Report: VU selling naming rights to the stadium

[AuricGoldfinger]

This is according to Chris Lee at VandySports.com.

All I can say is, it's about damn time...if it results in more money being pumped into the facilities.

https://vanderbilt.rivals.com/news/vand ... ll-stadium

[3rdFloorDyer]

On a related topic, when will we get some renderings on the renovations plan for the football operations building? Don’t they start construction in about a month?

[OldDude]

"OldDude Stadium" has a nice ring to it. How much do you think this is worth ?

[cjdore]

The Dud can now become Kleenex Stadium where VU fans come to cry!!

[PeteFox]

Sell the rights to Viagra, and put in blue turf. It's where losing SEC teams come to look potent again.

[VU1970]

If some corporation buys "naming rights," is there any law that says anyone but the corporation has to call it that?

[FayetteDore]

Jack Daniels Stadium: Iconic, global brand...but probably not at a college, even a private one.

HCA Healthcare Stadium: They've got the money but are a competitor with VUMC.

Nissan & Bridgestone, whose North American HQs are both in Nashville, are both taken.

Lots of smaller possibilities, but OTOH, it probably doesn't have to be based locally. Does Regions Bank already have its name on a stadium?

[VUinFL]

it's a tough time to ask some corporation to attach their name to the program...seems like they should have struck while the iron was extremely hot about 8 years ago

[AuricGoldfinger]

On a related topic, when will we get some renderings on the renovations plan for the football operations building? Don’t they start construction in about a month?

This is a good question and I'm surprised there's not more chatter about it. In theory, they could start ripping up the south end zone seating as soon as the final whistle is blown on November 13. That's a week and a half from now.

[VUgearhead]

I'm sorry, but what corporate idiot would be willing to sponsor a stadium nicknamed 'The Dud'?!!

[Doreknox]

Forest Lawn Field

[dore74]

hey Auric, consider adding a name the stadium question to your weekly poll, could have some very salty ideas posted

[commadore]

Sell the rights to Viagra, and put in blue turf. It's where losing SEC teams come to look potent again.

The Dores gonna RISE again!

[commadore]

Cherokee Stadium. Our ancestors ruined your program, now we own it!

[VUrower28]

HCA Healthcare Stadium: They've got the money but are a competitor with VUMC.?

This won’t happen. HCA is deeply aligned to Belmont University. Also, the current CEO is a UK grad

[EagleDore]

"OldDude Stadium" has a nice ring to it. How much do you think this is worth ?

The Dud can become "The Dude"

[3rdFloorDyer]

What if there are no takers for the naming rights? That would be embarrassing. Maybe we could have "Dudley Field at Ingram Stadium."

[Johnmn555]

Perhaps Vanderbilt Health can give up the advertisements on the boards of the hockey rink and the Predators helmets and instead name the stadium.

[FayetteDore]

HCA Healthcare Stadium: They've got the money but are a competitor with VUMC.?

This won’t happen. HCA is deeply aligned to Belmont University. Also, the current CEO is a UK grad

Belmont doesn't have an SEC football stadium -- and the millions of TV eyeballs that attracts.

And mammoth global corporations are capable of supporting more than one institution. Even Mike Curb has Curb Centers at Belmont, Vanderbilt and Rhodes.

[OldDude]

"OldDude Stadium" has a nice ring to it. How much do you think this is worth ?

The Dud can become "The Dude"

DANG ! I like it !