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MEGA New Miami Adidas Ultraboost🔥 - The Shoe and Nike/Adidas Thread.

There's always hope for our Athletic Department to turn things around. We really need to get rid of Legends.


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Angry Ibis said:
The rope looks like ****. How to **** up a good thing 101.
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No idea why that was ever added to hats. Though I assume based on where my hats get dirty, that’s likely why. There is no way it was for looks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hat that the rope improved the look
 
Hurracanes said:
My homey is literally an alumn and has some connections through the athletic side (he played years back) in Columbus. He spoke to someone in the school and said what I shared. Apparently, the school (never said the athletes) is very happy with their relations with Adidas, thus far. I gave an example as to why. Perhaps, my info is bad. Perhaps not. All I know is given how important the connection between Columbus HS, Miami and Inter Miami are, I am not at all surprised to hear Adidas is giving them a lot of love and to make certain folks at all 3 places very happy.

I had no idea Columbus made the switch so all this news was a surprise to me when i heard about it today.

Either way, what exactly am I lying about? That Columbus isn’t getting the gear they requested? What can I possibly get out of lying about that? Hate to burst your corny “gotcha” moment but you got to do better, gang. Not everything is about Nike.
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you just dont have the footlocker connect... Also i guess columbus must've been fleeced because theres no way glorious nike would lose a competitive bidding process ever. The company cant keep world cup jerseys in stock and is getting destroyed for their awful shoulders and **** quality but clearly its all just big adidas propaganda..
 
Rellyrell said:
B4 I hop on this call & b M.I.A for the day, could u expound on “Legends?” I’m unfamiliar w this.
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The company founded by Jerry Jones. Does all manner of outsourced sports-related infrastructure. They currently handle UM's ticketing ops, fundraising, merch, etc.




2023 "expansion":

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University of Miami Athletics and Legends Announce Comprehensive Partnership Expansion

University of Miami Athletics and global premium experiences company, Legends, announced a significant expansion of their partnership.
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2021 deal announced:

legendsglobal.com

Legends Global

The University of Miami athletics department today announced that it has selected Legends, a premium experiences company, to oversee marketing partnerships and rights for the Miami Hurricanes. Through this new partnership, Legends will collaborate with Miami to develop a comprehensive...
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Canesfan1993 said:
you just dont have the footlocker connect... Also i guess columbus must've been fleeced because theres no way glorious nike would lose a competitive bidding process ever. The company cant keep world cup jerseys in stock and is getting destroyed for their awful shoulders and **** quality but clearly its all just big adidas propaganda..
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Not sure about "fleeced". I don't think anyone said "fleeced". If adidas honors all terms of the deal with Columbus (as they did not do with Miami), then all is good.

Competitive bidding? Does anyone know if 11 Dade County high schools conducted competitive bidding all at the same time? Seems miraculous. Sounds more like adidas made a strong offer (fair, no problems with that) and that there was no competitive bid.

World Cup jerseys? Do you know if that is a Nike issue or a Fanatics issue? Because Fanatics handles most/all of the stadium venues involved in the World Cup.

Awful shoulders? Don't know what's up with that.

**** quality? Not sure about that one either, but...maybe? I can tell you directly (as a person who buys a lot of UM stuff and a lot of soccer stuff) that adidas has issues too. So maybe this one's a push.
 
Canesfan1993 said:
you just dont have the footlocker connect... Also i guess columbus must've been fleeced because theres no way glorious nike would lose a competitive bidding process ever. The company cant keep world cup jerseys in stock and is getting destroyed for their awful shoulders and **** quality but clearly its all just big adidas propaganda..
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Lmao. I got the timeline wrong. I’ll take the L on that. What exactly do I have to lie about? That Adidas isn’t treating Columbus right? Sure..

