Folsom field uppercase , where the football games are held, banned beer within the stadium in 1996. But the Coors Events and Conference Center is not only named after beer, it s its concession stands serve it, too.
Fans seem only a little disgruntled by the discrepancy in alcohol policy at campus sporting events.
CU has been grappling with alcohol-related issues for years. Vice Chancellor for student affairs Jean Kim says that the University was the last Big 12 institution to ban alcohol at football games . Until the ban the school was the only member of the elite Association of American Universities to allow a stadium to serve alcohol. Fans and employees alike can only speculate on why alcohol is allowed at the Coors center. I think it was a neighborhood thing that that took it away from Folsom Field, says Ali Finnegan, an employee of Aramark, the company that runs the concession stands for the Coors center and Folsom field uppercase, new graph .