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Go behind the scenes on a guided tour of The Schottenstein Center, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes and arena to the stars!

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• Backstage dressing rooms where stars like Neil Diamond, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Jay Z, Kid Rock, and Garth Brooks have stayed.
• Team locker room hallway.
• Huntington Club, The Block O Lounge, The Boardroom and other premium hospitality spaces.
• Award-winning terrazzo flooring featuring the history of Ohio State Athletics.
• The Arena Floor where more than 100 events are hosted each year.

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• A seven-day notice is required to schedule a tour. Cannot schedule tours more than two months in advance due to the nature of concert tour scheduling.
• Tours can be scheduled by appointment only on Monday through Friday at any time between 9:00am and 4:00pm (last tour can start at 4:00pm). A typical tour lasts between 1-1.25 hours.
• Tours are not available on event days. Occasionally, tours will not be available the day prior to an event. Tours are not available on university holidays.
• There are no “add-ons” to another group's tour. All tours are scheduled as private tours, therefore, we will not add you onto another group’s booking.
• A 48-hour notice is required for a tour cancellation. If 48-hour notice is not given, the cost of the tour is not able to be refunded.

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To reserve your tour online, please select a tour date, time, and number of attendees below, then enter your payment details to complete your order. Tours may be scheduled Monday through Friday, 9:00am and 4:00pm (last tour can start at 4:00pm), with at least a seven-day notice and no further out than two months from today's date.

• All areas of the arena are subject to availability. We cannot guarantee that all spaces (locker room hallway, hospitality rooms, suites, arena floor, etc.) will be available during your tour. We will do our best to minimize conflicts with spaces that may be unavailable during desired tour times.

This reservation is made with a contingency that an athletic team practice, competition, camp, concert, or special event may take precedence over this tour reservation. The Schottenstein Center reserves the right to re-schedule or cancel this reservation to accommodate an event. Every effort will be made to communicate any cancellations as soon as possible.

Please note that throughout the summer, we host a large number of sports camps and arena floor availability may be quite limited from June through July.

For more information about tours at the Schottenstein Center, or for groups larger than 50 guests, please contact Ryan Place at [email protected] .

For information on tours of Ohio Stadium, please visit OhioStadiumTours.com or contact [email protected] .

Tours are not provided for any other athletic facilities except for Ohio Stadium.

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10 individuals or fewer $50.00.

Each additional guest (more than 10) $5.00.

Children ages 2 and under are free.

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• Guests may park in the Scarlet Lots adjacent to the arena, but are required to use the Pay-N-Display machines located in the lots to obtain a temporary parking pass. The Schottenstein Center will NOT be responsible for parking citations. Click here for more information on Pay-by-Plate and visitor parking on campus.
• On the day of your reservation, a Schottenstein Center staff member will meet you at the Northwest Rotunda at your designated tour time.
• There is a large amount of walking involved. Tours can be made accessible for those with disabilities.
• Groups are permitted to take photos along the tour, but are prohibited from other physical activities (i.e. shooting a basketball, running across the gym, entering the ice).
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What the ’Shoe means to architects and engineers

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Earlier this year, a small group of faculty and students from Ohio State’s College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture toured Ohio Stadium with Bob Long ’73, a retired civil engineer and expert on the stadium who worked on its 1999-2001 renovation.

The tour took them into the bowels of the ’Shoe, onto the field and into the locker room, providing a glimpse into the features that make it a century-old jewel of Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Ohio State Impact spoke with these engineers and architects to get their unique perspectives on the stadium’s history, its marvels and its importance to the Ohio State community.

They are Abi Atteveld, an undergraduate majoring in civil engineering; Kori Caughenbaugh, a graduate student in architecture; Benjamin (Benjy) Flowers, professor of architecture and associate director of the Knowlton School; and Anthony Massari, associate professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering in the College of Engineering.

An edited version of the discussion follows.

Question: Benjy, it was your first time in Ohio Stadium. As someone who studies stadiums, what were your first impressions?

Benjy Flowers: Most of my work focuses on soccer stadiums, and in the world of soccer stadiums globally, a large stadium has a capacity of around 65,000. There’s a handful of stadiums that get close to 100,000, but really, American collegiate football stadiums are unique in their scale.

I have to say, having been in a lot of big grounds, walking out onto that turf field and being surrounded by that scale, it really is overwhelming. And it’s hard for me to imagine what it’d be like as an 18-year-old or a 19-year-old, being asked to perform at an elite level in front of 104,000 or 105,000 people — absolutely terrifying.

Imagine yourself as a competitor, as a visitor — terrifying. As the home team, a huge asset in terms of performance, potentially, if you’re doing well. But it’s hard to overstate the impact of scale. Most humans don’t ever find themselves in spaces of a congregation of 100,000 people. And so the psychological impact really is amazing.

Q: It really is an almost unfathomable number, isn’t it? Where does Ohio Stadium rank in total capacity among stadiums around the world?

