UofM #4 in Merchandise Royalties

Why are you questioing Kentucky? The basketball fans down there are more fanatic than most college football fans.  Yes the top 4 on the list are football programs but Kentucky Basketball is a major revenue stream for that univeristy.

Adidas, not.

The Adidas difference.

When NIKE comes back, we're #1, we're #1!

Could definitely be higher if every piece of merchandise we had wasn't a three-striped piece of crap

If Michigan starts competing for national titles that number will go up. Michigan had a good basketball tournament but morning drives fanbase spending enthusiasm like great football seasons.

Where's Ohio?

 

For the eighth straight year, the University of Texas collected the most royalties of any college or university represented by the Collegiate Licensing Company, whose clients include all the major schools except Ohio State, Michigan State, University of Southern California and Oregon.

oh... some pretty popular schools on that list, except for sparty.  Wonder where those schools would have fallen if included.

That's bullshit. I want a recount. I pump an egregious portion of my salary into the MDen just to be ranked 4th?!?!

I own a longhorns hat... BUT I wear it once in a while because Texas owns Ohio St recently. Love how buckeye fans react when I wear it on campus. And I did like Colt McCoy when he played. Pissed off a lot of buckeye fans too lol

Gotta keep those sweat shop kids busy!

Regarding Michigan being ranked 4th instead of higher, I blame Brian and all the free T-shirts he gives away with HTTV donations...which reminds me, I need to go home and wash my newest T-shirt.

People bagging on Adidas should keep in mind that 1) royalties really don't amount to that much money for the schools (a school will typically get like a 4% cut of merchandise sales) and 2) Adidas pays us a ton of money straight-up for the contract ($7.5M per year), which is worth a lot more.  As long as Adidas is willing to give us that money and Nike isn't, I'm all about the three stripes.

 

 

Say it again. Screw Nike!!! Most around here don't remember how we were the 1st school to ever receive these contracts, we are also the school who has been paid the most since its inception. With that being said everyone here needs to realize that NIKE dumped us not the other way around. Nike told UM and I quote " we just don't see the necessary hype that goes along w the school and the dollar sales there anymore" That's when they told us we would not be retained unless we wanted monies similar to UCLA type schools. That is also when they moved the Nike camp off of the University or Michigan and moved it to Ohio.

I for one will buy Adidas all day as they made a commitment to our school and have paid us more money then any school w any kind of endorsement deal. People need to stop bitching and start buying. Adidas saved our ass and continue to give us a shit load of money. So I say FUCK NIKE and when they come running back to us in a yr or two once we are a national power in FOOTBALL and BASKETBALL again, i hope we go tell Nike to KICK ROCKS!

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UofM626
(From Cali)