"adidas" (er, "Adidas"), stands for "all day I dream about soccer." Although I believe nowadays "soccer" has been replaced with "sports." I just thought I'd try and add something productive to Brian's wildly informative blog.
It'll be a little strange to see our football uniforms without a swoosh on them. Though given Nike's ostensible desire to be larger than those programs it outfits, this probably isn't a bad thing.
I saw a suggestion that Michigan and OSU flip their series instead, with OSU visiting Ann Arbor twice in a row. That will never, ever happen, but I would be interested in seeing if ND would give OSU a 2-for-1 (two games in Columbus, one in their new home stadium in San Antonio) to make it happen.
Brian, sorry about this, but I think you may have misinterpreted what I was trying to say.
With the ND-OU game going on in two non-consecutive years, it allows Notre Dame to accomodate Bill Martin's request to fix the UM-ND and UM-OSU home game conundrum. I am only "speculating" this to be the case, since the ND-OU negotiations occurred shortly after Martin and White's conversation about fixing UM's OSU scheduling boffo.
This was not meant to be a "Notre Dame doesn't want to play Michigan anymore" kind of thing by the ND community. On the contrary, I could pretty much guarantee that 99% of all Notre Dame fans want to see ND-UM every year. This should not, therefore, lead one to the conclusion that "the more insecure portions of the ND Blogosphere...think Michigan is the root of all evil."
Sure, we all KNOW for a fact that Michigan is the "Root of all Evil" - but that doesn't mean that Notre Dame won't play them, or doesn't want to. On the contrary, it is actually BETTER for ND to play UM ever year to supress the rising tide of Evil in the midwest that IS Michigan.
BTW, for those of you keeping score, Steven Filer is Irish. I realize you already had him as a "Nefarious Eduardo", but you have to be happy that he committed to the "Suckiest team in the midwest that doesn't include a directional suffix" rather than the Buckeyes that have been thrashing you guys rather consistently for the past 5 years.
the all day I dream thing works nicely, but Adidas is really just a combo of founder Adolf 'Adi' Dassler's name.
BU coach Jack Parker definitely echoes Red Berenson's thoughts on when guys are ready. He's said that if a guy is ready to jump right to the NHL from BU, they should go, and he'll tell them to go (like Mike Grier, who was such a beast he was getting called for penalties for hitting people too hard his junior year at BU). He also was disappointed to see Rick DiPietro leave BU after only one year when Rick clearly wasn't ready to be an NHL pro yet. And really, it's taken what would've been his entire college career for him to become a truly effective number one.
Of course, if the NHL had adopted the rule to let guys opt in (like Drew Stafford did), Rick wouldn't have been bound by that stupid rule that meant if he wanted to be drafted that year, he had to go pro no matter what. And then I could've watched him for one or possibly even two more years instead of missing that whole (one season) era.
This was not meant to be a "Notre Dame doesn't want to play Michigan anymore" kind of thing by the ND community. On the contrary, I could pretty much guarantee that 99% of all Notre Dame fans want to see ND-UM every year. This should not, therefore, lead one to the conclusion that "the more insecure portions of the ND Blogosphere...think Michigan is the root of all evil."
FWIW, it is being used as such in a couple places I don't want to funnel traffic.
the "all day i dream..." thing is a marketing slogan. the origin is, as posted above, from the founder's name.
Amen to capitalizing Adidas. No damn shoe company is gonna rewrite the rules of the English language, dammit.
Goddammit. The one time I try and be informative and helpful, I screw it up. I hate myself.
Adidas is a German company, so it's pretty unlikely that its name would be derived from an English acronym. Wouldn't it have to be "alles tag, ich traume von spiel," or something like that?
Yeah, it's from Adolf (Adi) Dassler... Adi Das. But there's no reason I should know that.
Gnarls don't quit quitting...er, I mean, uh...
It's alright Gnarls, we all fuck up sometimes. You're still the man.
I'm a UniWatch guy, and a sneakerhead, so I know waaaay too much about stuff like that anyway.
Here's what I found about the license fees:
"But Big Ten Network is reportedly seeking monthly, per-subscriber license fees of $1.10 in Big Ten markets and 10 cents in markets outside of the Big Ten."
http://www.multichannel.com/arti.../
CA6462418.html
Ummmm - IIRC, we've always played ND and OSU either both home or both away for time immemorial.
What we need to do is flip-flop Wisconsin and/or Penn State vis-a-vis home and away. Through the early 90s, the Penn State game as in State College on odd number years and in Ann Arbor on even numbers. That seemed to change coming out of the 2003-2004 hiatus, with odds in AA and evens at UM.
That would help.
Also a switch by Notre Dame would end up doing the exact same thing to them and USC. This year ND plays SC at home and Michigan away.
Do you insist on capitalizing e.e. cummings' name also? If the company calls itself adidas, then its name is adidas.
And here I was hoping I'd be the one to do the Adi Dassler tidbit. Not to be.
"What do these guys look like Jimmy?
Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks."
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