Michael Jordan’s son should stop the Air-ogance, shut up and play ball

Roland, This is a situation where you as a national media person has gotten hold to a portion of the story & telling it as fact. What you forgot to include in your story is that both UCF & the reps from Adidas agreed that he could wear his dad’s shoes prior to him agreeing to come to there. Then as the basketball season started to approach, Adidas pulled a switch on Marcus & said no. The school & his team mates are supporting him. Stories like this are trying to make him look like the bad guy in this situation and he’s definitely not. As much as I respect you as a journalist, please investigate a little more. Come here & find out what’s really happening.

This is a case of arrogance but you’ve pointed out the wrong party! I’m sure that Marcus only went to UCF because he was going to be allowed to wear his FAMILY shoe. In my opinion this was Adidas making a power play to force one of it’s main competitors child into taking photos opts in their shoe. Because I guarantee you that Adidas didn’t give UCF that new contract because they were able to sign Marcus to UCF. I bet it has more to do with the football team’s success.

And there’s precidence of Adidas relenting and letting an athlete wear Nike when it was better for business! Because when this type of coverage happened the last time it was because an athlete didn’t want to wear Adidas because of injuries to his knees while wearing Adidas! That time they were “gracious” enough to let the athlete wear what he wanted to wear to make him feel comfortable without penalizing the school.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2199043

So what’s the difference this time? We know that Adidas recognizes the obvious conflict of interest in the young Jordan wearing a shoe that competes against his FAMILY shoe. But they chose to flex their muscle againt the lowly UCF school that they JUST grace with full endorsement privileges. Do you think they woud’ve done that to Notre Dame if Jordan and the team would’ve made the same decision regarding his abilty to wear his FAMILY shoe? I doubt it!!!

HE AIN’T GOT NO GAME NO WAYS!!!!!!!!!!!

The local news just said that UCF has received no official word from Adidas that they would be dropping the contract. The football coach says they are wearing the same shoes for their game against Texas. There’s a whole lot of talking but no one is reporting the facts.