https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/fsu-considering-modifications-to-controversial-doak-campbell-billboards
Through a university spokesman, FSU Athletics Director Stan Wilcox confirmed to Warchant on Thursday that the Seminoles are reconsidering the look of advertisements on the back of the stadium's new south end zone scoreboard.
"We are in the process of evaluating modifications that might be made to the recent graphics," Wilcox said.
https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/has-fsu-gone-too-far-commercializing-doak-campbell-stadium-
. The recent gaudy ads unveiled on the back of south end zone scoreboard, which are clearly visible behind the Unconquered Statue, have altered this feeling. There’s little doubt now that FSU has stepped over the precipice and is quickly falling down a slippery slope. Unlike the north end zone scoreboard, or the various ads around Doak Campbell or the Tucker Center, this is the first time that an advertisement is clearly more prominent compared to accompanying Florida State logos or photos.
Florida State’s administration has a responsibility to keep IMG in check and balance the need for advertising against college tradition and pageantry. That clearly wasn’t done with the most recent additions to the south end zone scoreboard. But as Ira Schoffel first reported in Thursday’s story, FSU is reevaluating these ads and will hopefully come up with a less obtrusive alternative such as the one suggested by a poster on the Tribal Council.
Hopefully, FSU will take a step back from this advertising tipping point and will leave it to somebody else to become the leader in the commercialization of college sports.
That fan mock up is pretty nice actually.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I just hate a fan could do better off the cuff than FSU does with professionals
DeleteThere's no leadership at FSU. There typically isn't.
DeleteStumbled back across this looking for something else. Sigh. That fan mock up is still so, so good. And the current ones are so, so not.
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