It’s all good, though. I’m looking forward to the next 20 years of his Nike propaganda and anti-Adidas campaign. I’m sure it’ll be every bit as effective as it’s been over the last decade. 🤡

Worst part is I’m a Nike guy but the cult got me defending Adidas cause I won’t stand for the misinformation being spread. At some point, you’d think reality would get in the way of the narrative, but apparently not. 😂
 
Hurracanes said:
Lmao. I got the timeline wrong. I’ll take the L on that. What exactly do I have to lie about? That Adidas isn’t treating Columbus right? Sure..

It’s all good, though. I’m looking forward to the next 20 years of his Nike propaganda and anti-Adidas campaign. I’m sure it’ll be every bit as effective as it’s been over the last decade. 🤡

Worst part is I’m a Nike guy but the cult got me defending Adidas cause I won’t stand for the misinformation being spread. At some point, you’d think reality would get in the way of the narrative, but apparently not. 😂
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I'm not going to ever push propaganda or misinformation.

I've been honest that (as an old guy) I value the Nike relationship back to 1987 more than our younger fans do. Guilty as charged.

I just want similar standards. If we are willing to forgive 8 years of ****-ups under adidas because they FINALLY got our permanent-temporary throwback jersey right and are a bit stronger on NIL than Nike is right now, that's fine. It just would have been nice to get those same 8 years of forgiveneness for Nike based on the equity that we built up over 28 years.

There has been LESS "anti-adidas" campaigning over the last 18 months, as adidas has finally righted the ship. But I understand where the original 8 years of anger came from. What was promised and what was delivered (for 8 years) was not the same.

And while we can disagree on some elements of this debate, maybe we can agree on something innocuous. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, all of the adidas complaints were finally heard. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if we extend this deal, we will finally get what we were promised in 2015. I'd be happy with that, though I'm still buying orange and green Jordans.

Again, I put on the U logo before all others. That's what comes first with me.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Not sure about "fleeced". I don't think anyone said "fleeced". If adidas honors all terms of the deal with Columbus (as they did not do with Miami), then all is good.

Competitive bidding? Does anyone know if 11 Dade County high schools conducted competitive bidding all at the same time? Seems miraculous. Sounds more like adidas made a strong offer (fair, no problems with that) and that there was no competitive bid.

World Cup jerseys? Do you know if that is a Nike issue or a Fanatics issue? Because Fanatics handles most/all of the stadium venues involved in the World Cup.

Awful shoulders? Don't know what's up with that.

**** quality? Not sure about that one either, but...maybe? I can tell you directly (as a person who buys a lot of UM stuff and a lot of soccer stuff) that adidas has issues too. So maybe this one's a push.
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The deal was done through the county with Miami Dade public schools so yes it was a competitive bid process.

As for the jersey comment, these are directly from nike. Though yes the fanatics thing is a whole different can of worms one could bring up when you talk about bad quality of fan gear.

The shoulders stand up when worn. Something to do with the way the seaming was done.

Again i'm not here for an argument on whos better. I'm not an apparel guy, but i just think some of the stuff being posted on this thread ignores context and/or is a blatant misrepresentation of the way the apparel stuff has been handled by UM. I can't speak in detail to prior to Rad taking over and how the school did things but i've got a pretty good idea of how they've conducted themselves since and some of the narratives on this thread could not be further from the truth. Miami received bids and has had talks with multiple apparel companies for example. Not sure where this closed bid storyline came from.

Again I don't care about apparel as much as some. I think both companies leave much to be desired when it comes to quality from the consumer perspective. But if you think mario Cristobal, who has a huge nike bias, and others in leadership signed off on a deal with adidas without speaking to nike and trying to get the best deal for the university then i dont know what to tell you.

On that note, back to lurking and talking about things i actually care about like where we'll be playing football in 3 years.
 
Canesfan1993 said:
As for the jersey comment, these are directly from nike. Though yes the fanatics thing is a whole different can of worms one could bring up when you talk about bad quality of fan gear.
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Your comment had nothing to do with "bad quality of fan gear". It was about keeping things in stock.

