You are such a ****boy with your nonsense.
You continue to parrot willful ignorance of what is actually said.
There are two particularly egregious dirty tricks that you continue to pull and that (thankfully)
@Calinative has mostly stopped doing.
The first is The Myth of Mo Money. The one-dimensional “claim” has always focused on the misleading headline of “the guarantee”. And this is where morons reveal themselves as morons. You have no idea how these deals are structured and you have no idea what the terms mean. A “guarantee” is just a guarantee AGAINST ROYALTIES. Which means that if you are guaranteed $5M against a 3% royalty, that means that your first $5M of royalty payments at 3% are”not paid” because you already have a guaranteed payment. You start getting the 3% royalty AFTER you surpass the guarantee.
In other words, a high guarantee/low royalty arrangement is great if you expect to fail. You will get more money if you fall short in this situation.
But a low-guarantee/high royalty arrangement provides much more money when you succeed. To use other real-world examples, this is why actors take smaller salaries for a percentage of gross box office sales. This is why George Lucas gave up his Star Wars director fee in exchange for ownership of Star Wars merch (and became a billionaire in doing so).
And here is the sad part. Many university ADs correctly foresaw the future on online sales and the “Fanatics.com model”. They knew that college merch sales could explode and that high-royalties deals were the way to go. And not only did Beta Blake NOT see the future developments, he doubled down on his mistake by locking us into a TWELVE YEAR DEAL, longer than just about anyone else signed, and preventing us from taking advantage of changes in the marketplace as other universities with shorter deals were able to do.
Insanity.
The other common myth that is spun is that if you “prefer Nike” then you must be some kind of blind fanboy. False. On a personal level, I wear both brands. I actually prefer my Ultraboosts to the Nike running shoe. I prefer adidas socks to Nike socks.
But I have made clear statements that the ****boys have ignored, which is that UM had value and impact as THE VERY FIRST ALL-APPAREL NIKE SCHOOL. Miami was all-Nike before Oregon was. Before North Carolina too. And Beta Blake threw away our history and uniqueness for The Myth of Mo Money.
So, yes, I want to re-establish our special history with Nike. And not because I can’t wear adidas. I can and do. But because some things are bigger than a couple of “guaranteed dollars”.
Finally, the third point that none of you ****boys can argue is the one that
@Rellyrell makes regularly.
Results. Success. Outcomes.
Nobody can argue that Nike schools don’t win the most championships. They do. Nobody can argue that Nike schools don’t recruit the best. They do. It’s as if someone tried to argue that the SEC/Big 10 are not the two best conferences. They are.
So stop regurgitating 15-year-old stories on aluminum bats and fictitious stories about how Nike tried to outfit our teams in rags and duct tape. Acknowledge that Beta Blake converted a huge chunk of our uniform allowance into straight cash payments.
At the end of it all, even
@Rellyrell can tell you how much I once SUPPORTED the move to adidas. Until I learned the truth.
Stop being an adidas/Beta Blake ****boy.
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