Amen, brother. With the number of schools that Nike pays, there was NO financial justification for terminating the relationship with Nike's ORIGINAL all-apparel university. I know the CIS mopes love to tell us about how terrible our program was around the time that we made the Nike-adidas switch, but that's just haters hating. I've known Harry (AllCanes) for years, and I can tell you that Miami merch has sold steadily in SoFla in good times and bad. Now, maybe we weren't selling as much on the national level, but that is fixable (and also came juuuuuuust before Fanatics took over the merch market and began to sell EVERYTHING for EVERYONE).
I'm not ******* around, I keep my ProBounce and SuperNova and ZX 5000 shoes in the box because I am afraid they will fall apart if I actually put them on my feet. I don't lie, I already ordered the Ultraboost 21s and I'll order the 4Ds next month when they drop. I love my alma mater, I'll buy anything that looks decent, I remember going to the UM Bookstore in my freshman year and being devastated by the lack of UM merch in 1986 (when my high school friends who became Gaytors had way better stuff to wear).
I have had a fatwa against Nike since the switch. I want adidas to succeed. But, yeah, this is not my definition of success. I have enjoyed almost all of the adidas polo shirts I have purchased. I have liked about half of the adidas shoes I have purchased. But I know what it looks like when a supplier (Nike) sends the players a ton of stuff to wear, and they send AllCanes/CanesWear a ton of stuff to sell. This isn't it.
A final thought...any shoe company makes colorways. Lots of colorways. I don't care if my UltraBoosts have a special Sebastian velcro tag or not, but are you ******* telling me that a colorblind factory worker wouldn't OCCASIONALLY ***** up and make an orange/green colorway? I know it's not, but it feels like a conspiracy. ****, other schools (Indiana, Texas A&M, Arizona, Nebraska, Washington) may have somewhat more "common" colorways, but it certainly feels like adidas is ACTIVELY avoiding green/orange colorways in all of its various models of shoes.
I've shot my shot. It took nearly 20 years for me to get ****ed with Nike (bra straps?), and I'm already to that point with adidas. It's sad, and I hope that things get better, because we don't have a ton of options unless Nike wants to rekindle the marriage.
All respect, relly, you are the GOAT of the shoe game!
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