Chapter 259 Starting the Season for Sports 1 (1/2)
For the next few days, Zack followed Jake's training routine and got tired every day, seeing that William was no longer jealous of Zack and didn't want to talk about it with Jake anymore.
In fact, William was surprised by this, it was obvious that Jake did much stronger training than Zack, but Jake arrived well every day in the dorm and didn't even look tired and Zack looked exhausted every day.
After a day of training, Jake got a call from John, it seemed that his sponsoring company representative wanted to talk to Jake, Tiffany and Clara were busy with the company as they were the president and so John was assigned to talk to Jake about the marathons.
John had come to Chapel Hill to talk to Jake and so Jake went to the dorm to warn his friends that he could not dine with them and went to talk to John, after a few hours Jake finally arrived at the restaurant where John was waiting.
”Hi John, how have you been?”
”Very well, thanks to you, our sales this year promise to break our previous record for a long time, after that commercial and the Olympics your media exposure has further helped our company sell more.”
After seeing the sales reports, the directors of John's company were delighted to renew their sponsorship with Jake, while Jake was at university they could earn a lot from Jake while he was at university.
In fact, they tried to pay Jake a higher amount of sponsorship by thinking of gaining his trust and perhaps getting a sponsorship contract renewal when Jake joined the NBA.
After all Jake was now a college athlete which would be worth a lot of sponsorship only if he could wear something of the brand in uniform, and a marathon athlete wouldn't be worth as much as they were paying, just because Jake did the two sports worth the sponsorship.
But after seeing the increase in sales they no longer thought so and we're glad they could renew sponsorship, a contract of more than $ 5 million over 5 years was a high-end contract even for professional athletes.
They also knew that Jake had a $ 13 million sponsorship-only contract in 3 years if they counted all 4 sponsors, yet all of Jake's sponsors would be willing to renew this sponsorship.
”So Jake, we got an invitation from the Chicago Marathon organization to compete there this year, so I wonder if you plan to be there in the coming weeks?”
”I'm going to participate yes, I already organized a regular registration, I didn't think I needed anything like this.”
”You won last year and got a gold medal in the Olympics, so it's normal for them to want you to participate in the marathon this year.”
”You can count on me, talk to Tiffany so you guys share ads in this year's marathon, will you be there?”
”Yes, I will be there, I will organize everything personally, if you need a registration for a marathon you can talk to me too, do you want to participate in any more this year?”
”Yes, I will participate in New York too, this year I will win.”
John was glad to hear that Jake was still competing in two more marathons this year, which was best for his company, of course, it would be nice only if Jake had the intention to win, otherwise he would lose the spotlight he won at the Olympics.
After that Jake and John talked for a while longer before John left, fortunately in a short period of time John and Alan didn't plan on doing another sponsorship commercial, because they spent so much this year on advertising.
As they thought it would be the last year of sponsorship with Jake the company spent a lot on the commercial earlier this year, thanks to Jake's advice they were able to save a little and spend less on producing the commercial.
Of course, they had an excellent return on that investment, but they didn't plan on doing another commercial next year, maybe another 2 years in the last year of their contract with Jake they thought of doing that.
In the next few days, things were going well for Jake, the team started doing the full training preparing for the first game in November, as the play drills started so everyone could see more of Jake's skills.
The most remarkable fact was that Jake did not miss a pass in training, even though not knowing well the style of play of his colleagues Jake could still read the moves well and be without any mistakes.
Coach Smith could see that it was Jake's experience that allowed him to play so well without knowing his teammates' playing style, but it was impossible for Jake to have much more experience than his teammates who also played every game in high school.
Not to mention that Coach Smith learned that Jake had been left out of the team in the first two years of high school, so it was normal for Jake to have less experience than his teammates, only Ed Cota had a similar skill to Jake and also missed a few passes.