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Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny. The show my sister loved that I had to sit through while waiting for guy shows like "It Takes A Thief" or "Combat!" or "The Fugitve".

The show we agreed on was "Mod Squad". I had a very serious Peggy Lipton crush! Way hipper than Marlo.
Dayum… yer making me feel nostalgic! Peggy brought the heat and a little cleavage.
 
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I don’t think she needs to chase followers and likes I just want her to promote herself more, no reason some of these players should be more popular than she is, that’s how u build a brand by getting more eyes on you. I know people on here don’t like self promotion for whatever reason but it’s not just go out and play and that’s it, promoting yourself actually helps the game. U need to get people that want to watch u at the next level, and how u do that is with your game and promotion.

I think we at UT tend to downplay the appearance of the players versus what they do on the court. That was then, this is now, the era of NIL. Rickea and Tamari both are VERY easy on the eyes and television is a visual media. LSU and Reese have gotten more mileage out of Bayou Barbie than Paris Hilton got in her heyday. Somebody at UTAD or even here at Volnation should get a cute marketable tag for both Rickea and Tamari to have said about them whenever our games our nationally televised.
 
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I agree! I have absolutely nothing against Angel, but there is no way she should have a bigger brand or be more popular than Rickea! I honestly think the only thing that’ll help her is if we win and are on the national stage (Sweet Sixteens) aren’t going to cut it in women’s basketball! We get to the FF this year and the more eyes that are on Rickea, her notoriety will skyrocket!

For what it’s worth, I think more people are starting to take notice, the Lady Vols basketball Facebook page posted a video of Rickea and it went viral! When I reposted it, people commented saying “Where has she been?!” 😩 Like come on people! She’s BEEN that girl!
I actually remember one of the USA basketball posts about her, after that she gained like 6k followers. We should make a final four run this year and she will become a household name. It’s a new era in sports, so these players are a brand in themselves.
 
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I actually remember one of the USA basketball posts about her, after that she gained like 6k followers. We should make a final four run this year and she will become a household name. It’s a new era in sports, so these players are a brand in themselves.
Cheap commercialism in my humble opinion. I know that’s part and parcel for NIL deals. Olivia Dunne is a great centerpiece for image vs performance. Give me performance and a weak NIL deal any day. RJ is meeting a happy medium, actually exceeding the media based valuation standard. Hard to see Jillian making big NIL dollars next year unless her performance can break down the wall.
 
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Cheap commercialism in my humble opinion. I know that’s part and parcel for NIL deals. Olivia Dunne is a great centerpiece for image vs performance. Give me performance and a weak NIL deal any day. RJ is meeting a happy medium, actually exceeding the media based valuation standard. Hard to see Jillian making big NIL dollars next year unless her performance can break down the wall.
I’m not really talking about Nil deals, I’m talking about growing her popularity to get more viewers to want to watch the games and follower her to the next level, that grows the sport when u have stars that people want to watch. Things evolve over time, this is how things work in sports today.
 
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I’m not really talking about Nil deals, I’m talking about growing her popularity to get more viewers to want to watch the games and follower her to the next level, that grows the sport when u have stars that people want to watch. Things evolve over time, this is how things work in sports today.
Agree to disagree. I just don't think wooing viewers by any way other than being a great player and decent human being is their job. Certainly any popularity wooing they want to do is ok, long as it doesn't interfer w their game. But I don't buy that it's necessary nor an obligation; in fact, we've just seen it can be quite damaging to their game if not handled carefully.
 
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Agree to disagree. I just don't think wooing viewers by any way other than being a great player and decent human being is their job. Certainly any popularity wooing they want to do is ok, long as it doesn't interfer w their game. But I don't buy that it's necessary nor an obligation; in fact, we've just seen it can be quite damaging to their game if not handled carefully.
I guess rime will tell, let’s see if just being a great player without a following gets the viewers to follow u to the next level and fill up the arenas. I’ll see u on the thread next year.
 
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Seemed to work just fine for Horston.
Exactly. Obviously Jordy feels no responsibility to draw viewers or fill seats in the arena with anything other than her play.

If she choses to do endorsements to help bolster that crappy rookie salary, I'm sure they're there for her.

Of course long term she needs the league to survive and thrive to keep her paycheck coming. But that's really not her job.
 
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Exactly. Obviously Jordy feels no responsibility to draw viewers or fill seats in the arena with anything other than her play.

If she choses to do endorsements to help bolster that crappy rookie salary, I'm sure they're there for her.

Of course long term she needs the league to survive and thrive to keep her paycheck coming. But that's really not her job.
Two different players and on 2 different levels, Rickea can be a household name and what I mean by that, is is u walk up to an random person they should most likely know who is is or heard of her before. That happens with certain players that I won’t name but u know what I mean.
 
