Advertising In Sports

The other week I was watching the men's NCAA Big East basketball tournament that was taking place in New York City at Madison Square Garden.  During the first round, University of South Florida and Villanova were playing each other in a back and fourth intense game.  With 37 seconds left in the game and USF down 3 points, they came down the court with the ball and their point guard that had the ball tried  to do a cross-over and slipped on a big Reese's sticker that was on the court and turned over the ball.  This game would be a big upset if USF beat Villanova.  In the end, USF somehow pulled off the victory.  This advertising almost put an end to the year for USF.

Has marketing gone too far in interfering with the way sport games are played?

here is a link to a blog about this incident
http://texas.247sports.com/Board/21/Court-sticker-slip-and-fall-thread-1359238/1

In Response to Chris Kurylo 3/8/11

Samsung exec: Our tablet is 'inadequate'Samsung exec: Our tablet is 'inadequate'

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/03/04/samsung.tablet.inadequate/index.html

In a refreshingly honest statement, Samsung's mobile division VP Lee Don-Joo admitted that the iPad 2 made some parts of Samsung's 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab look "inadequate," and the iPad 2's pricing might force Samsung to lower the price of its tablet.

This article is showing that other retailors are having trouble keeping up with apple, but all the same time is telling us that we are highly over paying for this technology.

> Regardless of us overpaying for this technology, do you think its smart for a division VP to admit that their product is inadequate compared to the iPad??

Response:

I do not think it is smart for Samsung's mobile division VP to admit that their product is inadequate compared to the iPad.  I don't understand why he publicly admitted it or how he got away with keeping his job after that.  If he wanted to tell the public that they are over paying for the technology in the iPad than he should have come up with a different way to do so without talking bad about his product.  This probably killed the interest in buying stocks of Samsung for quite some time and it probably affected the stock price of Samsung negatively.