Typical ridiculous nonsense from you.
First, I have said all along, I liked the Smokes, I liked the Greens. That's 2 of the 4 jersey combinations. For the vast majority of the 2014 season, we wore white helmets. Again, unlike you, I don't look at a pre-season mockup of 4 combinations and then judge everything by stuff we don't wear. Even the orange jersey and the white jersey were pretty good, the best we had since the early 2000s.
Second, the reason that
@Rellyrell ignores you is that you are a petulant and stubborn clown who refuses to acknowledge that other people know about industry practices and standards. Do you honestly believe that Miami was offered some shockingly different royalty-heavy contract with Nike? Or that Nike expected us to take a lower guarantee AND a lower royalty? What you are doing is arguing a negative. You want to convince people that because we do not have the Nike offer IN-HAND, that there is no possible way to quantify or estimate the amount that Miami would have been paid under a royalty-heavy contract.
Whatever, You're going to keep arguing like a clown, as if nothing can be established without a COURTROOM standard of evidence. Fine. But you continue to ignore the industry aspects of this. I'll ask you a simple question - DO YOU THINK that I am unaware of sports-related royalty contracts? DO YOU THINK that I am unaware of the numbers and industry standards on this?
I don't like to get into a lot of details, but you do realize that I worked for a major professional sports league/promotion, right? And that for the "sports league" entity, the two largest sources of revenue were the TV contracts and the royalties. And that I had to see all of the numbers, and source all of the numbers to the various states in which we ran races. And that I had to track the royalty splits, whereby after taking a portion of the royalty revenue for the "sports league", we had to pay out the rest of the royalties to various teams and athletes and sponsors, as well as provide them with sourcing revenue. Oh, and I had to track the foreign-origin royalties coming from video games and whatnot, and make sure that we were following all international income tax withholding requirements.
So, yeah, maybe you don't want to do my job and vice versa, but to act as if I have no basis for being able to tell you how royalty-heavy contracts work in the sports world? Yeah, on that part, you're full of ****.
I've never claimed to have a copy of the Nike offer to UM. But I know enough about the industry and pricing, as well how it has changed over the past decade, to give a pretty good assessment of how Miami would have benefited from a royalty-heavy contract WITH THE MOST POPULAR APPAREL COMPANY now that we have entered the Fanatics Era of sports retail. I have spoken to, and derived information, from friends of mine in sports leagues/promotions (four major ones that I could name) as well as people I know from Fanatics in Jacksonville as well as two very-involved people at UM (one of whom you could easily figure out).
And your argument? "I don't have the Nike offer, so I'm going to completely discount and ignore anything that anyone says about larger royalty payouts, nah, nah, nah, I can't hear what you're saying because my fingers are in my ears".
Yeah. What I know on this subject...DWARFS your "I'm uncertain because I don't know anything about the industry" nonsense.
This is why you don't work in business. Because you could never put together revenue projections in order to evaluate a particular business move. I will never deny that the Nike deal would have cost us money during COVID, but in all other years of the 12 year deal, we would have made more money with Nike. Bigger pie. More pie shops. More people who prefer the Nike pie.
It's not that complicated.