The new freedom of name-image-likeness, the ability of athletes to make a few local endorsement bucks, mainly, was bound to end here: Amedeo’s restaurant is sponsoring seven NC State athletes.
Those seven: Bam Knight, Elissa Cunane, Hayden Hidlay, Cam Hayes, Kai Crutchfield, Sam Highfill, and Levi Jones.
That’s a fine roster, and I wonder how we’ll see this implemented as the next school year gets started. Will there be some low-rent local advertisements either in the paper or on the Carter-Finley jumbotron? I like the idea that every commercial break in-stadium involves either Amedeo’s or Bojangles (Cam Hayes is officially an endorser of both) and just goes from there.