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Originally Posted by OKCMallen
Coach's = family restaurant, IMO.
Things that make a sports bar, IMO:
1. Smoking section, to me, screams BAR!! No smoking section in Coach's unless you sit outside, and I'm not even sure if you can there.
2. Ability to be loud without people looking at you funny. Coach's is more like a restaurant in this regard.
3. Most importantly- people actually treat it as a destination to go watch sports. I've never once heard anyone say, "Let's go to Coach's in Bricktown to watch XYZ."
4. The TV situation Solitude discussed. Go to BWW in Moore, go into the bar area, and see all the RANDOM sports on TV. You can tell that's the focus. You know they'd put soccer or horse racing on before they'd just turn off the TV. At Coach's, TV's aren't the focus unless you're sitting at the bar.
Mainly, what I'm thinking is a place where my buddies would want to go. Primarily a guy haven where you can have a cigarette, a bucket of beer, and if there's a good game on, people are hollering at the screen a bit. We don't want to worry about offending children and families, etc. An adult place to go hang out with a primary focus on sports, but the kind of place a group might go to on a Friday night for drinks. Tapwerks is great, but it's definitely not a focus there as much as premium beers. Coach's is OK, except it caters to the family restaurant crowd. Hooters doesn't have quite the TVs they need, the waitstaff is typically not very good at waiting tables, and the beer is expensive. I mean, what else is there in Bricktown now? Halftime is VERY meh; not enough TVs there, and bad service. It doesn't have to be super-cool hip, but I would like something that's not hokey or family-oriented. As an example- the Iron Starr....that's not really a family style restaurant. Sure, kids are welcome and you see them there all the time, but they don't cater to child. They cater to adults.
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Just want to throw this out there, I use to work at Coach's as a server.
Anywhere you sit, there is a viewable TV, there may not be a lot, 10 total not including the bar area, and the big cube at the bar. You can sit outside, we have two patios, to smoke, just no TV's.
Being loud in Coach's, you must have not eaten there during an OU game. Families and Bar patrons scream out Boomer Sooner and Texas Sucks together no matter what's going on during the game. It can get pretty loud to say the least.
When some places are closed or packed, or arn't supporting the sports channel games are on, people come to Coach's. Provided that our only set back is that we don't have ESPNU and a few of the other networks. This is mostly covered by Half Time. They pretty much have ALL the sports channels.
TV's are covered at Coach's, it's the sound that can be a problem.
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As far as I know, the people who own Coach's, Old Chicago, and the Bricktown Brewery are all owned by the same company. I think it's Restraunt Limited, LLC.