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Two different players and on 2 different levels, Rickea can be a household name and what I mean by that, is is u walk up to an random person they should most likely know who is is or heard of her before. That happens with certain players that I won’t name but u know what I mean.
If RJ feels the need to become a household name and keeps up her level of play, she should have no problem doing so. A few months ago she signed with Jade English at Klutch Sports Group out of LA, you know the one that reps LeBron and other internationally known athletes. The one LeBron has been accused of owning, in violation of NBA rules.

I think our original debate was whether it's necessary for athletes to become "household names" to profit fm NIL and whether they owe it to the NCAA and/or WNBA to pursue that in order to fill seats and raise viewership. I still say it's fine and do-able if she wants to, but not a requirement. And can be determintal to their game if not really careful. Right Angel and FJ?
 
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Rickea IS a household name for those that will move her career forward, though defining that is difficult..WNBA folks are counting the days 'til she
hits their draft..IMHO if Tamari becomes the player she can and SHOULD be, this team can make it all the way..There is too much talent around RJ and TK not to succeed..Again, just JMHO.....
 
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If RJ feels the need to become a household name and keeps up her level of play, she should have no problem doing so. A few months ago she signed with Jade English at Klutch Sports Group out of LA, you know the one that reps LeBron and other internationally known athletes. The one LeBron has been accused of owning, in violation of NBA rules.

I think our original debate was whether it's necessary for athletes to become "household names" to profit fm NIL and whether they owe it to the NCAA and/or WNBA to pursue that in order to fill seats and raise viewership. I still say it's fine and do-able if she wants to, but not a requirement. And can be determintal to their game if not really careful. Right Angel and FJ?
U can’t compare the men’s and women’s game, more eyes are on the nba regardless. But you’re right she doesn’t have to do anything but play well if that’s all she wants to do. I’m just trying to say the times have changed, I know a lot of old heads don’t like change but things do evolve over time. I run into random people all the times and we could start talking about the nba and the players, I want that to happen with the WNBA and players like Rj. But that hasn’t happened yet because the average person doesn’t watch, and I believe if u build individual stars more eyes will be on the product.
 
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I agree! I have absolutely nothing against Angel, but there is no way she should have a bigger brand or be more popular than Rickea! I honestly think the only thing that’ll help her is if we win and are on the national stage (Sweet Sixteens) aren’t going to cut it in women’s basketball! We get to the FF this year and the more eyes that are on Rickea, her notoriety will skyrocket!

For what it’s worth, I think more people are starting to take notice, the Lady Vols basketball Facebook page posted a video of Rickea and it went viral! When I reposted it, people commented saying “Where has she been?!” 😩 Like come on people! She’s BEEN that girl!
The people who matter know about Rickea and she is a household name.
 
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"Household names", outside of those of us who follow WBB closely, got made in the NCAA tourney. Unfortunately, Rickea did not have a very good one by her standards. Had a spectacular SEC tourney, but NCAA not so much.

Pretty sure that's about to change. FIBA showed her completely locked and in and definitely been putting in the work during the offseason.
 
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I was looking at going Thursday and Leaving Monday and Rooms are looking to be between 800 the 6000 dollar range depending on location and quality. But it is something to do. I am going to check through work and see if I can get something with my benefits that would give me a deal. I literally saw some that were in that 3000 to 6000 per night. My little 800-6000 above was for 4-5 nights.

I just looked at TripAdvisor for the FF dates. Downtown hotels are in the $300-$500 per night. I checked 3 and they all had availability. The Hilton Garden \Inn at the airport has rooms under $500 for those dates. These rates are well above the "normal" rates but I didn't see anything anywhere near $6000 a night.
 
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That’s nice, I still think she should be a bigger household name than she already is….is that okay?!
Yes totally fine, but it seems as that js not Rickea's focus. Rickea has been putting in work this summer rather than focusing on NIL like some players at other schools
 
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Yes totally fine, but it seems as that js not Rickea's focus. Rickea has been putting in work this summer rather than focusing on NIL like some players at other schools
Meek how many times are you going to quote me?! I heard you the first 1st time buddy. I’m still not moving from what I said. So……what now?! 😩
 
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I just looked at TripAdvisor for the FF dates. Downtown hotels are in the $300-$500 per night. I checked 3 and they all had availability. The Hilton Garden \Inn at the airport has rooms under $500 for those dates. These rates are well above the "normal" rates but I didn't see anything anywhere near $6000 a night.
I was talking for Thursday - Monday Down town. Those were the rates I was seeing for 4-5 nights, not daily.
 
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