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Go ***** yourself with this dopey argument.
I don't give two ***** if you can be dragged, kicking and screaming, into an admission that the length of the contract is too long.
You continue to lie and spin and act as if you have not previously touted the "guaranteed money" that adidas promised which you assume exceeded what Nike offered (which we cannot know for certain, due to fact that Beta Blake lied about everything involved).
Again, you choose to ignore and deny the central part of the argument related to compensation. That a HIGH ROYALTY contract for a TOP TEN BRAND will always outearn some pathetic "guarantee" of cash. Just like your hero, Beta Blake, you continue to put forth a false argument that caters to the lazy ***** crowd of "pay me, I don't want to do any work to improve my sales, just pay me a guarantee and let me feel like I've actually done something".
Here's the sad thing. You can pat yourself on the back for actually granting your superiors a "partial win" (as you "agree" with us that the contract term was too long). But the reality is that I have spoken with many people at UM who are far closer to these issues than you are. And the regular refrain is that there was a culture change that occurred when Shalala secured us the ACC bag (which on its face should be a good thing) while entrusting the athletic department to unqualified ***** like The Shermanator and Beta Blake. And, ****, we can probably even include Mr. One Eye on a Better Job Kirby Hocuntt too. By delegating power and an unprecedented budget on young boys who didn't know what it was like to turn an Independent UM dime into a million, we lost our incentive and motivation to outwork every other better-funded athletic department.
No worries, though, you are sooooo proud of some "guaranteed apparel contract", even though it has had the reverse impact on UM Athletics that it was intended to have. We no longer are a market leader. We no longer outsell our fellow Top 10 Brand universities. We no longer have shoes or apparel that are the best of the best. We are associated with the "Burger King" of the apparel business. We are not, nor have we ever been the "flagship" program of adidas. That honor is reserved for Louisville. And soon to be Tennessee.
@Rellyrell has continued to post the complaints from other adidas school alums/fans who have realized what we've been describing for years. The breadth of adidas offerings of branded UM merchandise is anemic compared to Nike and Jordan Brand. The resale value is not there. The "hot new products" each year are soon available at markdown prices. The player-exclusives are nearly non-existent (oh, but that Fear of God crap was da bomb!). We never got UM Yeezys, even before he became a Nationalist Socialist and wrote a song about how he gave his cousin head. We haven't had a true UM Ultraboost shoe in, what, 4 years (and UltraBoost is the only non-player-name-model that is worth a ****). Where are the Miami Hardens available to the general public? Where are the Miami Dames available to the general public?
At least New Balance and Under Armour and Reebok and every other brand can admit they are distant "third place at best" and don't try to tell lies to a bunch of schools about making them a "flagship". adidas is like the University of Florida back in the day, they act like they are Alabama when their accomplishments are Vanderbilt. adidas is not good.
But you're going to keep yapping about the guaranteed money.
@Rellyrell and I have tried. We have explained that the "sticker price" of the contract is roughly 1/3 equipment/player merchandise and roughly 1/3 activation/marketing. Which SHOULD mean that the only aspect of the contract that we need to debate is the 1/3 portion devoted to the money generated by merch sales to the public, either as a guaranteed payment, a straight royalty payment, or some mixture of the two.
But you keep trying to humble-brag about how you know that a 12 year contract is too long, while denying the truth about how much a 15% royalty contract would pay Miami, over and above our "negotiated-ten-years-ago" guaranteed pittance.
adidas could give Miami a raise. But they won't. They're going to ride out this gravy train until we end it.
Thanks for admitting that 12 years is too long. If adidas really believed in Miami, they would give us the SAME ANNUAL PRICE they would offer for a 12 year contract ON A ONE-YEAR BASIS. But they won't.
