"ASU coach Dickey Nutt said he wants Nichols on the court, considering the team has its first exhibition in less than three weeks. "I need all my players to be at practice, but it's out of my hands. That matter is in the administration's hands, so I'm just referring all questions to them," Nutt said." Since when does the coach not get a piece of that shoe contract? I thought the big coaches always made the shoe decisions. Why don't they just cut out the colleges and have shoe conferences?
I seriously doubt the Adidas shoes caused the injury. I wore Adidas all through my soccer career (don't know why I would call it a career....but I don't know of another word) and got hurt plenty of times. But my injuries were due to weak ankles, lack of strength training that's essential to injury prevention, mage-bitches who are just mean, and my, at times, kamikaze style of playing. I think if you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt no matter what shoes you wear. My brother tore is ACL when he was freaken barefoot! He needs to grow up and wear the damn shoes....freaken baby. It's a contract so he's screwing himself because he's not going to make a difference. Oh well. Neither is this blog.
Good for the kid, he shouldn't have to wear anyone's shoes just because they have a contract with the school.
Attempting to compare basketball and soccer related injuries is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Let's not forget why "la marque a trois bandes" was started. It sure as hell wasn' t for basketball. Coming down from a header on grass and coming down from a board/jump shot/layup/blocked shot onto a hardword floor are two completely different things. Let the man chose what he wants to protect his ankles with. Adidas makes shitty basketball shoes; they always have.
i've had a lot of basketball shoes. adidas, converse, fila, reebok, and nike. i wouldn't go so far as to say that adidas makes shitty basketball shoes. but nike does make the best basketball shoes.
This is ridiculous. I think that the knee injury came from lack of weight training. Although the last T-Mac's were rather heavy. Hell, they felt like boots. That's no excuse for a knee injury. That's why I caution everyone to wear mids or highs for ankle support. NIKE is still ranked #1 in my books.
this guy should grow up i mean seriously just cuz u got injured in a certain brand of shoes doesn't make you more or less injury prone. He should stop acting like a little sissy and play some hoops
I am not an orthopod, but from what I know of ACL injuries and the most probable mechanism of injury for an ACL injury while playing basketball, I don't see the shoe being a factor unless it had an absurdly unstable design. With that being said, however, it seems like the school's put itself in a bad position here. The shoe may not be an ACL hazard, but what if players find they simply don't work well? Shoes have got to be the most fundamental piece of a hoops player's gear; wouldn't you want your players in the shoes where they felt most comfortable?
Player comfort or money? Somehow, I think that decision's already been made at colleges all around the country.
well, at least one college has decided that comfort/safety comes before $$. (via uni watch)
Cool story, goddam.
I think New Balance actually takes the engineering aspect of their shoes much more seriously than either Nike or Adidas. New Balance (nothing more than my opinion) has always been more concerened with performance than style, and that's what athletic shoes should be all about: performance.
exactly, black_hand. they make a damn good shoe. and they seem to deal with sponsorships rather than endorsements.
