OT: Uniformz - Tennessee switching from Adidas to Nike.
Notre Dame, now Tennessee, make the call Dave.
January 31st, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
And a lot of the replica stuff they produce is a joke. The Hockey jerseys are embarrassing, and the basketball unis are pitiful.
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January 31st, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
When Michigan, as the #1 flagship school, has to resort to wearing last years jerseys because the new model is shit and rips/tears at the slightest use. Yet Adidas refuses to fix the issue and rush order/prodcue another batch of jerseys in time for the current season then I think that speaks volumes about the company and their inability to react to the marketplace.
Maybe they should spend less time designing jerseys with sleeves/zubaz stripes on them and bit more on R&D.
January 31st, 2014 at 11:36 AM ^
I'll have what they're having, please.
January 31st, 2014 at 11:38 AM ^
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January 31st, 2014 at 12:11 PM ^
My Nike stuff is in great shape; can't say the same for the newer Adidas M gear.
January 31st, 2014 at 12:16 PM ^
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January 31st, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
Would the increase in merchandise sales from Nike products offset a potential smaller contract? I have no idea, but it's worth thinking about.
January 31st, 2014 at 1:41 PM ^
I have not bought one piece of Michigan apparel made by Adidas. All of my michigan jerseys and apparel are nike.
January 31st, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
I'm jealous.
January 31st, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
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January 31st, 2014 at 12:38 PM ^
Those teams include, but are not limited to: UCLA, Nebraska, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, and Michigan.
End the reign of error.
January 31st, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
January 31st, 2014 at 1:25 PM ^
I don't really care who makes our jerseys, but I wish the NCAA would make them take their logos off the front of the jerseys. It looks especially bad in basketball. If the NBA and NFL don't allow the swoosh, three stripes, etc., on the front of their jerseys, why is it acceptable for the NCAA and its "amateur" competition?
January 31st, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
January 31st, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^
I don't agree. We don't speak of "Michigan football brought to you by Adidas" or anything like that. What does Adidas do to "sell" our sports teams?
You can make a case that the individual conferences sell their schools' sports more than the NCAA does, but I wouldn't say that about the shoe companies. It just seems to be an oversight on the part of the NCAA to allow the logos front and center.
January 31st, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
January 31st, 2014 at 2:28 PM ^
that switch away from Adidas, the more money Adidas will have to offer Michigan when the contract comes up. Not necessarily great news if you loathe Adidas gear.
January 31st, 2014 at 3:52 PM ^
I know I'm in the minority (at least the vocal minority), but I like Adidas. Nike is definitely a bigger brand, but I have always preferred the three stripes and what my son refers to as the Adidas "flower." With that said, I don't own any M Adidas gear, just non-team Adidas gear.
January 31st, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
Some of you need to stop thinking that if we went back to Nike we'd be ''forced to wear UNIFORMZ'' all the time! Every single uniform outside of the norm has to be approved by the AD first. The only alternate uniform Alabama has ever worn was when they had houndstooth pattern in the numbers.
Plus the alternate uniforms adidas has shown us so far have been awful anyway. If we're going to go out in something different, it might as well not look like shit.
PLUS I agree with many people on here and say that I don't like the apparel in genral adidas puts out. A lot of the stuff I have from adidas is already fading where it's taken ten years for the stuff I bought from nike to start fading.
January 31st, 2014 at 5:53 PM ^