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Oregon/Nike/Phil Knight

TheOriginalCane said:
Beta Blake was our AD when we lost the Nike contract.
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Blake is a clown, but this statement is meaningless.

Nike no longer valued the University of Miami and was paying them a much smaller number in comparison to how they valued UM in the 1980's—paying the university handsomely to rock their gear.

adidas came along, made UM their top school—and wrote them a fat-*** check in the process.

As a private school with 11,000+ undergrads and a fan base made up of mostly non-alum who don't write checks—UM absolutely needed to go with adidas over Nike, even if the apparel isn't as solid and the brand not as strong in the States.

Broke-*** UM was absolutely correct in taking the bigger paycheck from adidas, sadly. Maybe if fans wrote more checks, UM wouldn't always be a bunch of hat-in-hand, sad-sack poor ********.
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
Blake is a clown, but this statement is meaningless.

Nike no longer valued the University of Miami and was paying them a much smaller number in comparison to how they valued UM in the 1980's—paying the university handsomely to rock their gear.

adidas came along, made UM their top school—and wrote them a fat-*** check in the process.

As a private school with 11,000+ undergrads and a fan base made up of mostly non-alum who don't write checks—UM absolutely needed to go with adidas over Nike, even if the apparel isn't as solid and the brand not as strong in the States.

Broke-*** UM was absolutely correct in taking the bigger paycheck from adidas, sadly. Maybe if fans wrote more checks, UM wouldn't always be a bunch of hat-in-hand, sad-sack poor ********.
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U r half correct; the nail in the coffin for Nike was the retention of Al Golden, trust me.

It was clear to them as they were coming up for contract renewal, in which a show of good faith, they provided us w/ new threads, that the Miami of old was not the same. Part of the reason they chose to let us walk was indeed Blake’s idleness on the entire Golden fiasco. Do you know y Nike paid big bucks for Michigan? Not just b/c like us, Michigan was an OG Nike school, but they made a splash hire w/ a big name coach.

Adidas, desperate in trying to gain grounds in the P5 arena, paid us a hefty amount by comparison b/c they bought into our history & thought it would pay bigger dividends. Thus far, it has not. We too are no longer their priority as a result. Neither our b-ball, baseball, nor football programs have come to fruition as they had hope.

Personally, I didn’t want the switch simply b/c Adidas is completely known as a 2ndary endorsement company. Most of their sponsored schools are G5 programs & the few P5 programs they do sponsor aren’t worth a ****; hence, when Harbaugh took over Michigan, the first thing he said was, in order to change our perception, we gotta leave Adidas & go back to Nike.
 
BS85 said:
I thought the article was douchey. They're trying to make it sound pathetic that Phil is calling people about getting Oregon into a new conference, i think it's cool that he's trying.
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Yeah, this article is adding a lot of sensationalism. It’s not “cold calling” when u’re one of the most recognizable & influential men in sports athletics. Lol

He’s a prominent board member of UO; of course he’s concerned about his Alma Mater getting left out, like many other university boards. If UT & OU going to the SEC shook the CFB world, SC & UCLA brought the CFB world to its knees. The fact is, The SWC, Big 8, Big 12 have ALWAYS went through influx. The PAC-8, PAC-10, PAC-12 have remained the same w/ it’s corner pieces for 100 yrs, a stabilized Conference that’s been the poachers. Now? They just lost two of their prominent members in the 2nd largest media market. **** YEAH PHIL IS ON THE PHONE! Lol.

UO may be a founding member of the PAC Conference, but what good is it being a founding member if that conference is on life support, flat lining?
 
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