Sorry if I missed this hidden in all of the Stans sucks threads...... but has anyone mentioned that the Athletic department has alread had buttons and other promotional material made with the Vroom Maroon ********? Anyone wearing one of those buttons should have their *** kicked. This idea needs to die quickly.
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Sorry if I missed this hidden in all of the Stans sucks threads...... but has anyone mentioned that the Athletic department has alread had buttons and other promotional material made with the Vroom Maroon ********? Anyone wearing one of those buttons should have their *** kicked. This idea needs to die quickly.
Sorry if I missed this hidden in all of the Stans sucks threads...... but has anyone mentioned that the Athletic department has alread had buttons and other promotional material made with the Vroom Maroon ********? Anyone wearing one of those buttons should have their *** kicked. This idea needs to die quickly.
Sorry if I missed this hidden in all of the Stans sucks threads...... but has anyone mentioned that the Athletic department has alread had buttons and other promotional material made with the Vroom Maroon ********? Anyone wearing one of those buttons should have their *** kicked. This idea needs to die quickly.
There's no way Byrne goes through with this. I have yet to see one person think this is a quality idea.
there were several people wearing the buttons yesterday, and the folks at the Student Association, among others, seem to really like the idea
it makes a just a tad bit of sense (stress the word tad) but by it's lonesome on buttons and ****, it's horrible.
The ricks rowdies type people will eat this up. DS was I temporarily banned??? Why the ban to start with?
will never "get". Paying a damn PR or whoever outfit an assload of money to come up with **** for college athletics is ignorant. It is usually smaller type PR places and they have NOTHING vested in the university, dont know or understand our history like large PR firms would for other clients or "big money" clients and frankly are just bushleague.
For instance...they would NEVER put 2 and 2 together about the Vroom and Croom obvious similarities. Not only is vroom ***** but it also sounds like that sideways hat wearing milking our money croomin asshat that patroled our sidelines and then ran off with millions.
It is very simple. Send a presser to all papers message boards etc asking for folks to send stuff in. Take the best ideas and THEN hire a "professional" to clean it up if need be. Its F'n free, the folks have a vested interest, understand our traditions and then all you have to do is take the idea and pay the bastards hourly to "professionalize" it and wrap it all nice.
F'n idiots
For instance...they would NEVER put 2 and 2 together about the Vroom and Croom obvious similarities. Not only is vroom ***** but it also sounds like that sideways hat wearing milking our money croomin asshat that patroled our sidelines and then ran off with millions.
It is very simple. Send a presser to all papers message boards etc asking for folks to send stuff in. Take the best ideas and THEN hire a "professional" to clean it up if need be. Its F'n free, the folks have a vested interest, understand our traditions and then all you have to do is take the idea and pay the bastards hourly to "professionalize" it and wrap it all nice.
F'n idiots
Yeah, I am 30-something and I hate techno, all techno. It doesn't pump me up at the game. I don't jump up and down where I hear it. It pisses me off when studentswalk out of the building mindlessly texting and act likeeveryone has to stop for their dumb asses. I hate it whenpeople stop in the middle of the road to let students out of thevehicle and take their damn sweet time about it blocking traffic. Ihate it when jerkoffs back into parkingspaces for no apparent reason?
I really don't like vroom vroom. It makes methink of honda civics with ****** sounding exhaust systems and skinny little 17s who don't know the first thing about sports.
I really don't like vroom vroom. It makes methink of honda civics with ****** sounding exhaust systems and skinny little 17s who don't know the first thing about sports.
I won't buy season tickets to anything ever again. I'll be embarrassed to be an MSU fan. Yes, it's petty. But, I'm petty. I'll be done with MSU athletics. Clever marketing is necessary these days - no doubt about it. But, there are just some things that cross the line of "trying way to damn hard". Clearly, this is one of those things.
I can only hope this was some cutesy phrase used in some one-off very specialized context meant only to be used once and that's it. If this is considered being used in any sort of large scale branding effort (i.e. roll tide is to 'bama as vroom maroon is to MSU), I'm out.
I can only hope this was some cutesy phrase used in some one-off very specialized context meant only to be used once and that's it. If this is considered being used in any sort of large scale branding effort (i.e. roll tide is to 'bama as vroom maroon is to MSU), I'm out.
but I will booooo my *** off the first time that they try to promote that **** on the jumbotron. The purpose of promotion is to make fans proud of your product, not make them think "damn my school is gay, I really wish they would stop with that lame vroom ****"
My future children will not know the meaning of the word "vroom" as it will be scratched out of any dictionary that I own - assuming it's even a damn word in the first place. They will not acknowledge the existence of the color "maroon". If completely necessary, they will refer to said color as "burgundy". They will even have the option of rooting for Ole Miss. Remember that UT fan's piss-on-Lane Kiffen youtube video? I'll be that guy x 10.
Seriously. Dead to me. I'm pissed that this idea may be even a remote possibility.
