There is probably no area in the country it’d make more sense for adidas to go all in on over Miami… so I’d expect them to pay us more than Nike and we stick with them
"YOU'D expect"?
Who the **** are you? You know nothing.
"No area in the country it'd make more sense". Stop with this race-oriented bull**** already. Yeah, Hispanics and whatnot.
No other area in the country? How about Southern California, where there are now THREE MLS soccer teams, and not only a huge "Hispanic population", but actually a lot of people who FOLLOW international soccer.
Or what about places like Atlanta and St. Louis, which have strong connections to soccer in the United States?
The point is, you are lazily piggy-backing off of MY COMMENTS about the Mas Brothers, Inter Miami, Messi, and UM all being connected by "adidas". But that doesn't mean that "adidas will pay us more money than Nike". That's just the nutty projections that you continue to make, over and over and over again. This mythical fantasy about how UM is worth more to adidas AND that adidas will be willing to pay us more.
Except it's all bull****, just like your terrible porsts. As soon as adidas got the contract with UM, the immediately delivered the ****tiest uniforms in the history of the program (no exaggeration) and then chased after Louisville and offered them a more lucrative contract, without honoring the most-favored-nations clause in the contract. We continue to get cookie-cutter merch that is ill-fitting and mere variations on that provided to other programs, but just in orange/green colors.
The sad part is that you and the Mas brothers are going to continue to fill our heads with one-sided comparisons, how adidas will "give us more money" when Nike doesn't even have a fair playing field to make its best pitch.
Never forget, Michael Jordan didn't even want to take the meeting with Nike. His mother had to force him to do it. Now he's a billionaire off the Jordan brand alone.
Sometimes it's just smarter to bet on yourself and take a higher royalty deal instead of some fixed salary.