bhadella
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I love 5X Valks and would never think of not throwing it because it had a woman's name on it. I would assume most people would buy the disc that has a 3x or 4x world champions signature on it rather than a blank disc.
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They could Put Paul on half the Destroyers and Val on the other half and see which sells more...course that isn't Val's disc, but would be a good experiment.
But really I wish she got the Tern. I have a hard time believing her name on the Tern would slow down its popularity. The DDx might (gonna try that out this week), but not Val's name ???
The big question is how much did Val help the Innova brand and does everything she accomplished as an Innova team member and promoter of disc golf not outweigh the potential loss in profits of having her name on a disc?
Both parties seemed to handle it better than PP and Prodigy.
Therein lies the rub, proving it. I'd start with Valks and the JK stamp. I'd also want to know if adding men's names to discs made a difference in sales up or down. This isn't going to hurt Innova, but if they acted on someone's personal belief that there'd be a difference, it should.
I understand her reasons to leave... I dont think it helps her cause (not that it hurts her much) of giving 1 more year at innova with the stipulation of of she wins a 4th world's that she'll get a signature disc. To me it does not look great, if she was planning on leaving then why not leave and be independent last season? Why stay a extra year just to leave when you get what you wanted?
Brutal. I hope Discraft or MVP are looking at what they could do to woo her their way.
Honestly, I'd be more inclined to assume Prodigy. Not only has Cat stated that they have the same contracts for men and women, but they have release TONS of women's Signature discs. Hell, even Mandy Sharp, a relative unknown, has a signature stamped M4 with 100 run (I think) While I'm sure it was a fundraiser with that low number of a run, but, still, it's a disc with her name on it as a young, rarely recognized, 887 ranked player with as many wins last year as some locals I know. (no disrespect to Ms. Sharp, but stating that she's not a household DG name) Prodigy definitely does a ton more to recognize their players than most teams.
congratulations in advance on her fourth baby, but not the first threemake a baby
congratulations in advance on her fourth baby, but not the first three
congratulations in advance on her fourth baby, but not the first three
That was one of my questions. Possible answers are:
1) Val is such a classy and nice person that she gave Innova a year's notice.
2) Val did mention something about not having another bag of different discs to get used to. I would imagine that was a big factor in her thinking.
I will say this: I've had contract negotiations in the past, and then when the final contract was presented, stuff agreed upon was left out (as Val said Innova did to her). I can't speak for her contract or her actions, but when that happened to me I did not sign the contract. I brought up the omissions, they said "take it or leave it", and I left it. While Val is a super-nice person, IMHO she might've given Innova a little too much benefit of the doubt when she should've walked away years ago. JMHO, of course.
Does a World Champ get money for every signature Disc sold?
Si senor. All Signature and Tour series discs give some profits to the player. However, Sig gets more of a percentage than Tour.