Bright & Early: Badvertising Edition

February 17, 2009 9:00 AM 12 comments

Good morning, Nashville. As they say, desperate times call for desperate measures. With Metro schools now looking at being about $16 million in the hole, they’re taking a look at some creative ways to bring in the dough–the latest of which is selling advertising space on Metro school buses. It’s already legal to sell black and white bus ads in Tennessee, but they think colored ads would entice more businesses to actually buy them. A lot of folks seem to support at least looking into it, but some parents feel like it would be tacky… though not as tacky, we think, as a $16 million deficit.

Photo by B. Marshall.

  • Jeremy

    GO BISONS GO! GO BISONS GO! The Battle of the Boulevard swings back to LU! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! And then last night versus ETSU, I think both teams set a record for the number of technical fouls called in one game. There were 4 or 5 T's called, including one on ETSU's coach. Horrible refereeing.

  • kjbake01

    I didn't know you were Belmont alums… do they know about the blog? they just recently began a journalism degree… (they of all schools would have a degree in blogging….)

    Kyle

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Sounds like an exciting game! We don't follow much basketball over here but love to rag on y'all anyway. ;)

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    That we are! Morgan graduated in '06 and I graduated in '08. I even started out in the Journalism program there! Some of the faculty know about the blog (Dr. Syb interviewed us about the Twestival last week) and we're linked from the Belmont Vision's site. Hope you're loving the program there, and tell Thom I say hey!

  • kjbake01

    Officiating has been awful much of this season. A bird told me that the head of NCAA officiating was in town observing the crew on saturday night.

    BU's women lost to ETSU almost solely because of the officiating, two bloody noses, and popped tooth,… and no calls…. it turned into a rugby match.

    BU shot like 23% from the floor; which is understandable, because they had ETSU fingers up their nose, in their eyes, and around their throats…. I agree. Horrible refereeing.

  • kjbake01

    I am a Belmont student, but Graduate Studies in music, not journalism, so I will unfortunately not be able to pass on your greetings!

    Kyle

  • Jeremy

    GO BISONS GO! GO BISONS GO! The Battle of the Boulevard swings back to LU! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! And then last night versus ETSU, I think both teams set a record for the number of technical fouls called in one game. There were 4 or 5 T's called, including one on ETSU's coach. Horrible refereeing.

  • kjbake01

    I didn't know you were Belmont alums… do they know about the blog? they just recently began a journalism degree… (they of all schools would have a degree in blogging….)

    Kyle

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    Sounds like an exciting game! We don't follow much basketball over here but love to rag on y'all anyway. ;)

  • http://nashvillest.com Christy Frink

    That we are! Morgan graduated in '06 and I graduated in '08. I even started out in the Journalism program there! Some of the faculty know about the blog (Dr. Syb interviewed us about the Twestival last week) and we're linked from the Belmont Vision's site. Hope you're loving the program there, and tell Thom I say hey!

  • kjbake01

    Officiating has been awful much of this season. A bird told me that the head of NCAA officiating was in town observing the crew on saturday night.

    BU's women lost to ETSU almost solely because of the officiating, two bloody noses, and popped tooth,… and no calls…. it turned into a rugby match.

    BU shot like 23% from the floor; which is understandable, because they had ETSU fingers up their nose, in their eyes, and around their throats…. I agree. Horrible refereeing.

  • kjbake01

    I am a Belmont student, but Graduate Studies in music, not journalism, so I will unfortunately not be able to pass on your greetings!

    Kyle