Re-UH Develops Marketing Campaigns For 2009-10 Men’s & Women’s Sports

Looking at the UH athletic site I see that the school has started a marketing campaign. This is fine. They even adopted the idea that the school is playing for you. Again, fine. What doesn’t grab me is the corresponding picture or logo (?). It doesn’t captivate me at all.And to me it doesn’t make sense. If the school is trying to convey the message of “we play for you” a compilation of students in action in the various sports would have been a lot better presentation as picture or logo . Having the greater impact to the viewer is when you can feel the personality, excitement and the esprit de corp of a message–looking into the athletes eyes you certainly could have a feel for that. This type of picture would be more gravitating and beckoning to than the one they currently have. JMO.

Steamboat Springs star Austin Hinder is getting a lot more exposure than your normal Class 3A quarterback in Colorado.

The senior-to-be, who in May committed to attend the University of California and play for the Golden Bears in 2010, is headed to Hawaii for a select quarterback camp.

At the Steve Clarkson Academy, Hinder will be one of the “Super Seven” competing Thursday through Saturday, along with other top-flight high school quarterbacks including Montana’s son, Nick, who has pledged to attend the University of Washington.

The drills will be filmed for a potential reality series that will search for the next great quarterback.

Good point in #170, but we need for the new stadium in LA to be built first. Once that is built (and that could be fairly soon), they will be looking for teams to play in it…the Cowboys new stadium is giving HUGE amounts of money for college teams to play there. The Dallas-area teams aren’t available to their stadium, so they have to look for outside teams.

A similar thing could work with UH playing a neutral site game in a new LA stadium. USC and UCLA already have their home stadiums, so the LA stadium would need to look outside of LA for teams. It would have to be an appealing game–say, UH vs. BSU or UH vs. Fresno State…though it would be even better if it was a nonconference game (UH vs. Navy or UH vs. BYU?).

Maybe that was someone impersonating me?

Last week sometime you said something about using a new stadium in LA for a neutral site for a football game. That’s an even better idea than the one that day about using Las Vegas (the city, not the famous rikishi) as a home-away-from-home. LV is already an established base for UH fans, LA is a whole new world to build upon, and football games make more money. I was thinking about something like that but for the smaller sports instead, and for the athletes to keep up with their classes via internet or webcam or something.

We had an interesting discussion that day…you can click on my name on #158 to see our discussion. Your analysis is probably correct about which sport would be cut first.

However, cutting a men’s sport really won’t make much of a dent in that huge deficit. UH is either going to get a huge revenue stream somewhere new, or they will have to get money from the school (not likely!), state (not that likely), or via a student fee. Some cuts will have to be made to show progress…if I had to guess I’d guess that the hotel stays before home football games would be cut (BSU never did that and some conferences are lobbying to make that a nationwide rule) and maybe a sport would need to be cut before certain powers-that-be got really serious about helping athletics.

At least we took a photo together, even though we didn’t actually meet or even know we were in the same photo!

Steve Clarkson is saying “aloha” to Santa Barbara.

The famed quarterbacks guru has moved his Super Seven retreat from Southern California to Maui, where Oaks Christian’s Nick Montana and San Clemente’s Chase Rettig will have the opportunity to impress Thursday through Saturday.

The quarterbacks will also get the chance to receive some tutoring they might otherwise never have afforded from an impressive lineup of mentors that includes Clarkson, NHL Hall of Famer Joe Montana and Arizona Cardinals quarterback and former USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart.

Other high school quarterbacks scheduled to attend are Andrew Manley of Wahiawa (Hawaii) Leileua, Blake Bell of Wichita (Kan.) Bishop Carroll Catholic, Phillip Sims of Chesapeake (Va.) Oscar F. Smight, Barry Brunetti of Memphis (Tenn.) University and Austin Hinder of Steamboat Springs (Colo.) High.

The players will stay at the posh Grand Wailea Resort, which is often overrun by celebrities. Of course, with Montana and Gretzky in the fold, the Super Seven camp counselors will generate plenty of double takes themselves.