UW Couch Sales & Purchases (Portal Tracker)

houseofpain247 said:
A guy like Ballmer is clearly the type you'd need.

Also - Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft, Alaska Airlines....These companies have minted THOUSANDS of millionaires in the Seattle area. I find it so hard to believe that there aren't a few dozen that have $300-$500 million that could pool some resources and get things going for us. It's really easy for me to spend someone else's money though. UW needs to make the case that it's worth their while to do it.
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You aren't competing with millionaires

You need people with net worth's in the $100M+ range to have the kind of "fuck you" money to contribute to sports as a passion project to even be meaningful ...

And of course the elephant in the room to that is that the people with that kind of money need to view sports as a primary passion project
 
Tequilla said:
I don't think UW is doing a good job of putting compelling business cases in front of the businesses to sign off on them

I'm not on the inside to be able to say where the disconnect is although I've opined both here and on X/Spaces

There are advantages to UW to be able to leverage local Fortune 500 businesses IF they can create compelling use cases for them ... the challenge is are you looking at local vs national campaigns and what are the numbers attached ... local companies aren't going to enter into any kind of deal where the ROI doesn't make sense for them

I'll give a good example that I've used elsewhere as to the inherent challenges ...

In Texas, HEB is a massively popular in-state supermarket chain that has a very loyal following based out of San Antonio (about 45-60 minutes from Austin). Let's say that HEB decides that they want to leverage a high caliber Texas player to promote HEB and its brand ... this could be a very profitable activity for them given how fiercely loyal Texans can be to what they support. In fact, they've done so with a Texas volleyball player. In contrast, can you see QFC driving a comparable sponsorship in Seattle? Probably not.

Regardless of if we're talking about an uber whale to drive funding (think Cuban, Cody Campbell, Uncle Phil) or leveraging Fortune 500 companies to invest in advertising campaigns with meaningful money attached, there's got to be some kind of compelling ROI to capitalize on. If that doesn't exist you're not going to get investment in this part of the country.
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The deal in Seattle is that nobody gives a shit about Husky football players as individuals. How many Seahawks do you see making mega dollar endorsement deals? Beacon Plumbing is not going to make it rain for UW NIL. The fact that the pro team in town - with players who are much more identifiable - barely makes a dent on the advertising scene tells me that expecting UW to get NIL rolling that way is a fools errand. The only way NIL money is going to come in is via a mega donor who doesn't care about ROI on any metric other than winning.
 
BleachedAnusDawg said:
The deal in Seattle is that nobody gives a shit about Husky football players as individuals. How many Seahawks do you see making mega dollar endorsement deals? Beacon Plumbing is not going to make it rain for UW NIL. The fact that the pro team in town - with players who are much more identifiable - barely makes a dent on the advertising scene tells me that expecting UW to get NIL rolling that way is a fools errand. The only way NIL money is going to come in is via a mega donor who doesn't care about ROI on any metric other than winning.
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BINGO

The backbone of this area is on hard work and a humility of how each of us are a cog in the success of a team, etc.

As you mentioned, HOF caliber Seahawk players like Marshawn or Bobby Wagner have been tied to Beacon Plumbing

Cal Raleigh had a 1 of 1 season in the history of MLB and his local commercials are tied to plumbing as well

Now of course there have been national campaigns tied to these type of players (even tied to local companies) but that's been as much a byproduct of their overall profile and popularity as it has been that they are local.

The local advertising campaigns are clearly lacking and that's not just a UW issue
 
WoolleyDoog said:
Mike Martin is like a parody of a boomer his clueless with technology on Twitter. He does Twitter maybe worse than anyone else I have ever seen.
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No argument there. I grabbed the first tweet on the kids dad’s page to show the connection. Giving a 2-5 kicker a scholarship should be worth a $10M donation at least.
 
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At the hoops game the other day Fish made a beeline to the Amazon CEO. (I’ve heard that’s not Buck, but Andy Jassy)
 
Tequilla said:
BINGO

The backbone of this area is on hard work and a humility of how each of us are a cog in the success of a team, etc.

As you mentioned, HOF caliber Seahawk players like Marshawn or Bobby Wagner have been tied to Beacon Plumbing

Cal Raleigh had a 1 of 1 season in the history of MLB and his local commercials are tied to plumbing as well

Now of course there have been national campaigns tied to these type of players (even tied to local companies) but that's been as much a byproduct of their overall profile and popularity as it has been that they are local.

The local advertising campaigns are clearly lacking and that's not just a UW issue
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People forget Don James hawked RVs
 
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