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http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/06/21/naming-rights-on-college-s...

The bottom of the article touches on just some of the intricate selling that the Louisville leadership have negotiated. Arena sponsored by the owner of Pizza Hut/ Papa Johns is the official pizza they sell in the arena. Papa Johns supposedly has contributed about $22 mil to the football stadium and holds the naming rights until 2040.
Also gives you some idea of the other schools that have resorted to naming rights.

One other of note on there is that Texas managed to get their BASEBALL stadium sponsored at almost $1mil per year over 15 years.

Send Grimes to LSU, he becomes OC in a year, hire him back as head coach.

If you love something, let it go.....

I am not a member of the Hokie Club and I have never donated to VT. The simple reason is that I am dirt poor at the moment. Even with a doctoral degree from VT, I make about the same as the average high school janitor; such is the nature of my career path. One day it will be better. Couple that with the fact that we're nearly $200k in debt from student loans to pay for my wife's degrees and we don't have a cent to give VT. I'd consider donating to the academic side (because we're badly in need), but I'm not sure I'll ever have enough money to justify shelling out tons of $ just for a parking spot every weekend on football days. I have friends in the area that I can stay with and tickets are not hard to come by, for a lot cheaper. I can come to whatever games I want, for the most part, and I don't need to be forced to donate to do so.

I have learned from this thread many of the benefits of HC membership and maybe one day I'll join. But the fact that they have never reached out to me, beyond a simple email right when I graduated (I think I am not making that up), doesn't speak highly of their efforts.

And I agree with what someone said above - someone get this thread Tweeted or emailed over to the people in the Athletic Department. The community here at TKP is probably some of their most loyal fans, and if they're not impressing us, I can't imagine how it is among everyone else.

I'd say we are in, but the question is if the administration is in.

I could see how Tuesdays are the worst day of the week - I agree with you that it can sometimes be worse than Mondays.

Are we sure? See other threads. Oooofff!

You waste your entire Sunday "preparing" for Monday? Such a waste.

So, to those who say "Bud Foster should make more like $700,000 than $540,000" the answer is, "he does." To those who say he should make $800,000, well, what's a hundred thousand bucks between friends?

Notre Dame (non-football sports), since Northwestern football is barely a blip on the radar again. Also, South Bend is about as close as you can get to Chicago without being in Chicagoland.

It cannot be tamed.

1 year stints make sense at the beginning of your career, but his last 4 stops before us have been a little longer. I'm hoping that we don't end up as a 1 year stepping stone but I don't have a whole lot of confidence.

Two thoughts, re the 7-10 days thing....either Grimes wants some time to mull it over/let VT counter/plead with his wife to consent to moving the second time in a year, or the mad hatter was throwing out a smoke screen yesterday (wouldn't be the first time) because he wasn't prepared to address this with the media. Then there's always the possibility that Les is starting the rumor as a smoke screen, and he's waiting to interview an NFL guy, and we know Les likes NFL guys (see: Cam Cameron). Then again, maybe I'm just delusional. Someone please find Grimes and beg him not to listen to Les.