(06-20-2022 12:11 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(06-01-2022 10:34 AM)Grungy Wrote:  Are there rules for what can be displayed on the capture net for kicked balls? If there aren't, there ought to be. I can think of all sorts of things to put on the nets to distract opposing kickers.

Rice has long had an affiliation with Allstate, and their logo is/was on the nets.

UH & UAB & USM were among the first D1 school to have Allstate kicking nets when the program began in 2005.

By 2007, Rice was among the 57 participating schools.

Allstate makes a big deal about the total amount of money they donated to the "general scholarship funds" through those ads, but it's just $100 per point scored kicking. It's only a high amount because they've had so many schools doing it for so long. If every Boswell kick was into an Allstate net (and they weren't), he would have generated under $9k per year, and that was a Groza nominee kicker.