Naming Rights

[Pony_Fan]

Looks like FC Dallas just inked Pizza Hut for $30 million for naming rights for 20 years. Please SMU - get at least some corporate money for a similar deal and build a new basketball gym or update. We need it now to compete.

[PK]

Just how much are you willing to prostitute the naming of SMU facilities? Do you want to go...no...would you go to the Plucker's Chicken Wings Arena to see SMU play for the next twenty years? I think selling naming rights for buildings is just another way of whoring...classless, anything for a buck. And no I don't think someone donating a large sum in return for having their name on a building is the same thing. It may or may not be done for the sake of one's ego, but at least it ain't a crass commercial.

[jtstang]

I'd love to see the Mustangs run out on the floor of PK Court at Moody Coliseum. Come on, moneybags, open up that checkbook....

[Pony_Fan]

PK, I don't see any problems with it. Who cares. I would rather have a newly renovated arena.

I haven't heard anyone putting up Ford money for Moody. The time to do this is NOW.

Dr. Pepper arena. - I would not care one bit.

[Stallion]

sounds more like whoring yourself out for 30 million bucks! Can't believe that facilty and that franchise is worth 30 million over 20 years.

[ponyboy]

Agreed, Stallion. That's a lotta dough.

I am not a soccer fan. Don't hate it, don't love it. But I do have to admit that I'm a little excited about this new Frisco complex. May even attend a game or two.

[EastStang]

As an aside to this discussion, let us not for get the famous PSInet Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. PSInet was out of business and bankrupt, but because they were in bankruptcy and the naming rights to the stadium was an asset in bankruptcy the Ravens played for a year in a stadium named after a defunct company. The Washington Nationals are still trying to ink a corporate sponsor to make it _______ Field at RFK Stadium. So far no one has ponied up the bucks to make that happen. So if you have a few spare million you can have your name on an MLB Field immediately. I really hated it when the Redskins whored themselves out and named their stadium FedEx Field, I'm just waiting for them to change the uniforms to Lime Green Purple and Orange. All of the ushers have to wear Fed Ex sports shirts in the Corporate colors. Yuk.

[OldPony]

Let's not forget ENRON Field. Moody has been gone for a lot of years and he gave to many universities. I would sell my stock in a company who bougt naming rights for a soccer field in Frisco for $30 mill- unless it were for 30 million years.

[Stallion]

yeah no wonder my pizza costs so much.

[HorsePower]

As an aside to this discussion, let us not for get the famous PSInet Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. PSInet was out of business and bankrupt, but because they were in bankruptcy and the naming rights to the stadium was an asset in bankruptcy the Ravens played for a year in a stadium named after a defunct company. The Washington Nationals are still trying to ink a corporate sponsor to make it _______ Field at RFK Stadium. So far no one has ponied up the bucks to make that happen. So if you have a few spare million you can have your name on an MLB Field immediately. I really hated it when the Redskins whored themselves out and named their stadium FedEx Field, I'm just waiting for them to change the uniforms to Lime Green Purple and Orange. All of the ushers have to wear Fed Ex sports shirts in the Corporate colors. Yuk.

Personally, I think RFK is one of those places that never should have a corporate name. It would be like Samuel Adams Field at Fenway Park, or if you attached a corporate tag on Wrigley Field. RFK is one of those venerable old stadiums that has too much history to pimp it out with a corporate name.

But if they have to name it, it's time to dip into the EastStang trust fund.
"SMU MUSTANGS FIELD at RFK Stadium." Help Coach Tubbs tap into the DC/Baltimore/east coast basketball talent pool.

[me@smu]

First I couldn't careless what the name of the ballpark/field/arena is that a team played in. If it took a name like Pluckers International Coors & Budweiser Alliance Arena to get us a new arena, then so be it. Considering the amount we hear about a lack of funds for athletics, it is time for this type of brand sponsorship.

Secondly, the soccer field in Frisco is actually the nations largest soccer complex. It will be the future site for National team games and a soccer team which has increased in value by about ten fold not to mention is at the top of the league right now. The fact is that Pizza Hut field or whatever it is called will be on the TV many more times than any football stadium in the country.

[OldPony]

You still can't make me go.

[EastStang]

Mrs. EastStang said an emphatic "no". Believe it or not, I didn't like it when the changed it from DC Stadium to RFK Stadium in 1970. I personally would not like to see it changed at this point either. My point was that you end up with Stadia named after some really questionable companies or with names that can be turned on them. They renamed the Philadelphia arena, First Union Centre. It, of course, quickly got the nickname the FU Centre. Fortunately for folks from the City of Brotherly Love, First Union merged with Wachovia so it is now Wachovia Centre.

[d_pony]

horsepower - wrigley is a corporate name - the gum people

[DickerJames]

horsepower - wrigley is a corporate name - the gum people

Wrigley Field was named after William Wrigley, the owner of the team in the 1920's, not the gum.