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**** Adidas
Nike started treating us like the redheaded stepchild/2nd tier program and Fvck them for that! We were their first program and should’ve always been treated as the blue blood that we are, but that’s the past now and you can’t change that. I’m glad Adidas is making us the focal point of their brand just like Nike does with Oregon. The Adidas gear is night and day better than anything Nike ever gave us towards the end of their agreement with us. And anyone who disagrees with the switch, honestly, I question your ability to understand what’s best for our program. Also, Petey boy, you gonna finally eat some crow on here about your wrong assessment on our defensive line? I’m still waiting sport?!
This is not true. It's just not. Beta Blake created the issues, from converting our equipment/uniform allotments into cash payments, to delaying the approval of new designs.
100% and that’s what’s best for Miami. So I’m all in on Adidas and I’m grateful they’re making us the tip of the spear for their brand. Fvck Nike for ****ting on us and I can’t understand why anyone would want to go back to that.
Believe whatever you want, dude but my eyes know what I saw. So Fvck Nike for that and I am grateful we’re with a brand like Adidas that treats us like we deserve to be treated which is a five time national championship blue blood program. Versus being shlt on by Nike.
Gosh, perhaps it is best to never win a title or win less of them because they are certainly treating others, with far less resume than that of Miami, far better.
Adidas helps land Keys for Tennessee.. what have we gotten? Feather jerseys and crap fan options
Boy the bag must be 25mill a year
Boy the bag must be 25mill a year
Follow the money. Nothing happens in isolation or by accident. Unless you're going to front the difference in the contract which is gonna help us with roster budget, adding new sports required for growing conferences, recruiting etc then let joe and team do their job. The game has changed and every dollar counts. No matter how much you swear we should take less to go with a brand that is actively working against us in recruiting and is losing flagship universities besides us for similar reasons. This is no longer just about how much you like a polo design over another...
Maybe because the fan stuff from Adidas is ugly, poor quality, and the fit is never consistent. Maybe the university is figuring this out as I've noticed more fan stuff from other sources lately, but you still have to look out for the Adidas label.
My goodness it's been a while since someone mentioned Blake. That guy and Donna set us back decades
It amazes me that people are willing to believe Adidas's "this time it'll be different" pitch.
As a wise man once said, "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again!"
I mean, Rad's technically the AD. Not sure we can keep these contracts from him.
@Rellyrell wtf did they do to the number 1 font? The long bottom part looks so absurd
Attachments
You’ll be hearing more leaks with time.
Adidas better drop those 2001 practice jerseys as game day jerseys then if we staying
The most shocking thing to me- why didn't we get any special stuff for our 100th season??? It almost seems like the school forgot about it. They didn't mention it until the day before the ND game with a short twitter video.
And adidas has a huge track record of honoring 100th seasons- Texas Tech got a special uniform for their centennial this year. They created 3 brand new uniforms for the NHL Bruins for their 100th. Very bizarre.
And adidas has a huge track record of honoring 100th seasons- Texas Tech got a special uniform for their centennial this year. They created 3 brand new uniforms for the NHL Bruins for their 100th. Very bizarre.
JFC. Professional malpractice. What an insipid hire Blake was.
Idk man.
Unless adidas did some serious management overhaul I just can’t trust a company who couldn’t sign Cam Ward while he was at a school you sponsor. I guess it’s cheaper to sign a few kids who haven’t done jack squat in a college uniform than the number one draft pick.
However, it seems odd that Nike is cutting fat from schools with large and loyal fan bases.
Maybe Nike sees itself as big enough to not have to spend that much money on cfb while adidas has more of a need to gain more market share.
Sometimes companies see themselves as too big to fail or feel that their brand is so culturally dominant that it doesn’t need to do the things that brought them to prominence.
This has happened many times in the history of business.
As companies grow so large and so diverse that they start eating themselves from the inside. Too many projects, too many chiefs, too much R and D, too many shares, etc etc…
They start turning into something resembling a small government.
Or it can just be Nike being smarter than everyone else and seeing a more grim future economic outlook.
Unless adidas did some serious management overhaul I just can’t trust a company who couldn’t sign Cam Ward while he was at a school you sponsor. I guess it’s cheaper to sign a few kids who haven’t done jack squat in a college uniform than the number one draft pick.
However, it seems odd that Nike is cutting fat from schools with large and loyal fan bases.
Maybe Nike sees itself as big enough to not have to spend that much money on cfb while adidas has more of a need to gain more market share.
Sometimes companies see themselves as too big to fail or feel that their brand is so culturally dominant that it doesn’t need to do the things that brought them to prominence.
This has happened many times in the history of business.
As companies grow so large and so diverse that they start eating themselves from the inside. Too many projects, too many chiefs, too much R and D, too many shares, etc etc…
They start turning into something resembling a small government.
Or it can just be Nike being smarter than everyone else and seeing a more grim future economic outlook.
It is what it is.
