Nick Willis is leaving Adidas per twitter - exciting news is coming Tuesday

ex Brooks wrote:

NO WAY

Brooks will have everyone leaving from the Beasts to Hansen’s after the Olympic Trials. They have a few athletes that are tied into long term contracts everyone else will leave.

ON is spending money. New Balance will be picking up others that are young enough to have a future.

ON only makes trash shoes, they also don't have spikes or clothes.

New Balance doesn't sponsor men (outside of couple British guys at all times)

On his Strava a few pictures he's posted show him in their shoes and wearing their apparel.

Interesting...I wonder if they're planning on releasing spikes.

Rick Sanchez wrote:

just got word... wrote:

I work in the industry and have been asking around about this a bit today. Just heard that Nick and one other high profile runner are signing with a non-traditional brand. You guys haven't and probably won't guess correctly. I guess the structure of the deal is more favorable than what the traditional shoe companies tend to offer. Will be interesting to hear the reaction when this comes out.

Puma or Diadora?

When was the last time Willis made a final? Rio?

Nick Willis is the man.

ex Brooks wrote:

NO WAY

Brooks will have everyone leaving from the Beasts to Hansen’s after the Olympic Trials. They have a few athletes that are tied into long term contracts everyone else will leave.

ON is spending money. New Balance will be picking up others that are young enough to have a future.

First of all do you mean HANSONS when you say Hansen’s ?

The Hanson Bros. love Brooks and have said on many occasions that they would never go to another shoe company. They’ve been together for 20 years. So I’m pretty sure you are clueless. I hope Brooks reaches out to Nick Willis as well. Nick is a great ambassador.

When was the last time Willis made a final? Rio?[/quote]

Rio, man what a final!! NW was actually 7th with 150m to go then in last 25m ran right through the line for Bronze! This past year he was Fifth Ave mile champ, and was 1 second away from Wannamaker Mile glory.

He's just so relevant for the mile event when he gave a shot at the 5k recently I think he should have used his mile training moreso than going for big mileage numbers. As for a contract he's always been relatable from his coaching (miler method) to talking about the Pistons!? And just the simplicity of his training and explaining it with an IG post/tweet.

The company he's signing with will be getting an influencer who also happens to be a world class runner so that would make sense it's a non-traditional. ON is actually really big in Europe and surprisingly Japan. However his good experiences all the way with Reebok, Adidas(now AG owning Salomon,Reebok) suggests they could move him easily to Reebok...

Still no correct guesses in this thread - doubt you guys will guess it ahead of time. The other athlete signing with this brand is an American woman. Also, Adidas did offer to extend Nick though the 2021 games but he preferred the structure of this other deal. No hard feelings on either end.

You’re quite aggressive for probably being wrong. I won’t 100% say he’s not retiring, but he’s basically said as much in the comments on Instagram. ‘Still have some pep in my legs’ and about how he’s feeling good in training now that he’s back home. Retirement seems unlikely until after 2021

Oiselle

This entire thread has made no mention of brand? American woman that's signing is Middle Distance? Road?

You mentioned it being a smaller company Or Non traditional?

What am I wrong about? I don't think I claimed anything.

Well, except for claiming someone else is dim, which I may be wrong about.

AdiVector wrote:

This entire thread has made no mention of brand? American woman that's signing is Middle Distance? Road?

You mentioned it being a smaller company Or Non traditional?

I won't spill the beans on the specific brand because I was told that they'd prefer to have their own announcement of both athletes, which makes sense and they deserve it for the signings which are both very smart. Should come out tomorrow night or Tuesday morning so you won't have to wait long. The brand has not been mentioned by any comment in this thread.

Tracksmith

Got it understood and makes sense for all involved. I'll mention it tomorrow and then Tuesday after announcement if I'm(or someone else) right you can acknowledge. Thank you

just got word... wrote:

I work in the industry and have been asking around about this a bit today. Just heard that Nick and one other high profile runner are signing with a non-traditional brand. You guys haven't and probably won't guess correctly. I guess the structure of the deal is more favorable than what the traditional shoe companies tend to offer. Will be interesting to hear the reaction when this comes out.

I also work in the industry, and I can say that this user is 100% wrong. I have no idea where they are getting their information from.

NS is NOT announcing a change of sponsors per say, but I am not at liberty to say exactly what the nature of the announcement it.

just goat word... wrote:

just got word... wrote:

I work in the industry and have been asking around about this a bit today. Just heard that Nick and one other high profile runner are signing with a non-traditional brand. You guys haven't and probably won't guess correctly. I guess the structure of the deal is more favorable than what the traditional shoe companies tend to offer. Will be interesting to hear the reaction when this comes out.

I also work in the industry, and I can say that this user is 100% wrong. I have no idea where they are getting their information from.

NS is NOT announcing a change of sponsors per say, but I am not at liberty to say exactly what the nature of the announcement it.

Happy that now letsrun only allows one username per thread, because I will be proven correct. This won't even take long. Again, by tomorrow night or Tuesday morning this will become public. Nick Willis and a high profile American woman will sign with a non-traditional brand on a favorable structure which will be mentioned.

Do you realize that you are anonymous on a site that is pretty meaningless anyway? So you can't be proven correct because you are anonymous. It doesn't matter if you posted under 100 different names.

red and sad wrote:

Do you realize that you are anonymous on a site that is pretty meaningless anyway? So you can't be proven correct because you are anonymous. It doesn't matter if you posted under 100 different names.

Okay? I think when the announcement comes out about both athletes you'll all acknowledge that I knew what was going to happen. I'm not here for credit, it's not like I created some account to become an "insider". Just happen to be in the know on this particular situation.