[Schfourteenteen]

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (http://www.BigSouthSports.com) - The Big South Conference and Waste Management National Services, Inc. have signed a new corporate sponsorship agreement, it was announced today by the League office. The partnership recognizes Waste Management as the "Official Environmental Partner" of the Big South Conference.

This new agreement allows Waste Management the opportunity to help educate and provide services for Big South member institutions in dealing with their waste management and recycling issues. Waste Management will be recognized on the Conference's regional TV network as well as at all Olympic Sport Championships.

[Sly Fox]

All I can utter in amazement to myself is "Wow".

Great to see Kyle places a priority in associated with garbage collectors and not schools like Charlotte. Wait, what?

[WinthropEagleFan]

I understand you guys don't like Kyle, or pretty much anything he does, but getting a large national corporate sponsor/partner doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. Yeah, it is a little off the wall to partner with a trash company, but isn't getting corporate sponsors/partners also the role of the conference office?

[Sly Fox]

I highly suspect that a Houston-based company approached the league and not vice versa. But I understand your point which has validity. But when the addition of a prodigal school and a partnership with a trash company are the crowning achievements of recent memory there are deeper problems in Charlotte.

[ATrain]

I'm guessing they mistook that green and gold WM for William and Mary at first?????

[Cider Jim]

This might not be all bad, guys. Maybe we can get some WM porta-potties for our tailgates with a BSC logo. Nothing says BSC like a WM company as a sponsor.

Reminds me of the year I coached a T-ball team where Discount Toilets was our sponsor.

[Schfourteenteen]

Synonyms? Yes.

This is really what I was getting at.

This is a good deal for the conference though. I doubt any schools have sponsorship deals with garbage collectors, so it will be much easier for the BSC to promote this one. The deal with Papa Johns has brought up plenty of complaints from schools like High Point, who has an exclusive deal with Pizza Hut. These odd industries are perfect targets for the conference.

[4everfsu]

Something about this article, arrangement stinks.

[prototype]

I understand you guys don't like Kyle, or pretty much anything he does, but getting a large national corporate sponsor/partner doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. Yeah, it is a little off the wall to partner with a trash company, but isn't getting corporate sponsors/partners also the role of the conference office?

What's to like? The fact that we get very little money from our conference? The fact that when we have big events, they limit us from selling sponsorships in favor of promoting the conference's sponsors and again we see very little financial benefits from them.... The fact that they come in and bring in their own Television crew, at a exorbitant expense, rather than just pay ours to produce for pennies on the dollar? The fact that they do nothing to help promote the league in a way in which will help their schools?

I don't know? Maybe we just don't see much being done to improve...

[LUminary]

I'm guessing they mistook that green and gold WM for William and Mary at first?????

That's what I thought too when I first saw that logo.

[rogers3]

This might not be all bad, guys. Maybe we can get some WM porta-potties for our tailgates with a BSC logo. Nothing says BSC like a WM company as a sponsor.

Reminds me of the year I coached a T-ball team where Discount Toilets was our sponsor.

No doubt, the Charleston Southern stadium could really benefit from this partnership.

[jbock13]

The irony could not be any better

[Cider Jim]

This thread puts a whole new spin on the term "trash talking."