TUCSON, Ariz. – Vantage West CU was forced to pull its TV commercials and take down its billboards featuring Mike Stoops after the University of Arizona fired its football coach.
The credit union said it will continue to actively promote the goal behind those ads — raising money for the Community Food Bank as the holidays approach, but it did not want the firing of the coach after a 1-5 start to the season to become a distraction to the cause. As a result, Community Food Bank’s president, Bill Carnegie, will be featured in ads for the campaign.
Under the promotion, which runs through the football season, members who use their Vantage West credit or debit card to make a donation of $10 or more to the Food Bank receive a 2011 Arizona Football Commemorative Coin from Vantage West. There are not yet figures on how much the campaign has raised.
Stoops was hired in 2010 to appear in the ad campaign, around the same time as the university’s basketball coach Sean Miller was hired by Hughes FCU.
