The difference between NASCAR and Fishing is HUUUGE!! As much as fishing wants to mimic Nascar, they are worlds apart in their tactics! Everybody in NASCAR works "together" to maximize their bang for the buck. In the fishing world,...everyone wants "exclusivity" and there is a TON of "bickering and pettiness" that goes on behind closed doors that kills a lot of deals!! (i.e...we don't want to work with so-and-so, or we don't want our logo BELOW THEIRS, we want "X" amount of your time BEFORE you work with them, etc..etc....it all revolves around media exposure and TV air-time and "what's in it for us?!") All of that is part of the business world, but now, with the major tours signing multi-year contracts with companies and requiring the Pro's to fish out of wrapped boats on the final days, (read, TV Coverage) that are not even the same brand as the Pro's personal boat,......where's the return for the Pro's main sponsors??,...especially if they don't run the same boat??...During the E50's for example...I saw KVD fishing out of a Triton on the final 2 days, with the BASS PRO SHOPS wrap on it!!..HELLOOO!! Now WHY would Nitro have a "no wraps allowed" policy in place for their own pro staff's tour boats,..yet BPS pays BIG sponsorship money to the E50's and their logo is blazened all over a TRITON!!
Granted,...BPS and TM are seperate companies, with their own seperate mgt, policies, and budgets....BUT,..There's no reason in the world why BPS and TM should not have the BEST looking and most visible boats and ProStaff's in the industry,...it's all about TEAMWORK and there's very little of that in the fishing industry!! BPS logo's should be all over Nitro's at EVERY level (State Team, National Team and ProStaff)...and NOT plastered all over Triton's!! I know that Triton is the exclusive boat sponsor for BASS and BPS is an associate sponsor of the E50's,..therefore a wrapped Triton is required,..BUT,..why doesn't BPS and TM work closer together all the time, to maximize their marketing power and brand awareness throughout every level of this sport??!! I just find it very odd, that the ONLY place I've ever seen a BPS wrap was on a Triton!! It's all about exclusivity now and it's only going to get worse IMHO!! All of the associate sponsors in NASCAR work together for the sake of the sport and they all benefit as a result. (Plus the fact that the France family still owns NASCAR and they call the shots,...it's not a publicly owned and operated company with stockholders!!) That's exactly why that sport is as HUUGE as it is....fishing isn't there yet, and at the pace it's going,..it'll never get there!! It's WAAYY too territorial, and nobody wants anybody else to move in on theirs stuff, let alone work together to WIN!
anyway,...carry on,...
Mac