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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
That's definitely cheaper than a trip to the sports bar to catch the game!
Sling is launching a "day pass" for their orange package. It is $4.99 for a single day or $5.99 if you add in the additional ESPN channels.
It notably omits Fox, FS1/2, B1G, etc, but if your game is on an ESPN variant, it is a good price point.
And that one announcer who insists on calling it the "Bacon Area"
Change the yard markers to spurtles and we have a deal.
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.
Blue Chew ads on the 25 yd lines to match our high quality ACCN advertising!
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
Hey parents of Johnny non athlete student. You now have to pay much more in fees so that Sean Pedulla can leave anyway after a year. Keep in mind that 99% of the ballers you are subsidizing aren't going pro in sports- just like your johnny student is not.
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.
The noise these slides have made within the alumni base, local media and national media was pretty loud and impossible to ignore now.
I'm not in such circles these days, and have only seen the discussion here. What other noises are people hearing?
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
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 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?!
I thought the days of water slides for recruiting were done
Remember back in what, 2020, when they laid out plans to fund our programs into the top third or quartile of the ACC? That was a thing right? That completely collapsed. I knew the macro was bad but seeing us well beneath Cal... woof.
No we couldn't afford an extra slide.
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.
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.
Texas paid their backup QB 6 million dollars last year. If you aren't prepared to do that, you are in the minor leagues. It's the NFL with marching bands and homecoming now. Nothing more.
If we were to find ourselves in one of the P2, this is the most exciting part for me.
As others are lamenting, we'd likely be a middle of the road (if we're lucky) football team in one of those conferences. Maybe we catch lightning in a bottle one year and could get in the playoffs, but that would be the ceiling IMO.
But it would let us compete at a higher level in a lot of sports; basketball being the most exciting of those to me, where we've had some success but not consistently.
The BoV would be ostriches with their head in the sand to not take immediate action. It is clear that the institutions within VT including the BoV have ignored the importance of positioning the football team for success. The noise these slides have made within the alumni base, local media and national media was pretty loud and impossible to ignore now. The most passionate alumni and fans are watching closesly.
The decision to put this presentation together and publicly leak it in advance of the BoV meeting was a very savvy PR move and very unlike VT. And the ppt slides are way more professional than what we're used to seeing from the VT athletic department (for example, the sloppy coaching contracts; the Comic Sans font for recruiting; the Hokis cups; the press conference to not fire Fuente; "weights way the same"; etc). Makes me wonder who within the athletic department developed this plan or if they hired a consulting agency. And kudos to Babcock for greenlighting the leak and putting his name behind it.
This all needed to happen much earlier. I've previously said that the world changed in 2010 but in reality that's when it caught up to us. The time to make these changes would have been coincidental with joining the ACC, AT THE LATEST. And instead we came into a weak league in a strong position and failed to get stronger. This shitty tree was planted 25 years ago.
Yep, our terminal glide path was set long before we got here. We failed to lever up during the post natty 2000s. We settled and rested and that doomed us.
2021, and I believe we were top 3 highest payroll in the ACC for 6 weeks.