USC sells Coliseum naming rights.

[LouderVol]

Frequent flyer miles vs. a free can of soup when you spend $50. Either way, the fans are the winners!

unless they oversold the game and you have to be "escorted" out.

 

[eskimovol]

So who gets the money? Athletics Department or the University for other projects?

The money is helping offset the $270M renovation they got going on.

 

[eskimovol]

Which is just dumb. Sorry, not sorry. Calling a spade a spade. There are ads all over Neyland. More ads on the jumbotron than footage. Yet someone draws the line at stadium naming rights. Silly and dumb.

It's dumb to you, but not to others. I do agree that it's less of an issue if it's just adding on to the original name but it still seems like selling out imo. I did recently hear that USC is a private school, don't know if that's true, so maybe they don't receive as much funding as the state schools. I'm not familiar with how that stuff works but if so then what they did makes more sense to me.

 

[LoudOrange]

I don't understand why donors and fans would find more money coming into the school upsetting. Nothing worse than more money for upgrades, facilities and the like. Not being rude, I truly can't wrap my head around it. First Tennessee Neyland Stadium, TN Farm Bureau Neyland Stadium, etc, no big deal to me. More money to help make the south end zone concourse not look like it's out of the fifties imo.

How about Pilot Oil Flying J Neyland Stadium?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

How about Pilot Oil Flying J Neyland Stadium?

Jim Haslam played for General Neyland. If the stadium naming rights went up for sale I wouldn't be surprised to see the Haslam's or Pilot Travel buy the naming rights and keep it named Neyland Stadium.

 

[eskimovol]

How about Pilot Oil Flying J Neyland Stadium?

Do you remember Neyland Stadium? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[Sin City Vol]

Who is next? Notre Dame or Michigan? Wow.

ND will never do this, they have so much donor money it's ridiculous.

Neither will Michigan

 

[VFL-82-JP]

I just want to see them renamed The Ben Hill Griffin Tampax Swamp and Bryant-Denny-Cheerios Stadium.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Should have been the USC Trojan Condom stadium.

 

[volfanbill]

ND will never do this, they have so much donor money it's ridiculous.

Neither will Michigan

Michigan is going all in. They'd absolutely do it

 

[LouderVol]

ND will never do this, they have so much donor money it's ridiculous.

Neither will Michigan

and USC doesn't?

 

[Biopsyman]

Naming rights helps in generating revenue to help cover the losses on many others sports at a university...Smart idea

 

[wmcovol]

Neyland-Food City Stadium

 

[volfanbill]

It's dumb to you, but not to others. I do agree that it's less of an issue if it's just adding on to the original name but it still seems like selling out imo. I did recently hear that USC is a private school, don't know if that's true, so maybe they don't receive as much funding as the state schools. I'm not familiar with how that stuff works but if so then what they did makes more sense to me.

USC has a literal f*** ton of donors. It doesn't matter that they're private. State donations are a drop in the bucket compared to donor money. And it's still stupid to draw a line at stadium naming rights. Especially since they'll be the same one crying over budget shortfalls in other threads.