Oh good lord, now another backdoor effort by the "adidas-rules/Nike-drools" crowd.
Who said our lawyers didn't review it and/or approve it? I think you are missing the point here. First, the monetary projections are not a "lawyer review" issue, they were subject to Beta Blake and his bogus analysis.
As for issues such as "Miami will be the flagship" and "adidas will give you great product", those are issues of behavior and performance, not contractual language. It's like when you put a term like "best efforts" into a contract. There's nothing wrong with the contractual language itself, but there's certainly a lot of leeway within that language for a party to behave and perform either very well, or very poorly.
The primary "Nike screwed us" crowd is predominantly UM alums who graduated from about 2007 onward. They never saw us win a title. They've only experienced UM's decline. And they have no idea that UM used to be a Top 10 selling merch school from the late 80s to the early 00s.
And I'm always honest and transparent on this issue (I've discussed this multiple times with
@Rellyrell too), I was initially misled by the Beta Blake Myth Machine. I was told that Nike was uninterested and didn't offer us any money. I was told that the Nike support was soooo bad that the football team was reduced to wearing old SportsFest t-shirts to practice. I was told that adidas was going to be ultra-competitive in the college game.
Then I saw the results. The rollout of Miami's worst football uniforms since (at least) the 1970s. The basketball scandal. The Louisville fellatio. The Supernova. The ProBounce. The ZX.
Bottom line, Beta Blake screwed up. He thought he was smarter than everyone else, and he was wrong. And don't give us the "Miami is not a major public university" crap. When Miami is doing well, we sell disproportionately to most public schools. It's not just alums that buy, it's everyone else in the country (and world) who love The U.
Just stop this. Neither company is perfect, but Nike/Jumpman are a better fit for Miami than adidas has been.