026. One is for the sale of beer and wine in zone 3 athletics – which includes the indoor facilities for baseball, softball, football, lacrosse, gymnastics and tennis, and the golf club house.