USC Trojans Fans Question University Naming Official Casino Resort Sponsor
The University of Southern CA — to a greater extent commonly referred to as USC — endure week named the Pechanga Resort Casino as the Official Resort & Casino of the school’s athletics department. The tidings came with backlash.
In a first-of-its-kind arrangement inward the tell of California, USC announced the designation of the Pechanga Resort Casino as its Official Resort & Casino of the USC Trojans. The resort, owned and operated by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, has, in exchange, committed $200,000 per year to a USC scholarship fund.
The Pechanga Resort, in effect(p) immediately, is the Official Resort & Casino of the USC football game team, men’s and women’s basketball programs, USC Trojans Radio Network, and USC Athletics digital and social media platforms.
“This human relationship is a great deal to a greater extent than the typical sponsorship agreement, and we are extremely excited to go under a new manufacture stock inwards this space. We’re grateful to Pechanga leadership for supporting our university and student-athletes,” USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn said.
Critical Feedback
USC remains battlemented in the 2018 college admissions graft scandal. Earlier this month, the trial run of gambling casino executive Gamal “Aziz” Abdelaziz began.
Aziz, who has been employed in C-level capacities at Wynn Macau, Wynn Resorts, MGM Resorts, and Caesars Entertainment, is supercharged with bribing his daughter’s accounting entry to USC past way of life of a $300,000 contribution made to the university.
Federal authorities say Rick Isaac Bashevis Singer masterminded a college admissions felonious web that included university coaches who recognized bribes for incorrectly recruiting richly school day students to their rosters. Four USC coaches or athletic personnel were indicted inwards the scandal.
Aziz has denied any wrongdoing. His attorneys argued inwards tribunal that it’s no offense to piddle a philanthropic donation to a university. But the scandal has nonetheless landed a ignominious eyeball on the university.
In calorie-free of that, USC at present naming a casino as an official patronise rubbed some the wrong way.
Why would we demand an prescribed casino?” asked i Twitter user in response to USC’s proclamation of the Pechanga sponsorship. “I’m sure they wrote a delay for this endorsement. What a joke.”
“Really? What’s next?” asked a follower of the USC Trojans Twitter account. “This is insane,” opined another. “This is weird.”
We are proud to denote @PechangaCasino as the Official Resort & Casino of the USC Trojans!
The correspondence establishes a university-tribal pedagogy bond and creates an one-year scholarship fund.
— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) September 27, 2021
Gaming Firms, Universities Partner
USC isn’t the first, and potential not the last, higher breeding establishment to work stoppage a sponsorship pact with a gambling casino or gaming-related business.
Last November, DraftKings and UNLV revealed that the iGaming and sports betting operator had been designated as the primary patronise for the school’s Center for Gaming Innovation. The DraftKings Gaming Innovation Studio on the Las Vegas campus teaches interested students the ins and outs of the expanding interactive gaming industry.
And earlier this month, the University of Denver revealed a marketing trade with SuperBook Sports, the retail and nomadic sports betting social unit owned by the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. The agreement allows SuperBook Sports to promote during the university’s sporting events.