Seriously. Dead to me. I'm pissed that this idea may be even a remote possibility.
but if he thinks that it is a positive for people to be talking about vroom maroon, then he is freaking clueless. I do not care what context it is presented in, vroom maroon is just plain stupid. Boooooooooooooo in advance.
They will never get another dime from me. And Greg Byrne should be immediately shitcanned if this comes to pass.
If Byrne is 100% concerned with campus atmosphere and the effects of such things on players & recruits, as he claims to be, he'll axe this very quickly. Think of all the high school kids who're gonna laugh their asses off when seeing this in ads or school slogans. Context or not, "edgy" or not, it's juvenile.
How it originated:<div>Byrne hired a PR/Marketing firm from Oregon this past August to come up with a marketing campaign for the athletic department. They told them that they wanted it to be edgy, exciting, show that we're going places.</div><div>
</div><div>How it came to be:</div><div>The PR firm went back to Oregon and spent the next five to five and a half months creating this campaign. During the presentation, the guy started off by talking about how perfect the slogan "Roll Tide" is. So they wanted to create something similar for us. They said "State" and "Bulldogs" were to generic and not unique enough to distinguish us, but maroon is something a lot more rare. (I happen to agree with them and support our marketing of the color maroon as an identifier.) Then, they showed us a 30 second season ticket renewal commercial. </div><div>The first 25 seconds were absolutely spectacular. Excellent video production. Nice voice over. Exciting footage like Relf scoring a touchdown, the team in the tunnel before a game chanting "HEY! GO STATE!" I had chills. I was very, very impressed.</div><div>And then the phrase "Vroom Maroon" pops up. Talk about a buzzkill. </div><div>The said the "vroom" would say that we're on the move, we're going places, we're fast-paced and exciting. I think the vroom is hard to say, ridiculous, and just all aroundembarrassing. </div><div>I agree with everything that this slogan is supposed to mean, but the slogan itself is the problem. I talked to one of the football players yesterday at the signing day party. He said that he didn't like it at first, but then he thought about what it meant and then he was okay with it. I told him that I don't think the targets of the ad will think about it that much. They'll see "Vroom Maroon", laugh, and move on. </div><div>
</div><div>Basically, I think this comes down to what Dr. Keenum thinks. This player told me that he knows a lot of the people in the athletic department like it. It will take Dr. Keenum just flat out saying no to stop this.</div><div>
</div><div>The spin was in full effect in "Thursdays with Greg Byrne" today. Basically, the people that like it are supposed to. They either ordered for the campaign to be created or someone superior to them did and thus they like it and try to pass that on. As evidenced by the discussion on here, GP, and BDJ, no one likes it. Again, the videos themselves, other than the phrase "Vroom Maroon", were really good. The problem is that the general awkwardness andlaugh-abilityof the phrase will undo the good of the video if the phrase is included.</div><div>
</div><div>Oh, and by the way, the guys from this firm are friends of GB's. They said as much at the beginning of their presentation. Just for what that's worth.</div>
</div><div>How it came to be:</div><div>The PR firm went back to Oregon and spent the next five to five and a half months creating this campaign. During the presentation, the guy started off by talking about how perfect the slogan "Roll Tide" is. So they wanted to create something similar for us. They said "State" and "Bulldogs" were to generic and not unique enough to distinguish us, but maroon is something a lot more rare. (I happen to agree with them and support our marketing of the color maroon as an identifier.) Then, they showed us a 30 second season ticket renewal commercial. </div><div>The first 25 seconds were absolutely spectacular. Excellent video production. Nice voice over. Exciting footage like Relf scoring a touchdown, the team in the tunnel before a game chanting "HEY! GO STATE!" I had chills. I was very, very impressed.</div><div>And then the phrase "Vroom Maroon" pops up. Talk about a buzzkill. </div><div>The said the "vroom" would say that we're on the move, we're going places, we're fast-paced and exciting. I think the vroom is hard to say, ridiculous, and just all aroundembarrassing. </div><div>I agree with everything that this slogan is supposed to mean, but the slogan itself is the problem. I talked to one of the football players yesterday at the signing day party. He said that he didn't like it at first, but then he thought about what it meant and then he was okay with it. I told him that I don't think the targets of the ad will think about it that much. They'll see "Vroom Maroon", laugh, and move on. </div><div>
</div><div>Basically, I think this comes down to what Dr. Keenum thinks. This player told me that he knows a lot of the people in the athletic department like it. It will take Dr. Keenum just flat out saying no to stop this.</div><div>
</div><div>The spin was in full effect in "Thursdays with Greg Byrne" today. Basically, the people that like it are supposed to. They either ordered for the campaign to be created or someone superior to them did and thus they like it and try to pass that on. As evidenced by the discussion on here, GP, and BDJ, no one likes it. Again, the videos themselves, other than the phrase "Vroom Maroon", were really good. The problem is that the general awkwardness andlaugh-abilityof the phrase will undo the good of the video if the phrase is included.</div><div>
</div><div>Oh, and by the way, the guys from this firm are friends of GB's. They said as much at the beginning of their presentation. Just for what that's worth.</div>