This Is Why You Should Care About The OU Sooners Signing With Jordan Brand | Oklahoma Football

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Channel: Adapt & Respond RJ Young: College Football Podcast · 2017 · Sports

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So for those of you who aren’t Jordan fan boys and fan girls, what does this mean? It means recruiting just got a whole lot easier. Also, I'm going to tell you why Lincoln Riley being up for the Florida job is nonsense.

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Jordan is one of the most iconic sports brands of all-time, and it has ENORMOUS cache among the youth we’d love to see playing football in Norman. As my man Lloyd Martin Jr. said, if I was in high school free Jordan’s for 5 years might flip me. 

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The news is OU announced last night it signed a deal with the Jordan Brand to outfit football team and the men’s and women’s basketball team.

Here’s a link to photos of the announcement and the J’s given to the players on the Sooner Sports website. OU and Jordan brought in Blake Griffin to deliver the news to the football and basketball teams.

http://www.soonersports.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?PALBID=2192189&DB_OEM_ID=31000

In 2014 OU re-upped with Nike for 10 years and the equivalent of a $4 million signing bonus. Means forJordan Brand to have happened a restructuring deal needed to occur, even as Jordan is a sister brand to Nike. Which means both sides wanted this done.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ousportsextra/blog/ou-sports-what-s-ou-s-contract-extension-with-nike/article_77e34131-1a9e-5555-9432-0c4ade977e52.html

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