What would you do if you found out that someone was using your picture to put on T-shirts? Also, what would you do if the message on these T-shirts was negative and could hurt your “image” or reputation? Well, this is what’s happening to Arkansas Football Coach Houston Nutt.
An Arkansas fan produced T-shirts with a cartoon picture of Coach Nutt along with the the message “National Championship Under Construction.” The t-shirts also had the football statistics to show Nutt’s football record at Arkansas. According to the attorney for the University of Arkansas, part of Coach Nutt’s contract states that the unversity can only use his image and name– so Arkansas said that this fan could not sell or distribute the shirts.
It’s amazing– I feel that the job of a high profile position like a football coach would be tough. If you don’t win all the time– people want the coach to be fired. People make t-shirts, and post web sites that say “firecoach such and such.com”. 🙁
What these “fans” don’t realize is that these coaches are people– and they are aware of the pressures of being a coach and people’s expectations of them. What would these “fans” do if they were the ones being portrayed on the T-shirts in a negative manner? It might change the situation if this happened to these fans.
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