CFB offseason thread 2025

[HanSenSE]

Don't think Stanford had a lot of options but to go the interim route. Headhunter for the next AD was hired last week. Selection committee includes Condoleeza Rice and Tara VanDerVeer.

 

[Della9250]

 

[HanSenSE]

Vols staying focused on the important stuff.

 

[I Should Coco]

Vols staying focused on the important stuff.

Just think if all schools cracked down like this. I've seen at least a half dozen high schools use some version of the University of Michigan helmet.

 

[dixiehack]

fork UT first, last and always but whoever the sponsor is for the school paper isn't doing these kids many favors.

Tyrone appears to be on the receiving end of a targeted legal attack. It is the only local school district facing legal trouble, but not the only one currently using an NCAA or professional sports copyrighted logo.

The Eagle Eye has identified several other local school districts in potential violation of copyright law, including Central, Clearfield, and Glendale.

Did the author think to ask if the rival schools had permission to use these marks? The NFL in particular is pretty good about letting schools use them as long as they ask first.

The superintendent is also a bit of a whiner.

"We are saddened by the news about our logo. The orange 'T' has been synonymous with Tyrone for 30 years now, and it feels unjust to have it taken from us after such a long time," Estep said in her email. "But on the advice of legal counsel, we have no choice but to change it."

The athletic director is so worried about the state baseball playoffs stretching past the June 1 deadline that he's rooting against his own team!

"I don't know what we're going to do if the baseball team makes the state playoffs since there's no way new hats or uniforms would be here in time. That's not even factoring in the financial aspect of it. Hopefully they will lose because we really can't afford for them to win," Rhoades said.

The chef's kiss is the replacement logo contest based off contributions from the art class. Two of the entries use easily recognizable elements of the Power T and two more just blatantly rip it off again!

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Colleges are the forking worst.

My wife works for a non-profit and they give SWAG to people who give their time and resources, as an incentive. They reached out to the University of Arkansas (in the region), asking if they could use their logo on T-shirts and hoodies they are giving out. Arkansas said sure, just pay us a $100,000 licensing fee and make sure we approve all designs, and we're happy to partner with you. That was a non-starter.

On a whim and with zero expectations, they reached out to the Kansas City Chiefs with the same ask. The Chiefs (coming off back-to-back Super Bowl wins) were all, "Of course, it's a great cause, do what you need to do. We are happy to support!" No licensing fee, no prior approval required, and unsolicited, they even chipped in with some game tickets for them to give out as a raffle incentive and had Andy Reid cut a promo video for them to share on social media.

 

[HanSenSE]

At my first job in the business, the high school was the Falcons, so it uses Atlanta's logo on, oh, every uniform possible, including the school shield. Another school, the Grizzlies, used the G from the Packers on it's helmets.

When Merced High went to the fly offense, it's helmet logo was an M that was slightly italicized with tails coming off the top and bottom. The police department even used a variation of it on its cars eventually.When a new coach was hired, it went to the Wing T, so out came the Wolverines look.

 

[rtse11]

Just think if all schools cracked down like this. I've seen at least a half dozen high schools use some version of the University of Michigan helmet.

Um, $60,000? I assume the logo is on all their uniforms? Still, that estimate seems a bit high. Couldn't they just take a sharpie or an X-Acto knife and make a couple alterations?

Clemson famously has that little notch in the corner of its paw logo to determine if schools are ripping them off.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If colleges and NFL teams started going after every school team that uses their logos or mascots or even fight songs, then there would be a lot of generic teams around the country.

 

[I Should Coco]

If colleges and NFL teams started going after every school team that uses their logos or mascots or even fight songs, then there would be a lot of generic teams around the country.

No doubt. I can recall many halftimes of adding stats while covering high school games and hearing pep bands playing "On Wisconsin" with different words.

 

[Flip Wilson]

Vols staying focused on the important stuff.

I talk about this very scenario in the law and ethics unit of my classes. U of Tennessee may be going overboard here, but it's not the first case of a college cracking down on a small school using a very similar logo.

If UT were to allow the school to use its logo without permission, a savvy businessperson could come to the agreement with the school district to make and sell shirts with the school's logo, and the school will get 50 percent of the revenue without having to do anything. That's a win for the school.

The businessperson could then sell the shirts in Knoxville, and when UT says that it didn't license that vendor to use its logo, the vendor can then rightly claim that the shirt it is selling is NOT a UT shirt, but a shirt from the small school district. So UT is coming off as the bad guy when it is protecting its copyrighted material.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I talk about this very scenario in the law and ethics unit of my classes. U of Tennessee may be going overboard here, but it's not the first case of a college cracking down on a small school using a very similar logo.

If UT were to allow the school to use its logo without permission, a savvy businessperson could come to the agreement with the school district to make and sell shirts with the school's logo, and the school will get 50 percent of the revenue without having to do anything. That's a win for the school.

The businessperson could then sell the shirts in Knoxville, and when UT says that it didn't license that vendor to use its logo, the vendor can then rightly claim that the shirt it is selling is NOT a UT shirt, but a shirt from the small school district. So UT is coming off as the bad guy when it is protecting its copyrighted material.

They are coming off as the bad guy. Copyrighted or not, how hard would it be to reach an agreement with this school district, and maybe even generate some positive publicity for helping the little guy instead of coming off like a bully.