Originally posted by DrH. Lecter:
Originally posted by UKBrassowTipIN:
Originally posted by bigbluegrog:
Originally posted by MWes11:
Originally posted by miracle7s:
Kentucky is a Nike flagship. They wouldn't let us leave without a big fight. UK fans buy merch.
Miami is/was a Nike flagship as well. But you know what they say, money talks.
If this happened, I could see Nike going after Little Sister right away just to spite us. But we are a Nike flagship for sure. It would take an unbelievable proposal from Adidas to get UK to change.
To add, Notre dame was Adidas biggest contract, and they just left them for under armour. I believe Uofl is probably adidas biggest school now
?!?!?! UCLA and Kansas are much bigger names in the national consciousness.
* Miami left because the new AD wanted to make a splash and Adi offered more $ than Nike or UA. Miami coaches and players did not want to leave, and the impact on recruiting will be huge. A percentage of kids will bypass Miami because of it, and all of the south Florida kids will be steered to schools like FSU, Bama, and Ohio State...
* ND was a unique situation in that their contract stated they had to be the highest paid school by Adi and the Michigan deal also stated similar language. UA overpaid by a large amount to get ND which was an all cash and stock deal to the tune of $9+ million. For example FSU and Bama get less than half of that. Comparison - Navy gets the same from UA to leave Nike as Bama gets, and this is mainly due to the fact that kids want Nike and schools know this so to switch they have to take way more from UA and Adi. Would you take Navy or Bama for the same $$?
* U of L is not a national name hence no interest from other brands. They don't move merch nationally so does not make sense to have them. UK, UNC, Duke, Arizona, UConn.... move the needle.
* Adi's biggest schools are Nebraska, UCLA, Wisconsin, Michigan, IU, U of L. - UT moves to Nike in August.
* UA has Auburn, South Carolina, ND, Maryland, Northwestern, Utah, Texas Tech, BC,
* Nike has everyone else - Texas, Bama, FSU, Ohio State, Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida, Stanford, UK, Carolina, Duke....
Will start to see some mega deals in the future with some mid level schools being dropped to make $$ free for the big deals.