Sponsor Patches next fall

#28
#28
05_never_again said:
It's what it has always taken to be an elite athletic program. When have the Little Sisters of the Poor won national titles?

If an AD isn't doing whatever he can to maximize revenue, he isn't doing his job. Regardless of if you're talking about in 2025 or 1955.
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Sure but there was, at one time, some degree of self-restraint. There were lines colleges were not willing or interested in crossing.

Just saying "it's always just about money" isn't a fair representation of how it was before the BCS/CFP and the commercialization of college football as a national product owned by ESPN and FOX. The UGA/OU TV lawsuit changed everything. It opened the door for schools to go to where we are today. And even in the 80s and 90s, there were lines the schools did not cross, for many reasons. The slide into complete commercialization has been consistent, but it didn't happen overnight. They had to lower the bar bit by bit by bit.

Now the bar is gone. Everything is for sale. Nothing is so important that it can't be sold. Just wait until private equity gets involved. Then it'll really get wild. Oh boy.

(Also I'm just waiting for the day when the Saudis buy a football conference. I'm gonna ... ha ... I'm gonna really laugh at that one. I can't imagine the messaging that'll come around that move.)
 
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Voltopia said:
It's never going back, man. They will never stop. Now that they've taken the "college" out of "college football," it's full speed ahead. Err, down. They've completely oriented around one thing alone - profit - and none of the big dogs are going to be the first to blink. They'll just keep outdoing themselves with how far they take it.

The Million Dollar Man was right. Everybody's got a price.
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Million dollar man should’ve had a world title run
 
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Danny White recognizes that the college football world has changed. He is the right guy to guide the program and adapt it to the new realities. As much as many don’t like it, the game isn’t ever going back.
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
Do you really believe that DW didn’t see this coming and demand that the Addidas contract allow him to patch up the uniforms?

If he signed a contract 2 months ago that won’t allow it then I would say he is related to cornbread and I don’t believe that.
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Didn't I hear or read that UT retains design rights, does that cover said patches too?
 
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Voltopia said:
Sure but there was, at one time, some degree of self-restraint. There were lines colleges were not willing or interested in crossing.

Just saying "it's always just about money" isn't a fair representation of how it was before the BCS/CFP and the commercialization of college football as a national product owned by ESPN and FOX. The UGA/OU TV lawsuit changed everything. It opened the door for schools to go to where we are today. And even in the 80s and 90s, there were lines the schools did not cross, for many reasons. The slide into complete commercialization has been consistent, but it didn't happen overnight. They had to lower the bar bit by bit by bit.

Now the bar is gone. Everything is for sale. Nothing is so important that it can't be sold. Just wait until private equity gets involved. Then it'll really get wild. Oh boy.

(Also I'm just waiting for the day when the Saudis buy a football conference. I'm gonna ... ha ... I'm gonna really laugh at that one. I can't imagine the messaging that'll come around that move.)
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Oh heaven forbid. People wanted to watch the games on TV, so the conferences sued to exercise their right to sell the rights to the games. Now every single one of them is on TV in high definition 40 years later. What a tragedy.

Everything's always been for sale man. Just a matter of who wants to buy it and what price they're willing to pay.

If you think the the sport is over-commercialized, then you really only have fans to blame. Collectively, we have an insatiable appetite for this stuff. I mean, we're all on a message board typing messages to strangers about kids playing a game.
 
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05_never_again said:
Oh heaven forbid. People wanted to watch the games on TV, so the conferences sued to exercise their right to sell the rights to the games. Now every single one of them is on TV in high definition 40 years later. What a tragedy.

Everything's always been for sale man. Just a matter of who wants to buy it and what price they're willing to pay.

If you think the the sport is over-commercialized, then you really only have fans to blame. Collectively, we have an insatiable appetite for this stuff. I mean, we're all on a message board typing messages to strangers about kids playing a game.
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Those are really good points.
 
#42
#42
They are already doing this with stores and apparel. I don't want it, but it needs to be everyone. Picture of you will, the elimination of the power T on the helmet for a killer Food City logo.
 
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I wonder how long before the patch doesn’t have to really be on the uniform at all. Just put it on the uniforms on the screen in software like it’s the line to gain on the field. Heck, put a new one on there every quarter. The uniform can just have a little green “place ad here” rectangle.
 
#45
#45
All sports are taking a hit in viewership. If they want to look like Ricky Bobby... lettem. Only the idiots that subscribe to Espn ultra 2.0 netflixulu will be able to watch them by 2028.

We are going to be begging for everything to go back to cable 🤣
 
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