Uniform Sponsor Patch - Iowa State
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I think this would look nice on our jerseys:
The only way it would even dent the gap is if the uniforms started to look like a NASCAR car.
Per my wife who used to work at Principal, they apparently have a policy of only advertising on live sports as it’s really the only TV anyone watches live anymore. I know they’ve sponsored the signs on the Hoops in Hilton/Carver in the past, so I could see them wanting to bid on the patches
Seriously, what is $20-30mm to a billionaire or 2? Do we not have viable school product to sell? ISU is better than this.
Now hear me out. Have our defensive linemen jerseys be sponsored by Casey’s pizza. Maybe they can be as greasy as their pizza and no offensive linen will be able to hold them?
Maybe we can recruit the greased up deaf guy then to be the next great ISU Defensive Lineman
Jimmy Johnson used to Vaseline the jerseys, so it has happened.
Yea, feel like for the big companies you've gotta sponsor both ISU & Iowa (like Hy-Vee) or risk alienating fans. Or stay out of it altogether like Casey's.
Motorsports works
Agreed. The money is needed and will be nice. But the SEC and B1G will get this money as well, and the blue blood teams, and most teams in the SEC and B1G will get sponsorship far more than ISU, at a time when they don't really need it.
This system is broke.
I don't think @cyfan92 meant 'close the gap'. I think we all know the gap will continue to widen. He said it will help "close the shortfall", the required money, which it will do.
Kind of feels like we’re dangerously close to having each player sponsored by a company. Sort of like those signs when a family or organization agrees to pick up litter for a section of a highway.
That's how its works in every sport. You think the Lakers/Celtics/Warriors sponsor patches in the NBA are worth the same as the Hornets/Pelicans/Grizzlies
This part of the system is fair. It's driven by the most TV viewership. Actual advertisers are going to be paying for the spot. Being on FOX/ESPN and ESPN+ will be important
I think having endowed positions is more likely than having a player sponsored- such as the John Deere “Nothing runs like a Deere” Running Back or the Bricklayers Union Defensive Lineman, with the player getting paid out of the proceeds of the sponsorship/ endowment which just passes from one person to the next.
Before too long our jerseys are just going to look like NASCAR fire suits rather than team uniforms- and seat donations/ ticket prices will continue to go up.
Blackjack Brian Brown!Yea, feel like for the big companies you've gotta sponsor both ISU & Iowa (like Hy-Vee) or risk alienating fans. Or stay out of it altogether like Casey's.
Motorsports works
Actually would be badass. CW and Blum should find out how much to get a little patch on the jersey and we all donate to make it happen. But where would funds go? NIL? Or just to university athletics non-NIL?
