NO CONTRACT with Addidas or Nike?

[ZachTheZip]

http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/zips/2008/07/0...nike-or-adidas/According to Rasor, the U officially does NOT have a contract for athletic gear with either Nike (for basketball) or Adidas (for everything else).I just seems weird to me, if this is true. Does the athletic department just go to the Adidas store and buy things? Something is fishy here.

[zippyrifle32]

ok, that letter is from the department of institutional marketing NOT the from anyone in the athletic department. although the blog says he was requesting the athletic department's contract, the sender is not in the athletic department. it could be that the university as a whole does not have a contract with either company, however the athletic department definitely does. it's a contract basically saying we're going to buy at least $1000 worth of gear in the next 5 years and in exchange you will give us a 50% discount. obviously the numbers i threw out there are not the real numbers, but i am 99.9% positive about the contract with adidas. btw, adidas gives the university catalogs to order from and many of the apparel items are found exclusively in the catalogs and of course someone else puts the akron logo on it all.