Alabama Club Sports Try To Wear Same Logos As Varsity Athletes, School Puts Them In Their Place
There are only two organizations that come to mind when I think of the University of Alabama: the football team and Greek life. Is there anything else a school needs?
I was surprised to discover that a bunch of nerds had developed a sizeable number of club sports at the university. According to the university’s website, there are 32 club sports. We’re only going to focus on the Ultimate Frisbee team, however, because they’re the ones making the most noise.
They have a bit of an issue with the school. They’re perturbed. They are pissed off not because they had to publicly admit to their family and friends that they play Ultimate Frisbee, but rather because the university has no desire to be associated with their shitty club.
The school has decided to ban all club sports from using its trademarked logos on their uniforms. This includes the famous script “A”, elephants, and houndstooth print. They are doing so in an attempt to distinguish club sport athletes from varsity athletes – ya know, people who play real sports and make the university money.
From The Crimson White:
“Since the number of club sports and the number of students who are participating in them have steadily increased during the past few years, UA is creating a special and unique logo that only club sports can use,” Deborah Lane, vice president of University Relations, said. “We are also working to implement a cost-effective solution to the challenges of ordering uniforms and equipment.”
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Club athletes were told the new uniform policies would serve to differentiate between club and varsity athletes.
Can’t you people just accept that she is being nice and trying to reject you politely? I would compare it to clinging on an uninterested ex-girlfriend, but, well, Ultimate Frisbee… You can see the issue here.
Anyway, as I said above, the frisbee team is livid, and believe they deserve the right to the same gear as Amari Cooper or T.J. Yeldon.
“I know personally, I’ve felt very not valued. I understand we’re the club Frisbee team, and there’s people who don’t even know we exist, but we’re doing good things.”
Sorry boys and girls, but life isn’t fair. Despite what some in Washington would like you to believe, the world doesn’t run on rainbows and unicorn sex. It runs on cash. If you wanted some recognition, attending a school filled with the nation’s best D1 athletes was not the best plan of action.
I’m sure you all are doing great things. Now buy some football season tickets and keep quiet. .
[via The Crimson White]
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I guess I can throw out my transfer paperwork
11 years ago at 1:11 pm“They are pissed off not because they had to publicly admit to their family and friends that they play Ultimate Frisbee, but rather because the university has no desire to be associated with their shitty club”
Nailed it
11 years ago at 1:18 pmThe only problem I have with it is the fishing team and wheelchair sports can no longer use these trademarks either. The article states the frisbee team uses bright, probably pretty obnoxious, uniforms so I can understand UA’s reasoning behind that.
11 years ago at 2:00 pmIt sucks for the sports clubs that are real sports too like their lacrosse team, they have to get all new equipment from gloves to helmets now
11 years ago at 2:35 pmThe real problem is the fact that all 32 clubs sports have already purchased legally licensed uniforms and now the school is telling us to go fuck ourselves. And even though the article only mentions the Ultimate Frisbee team it also includes several other sports that compete on a national level and bring in students from recruiting stand point (Wheelchair basketball, fishing, triathlon, clay shooting, golf). As a member of two of these teams and Greek life, its bullshit that the school seriously wont allow the triathlon team to wear SOCKS with the script A that they bought from the ON CAMPUS book store.
11 years ago at 4:33 pmOf course clubs aren’t moneymakers, but neither are most D1 sports. No one gives a shit about Alabama’s swim team. This actually sounds pretty unreasonable. Any student should be able to represent their school, on and off of any field.
11 years ago at 2:15 pmThe Sports Club teams of The University of Alabama joining together to request changes in regards to the new logo and trademark policies imposed on the UA clubs. The logo that they are forcing us to use instead of our current designs is frankly embarrassing and will hurt our teams financially.
We encourage anyone who supports our club sports teams being able to represent our university to go like this page: https://www.facebook.com/UAclubsportsalliance
11 years ago at 6:52 pmTo be fair though, their swim team is reeealllllyyy good. I must be the only one that actually gives a shit about swimming
11 years ago at 10:19 pmHey, don’t be dissing my club golf team. We’re a quality group of guys. Not good golfers though…
11 years ago at 3:13 pmAlabama’s golf team has won 2 national championships in a row now..
11 years ago at 3:59 pmSomeone missed the joke…
11 years ago at 10:47 amAlthough we all know it, it’s a pretty bold move for a public university to publicly admit “yeah, we give zero fucks about the rest of you” all the kids playing their club sports are also the ones paying full tuition. That revenue makes up 8-10x what it’s athletic department brings in, not to mention are the ones who will be their future donors and boosters
11 years ago at 5:11 pmCloser to 2x. Even if every student paid out of state tuition, UA would get a total of ~$270,000,000/year from tuition. The football program alone makes ~$124,000,000/year.
11 years ago at 8:29 amMight want to check your math buddy. Over 30k enrolled at the school at tuition out of state being $25k. You’re only off on your calculation by around half a billion dollars. Keep up the good work
11 years ago at 9:54 am“all the kids playing their club sports are also the ones paying full tuition. That revenue makes up 8-10x what it’s athletic department brings in”
11 years ago at 4:05 pm“Over 30k enrolled at the school at tuition out of state being $25k.”
There isn’t 30k kids in club sports at Alabama, and unless there’s 5k kids in club sports paying out-of-state tuition, they wouldn’t make as much as the football team alone. Take a vyvanse or something, because you’re all over the fucking place with your fabricated statements.
Liberal logic.
11 years ago at 5:15 pmThe other thing to take into is that, statistically, varsity athletes tend to donate more the school as an alumni than any other student group. Since Alabama does tend to have plenty of students capable of going pro, they will likely donate big bucks back to the school.
11 years ago at 11:24 amThe Sports Club teams of The University of Alabama are joining together to request changes in regards to the new logo and trademark policies imposed on the UA clubs. The logo that they are forcing us to use instead of our current designs is frankly embarrassing and will hurt our teams financially.
We encourage anyone who supports our club sports teams being able to represent our university to go like this page: https://www.facebook.com/UAclubsportsalliance
11 years ago at 7:00 pmFuck ultimate frisbee
11 years ago at 9:33 amFrisbee is actually pretty fucking fun, pal
11 years ago at 7:26 pmThis site has more geeds than ever. Holy shit
11 years ago at 4:06 pmJesus, it’s just the fucking logo. Half the club rugby teams in the SEC aren’t allowed to use the varsity logo, and half can(the ones that can’t are actually good,too). It’s fucking bullshit.
11 years ago at 10:26 amFootball is a man’s sport, of course Bama doesn’t want some skinny white kids wearing the “A” logo as if they were D1 Athletes.
11 years ago at 1:59 pmThe Sports Club teams of The University of Alabama joining together to request changes in regards to the new logo and trademark policies imposed on the UA clubs. The logo that they are forcing us to use instead of our current designs is frankly embarrassing and will hurt our teams financially.
We encourage anyone who supports our club sports teams being able to represent our university to go like this page: https://www.facebook.com/UAclubsportsalliance
11 years ago at 3:20 pm