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

JohnnyLegume said:
My biggest gripe with Adidas is their best gear is only provided to the athletes. Hoodies, tees, etc., I see so many awesome designs worn by players, and we fans are never able to purchase. Adidas invests a lot in equipping athletes and advertising, but their fan service is really lacking. If you ask Harry I suspect he’d tell you the same, retailers can’t get access to the most requested or highest quality items.

Sizing is also weird. An Adidas medium is bizarrely sized in comparison to what my tiny arms are used to
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This is facts!!!
 
skyman said:
When the OP said we was in deep with adidas, I didnt know he meant #20 deep.. sheesh

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Here is something interesting.

I noticed that the University of Florida is NOT on that list. Why is that important?

For two reasons.

The first is that what we DO KNOW about the UF contract with Jordan is that they get about $3.5M per year in the uniform allowance piece, one of the highest in the country. And also, UF gets a 14% royalty rate, which is also one of the highest in the country (I've never heard of a rate higher than 15% for a university).

A sub-point to make here is that I cannot find any references that quantify the royalty income. Obviously, if UF sold $100M of merch each year, they would make $14M. And it would only require UF to sell $25M of merch to make $3.5M of royalties each year, which would put the UF contract at $7M a year (ahead of UM). This is all very interesting BECAUSE Florida is a state school, thus there should be more transparency on these numbers.

The second interesting point is that everything I have seen seems to indicate that the UF-Jordan contract runs through 2024. Obviously it has been extended. But the extension (and any new terms) have thus far gone unreported.

But what we DO KNOW is (a) that the 2015-2024 contract is reported in an incomplete manner, and (b) the renewal is not really reported at all. Somehow, a public university in Florida is keeping secrets from the taxpayers. And, if I know anything about the University of Florida (and I do) they are swimming in cash due to taking a huge royalty in the apparel deal.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Hurracanes said:
Maybe I misread your point, and if so, my bad. There have been rumors floating around that certain people at Miami are pushing Adidas for political reasons or some kind of conspiracy, but that’s simply not true. I assumed that’s what you were hinting at.

At the end of the day, this decision is about one thing: money. Today, Adidas is offering the best deal, and that’s what’s driving the conversation.
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Speaking only for myself, I never said political reasons.

But minds are already 90% made up. That's a fact.

It's easy for the only bidder to offer more money when any other bidders are getting lukewarm responses. That's why Radakovich should have been stoking a better relationship with Nike since December 2021. This day was coming for four-plus years.

I've been through this before. I've changed vendors before, particularly when there is a very small pool to choose from (Big 4 accounting firms). You have to maintain good relationships. ****, I made a change from KPMG to E&Y over 15 years ago, and still maintained friendships. In my current job, I brought in KPMG and haven't used E&Y in over 10 years. Relationships.
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Comparing audit and consulting relationships with accounting firms and apparel deals is absolutely ludicrous.
 
ColdCane said:


This a lowkey good thread of how bad our jerseys have been with Adidas idk how anybody can defend this
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Because Nike had us looking like a cartoon for a decade. No way I wanna go back. It was painful. Nike sucks. Period. They forever should be blacklisted. They had their chance and failed miserably
 
CaneBorn1983 said:
Comparing audit and consulting relationships with accounting firms and apparel deals is absolutely ludicrous.
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What an ignorant ******* comment. Clueless and stupid comment.

When you don't have a lot of provider options and people change jobs regularly, yes, a discussion of the need to maintain good relations is completely valid.

Lots of industries and situations where burning bridges is not smart business. It's really sad that we have so many dopey porsters who can't differentiate between a "comparison" and an "example".

"Comparing". What lazy thinking...
 
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