Ponyfans.com ANTI-NIKE?!

[Horseshoe]

Nike is pissed off because of an alleged 'breach of contract' since we're skipping over to adidas at the beginning of next year...

What a pantload. Their idea of "customer service" is to return a coach's phone call about 3 months after new shoes (or whatever) are needed. They should have been fired years ago. From what I hear, the coaches are almost uncomfortable and unsure of how to behave around the adidas folks, because they're getting treated exactly the same as the big-dollar adidas programs (Tennessee, etc.) get treated. The folks at adidas actually treat their schools - all of them - like valued customers. Nike could care less about almost any school other than Texas and, of course, Oregon.

[OR-See-Nee]

Surely there is some defense to this alleged lawsuit given the horrific nature of most nike-issued uniforms.

Who is in charge of designing uniforms for teams by the way? Head coach? AD? Marketing guy? Nike/Adidas/Reebok?

[MustangStealth]

I think for lower level teams like us the supplier gives us a choice of a few template designs. That's why many teams have basically the same uniforms, just in different colors.

For the bigger clients (Michigan, UT, etc. ) they will have their own completely unique design.