Great tribute, Derek. Was sad to hear this.
I remember the Mora birthday thing well. I was the first to show up and about twenty minutes later Larry showed up. He introduced himself as Larry, aka AngryAlum and I told him, “good I was worried you were here to rob me!” He laughed and said...
Pretty much my story. Banned in 2008 or 2009, then rebanned under a different name when in early 2014.
Before Pete got hired I was in chat and remembered Fetters saying (before Pete was a serious candidate) that he hopes Petersen doesn’t get hired because he hates the “internet guys”.
After a...
They are family friends, Rhonda (Paolo’s mom) is Rhonda Smith, the UW basketball great, Jen was working at UW in Rhonda’s last season. Rhonda also worked at UW with Jen for awhile too. Jen has known them forever. One of Jen’s sons goes to O’Dea too.
paolo might be the number one player for 2021 in basketball. Played QB at O’Dea frosh year, not anymore though.
He’s a quasi local legend already in athletics as he’s been amazing for awhile now.
There is a real life branding expert here and I hope he chimes in.
Your post is so dumb it hurts.
“Your brand is only as strong as your performance,” my god how dumb are you? Is this why companies, spend millions on branding, even when they aren’t the best in their market?
Please stop talking...
Things that the marketing department owns/works directly with:
Gameday (all encompassing: content, tailgating, zone, ads, commercial break content, etc.)
Band
Cheer
Dubs (his name too)
Uniforms
Promotions
UW athletics font, script, color, etc.