Criticism-pouring-in-after-south-carolina-gamecocks-(playoff-contender)-breaks-tradition
" As of last season, the NCAA passed a rule allowing teams across all three divisions of football to have commercial sponsor advertisements on football fields during regular-season games. While this strays from the clean look of just a team's logo, the announcement expressed that it provides programs with "an additional revenue opportunity for schools that has not been available during the regular season."
As shared to X by On3's Brett McMurphy, South Carolina's field now features the logo of Blanchard CAT, which is a company that rents out construction machinery in South Carolina."
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Ehh, this is not much different that teams selling field naming rights and having Pepsi Field at Tiger Stadium or something.
Reminds me of the Chris Bickell '97 Head Football Coach Pat Nardouchey
Based on how desperate our athletics department is for money, we'll be adding Smithfield bacon ads to Worsham Field soon.
Bacon strips marking the yard indicators on the field.
Biscuit hash marks?
Hash brown hash marks
Corned beef hashmarks. Pancakes needs to be in there somewhere as well.
What, like the pancakes that Michael Vick used to eat off of Woody Dantzler's head? (8^0) |||(8^0)->-<
Give me bacon endzones
There is no more red zone. There is only the Bacon Zone. We stop an opponents drive inside our 20 and they get zero points out of it, everyone goes home with bacon.
And that one announcer who insists on calling it the "Bacon Area"
Rowdy fans in lower North can be deemed the "Grease Pit", sponsored by Smithfield.
"That Smithfield sponsorship brought to you by Oscar Meyer"
Can't wait to see Daniel L Crandall's face at midfield
More likely to be Jimmy Turk
He really should have something named after him as much as he's saved football players' bacon.
Hopefully his daughter follows those footsteps.
Doesn't Carilion have naming rights to our basketball court? Isn't that basically the same thing?
At least it's CAT. I won't complain cuz that's beneficial for my wife's job.
Was this in Whit's slide deck?
No we couldn't afford an extra slide.
I thought the days of water slides for recruiting were done
Without a draft or contracts, it's always going to be legalized bribery. Never underestimate the shallowness of agents and runners who have grown up poor steering their kids to the shiny toys. Will always be a thing until there is a draft in college football.
Lol...that was the theory....
Turns out you still need waterslides and 42 Inch OLEDs in every locker--but now you also have to come out of your own pocket as a fan to donate to NIL collectives to keep your team together.
Couldn't be a giant scam...nah...definitely not
Slides all slide the same.
My brother in law works in sports marketing and previously he had paid to have ads at VT - he mentioned to me last year that there was a RFI sent out to sponsors with new naming/sponsorship options around lane stadium, including naming
Baller Industrial Complex. Players are entitled to millions. Need to pay for that somehow
bubbles are gonna start popping
It's been a long time since I've posted here. A long time.
I came back to say, "this is lame".
This is lame. Even if it was inevitable.
Welcome back, and I think most of us agree.
This will be almost ubiquitous within 5 years.
Maybe really "high-brow" places like ND and Stanford will be above it.
Fans can outcry all they want...I think its been made remarkably clear where fans priorities lie in the NIL era.
Honestly, it's probably only the tip of the iceberg.
I make it a point on every family trip, to say in my most radio voice possible...this trip made possible by...and then list all of the places my wife and I currently work for.
I have no idea how this relates to the post...what do I do with my hands?!
This is just as bad as the ads on the sleeves of MLB uniforms. I hate seeing that stupid Quikrete ad on the Braves' sleeves.
I feel like they at least need to be team appropriate ads. I.E. UVA can have Président Brie ads, the Hokies get Wild Turkey ads, Miami gets poorly veiled escort service ads, etc.
The ACC logo gets replaced by a spurtle
Blue Chew ads on the 25 yd lines to match our high quality ACCN advertising!
Change the yard markers to spurtles and we have a deal.
Not the paint marks on the grass. The first down chains.
8' tall orange and black spurtles, linked by 10 yards of chain.
FTFY
Maybe we also get the LED lights sponsored by Taclite
It's lame, but also not that big of a deal. The Rose Bowl - which pretends to be the bastion of all college football tradition - has had advertiser logos everywhere for decades now:
Player jerseys in 2011 have the Visio logo:
2016:
2021:
Missing the point. The Rose Bowl has more money than god. So do the NY Yankees. So do the Lakers. Literally print their own money. But nah, it's not enough. You can't have long hair and wear the pinstripes, but you can wear the ad patch on the sleeve. You can paint ads on the mound. The Rose Bowl is a multi-million dollar corporation that hosts event for one week of the year. That's not enough though. Need more money from under the seat cushions. Jerry Jones brought the cowboys for 140 million in 1989- the year I graduated high school. 36 years ago. Today they are worth 10.1 BILLION dollars. with a B. That's not enough for Jerry though, nah he needs adds and Nike swooshes everywhere. If it's no big deal, take the fucking ads off. Done. but it is a big deal to most normal fans.
Look, if your problem is that rich people are never satisfied... I get it. But that's not something we can control. I'm not going to let a couple logos - that I won't be able to remember 10 minutes after the game ends - ruin my experience.
Now, if/when it gets to the point where the advertisement is bigger than the school's logo, then I will join you in outrage. But for now, I don't really care.
Especially when the bigger ad is a state sponsor of terrorism like your example
For most of my childhood I thought that the name of the team was fly emirates
The UAE and thus Ethiad Air and Emirates- owned by the state- totally dont use slave labor and harbor terrorists. nah. wink wink...
The only entity that I have seen even flirt with the idea of "having enough money" has been The Masters and Augusta National. They have hyper limited commercials during their broadcasts from only a select number of sponsors and the on-premises concessions are famously fan-friendly in pricing. They literally do not need the money and act accordingly. Somehow, in the 21st Century one of the most exclusive private golf clubs in the world is positively anti-capitalist compared to your average ten minute increment of any broadcast media. Amazing.
Part of the reason they can do that is because their merch is anything but patron friendly. Only place to buy Masters goodies and they know it - $150 shirts, $40 hats, etc. They can charge $2 for a pimento cheese sandwich because every patron probably averages $500 -$1000 in merch
So....in 2016, the Rose Bowl liked the BBC?
Interesting.
With the field turf tray system, we can change them out every commercial break.
Shit, if it kept us competitive I wouldn't mind at all for VT to go the route of McLaren under Zak Brown and instead of having one main sponsor have about a thousand smaller ones that you continually cycle through over the years.
Just another way for ESPN to figure out who gets the money. $$$ for the ads will be influenced by how many people will see it on TV, and ESPN won't give out streaming eyeball numbers to make sure the main cable slots get them a bigger piece of the pie. The teams they choose to put in prime slots will have more valuable advertisement space, ensuring all the schools will go along with whatever they want to do to avoid getting relegated to bad tv slots.
Bring back the Spurtle!