AZ is a contractual obligation with ADIDAS to keep their red jerseys until next season. Costs more to dump their current agreement and excess supply than it is to wait it out until they can negotiate a new one. Team wants to do it now though.
My source was pretty bang on about seeing more Kachina marketing for the 2020 year. So bear with me on this stuff. He’s been right about most, but wrong about some.
I guess that now the cat is out of the bag for the center ice logo and the 25 year logos were released, I can say a little more. Haha
Do not be surprised if you see a new uniform released before the season starts. I can’t confirm what this looks like, or how often it’ll be worn. The black kachinas will be worn for 25 games this upcoming season. But you guys probably won’t see the red jerseys for the other 16. You might see them like 8 - 10 times. I don’t know if this is actually going to happen, but initial designs have been approved, just up to the team and adidas to hammer out the details. Meruelo and co would like to add another jersey to catalog for merch sales. My friend said they REALLY wanted to get a los Yotes jersey done for Hispanic heritage month but couldn’t hit deadlines last I spoke with him. From what I understand, this jersey concept has been scrapped.
There are a TON of Kachina branded merchandise headed to the website and coyotes den. Lots of marketing endeavors with the Coyotes (think Gila river tribe, frys, pacific) have been told to start advertising with Kachina instead of howling head. Existing pieces and ads out in the wild do not need to be replaced, since the coyotes would have to pay to swap them, but anything new will have Kachina on it.
I did read some comments on here about colors. Don’t expect those to change. They did entertain the idea of incorporating copper into the color scheme, but current design and marketing pieces will use the existing colors. The nee word mark might have copper accents.
If he spills the beans on anything else, I shall relay.