Again, Nike's website is different from Fanatics' inventory management system. I know from whence I speak, I know several people who work at Fanatics in Jacksonville.

"Directly from Nike" is a manufacturing issue. "Keeping things in stock" is an inventory issue. You seem to be mixing and matching.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Your comment had nothing to do with "bad quality of fan gear". It was about keeping things in stock.

Again, Nike's website is different from Fanatics' inventory management system. I know from whence I speak, I know several people who work at Fanatics in Jacksonville.

"Directly from Nike" is a manufacturing issue. "Keeping things in stock" is an inventory issue. You seem to be mixing and matching.
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Its both a quality and stock issue and my original comment addressed both. Again i'm not getting into a debate on apparel with anyone on the merits of the apparel itself. I was simply stating that things being spewed here and accepted as fact are incorrect.
You can laugh at Miami dade county having an open bid, but it doesn't change the fact. Again i don't care who wins this bid as long as miami gets best deal. But don't say i'm mixing and matching as a way to deflect when i was quite clear on what i was speaking to and even said fanatics was a completely different subject we could get into.
I was simply trying to correct misconceptions being spread on this board by bias parties who are reacting emotionally vs based on facts. I again have 0 interest in this topic as a whole and wont be commenting further on this circular argument.
 
If I start listing the stuff that is wrong with Adidas in regards to both availability and quality in gear, I wouldn't be done by next week.

So let's stop with the narrative that Nike has issues at this years world cup on its own. Adidas has severe ones that extend beyond Nikes on top of the fact that their shoes are significantly worse.
 
Canesfan1993 said:
Its both a quality and stock issue and my original comment addressed both. Again i'm not getting into a debate on apparel with anyone on the merits of the apparel itself. I was simply stating that things being spewed here and accepted as fact are incorrect.
You can laugh at Miami dade county having an open bid, but it doesn't change the fact. Again i don't care who wins this bid as long as miami gets best deal. But don't say i'm mixing and matching as a way to deflect when i was quite clear on what i was speaking to and even said fanatics was a completely different subject we could get into.
I was simply trying to correct misconceptions being spread on this board by bias parties who are reacting emotionally vs based on facts. I again have 0 interest in this topic as a whole and wont be commenting further on this circular argument.
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I asked a question on the World Cup jerseys because I was confused, it's no big deal. Having not purchased a World Cup jersey, I was unfamiliar with any quality issues. Almost all of my soccer jerseys are adidas (MLS). But, yes, Nike has had some quality issues in the recent past, like other similar companies.

As for Miami-Dade County, the motherlode of corruption, I won't go into great detail. It is great that Miami-Dade got the sponsorship, everything that helps the players is wonderful. I'd also point out that UM has been screwed over by deals that our local government repudiated. Somehow, UM always seems to get the short end of the stick.

As you know, I was originally a fan of the adidas deal. When I learned certain things that were in conflict with the "Nike doesn't love Miami anymore" myth, I detailed these things. Not out of emotion, but out of a desire to offset the fake emotions generated by a story that wasn't true.

We had an Athletic Director who decided to keep the uniforms that we already had and convert some of the contractual allowances into straight cash payments. And then he circulated stories about how Nike wouldn't give us uniforms and equipment that he had already swapped out for extra money. That is the foundation of the older emotional reaction that led many UM fans to conclude "**** Nike, long live adidas".

So forgive me if I don't just focus on what has happened recently, but I also look at the origin of the problems. This is not a circular argument. It has always been an apples-to-oranges argument. People try to compare "2026 adidas" to "2014 Nike" and it isn't the same.

I can accept an adidas renewal if adidas honors the contract. I've said that many times. But I want an RFP given to Nike (and maybe Under Armour) that asks for all the same elements that adidas might provide to us. Until we have apples-to-apples bids, it's not a fully open bidding process similar to what large companies do.

Just my 2 cents on this process. Which seems fairly well determined and made at this time anyhow.
 
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