On Jun 13, 11:46 am, Bob Schwartz
> The fact that Cervelo has few sponsorship alternatives
> is irrelevant to whether or not they would take a hit
> from a doping scandal with a sponsored team. If the
> connection was there they would have taken a hit. It
> didn't happen.
>
> The sponsors never take a hit. Never.
dumbass,
big corporations work very hard to control their image (or "branding"
as they say). whether a doping scandal affects earnings negatively
isn't the only issue.
cervelo wasn't even the sponsor the team is named after, they just
supplied the bikes.
> I'll call this Hizark's Rule. All you have to do is cut
> the people that get caught and all is forgiven. A team
> like Astana can suffer years of serial doping scandals
> and even a throw-the-book-at-them doping hard liner like
> Hizark is willing to let bygones be bygones if they just
> cut the guys that got caught. Again.
astana is sponsored by a bunch of oil-rich borats who were hit up by
vino (a national figure in his homeland i'm sure) when liberty pulled
out. most corporations that deal with the public
on the other hand there is an explosion of team funded by plutocrats
and organizations that don't even market anything to the public (rich
individuals, private equity groups, etc.).
> That's why sponsors have no reason to care about that
> stuff. History shows it doesn't matter to them.
>
> Bob Schwartz