Fans Give Name Suggestions for WVU Coliseum & Mountaineer Field

Mountaineer fans have some creativity!

One of the biggest takeaways from Wren Baker's press conference on Wednesday was the several avenues of financial opportunity that he is considering to help strengthen the athletic department's budget.

In the past, he has discussed adding suites and other premium spaces to both the football and basketball venues. Now, Baker and the administration are open to the idea of selling the naming rights to those venues if the right offer comes along.

"We're exploring that in really all of our venues and have had some third parties engaged just to do some valuations on what that could bring. Certainly the juice needs to be worth the squeeze because people get pretty attached to certain names on venues and I get that. But they also get attached to winning and as I outlined earlier, winning takes money. It's something we're evaluating and are definitely going to look at. If you want to advertise you company in the state of West Virginia there is no better organization to partner with than WVU Athletics. Period. We have the biggest reach of any organization in this state. If there's an opportunity to monetize that, we've got to look really hard at it and we are engaged at getting some early valuations to say okay, these are the venues that we think could have some corporate naming or even some individuals to name and here's what we think those would bring in from a dollar perspective."

So, what do the fans think of this? Well, as you could have expected, many of them don't want either venue to change names. However, some fans came up with some good ideas while others had some funny/whacky suggestions.

Here are some of the submissions I received on Twitter.

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