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Mitch Vingle: Beer here? Marshall might start selling suds at games

If there’s a topic folks in the Mountain State sit up straight for it’s beer.

When WVU decided to sell beer at its football games back in 2011, headlines were made. Actually, good headlines were made. Not only were concession sales up ($516,000 in beer sales in the first year alone), calls, arrests and charges filed to police were down after the school canceled the “pass-out” policy. Once you went into the game, you could not leave and return.

In March, the school announced the policy has been expanded to basketball games. In recent years, only club-level patrons could purchase beer.