Soooo……
What happened to the deal that Blake signed with us being the “flagship adidas school”.
How many clauses do they have to violate in order for us to be able to walk?
Or was that alleged flagship talk just some made up bs?
Bro, I went into great, extensive detail to warn this board about what was going to happen. Literally step by step.
So let’s re-examine 2015:
-Mark King comes on board as President of Adidas North America in 2014. (First off, I’m a big fan of his from a business, strategic side). He promises Adidas would regain strength in the N.A market.
-Adidas loses several big brands in 2014:
-Notre Dame (UA)
-Michigan (JB officially in 2016)
-UTenn (Nike)
Adidas looks to rebound & they make us a very generous offer, which includes us being the highest paid University in the state of Florida that’s sponsored by Adidas & the highest paid ACC school. We were told we would become Adidas’ version of Oregon.
-Blake signs a dummy contract for 12 yrs, neglecting to read fine prints. I’m going to assume legal check various items, including hearing the pitch, and Blake being AD was entrusted w/ this decision
-Mere months later, the real priority reared its head in the form of nepotism, UL. UL signs a 10 yr $160m contract! This contract dwarfed ours by a country mile (violation 1). To make matters worst, this contract was influenced by conflict of interest as UL’s former AD (Thomas M. Jurich’s) daughter is a Marketing Executive for Adidas (violation 2)
Regardless, I specifically told the board u will find out quickly how much of a priority we are IF we don’t start winning. If we don’t start winning, Adidas will turn its attention elsewhere, just like they did w/ UofM. Enters 3 yrs later, UDub. UDub had just came off a successful CFP appearance in 2016 w/ their Nike contract ending in 2017. What did Adidas do? Make them their flagship school in The PAC-12 w/ a staggering 10 yr $119m deal. lol
The fact is we would’ve been Adidas’ flag ship school if we made them look good. Just like Michigan didn’t really do chit while sponsored by Adidas, neither did we. Just like Adidas started prioritizing other schools above UofM although that was supposed to be one of their priority schools, they did the same w/ us. But, I told ya’ll what would & was going to happen, including informing u they were blowing smoke up our ***.
But hey, at least we made a lil coin from them, I guess.