FCS Stadium Corporate Naming Rights

[JSU02]

There was a subscription only article this morning in the Anniston (Ala.) Star saying JSU is in negotiations with BB&T Corporation about stadium naming rights. With a quick browse through the stadium database here I didn't notice any FCS school that had sold the naming rights to a company. So my question is, does anyone know of any?

[Thumper 76]

The rumor I hear a ton here at SDSU is that had the BOR allowed some Budwieser taps on campus we would have had any field we wanted paid for by them. Not sure how much fact is behind it at all, but thats what I hear. I could only imagine that it would have been named after Bud or Bud Light or something to that effect.

[∞∞∞]

ODU's is called SB Ballard Stadium. SB Ballard Construction Company built the gameday building, parking garage, and did all the renovations. And afterwards, donated a few million dollars to have the stadium renamed.

[ToTheLeft]

There's just not that many in college sports in general. UCF and Louisville have Corporate stadium names, and a few teams that play at NFL stadiums (USF for example) wind up playing in a Corp. named venue, but there's just not a lot of them out there.

[JayJ79]

The rumor I hear a ton here at SDSU is that had the BOR allowed some Budwieser taps on campus we would have had any field we wanted paid for by them. Not sure how much fact is behind it at all, but thats what I hear. I could only imagine that it would have been named after Bud or Bud Light or something to that effect.

Horse Piss Field?

[JSU02]

There's just not that many in college sports in general. UCF and Louisville have Corporate stadium names, and a few teams that play at NFL stadiums (USF for example) wind up playing in a Corp. named venue, but there's just not a lot of them out there.

And of course troy played at movie gallery stadium until it went bankrupt

[Thumper 76]

Not a fan of Bud really either, but hell call it whatever ya want if we could get it. Shit look at our new student-athlete building at the field. The Dykehouse.

[TribeFanInNC]

BB&T, based here in Winston-Salem, NC, has made a cottage industry of getting naming rights on stadiums and sports complexes. Wake Forest plays their football games at BB&T Field. Across town, the local Class A minor league baseball team plays at BB&T Ballpark. Nearby is BB&T Soccer Park as well. This extends outside the area, as the Myrtle Beach minor league team plays in a BB&T-named field as well.

[JSU02]

Yes i noticed that this morning when I looking into BB&T, as long as they send a nice big check, i dont care though

[siuham]

SIU was asking for 500k for a corporate sponsor for the stadium...

Hence the name "Saluki Stadium"

You're not going to find many companies that will want to shell out half a million to sponsor an FCS team.

As for FBS teams not going that route: I'd say it's more to do with traditional naming than anything else.

[danefan]

We've always speculated that the new Albany stadium would have a naming rights opportunity. We sold the naming rights to our basketball arena for some $2.5 million or so a couple years ago and word is there is a push within the athletic department to raise a couple million from alumni to name the field after Coach Ford, which is probably the amount they expect to otherwise get from a corporate sponsor.

[JSU02]

SIU was asking for 500k for a corporate sponsor for the stadium...

Hence the name "Saluki Stadium"

You're not going to find many companies that will want to shell out half a million to sponsor an FCS team.

As for FBS teams not going that route: I'd say it's more to do with traditional naming than anything else.

Yeah, ours changed from Paul Snow Stadium to Burgess-Snow Field at JSU Stadium after the expansion for the same reason. I think they were asking either 5 or 10 million for naming rights to the stadium as it was being built. It will be interesting to see what we get out of BB&T if this works out. They are one of the more profitable banks and where not hit too hard by the housing crisis, hopefully they have deep, willing pockets

[Aho Old Guy]

I suspect the contractual arrangements with the 'primary benefactor(s)' to the school would take precedence over corporate naming rights.

As an example: Wake Forest actually plays at Groves Stadium (named after the family that effectively paid for the original field in Wake Forest, NC, and paid to keep the field name when the university moved to Winston-Salem). The stadium was built on land donated by the Babcock family (whose name graces the graduate college of bidness).

It took the Demon Deecks 20 years to actually build Groves Stadium (in 1968). In order to fund stadium improvements, a ten-year agreement was signed with BB&T in 2007.

What BB&T actually purchased was "... naming rights to the field ... (and) exclusivity in the school's public references to the facility."

Jeeeeez, lawyers Wake Forest lawyers

Here's the poop: What's in a name? $$$$

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Montana's is called Washington Grizzly Stadium because of the benefactor of the project and his monetary and labor donations. Dennis Washington, or Washington Corp. got that done back in 1985-86.

[siuham]

SIU was asking for 500k for a corporate sponsor for the stadium...

Hence the name "Saluki Stadium"

You're not going to find many companies that will want to shell out half a million to sponsor an FCS team.

As for FBS teams not going that route: I'd say it's more to do with traditional naming than anything else.

Yeah, ours changed from Paul Snow Stadium to Burgess-Snow Field at JSU Stadium after the expansion for the same reason. I think they were asking either 5 or 10 million for naming rights to the stadium as it was being built. It will be interesting to see what we get out of BB&T if this works out. They are one of the more profitable banks and where not hit too hard by the housing crisis, hopefully they have deep, willing pockets

Oh wow I was way off on it...

It was $10 million for football stadium naming rights. $2 mil for the field, $1 mil for the scoreboard.

[JSU02]

yeah, i thought 500K was pretty darn cheap...

[JSU02]

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