Neyland Stadium to be “preserved” by Pilot

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dobre_shunka said:
College sports are probably the last sport to get ads like this.

NASCAR tracks have had ads on the walls for decades. There was a time long ago when NHL hockey rinks didn't have ads on the dasher boards, now they have advanced from painted ones to animated computer generated ones. MLB baseball has had ads to the side of homeplate for years. F1 also has computer generated ads all over the infield.

I'd rather have commercial ads than the NFL/NBA "End Racism" crap.
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Vandy sold their naming rights to First Bank a couple of years ago. There's obviously nothing there like the tradition of Neyland and this is all about the economics of running a multi-million dollar sports business.

College athletics can't transition to a model where players get paid without new streams of revenue. NIL largely just "legalized" what was already going on, so those revenue streams just transitioned to the collectives. That's not really a new revenue stream other than the small potatoes guys like me can now toss at a collective.

Schools see this coming and coming quickly. They're going to need to fund salaries for players within a few years because the "players are employees" lawsuits are coming.

Pro sports isn't cheap. Elite pro athletes don't work for chump change.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
College sports are probably the last sport to get ads like this.

NASCAR tracks have had ads on the walls for decades. There was a time long ago when NHL hockey rinks didn't have ads on the dasher boards, now they have advanced from painted ones to animated computer generated ones. MLB baseball has had ads to the side of homeplate for years. F1 also has computer generated ads all over the infield.
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Yep.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
College sports are probably the last sport to get ads like this.
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I guess this was always the next step in players getting paid. We’re too far removed from amateur sports to hide behind being a place of education anymore.

I wonder where we draw the line in compensating athletes now. High school games are on tv and radio, selling ads all the time. Disney needs to start paying their little league World Series stars, too.
 
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adam.vol said:
I guess this was always the next step in players getting paid. We’re too far removed from amateur sports to hide behind being a place of education anymore.

I wonder where we draw the line in compensating athletes now. High school games are on tv and radio, selling ads all the time. Disney needs to start paying their little league World Series stars, too.
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Local High Schools field is now called Ridell National Bank Field at Northview HS...turf field, led score board, not quite but close to jumbotron...it's better than some D2 colleges.

And that's a school in Western Indiana...some of the schools closer to Indy and in NW Indiana are insane.
 
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IndianaVol said:
Local High Schools field is now called Ridell National Bank Field at Northview HS...turf field, led score board, not quite but close to jumbotron...it's better than some D2 colleges.

And that's a school in Western Indiana...some of the schools closer to Indy and in NW Indiana are insane.
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Allen High School Football Stadium in Texas...
 

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IndianaVol said:
Not too bad - still somewhat tasteful.
It's going to be a far cry better then what others are going to see on their fields - can't wait to see that giant swooping K sitting on the 25 of that stadium in Lexington.
If only we could get Bucc-ees to sponsor the stadium in Austin, TX...imagine that giant smiling beaver on the field...HAHAHAA
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lol its better than having your field named "Kroger Field" 😂 TN maybe one of the first schools to put a logo on the field, but def wont be the last. Arkansas may have "WalMart" on their field ha ha ha
 
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griffdog14 said:
the "preserving" branding around this is so fing disingenuous and frankly insulting. Preserve it from what? The administration from turning it into "Food City Stadium?" All the while tickets have a "20,000 person waiting list" and UT Athletics is dropping infographics about record revenues, and the record profit from "Parking and Concessions." like just fing kill me. Can't wait to see what convenience store is going to have naming rights for the baseball stadium once it's done with renos.
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If the Convenience store can share millions to players in NIL, then by all means.
 
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Actually, this doesn't have as much to do with NIL as it does the fact that per that May settlement agreement the NCAA reached with former players, most colleges and universities are going to have to pony up some $22 million PER YEAR, per institution, to fund their part of that multi-$billion settlement. That money has got to come from somewhere.

www.espn.com

Thamel: It's a new day for college sports, but the future remains unclear

A landmark settlement will provide billions in pay to college athletes. But because this is college sports, nothing will be easy.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
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I drove a truck back in the mid 80's and most times went to Syracuse, then pick up a back load in Philadelphia. I had to get a Philly steak and cheese sandwich while there. I have always said that what restaurants around here call steak and cheese, ain't in my opinion. Steaming them makes all the difference in the world.
 
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aRmo said:
lol its better than having your field named "Kroger Field" 😂 TN maybe one of the first schools to put a logo on the field, but def wont be the last. Arkansas may have "WalMart" on their field ha ha ha
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Really Walmart is just worth $551 Billion dollars as a company. They could triple the sponsorship money each year that Pilot will be donating to Tennessee.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Really Walmart is just worth $551 Billion dollars as a company. They could triple the sponsorship money each year that Pilot will be donating to Tennessee.
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That is true! But the look of the logo would be funny.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Really Walmart is just worth $551 Billion dollars as a company. They could triple the sponsorship money each year that Pilot will be donating to Tennessee.
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Berkshire, that owns Pilot, is worth about $989B.

Not that they're going to pour money into Knoxville but Pilot's donation isn't stretching for them.
 
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10 pages in and I still don't understand why anyone brought up Berkshire Hathaway in these conversations. Buffet and his company famously do not micro-manage the companies they acquire. They mostly monitor the financials from quarter to quarter, year to year, and draw in any excess profit the companies produce. They don't even take all of the profit - they let their subsidiaries keep what they believe / assert they'll need to sustain or grow their businesses. A prudent mentality, and a trillion dollar portfolio, that probably flummoxes predatory private equity outfits who want immediate returns no matter how bloody.

But getting back to the point - no one at Berkshire Hathaway has probably even thought about this deal. I don't know why people brought them up.
 
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adam.vol said:
I heard this in Dave Hooker’s show. What happens when The Haslams no longer run Pilot and they decide we’re just going to be Pilot Stadium, since they own the naming rights? Selling out to a corporation is bound to backfire eventually. Corporations ruined capitalism, so let’s sell our universities to them..
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They don't run it now. What rock have you been under? Pilot sold earlier in the year. Warren Buffett's group owns it and runs it.
 
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