I have never figured that out either and I wasn't a big fan of the guys jerseys that had the blue. The ony good thing about the guys jersey is that they just used it for trim and the girls are trying to incorporate it as one of their primary colors.Why do lady Vols have blue? Not sure I like any blue.
I don't know how much truth there is to it but I heard that SB still actually makes the uniforms but they put the Addias logo on there now.
They pay a boatload to advertise their name on the uniforms. The person I originally heard it from used to be an employee of SB and was the one that came up with idea of the black outline around the numbers.
I not sure a large corporation like Adidas and with the money they have would want a lower tier company to make the uniforms and then let them put their name on it...I could be wrong...Regardless, Adidas has final say on the finished product either way...
I would say you are very wrong, at least in my opinion. Many companies pay 3rd party factories to make products for them and stick their name on it. I work for a pretty famous name brand and some of the factories that spit out our product also make product for competitors.