Flowers: It depends on how you count seats, but it’s currently the fifth-largest stadium in the world on most lists. There’s a constant back-and-forth between several collegiate stadiums of between 200 and 300 temporary seats they might jerry-rig at any time in order to jockey for a higher spot.

India just opened a new cricket oval that seats about 130,000, which took the No. 1 spot from North Korea’s May Day Stadium.

“ It’s hard to overstate the impact of scale. Most humans don’t ever find themselves in spaces of a congregation of 100,000 people. And so the psychological impact really is amazing. ”

Q: Abi and Kori, you’ve been in the stadium as fans, but what was different about walking through it without the crowd there?

Abi Atteveld: The first time I was in the stadium was ... for accepted students’ day. We got to walk onto the turf and see it from that perspective. Kind of like Benjy was saying, it’s amazing to just be standing down there and looking at the empty stands, and then imagining them packed full of people.

But I’ve been in those stands as a student at every game I could be at, and it doesn’t feel that big at all. You’re surrounded by everyone you know and it’s such a home-like feeling with all your friends and family, and everyone’s cheering for the same team for the most part.

So it was really neat to see it empty and hear the history of it. But just to see both sides of it — not everyone gets that experience.

Kori Caughenbaugh: The stadium's scale and nostalgia left not only me but many of us at a loss for words. It was much more staggering in that position.

Q: Anthony, from an engineering perspective, what impressed you about getting to see the finer points of how it was put together? What separates a stadium of that size from other large structures?

Anthony Massari: For me, what was interesting was the story of its initial construction, but also its growth.

Nowadays, growth is pretty limited. You maybe put a press box in, maybe you change out the scoreboards. But this was a unique structure where they added extra stands up above, they added the Horseshoe and closed it off.

There’s this idea of dealing with historic structures, that you don’t want to change things too much. You want to keep the history of it but still be able to modernize different things.

So some places you walk around and it looks old. And some places you walk in and you see this incredibly modern facility. So walking through those two extremes in the same place was interesting.

Q: Abi, as a civil engineering student, what do you learn from that experience of walking through and seeing how everything comes together?

Atteveld: It was a super unique experience to be surrounded by people who understand so much about it. I’ve never had that kind of tour where you go into a building and you’re able to recognize those things and point out some of the details of where the new construction was and how it changed so much.

It was also interesting to hear about the design process and why certain decisions were made because that’s not something I’ve experienced yet. To get the practical reasoning for why certain beams aren’t placed there — because you can’t see the field and stuff like that — that you normally don’t talk about in a class because it’s not as relevant was super cool.

Massari: What’s unique about the stadium is that it is this big, open space where everyone wants to see things, and look toward the field. There is something about this bad seat behind a column and trying to prevent that from happening that is sort of different. And we don’t talk about that in class, it’s 100 percent true.

Q: What decisions were made in the stadium’s construction that you think helps it stand the test of time? What would be different about it today?

Massari: There was some sort of a rail system that was involved to move materials around this long construction site. This is 100 yards here, 100 yards there, and you wrap around this large circle, so you’re moving construction materials and they built, almost like a mining system for moving materials around, which I thought was interesting and helped facilitate speed of construction. ... That was sort of different to me.

Another unique thing: It’s 26 separate sections sort of leaning on each other — that’s very, very different. Surely that allowed them to build each one scaffolded individually, work their way around and kind of make it a self-supported thing as they cascaded around the system.

“ What is the most inspiring is what the ’Shoe has built and what it stands for to Ohio State. The relationships, community and tradition that have come from the structure show the power of architecture and the influences that it carries. ”

Q: Benjy, you’ve made an analogy of the stadium as a secular cathedral. Can you explain what you mean by that?

Flowers: The modern-day stadium is descended from two earlier Roman and Greek classical types — the amphitheater and the stadion — and the idea of these spaces both as performance spaces and martial spaces, and spaces of display and spectacle. In the history of western architecture, those were largely supplanted in Europe, in cities, by the cathedral. And it’s only in the late 19 th century that you see the return of the stadium as a monumental urban form.

But more broadly if you think about the way we occupy them, we go to stadiums on specific days of the week. We wear specific kinds of clothing. We affiliate with certain groups of people on the basis of their shared kinship with the team. We eat certain kinds of food. We sing certain kinds of songs — they’re like secular hymns. We make vast assumptions about people and their goodness or awfulness on the basis of what jersey they are wearing and in which part of the stadium they are sitting. And we pass these rituals onto our children, much in the same way we do with religious rituals. So if you look at what Howard Dwight Smith did with the stadium, he then went on as the campus architect to make sure that the stadium occupied a visually central role, much in the same way a church or cathedral would have done for a town or a city.

Q: The stadium is something that does make Ohio State, simply put, very unique. Most universities do not have one single structure that means so much to its community and that has so many personal experiences tied up with that. And you’re reminded of this every day, I imagine, with the Knowlton School of Architecture being right around the corner.

Flowers: That’s a large part of why I’m here. When Knowlton called and said, ‘Would you be interested?’ I said, ‘You're literally the only school of architecture in the world next to one of the world’s largest stadiums, so obviously this makes sense.’

