Online sales and Streaming videos.
2020 Nike closed a number of their outlet stores. Had to rebrand and find new way to get their products out.
They don’t need the TV ads as much as they did before.
Says who?
Exactly. He can’t just do whatever he wants. Nike is a public company.
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Yep and with all this information flowing Nike stock is up.
This is gonna be a wild ride
Where is this information flowing?
Stock Mkt went up the day the FED announced the largest rate hike in like 40 yrs, day after it cratered. Don’t believe everything you see.
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Nike isn’t going to risk on share of common stock on realignment bullcrap. Phil knight might with his own money but not with the company’s. Same way Rob Walton’s tender for the Bronco’s doesn’t affect Walmart stock.
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Why would I worry about common stock when I own 97% A stock:rofl:
Y’all are too easy to get spun up
Once again, Phil Knight won’t risk a dime (correction) a nickel of Nike stock screwing around with college realignment.
Knight owns less than 1% of B stock. Maybe 8% of A. But even if he owned 99% of it he wouldn’t put that brand on the college chopping block. Not how publicly run companies function.
This is what happens with sports bloggers throw spaghetti against the wall. People start eating it.
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People used to the same about FedEx and Memphis. Nothing ever happened, in part, for reasons you’ve mentioned. Founders can’t use their now public companies to fund pet projects like this.
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People that conflate money issues on twitter don’t understand its no more complicated than understanding how a BOD functions. A BOD won’t let a major shareholder risk the reputation of the company because its actionable. But, a BOD will defang a major shareholder that holds a board seat…even if they invented the company. One of the greatest legacies of British parliamentary history and a gift to American business.
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Exactly what happened to Steve Jobs at Apple.
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This might literally be the only downside I’ve ever heard to being compensated in stock as a founder/CEO.
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I don’t doubt he’s working every angle and using every ounce of leverage he has. And its probably all to get Oregon in the big 10.
With Sarbanes-Oxley lurking in the background I’m sure he’s being careful to manage all the keywords. The Nike company president and CFO are on the hook for anything their corporate accountants touch with a pencil tip.
I think Phil Knight is gonna do everything humanly possible to set Oregon up for the B10. Anything happening in the interim is part of that process.
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Agree.
Knight is 84 and worth between $40-$50 billion. Oregon is everything to him.
Could Oregon be looking at this mix (possibly worse)and Knight not move heaven and earth to prevent it ?
His own $ and Nike NIL for the B10 - a good investment that would not cause a shareholders revolt.
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With that ype of personal wealth he has, no telling. I guarantee you one thing it’s not in cash most of it. He have to move a few things around financially to make something like that work just like Tillman had to do, to purchase the Rockets
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Shame on you for posting this expansion porn. The good folks over in mumpus are probably pleasuring themselves over this map. 
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What in the hell is this abomination?
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Nike is a public company. Once the board of directors see Nike market share declining because advertising dollars aren’t being spent, they’ll forget all about their support of Oregon.
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It’s… not a good list. UTSA is almost certainly ahead of the eastern time zone schools. Tulsa and even UNM probably ahead of Temple and ECU.
But most of all, the more of these schools you include the fewer of the Pac-12 schools you are going to see because they are going to be in the Big 12 or indy.
With the ten they have now, the maximum number of G5 schools they take is two. I don’t know which two (probably some combination of SDSU, Boise, Fresno, UNLV, or SMU), but only two.