Wife-beater Shirt Game?

[Captain Kangaroo]

Friday, March 5 – 8:00 p.m. * Men’s Basketball versus rival Can't State! Please wear white t-shirts for our “white-out” game, which is being televised nationally on ESPN2.

Don't they usually hand out free shirts at the game for this type of promo? If not, I don't see Joe Akron showing up in a white T. It won't work.

[RootforRoo44]

Friday, March 5 – 8:00 p.m. * Men’s Basketball versus rival Can't State! Please wear white t-shirts for our “white-out” game, which is being televised nationally on ESPN2.

Don't they usually hand out free shirts at the game for this type of promo? If not, I don't see Joe Akron showing up in a white T. It won't work.

I dont either...especially since the Rowdies wear blue this year. What is this from? Surely our Athletic Department didnt put this out.

[ZachTheZip]

Who thought up a "white-out"? Are you serious? That would have worked last season when the student sections wore white. Now that they need to wear their blue shirts to get down to the seats behind the baskets, it's going to look stupid.As for asking people to wear their own white shirts, that's SOP for large sporting events. They can't afford to hand out a t-shirt to every person who walks in the door. We could be pushing 6k, and that can add up quickly.

[Dr Z]

I'll take a guess and say that there is a white t-shirt sitting on all the lower bowl seats when those season ticket holders get to their seats.Those lower seats are the ones that will be on tv 95% of the time. More than likely, Rowdies too.

[ZachTheZip]

I'll take a guess and say that there is a white t-shirt sitting on all the lower bowl seats when those season ticket holders get to their seats.Those lower seats are the ones that will be on tv 95% of the time. More than likely, Rowdies too.

Maybe. But I don't like the idea of wearing an extra shirt when we all know how the temperature goes up with a big crowd. It's going to be about 110 degrees in there.

[vmd9]

When you say wife-beater shirt game I was thinking the game was at Can't. Don't white trash wear those all the time? Every game in Can't is a wife beater game!

[Captain Kangaroo]

As for asking people to wear their own white shirts, that's SOP for large sporting events. They can't afford to hand out a t-shirt to every person who walks in the door. We could be pushing 6k, and that can add up quickly.

Have you ever been to a large sporting event? It doesn't seem like it.Here's a radical, never-before-tried idea to help fund the T-shirts - Get a sponsor. I know...I know...crazy talk. But just humor me on that one.Here's another one - Sell shitty-quality white T-shirts at the entrance for $2.00 each. Shirts that say something clever...like "Beat K.e.n.t." Think that $2 could make a dent in the price of a crappy T-shirt? I see guys selling crappy T's outside of concerts for $5.00 all the time. They must be making money on it?Hey...how about beginning to sell them a few games prior to the K.e.n.t. game? How insane is that?I saw Dambrot's salary in the paper a few days ago. I also saw where Proenza justified it by quantifying the millions of dollars the University received in exposure during March madness. Obviously the money is available for such a simple promotion. And if the University is really committed to looking good on ESPN...they're collectively insane for banking on Joe Akron to bring his wife-beater to the game.But I can't expect to explain that to a group of people who think selling Zips basketball jerseys in the JAR team shop is a bad thing.

[zippyrifle32]

As for asking people to wear their own white shirts, that's SOP for large sporting events. They can't afford to hand out a t-shirt to every person who walks in the door. We could be pushing 6k, and that can add up quickly.

Have you ever been to a large sporting event? It doesn't seem like it.Here's a radical, never-before-tried idea to help fund the T-shirts - Get a sponsor. I know...I know...crazy talk. But just humor me on that one.Here's another one - Sell shitty-quality white T-shirts at the entrance for $2.00 each. Shirts that say something clever...like "Beat K.e.n.t." Think that $2 could make a dent in the price of a crappy T-shirt? I see guys selling crappy T's outside of concerts for $5.00 all the time. They must be making money on it?Hey...how about beginning to sell them a few games prior to the K.e.n.t. game? How insane is that?I saw Dambrot's salary in the paper a few days ago. I also saw where Proenza justified it by quantifying the millions of dollars the University received in exposure during March madness. Obviously the money is available for such a simple promotion. And if the University is really committed to looking good on ESPN...they're collectively insane for banking on Joe Akron to bring his wife-beater to the game.But I can't expect to explain that to a group of people who think selling Zips basketball jerseys in the JAR team shop is a bad thing.

CRAZY TALK!!! I'm going to have to ask you to hush up now, cause we don't take too kindly to your kind around here... talking all logical and making sense...

[RootforRoo44]

As for asking people to wear their own white shirts, that's SOP for large sporting events. They can't afford to hand out a t-shirt to every person who walks in the door. We could be pushing 6k, and that can add up quickly.

Have you ever been to a large sporting event? It doesn't seem like it.Here's a radical, never-before-tried idea to help fund the T-shirts - Get a sponsor. I know...I know...crazy talk. But just humor me on that one.Here's another one - Sell shitty-quality white T-shirts at the entrance for $2.00 each. Shirts that say something clever...like "Beat K.e.n.t." Think that $2 could make a dent in the price of a crappy T-shirt? I see guys selling crappy T's outside of concerts for $5.00 all the time. They must be making money on it?Hey...how about beginning to sell them a few games prior to the K.e.n.t. game? How insane is that?I saw Dambrot's salary in the paper a few days ago. I also saw where Proenza justified it by quantifying the millions of dollars the University received in exposure during March madness. Obviously the money is available for such a simple promotion. And if the University is really committed to looking good on ESPN...they're collectively insane for banking on Joe Akron to bring his wife-beater to the game.But I can't expect to explain that to a group of people who think selling Zips basketball jerseys in the JAR team shop is a bad thing.

I think someone needs to print this out and then hand deliver one copy to every single person who works in Athletics.

[GoZips88]

Picked mine out of the drawer and have it ready to go - yellow under the arms and Cheeto stains on the front. Go Zips!

[breezy123]

i know this is off topic but is anyone else sick of hearing AC/DC Thunderstruck at the basketball games? can we get a new song maybe like Bush Breathe In

[breezy123]

the actual song is called machinehead by Bush

[zipfan85]

[GP1]

I saw Dambrot's salary in the paper a few days ago. I also saw where Proenza justified it by quantifying the millions of dollars the University received in exposure during March madness. Obviously the money is available for such a simple promotion. And if the University is really committed to looking good on ESPN...they're collectively insane for banking on Joe Akron to bring his wife-beater to the game.

Maybe in fact they don't make millions for a tournament appearance.....I'd love to see somone try to put a number on it. I'm sure part of the rationale would be free advertising. OK, how much money did the advertising turn into?

[GP1]

Don't they usually hand out free shirts at the game for this type of promo? If not, I don't see Joe Akron showing up in a white T. It won't work.

I love the negative view of Joe Akron.....and I agree.

[zippyrifle32]

i didn't get the message in the video