Michigan & Nike agree to biggest apparel deal in college football history $169 million
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Guessing that includes the Big 10(14) officiating crews too.
Good. Another reason I will never buy any of their overpriced crap. If they want you to sport their logo, they should pay you.
Further proof that the finances /economics of CFB now rule the product that you pay hard-earned money to observe.
From a media and competitive standpoint, the B1G has recently been O$U and some other 11 teams. Nike, observing this, is simply throwing money at scUM to ensure that the Big2 are worth watching.
Did Phil Knight write a check to or renegotiate PSU's apparel deal? No.
WE ARE .........STILL TOXIC!!!!
Thanks Board Of DisTrustrees....you've created quite the legacy. You wrote some big-ass checks to some unscrupulous and undeserving individuals, but you've done nothing to address the revenue side of the PSU Income Statement.
Even Phil "artificial" Knight knows where to spend his $$$....in his dying days.
From a media and competitive standpoint, the B1G has recently been O$U and some other 11 teams. Nike, observing this, is simply throwing money at scUM to ensure that the Big2 are worth watching.
Did Phil Knight write a check to or renegotiate PSU's apparel deal? No.
WE ARE .........STILL TOXIC!!!!
Thanks Board Of DisTrustrees....you've created quite the legacy. You wrote some big-ass checks to some unscrupulous and undeserving individuals, but you've done nothing to address the revenue side of the PSU Income Statement.
Even Phil "artificial" Knight knows where to spend his $$$....in his dying days.
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I think the players get a "fair" amount of this money, after the NCAA gets their SHARE
Hey, I know the "system" is super corrupt. Is there any relation between education and sports? Really?
Not quite what "our forefathers" had in mind
Yep.
The Bryce Jordan/Sonny Vacarro conversation in 2001 tells the story. ALL the schools that play top-level D1 football these days are essentially paid whores.
Jordan: "Why should a University be an advertising medium for your industry?"
Vacarro: "They shouldn't sir. You sold your souls, and you're going to continue selling them. There's not one of you in this room that's going to turn down any of our money. You're going to take it. I can only offer it."
(I'm not ripping on Jordan or Penn State there ---- but he was the one who asked the question. Vacarro spoke truth and shut him up quickly)
In the unit-measuring contest of "how much $$$ will we whore ourselves out for to allow an athletic apparel company to use our student-athletes as an advertising medium", yes Michigan is presently the King.
(someone else will inevitably pass Michigan as King in the near-future. Then U-M's contract comes back up for renewal, and they're back to being the King. Repeat cycle)
President Duderstadt --- you know who he is if you're (a) of a certain age and (b) an actual alum and not a WalMart Wolverine --- just shakes his head somewhere.
And no --- Penn State isn't better than anyone else in this particular game. We all suck.
Meat Chicken just bought the Ref's for the next ten years.
Oh joy ...
N i t t a n y A m e r i c a
Oh joy ...
N i t t a n y A m e r i c a
We have no idea what PSU's Nike contract is worth, when it expires, or what the next deal will be worth - PSU elects to keep that information private and has done so ever since PSU was one of Nike's first institutional client decades ago. We do know that Nike pays $500K per year to Coach Franklin and paid $350K per year to O'Brien.
You sound like an insider who knows the details regarding the contract, but has been instructed by OZ to only share the parts that pertain to the post-evil football coaching personnel.
Actually it has nothing to do with the Michigan 'brand'. I'm sure Nike saw the pasty white pictures of Harbaugh without his shirt a few weeks ago and decided they'd pay absolutely anything to require him to wear a shirt from now on.
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I'm not really sure what you mean; Penn State has always been reluctant to give information both on coaching compensation and Apparel contracts. It wasn't until O'Brien's contract that PSU began to post the contracts publicly online, making it easy to see how much money Nike was giving them. I posted the numbers for Franklin and OB because they were the easiest to find online. I don't believe that the amount of money Joe got from Nike was ever made public, although there was speculation that it was a fair amount - especially when it was initially agreed upon years ago, when he was one of the first college coaches to endorse Nike.
