FedEx pledges $25M to Memphis NIL

[Cyrealist]

at what point do sponsors like this start meddling in the firing and hiring of coaches and ADs?

It would seem to be good manners to ask their opinion.

 

[clone37]

At what point do we just scrap the whole concept of "college athletics". Just make a new level of lower level professional sports, go independent of the universities, and be done with it.

That's exactly the way this is, and will, be heading in the coming years.

 

[clonehenge]

At what point do we just scrap the whole concept of "college athletics". Just make a new level of lower level professional sports, go independent of the universities, and be done with it.

We're already there. They just need the universities for the tax shelter.

To go a step further, there is talk of the Big 10 and SEC leaving the NCAA and forming a new division where all athletes would have to be paid a minimum amount. The new division could make it's own rules like increasing the number of scholarships per team, etc.

 

[MugNight]

If it’s anything like their parcel delivery service, the money will show up late (or maybe not at all!)

 

[HouClone]

Memphis to the Big 12?

 

[ClonesFTW]

Athletics is the same as everything else in the world, those who provide the funds are actually the decision makers.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Memphis to the Big 12?

Lets talk about it! Then let’s move on to CSU!

 

[RagingCloner]

If it’s anything like their parcel delivery service, the money will show up late (or maybe not at all!)

this is an underrated comment

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Are you hearing this Pioneer!!! Time to step up!!!

Pioneer isn't an Iowa company...

 

[Cyched]

Pioneer isn't an Iowa company...

Outer Limits is

 

[HFCS]

I was kind of surprised when I went to Memphis on a business trip how popular Memphis hoops is. I figured it’d be grizzlies and Vols football but really felt like Memphis hoops was the main team of the people.

 

[GTO]

How soon before we start seeing sponsor company logos on college uniforms?

 

[CysDoc]

How soon before we start seeing sponsor company logos on college uniforms?

You are being sarcastic right?

 

[Pope]

Pioneer isn't an Iowa company...

Maybe not, but they benefit from ISU research and hire a heck of a lot of ISU graduates.

 

[somecyguy]

Maybe not, but they benefit from ISU research and hire a heck of a lot of ISU graduates.

Maybe someone could talk Rockwell Collins into donating. They receive a lot of ISU grads.

 

[GTO]

You are being sarcastic right?

I men for it to be bigger than the team logo. Similar to Euro soccer leagues (not the tiny patches college teams wear).

 

[8bitnes]

If it’s anything like their parcel delivery service, the money will show up late (or maybe not at all!)

Half of it will turn up missing, like my order with two new cell phones

 

[EvilBetty]

I was kind of surprised when I went to Memphis on a business trip how popular Memphis hoops is. I figured it’d be grizzlies and Vols football but really felt like Memphis hoops was the main team of the people.

I've been to memphis probably a dozen times and don't remember ever seeing vols gear on anyone. I wonder if the distance apart is a factor. tennessee is a long ass state. That's a 6 hour drive if you don't hit traffic in knoxville, nashville (always bad), or memphis. plus knoxville is in a different time zone. not exactly an easy "hey let's go to a vols game".

 

[FarminCy]

Pioneer isn't an Iowa company...

Pioneer isn’t even a company.

 

[MugNight]

I've been to memphis probably a dozen times and don't remember ever seeing vols gear on anyone. I wonder if the distance apart is a factor. tennessee is a long ass state. That's a 6 hour drive if you don't hit traffic in knoxville, nashville (always bad), or memphis. plus knoxville is in a different time zone. not exactly an easy "hey let's go to a vols game".

I usually see a blend of Memphis, Miss St, Ole Miss, and some Arkansas thrown in.