IT’S TIME FOR THE NEXT LEVEL AT ASU.
The promo machine in Tempe cranks it up for the arrival of Dennis Erickson with the marketeer’s weapon of last resort: the door hanger. (HT: The immortal CliffX.)
Valuable Coupons On Back!!! Of course there are, but not the kind we’d expect from college football’s original prototypical piratecoach. No twofers for shots at Grizzlebee’s? No free app with your third birdbath margarita at Don Taco’s? No commission-free bail bonds for ASU ticket holders? No discounted jumbo containers of Anderson Cooper Silver Fox Hair Dye for the Mature Sexy Beast™ at the local Walgreen’s? The lack of synergy and Erickson branding is simply inexcusable, marketeers.
We’re disappointed, Arizona State. You may as well have used our favorite picture of Dennis Erickson ever–in fact, feel free to take it. It’s him loaded after 18 holes of golf in Hawaii driving his golf cart into a volcano. You just know he’d live to tell about it–anyone who coached the 1990 Miami Hurricanes can live through anything.
ASU Football–if it doesn’t work out, we’ll make Dennis Erickson drive a golf cart into a volcano.
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Brian says:
That’s actually quite a solid home schedule for those guys. If I lived around there, Id be tempted to get the 99$ season ticket to see all that good action.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:32 am
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jfinke says:
I just promised myself I was not going to do this… We’re not gonna protest! We’re not gonna protest!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/01/25/bc.fbc.arkansasprotest.ap/index.html
January 25th, 2007 at 10:53 am
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adem_in_training says:
Hand me a drink, Berman.
Woop!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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DAve says:
Heck, I’d pay 3 maybe even 4 dollars to see Bianca Cruz (http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-softbl/mtt/cruz_bianca00.html) play some softball.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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Doug says:
I think that should read “It’s Time for the Next Job.” Rewrite!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
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irishoutsider says:
You hang Thai menu on door. I get more business. Send daughters to small liberal arts college. Swarthmore, maybe Sarah Lawrence. Call professors by first name…..
Now restaurant fail. Children go to state college. Serious
students powerless against drunken jockocracy. Baseball hats everywhere.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:25 am
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HawkHusker says:
A well-written article at the WWL about a prep athlete (age 17) sentenced to 10 years for receiving a blow job from a classmate (age 15). http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=wilson
“Now, if Wilson wants a shot at getting out, he must throw himself at the prosecutors’ feet and ask for mercy, which he might or might not receive. Joseph Heller would love this. If Wilson would only admit to being a child molester, he could stop receiving the punishment of one. Maybe. “
January 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
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AUgrad says:
The Anderson Cooper comment reminded me what I heard on radio yesterday. A FOX news-spokeswoman called Anderson Cooper “The Paris Hilton of news-reporting”.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:54 am
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panhandler says:
UF doesn’t just contribute to the sports world….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070124/sc_nm/germs_sponges_dc
January 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
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RaginCajunRebel says:
Been out of the office for a couple of days, so this may have been posted in some comments already. But it looks like Div. III school Guilford College wants to play with the big boys in the Fulmer Cup. Major points involved here:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/1176632/
January 25th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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Ltrain says:
Gutter is a tool.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
ASU Football under Dennis Erickson – You’ll wish you had less fun (after the NCAA puts you on probation in a couple years)!
January 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
$99 for season tickets?!?! Bama tix are going for TWO GRAND A PIECE on “the eBay.”
I think it’s time to stop worrying and learn to love the Sun Devils.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
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Cool Hand Mike says:
No coupon for the cheerleader porn flick?
You guys are really missing your target audience.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
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PJ from NU in SF says:
I brake for Grizzlebee’s.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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Gator KK says:
Nice coupons….$2 tickets to go with that $2 whore of a coach.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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oc phil says:
#2 Gotta love the comments about “the best OC in the nation” in the linked story. Because the guy has coached all of one year at the college level.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
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Will says:
“Staton said Nutt had run off the best offensive coordinator in the nation.”
And it’s no getting harder and harder for me to deny that Arky may have the SEC’s dumbest fans. 10-4, SEC West title, and the reason for all that (McFadden being a light-speed-running badass despite shitty QB play) returning, and they’re protesting because a HS star QB and his old coach (who brought some clever trick plays but clearly couldn’t teach Mustain nor Dick how to even start reading pass coverage) are leaving?
Jackassery I tell you.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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Mark says:
#$ — I\’ll see your Bianca and raise you a Mindy:
http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-softbl/mtt/cowles_mindy00.html
January 25th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
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crazy says:
$99 for season tix, crazy. That wont even buy you one ticket to a sec game.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
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Big Jon says:
Hey look, I can post an irrelevant link too! http://www.rhubarbinfo.com/recipe-pie.html#index_pie_47
Seriously though, there isn’t a stadium in the Pac-10 where you can’t walk up to the box office minutes before kickoff on most Saturdays and get seats. Kind of sad, actually. It’s a statement about the west coast culture and why they (we) can’t play defense.
This ad campaign is also our little way of saying “F basketball” to the folks in Tucson, just one day after getting pasted by them.
As for our standards regarding porn and booze, Dennis Erickson is more the rule than the exception. Hasn’t anyone seen “Shane’s World 29?” Yeah, that’s us.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
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Allaha says:
Seriously, have more Erickson players gone on to play in the NFL or gone to jail? . . . Double counting for players who did both is allowed.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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ESMjr. says:
grizzlebees….
COWABUNGA!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
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GamecockTony says:
I prefer the Mike Price doorhangar with the free strip club pass on the back.
Now THAT’S marketing!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:32 am
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Mätt says:
GRIZZLEBEEEEEE’S!
Does anyone have any Grizzlebee’s vids? Can’t find any on YouTube or anything.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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Hawkeye Dan says:
Wow. Even the softball players are hot at ASU.
That’s really saying something.
January 26th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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Hawkeye Dan says:
By the way, if you were looking for a Grizzlebee’s ad, ask and you shall receive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8T3yfXgRdE
January 26th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
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JD says:
No ads for the Heart Attack Cafe or the Tilted Kilt?
What, has ASU gone Mormon or something?
January 26th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
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PCB says:
The key statement on the door hanger is this:
“Appearance in every BCS bowl except the Rose”
ASU fans have to be saying: “Darn, why do we have to play in the Pac-10″
As for the comment about getting walkup tickets in the PAC-10, just try getting some for a USC game when they are playing a reasonable opponent (i.e. get your Idaho tickets now, sports fans).
January 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am
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Way Up North says:
Is it wrong to be this irrationally excited about what’s going to happen in Tempe over the next 3 years? Literally, anything. Dennis Erickson is the perfect hire. They’ll be shaving points, doing rails in the locker room at halftime and making BangBus style porn in the back of the Greyhound with Kappa Kappa Gamma while Erickson drives hammered with a bottle of tequila in one hand and a maroon and gold tie wrapped around his forehead like a ninja headband.
And they’ll win 10 games a year until Satan decides the contract is up and pulls DE back to the hell fire and brimstone with the soul of yet another university in his back pocket.
January 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm