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Utah college chiefs want liquor-free sports TV

That is a huge number of colleges and administrators making this proposal. I admit I'm surprised at how broad the support is for this. College bosses must be realizing the liability that comes to them when kids come to them, parents expect the college to watch out for the kid, and the kid drinks until death. Very sad. Very good of the colleges to take this step.

Great Idea! It just doesn't seem like a match to see the Budweiser logo superimposed on Y Mountain during an ESPN telecast of a BYU game. In watching tapes of older and classic BYU games, it was so prevalent you got conditioned to the ads. Of course with the introduction of the MWC presidents evil spawn "the mnt" we haven't had to deal with the problem. There were so few or even no games telecast that the sports world began calling the MWC the mushroom conference, (keep them in the dark and cover them with, well you know).
My only question as a huge college football fan and non-drinker: do I have the right to dictate to those who drink; my morals?
Its like the pope and birth control. If you don't play the game, you can't make the rules.

Reality is people drink, Reality is Beer Sells and Beer Commercials pay the bills. Where you play at can and should be dry. The last College Football Game I saw was BYU vs. Hawaii. I have not seen another one because Aloha Stadium is Wet and all efforts to make it dry have failed. I did not want to subject myself or my wife and kids to the stench and smell of Beer and Wine. However TV is a little different and like I said pays the bills, so you may want it but perhaps it is not the wisest thing to get it. I hate all Commercials anyhow but Free TV, is not Free so we must endure, we do not have to buy the stuff. That said Bud makes some of the Best Commercials Going.

Now if we could just get colleges to ban GUNS on campus...

"Now if we could just get colleges to ban GUNS on campus... "

Why???

People legally carry guns are very, very seldom a problem.

Do you really think a person planning on shooting up a campus cares whether the campus bans guns?

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There are plenty of other advertisers out there who can fill the gap left by beer ads. It's time colleges started being responsible for the message they are sending to their students and their fans. As the famous quote in Animal House states, "Fat drunk and stupid" is no way to go through life.

We could replace the entertaining beer commercials with coolaid, green jello and mountain dew commercials.

For years I just never got the dont advertise this or that crowd. But finally I understand. Those of you who are so feeble minded that you can be taken in by MLM schemes and republican talking points can also be taken in by advertising.

Note that the president and athletic director of the other schools signed on to this proposal, but the U of U had its president and head football coach sign the letter. Is Chris Hill part of the problem, or is he late-comer to this proposed solution?

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. That's all I'm going to say.

Let's go a step further and just ban it everywhere!

It serves no good purpose and only causes grief and pain.

I just don't get it.

I still crack up when I see 50 year old men thinking they are "cool" because they are drinking. You know the guys that brag about drinking or walk around holding up their drink for everyone to see. What are they hiding from?

Get a life.

Why do these people hate freedom of speech? A company as a right to promote a legal product. Conservatives want the government in every facet of our lives.

This is not a question of religious morals. It is a question of business ethics. It is wise to advertise products at a venue that show cases members of society that can use and "sport" those products. Beer ads are a great source of money for Major League Games, where many of the players can legally enjoy the product. College games should be endorsing youth oriented product, the obvious athletic products, energy drinks, sports drink, and on and on, but not alcoholic product.

College foot ball is exactly that...COLLEGE Football. Despite it's popularity it is still associated with an educational institution and it should uphold it's values even in the advertising realm. Now this doesn't mean i don't think that they should/or shouldn't serve at the stadium, have I.D. will serve. Just because you limit advertisements doesn't mean you have to limit product.

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you"

Have you ever accompanied an EMT responding to an accident caused by a drunk driver and actually seen up close and personal the innocent people who were killed or maimed for life?

Have you ever seen a wife or child who was beaten up but a drunk husband or father?

To simply ignore the horrific toll that alcohol abuse inflicts on society, because its adverstisers are "the hand that feeds you," is naive and stupid.

Wake up!

Some day it may touch your life and it may be your kids being pulled out of the wreckage with the jaws of life. Those entering beer ads may not seem so innocent when you see the open can of Bud lying on the floor of vehicle that just took away the most precious things in your life.

Conversatives don't hate freedom of speech and they don't want government in every facet of our lives. Far from it.

But, thinking people everywhere -- conservatives, liberals, religious, secular -- should be concerned with a serious problem that destroys more American lives than guns and wars EVERY YEAR!

Freedom of Speech? Commercial advertising does NOT fall under the same rights we get as individuals. Why do you think there are no tobacco ads on TV? Should we allow liquor advertisers the freedom to advertise as high schools? You haven't thought through it, and are ignorant of Supreme Court decisions that for years have governed this kind of advertising.

Advertising things that most STUDENTS aren't eligible to consume is supporting "Law Breaking". It's like setting a bowl of chocolate candy on the floor and telling your dog not to eat it? You have to use your head. I agree, there are plenty of other sponsors who can advertise, Coke, Energy Drinks, Cars, Shoes, and Athletic Apparel. Why should the NCAA allow the encouragement of drinking to the very students who watch and aren't even old enough to consume the products? I am a victim of a inebriated driver, which has left me with a lifetime disability. I don't "Hate" alcohol, I just detest the abuse of it. This is the USA, and those of age are welcome to use it responsibly, why encourage through humor and claiming to "Drink Responsibly" by the very Beer Companies themselves, a commercial to endorse their products to underage drinkers? Dump the Beer ads from the Games!

Not going to happen. Myles Brand is the co-inventor & staunch supporter of the BCS bowl selection & anti- playoff activist. He has NO morality or conscience when it come to NCAA sports. Just worship the $$$$$ Baby!

The main problem here is the association with alcohol and university students. Frat houses, for instance, have their reputations for a reason. Like the article said, a lot of kids are getting into trouble, getting hurt, or even dying because they have developed the mentality that college is for drinking. Removing alcohol ads is just a small effort to try to reverse this trend at least a little.

Why would the mtn. decline ads for viagra? Seems like they could make more money and make that horrible station a little better. I can't wait for the football season, but watching football on the mtn. is horrible. Half the time I can't see the ball because the screen is too blurry. I say take ads of alcohol and viagra so your station can upgrade. BTW Craig Thompson needs to go.

I applaud the universities for these efforts. It will help them avoid the double standard of benefiting from, even promoting, products that are the cause of so many problems on campus.