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HP Pavilion Name Change; welome SAP Center

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http://www.mercurynews.com/sharks/ci_22877754/

Stumbled across this link, HP may be dropping their name from the Shark Tank. HP has been having a lot of issues, so not surprising that they may be thinking about losing the arena deal. Plus, Nobody I know refers to it as 'HP Pavilion'. Its always been, and likely always will be, 'The Tank'.

Lots of tech companies in the South Bay, I'm sure a new arena deal will be made quickly.
 
That kinda sucks. HP will always be associated with Silicon Valley. I guess it's back to San Jose Arena for now...

What are the chances Apple gets the naming rights?
 
If some wealthy donor could buy the naming rights for Monterey Bay Aquarium (the sustainable fisheries advocacy organization) then we could have the Monterey Bay Shark Tank!
 
Maybe something to do with Netgear, Ebay,Paypal, all HQs are in San Jose.
 
Adobe's HQ are almost directly across the highway from the Tank. I wonder if they'd jump at that. Hopefully not - they'd probably interrupt every home game and ask you to update.
 
IIRC the change from Compaq Center (at San Jose -- to differentiate with the one in Houston) was a relatively painless process to change to HP Pavilion.

The new sponsor had to pay for all the interior and exterior signage changes, all the street signage changes, including the worker's name tags. :D


However, will the new naming agreement be until just 2015, or will it run for a longer term? I'd guess the latter (so a new agreement, rather than taking over the old one).



@LouisPoletti perhaps we can get @mcuban and #SharkTank to actually name it the Shark Tank? Is there any better publicity?
 
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LadyStanley said:
IIRC the change from Compaq Center (at San Jose -- to differentiate with the one in Houston) was a relatively painless process to change to HP Pavilion.

The new sponsor had to pay for all the interior and exterior signage changes, all the street signage changes, including the worker's name tags. :D
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Well, technically it wasn't a new sponsor - HP acquired Compaq and thus also acquired the naming rights deal, whether they wanted it or not. HP then deprecated the Compaq brand and renamed the Tank after a line of HP PC products - which was their right under the old Compaq agreement, as long as they picked up all the costs.

However, will the new naming agreement be until just 2015, or will it run for a longer term? I'd guess the latter (so a new agreement, rather than taking over the old one).
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I would guess that San Jose would try to lock any new sponsor into a longer term deal.

The most speculated candidate so far has been SAP, given Plattner's ownership of the Sharks, and the general heated rivalry between SAP and Oracle - hey, Larry, we've got an arena too now!.

The other option is to sign a deal through '15-'16 when the Oracle deal in Oakland expires - and court Larry for a possible bidding war. Reports have it that Oracle is not considering the naming rights deal for the new Warriors arena in SF to open in '17 or '18.
 
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