MOAR uniform speculation!
It's the off-season guys. Please don't kill me.
This picture was from a post-visit reaction peace by Tremendous, but has a picture inside the Michigan locker room, where you can see some of the alternate uni's from last year. You see the throwback jersey's from Notre Dame, and *sigh* the ones from MSU as well.
Whether this means the team has been practicing in these, or plans to wear both for our prime-time games this season remains to be seen. Are these the two that are most likely going to be used?
Commence speculation.
[EDIT: interesting note.... the helmets have blue facemasks and are void of numbers! WOOT]
Status: kaykay thread
result:
will probably change our name to the bumble bees to accomodate our awesome new jerseys
More generally, my position hasn't changed. Do whatever you want with the road unis. Just leave the home unis alone.
No, do not do anything to the road uniforms. You really can stand watching them playing again in the MSU jerseys? That was fucking awful.
It was only awful because Sparty kicked our asses. Had we won, those Uni's would have been rad as fuck.
...those uniforms looked ugly for reasons pertaining to, you know, how they looked rather than a strawman reason such as their performance on the field.
I apologize if this has been posted but the following link (with video) contains dave brandon's comments on alternate uniforms
http://michigan.scout.com/2/1187994.html
so basically he said Adidas sucks and can't make anything worthwhile, but we're gonna go ahead and do it anyway.
I'm pretty sure there is a way for us to have alternate jerseys without making our team look like they are a bunch of clowns. Just because Adidas is our uniform maker doesn't mean that every f****** uniform accent must be a g****** stripe of some sort.
I hate Nike and I hate their alternate uniforms, but even they don't exclusively use the swoosh as their only design guide.
As I have said before....I love the white pants.
I could go with all white as long as the jersey as sorta of like the 99 one's with brady and company. Hell ever the sugar bowl tops weren't to bad.
Exactly. It is just stuff from last year.
This means nothing. The have Denards jersey hanging in Mealers locker.
are we moving Denard to left guard?!! OH GOD NOOOOOO
But think of the speed on pulling blocks!
Helmet numbers are here to stay, and there will be BLUE facemasks for the season per Sam Webb.
Sometimes I think Brandon is just trolling us, but sometimes he's actually serious and that makes me wonder what he's actually thinking with these alternate unis.
Those aways wouldn't be bad with maize pants... Or all white minus the maize on the jersey just the blue stripes kinda like the sugar bowl jerseys.
There are two #7 jerseys, from what I can see, and the items on the bench look rather carefully laid out. I would say that someone put some thought into the shot to begin with. The footballs are almost perfectly aligned too. My only speculation is that this poor kid did a lot of waiting before the photographer thought he was ready to proceed with actual images.
Helmet numbers are probably off since it would be pointless to have them on during summer practices and such. Just a waste of money if they keep falling off during practice.
Lots of weird things going on with this shot. I would have to agree its only for recruiting purposes and has no bearing on what we'll do in the future.
It was just for show... Practice in them? Hahahahaha. I hope we can afford practice jerseys
Where the hell are the maize jerseys? Come on Brandon - destroy Michigan already.
I really like how Dave Brandon said he's not averse to doing new jerseys on "special occasions". How many of those will there be every year? I wouldn't mind so much if it was a once-every-five-year Jerryworld extravaganza type deal. Like the UTL game. That was historic. MSU and the Sugar Bowl? Not so much.
The only problem is Dave Brandon only cares about money. His bad outweighs the good tremendously in my opinion. I really dislike the guy.
and then proceed to post on it, when it would be a better use of my time to watch the replay (showing right now until 7pm) on BTN of the 2011 Victory over Ohio!?!
(p.s.:good use of the Stevie Wonder meme, though)
one of the all-time great Michigan gif's. Where is it located on the interwebs?
Several other recruits have posted the same type of photo in the locker room, which is clearly staged for recruiting efforts (although I would hide the bumble bee unis in the darkest closet I could find).
I dislike the helmet numbers too. They ruin a great helmet and don't mesh well with the rest of it. Also, maize jerseys would be horrible. I'm terrified of the future if last season is any indication what will happen later on. Our Sugar Bowl jerseys were pretty good but the UTL jerseys were bad looking and the MSU jerseys were most certainely the ugliest thing I've ever seen on a football field (Even Maryland's flag jersey is better).
Last season was a disaster look-wise and I know it's going to get worse and I just can't stand it. We don't need a hundred jerseys. We don't need a bunch of "special occassion" jerseys either. The helmet numbers ruin the helmet and whoever is designing the jerseys keeps forgetting their glasses as they obviously can't see what the damn thing actually looks like. I want the damn tradition back. I hate the "recruits and players love it" shit because it doesn't matter to them in the end despite what they say (hello Texas, USC, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Ohio State, etc. - Most of them wore pro combat uniforms for a game, not constant changing into jerseys saved from the dump yard).