Caughenbaugh: It’s astounding to have a structure such as the ’Shoe directly beside the School of Architecture. What is the most inspiring is what the ’Shoe has built and what it stands for to Ohio State. The relationships, community and tradition that have come from the structure show the power of architecture and the influences that it carries.

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A Woody Hayes Athletic Center tour and a look inside the Ohio State Buckeyes' football facilities

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Ohio State football: Woody Hayes Athletic Center, home locker room

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Anyone walking through the main door into the inner sanctum of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, named for Woody Hayes, was always greeted by a mural on the right explaining and extolling the accomplishments of Ohio State's defining coach.

Now, Hayes is praised on the wall on the immediate left of the Buckeyes' football facility as well. And a statue of Hayes was just placed out front of the WHAC on Wednesday.

Hayes would have turned 100 today, and Ohio State is certainly celebrating him.

Special events included a tour for faculty, staff and students on Wednesday night that touched on meaningful Hayes landmarks, including his former home and his gravesite. OSU staffer Larry Romanoff and recently retired staff member Todd Alles, both of whom worked and/or played for Hayes, shared stories at the WHAC and Ohio Stadium of the coach they knew. (See a Woody Hayes tour map.)

The school created a whole slate of events this week for students , and the week will end Friday with a tribute dinner that will include a roundtable discussion about Hayes from former players John Hick, Paul Warfield and Greg Lashutka and his son, Steven Hayes. It will be moderated by Brent Musburger.

The tour included stops at Ohio Stadium and the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and I joined a group on Wednesday night.

During Jim Tressel's tenure, most interviews with OSU players were conducted in the media room in the middle of that hallway, allowing us a regular look into the the heart of the WHAC. Under Urban Meyer, that room was reclaimed for staff offices, so we don't get a look inside like we used to.

The brief visit showed how Hayes' influence is even stronger than it was. The entry point used to include large photos of every member of the coaching staff and support staff, but that gave way to a wall of recent OSU coaches, starting with Hayes, then moving through Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Tressel and Meyer. The short video included here shows that wall.

There are changes going on at the Woody, as wallpaper of the stands at Ohio Stadium now covers every wall the length of that hallway. The countdown clock for the Michigan game is there, as well as areas highlighting OSU players in the NFL and in broadcasting, academic achievements and college awards.

Four mannequins dressed in OSU uniforms stand in a siting area in the hallway. And like always, an old chalkboard that still holds Hayes' writings holds a special place at the end of the hall.

A visit to the Ohio Stadium locker room showed two of Meyer's favorite sayings on the wall by the door: “Point A to Point B As Fast As You Can” and “4-6 Seconds of Relentless Effort and Focus.”

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Ohio State to begin offering tours of the 'Shoe

I f you ever wanted to visit Ohio Stadium and take a tour of one of the most iconic venues in all of sports, you are now luck. That's because the Ohio State Department of Athletics will begin offering tours of the 'Shoe beginning on Monday, April 22 -- some might say finally. Those wanting to take advantage of seeing the first football stadium to be officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 1973, can do so at https://www.ohiostadiumtours.com/ .

There will be two tour packages available and fans can enjoy extended hours of the stadium being open and even book last minute tours if available:

• A 60-minute Buckeye Basic Tour that costs $30 for adults and $20 for youth and will include visits to the field, press box, Huntington Club, NetJets Landing and the University/President’s Suite; and
• An extended, 90-minute VIP Stadium Tour, costing $35 for adults and $25 for youth, that includes all of the basic tour locations in addition to touring the Buckeyes’ locker room, the recruiting room and the band center/rehearsal hall.

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According to a release, "discounts will be offered for larger groups wanting to tour Ohio Stadium. A dedicated Group Tour Concierge staff has been assembled and can assist school groups, day camps and corporate outings."

Each tour guest will also receive a commemorative Ohio Stadium Tour coin, with a new design specific to each new calendar year.

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Inside the Ohio State Buckeyes Locker Room:

Ohio State played its first football game way back in 1890 and over the years has made quite a name for itself, as one of the most well-known and successful college teams in the nation. Now the current team has the resources necessary to become a success. In this locker room, you will find some of the best resources available being put to good use...

Traditions are an important part of college sports, and the locker room is key in that for the Buckeyes. Tressel started the tradition of The Hive, which is where the team leaves the locker room all together looking like a large hive. This shows the unity of the team, and how they will work together to come out on top at the end of the game. Inside the actual locker room are all the resources that a player could ever want.

Not only does each athlete get their own personalized stadium locker, but they have access to indoor and outdoor practice facilities, game rooms, an arcade, training facilities and more. These resources have helped Ohio State to become one of the most profitable teams in the Big Ten Conference.

Here are some fast facts concerning the Buckeyes locker room: - $20 million - Includes private players lounge - Big screen televisions - Arcade room - Meeting rooms - New state-of-the-art weight room - Both indoor and outdoor practice facilties - Originally opened its doors in 1922

...and of course it has 126 lockers for the team.

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