Michigan not wearing any alternate jerseys this year?
From Ondre Pipkins latest tweet, it looks like Michigan will not be wearing any alternate jersey's this year. Pipkins seems disappointed by this, but I'm sure there's a lot of fellow MGoBloggers that will be happy to hear this news. It didn't seem like many people on the board were big fans of the alternate uni's last year.
I'm sad that we aren't wearing any alternate jerseys this year
I'd also like to note that we lost both games that we wore alternates in last year. I know logically that it doesn't matter, but that doesn't stop me from wearing the same shirt every Saturday during college football season.
Come on man! We lost five times when you wore that shirt last year!
I think it would be ok if we had maybe 1 alternate jersey every couple years or so. so that way everyone on the team can experience it once.
I think UTL is a perfect time to do it. Or if they beat that Ohio team.
I mean in recruiting those kids take notice and they like having all those extra jerseys. Michigan is a team that can afford it so it will help with recruiting (not that we need a lot of help) and exposure (playoff will be voted in from what i understand).
BUT
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Please explain.
i thought the 2011 UTL uni's were not bad but they could be better. UTL is a big event and it was refreshing to add some panache to the jerseys.
If players want new unis couldnt it also could be a sort of reward. Exampe they are good enought to get to a bowl game or championship game throw in some new unis.
I think those reasons are better than just having new unis for the heck of it.
again im not saying every year or every BIG championship but these kids pour a heck of a lot into the team and why not let them have some fun everyonce in a while. Heck some artists on the could submit a few designs and have a team vote.
idk I was just throwing ideas out there.
I didnt want to tackle the question of if they should have an alternate jersey for that game cause I couldnt find a history of alternate jerseys and I didnt want to mess with tradition in "The Game"
That said if they found a really sweet alternate design I personally might be open to it.
actually i decided
my preference of course
but lets keep OSU a traditional game. Only our traditional uniforms or on special occasions (such as the 150th meeting or something) we have a jersey on to honor past meetings by wearing that year's jersey design. the very first meeting or 50th meeting or something to that effect
OR
in 1913 OSU and U of M didnt play, so we honor that year 100 years later by wearing the jersey they would have worn back then
(as well as 1914-1917)
again just throwing ideas out there
Not sure it was your actual idea but I like wearing our (fantastic) normal jerseys against OSU & considering an alternative if we wind up in the B1G champ game (likely against OSU)...THAT would be the time to wear the alternate...indoors, special game. Not the traditional Nov game
Sugar Bowl uni's were fine, and the Outback Bowl uni's would have been great all around (loved the Matte helmets) if the names could have been read.
It's kind of sad that it's surprising Michigan isn't wearing alternates.
Not the striped road jersey we wore against MSU in 2011. I never see those, which pretty much says it all about how bad they were.
That's actually what the UTL uniforms were.
If the designs were better in previous attempts, we would all be more open to the idea of alternate jerseys.
i liked these
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/prototype-m-football-jerseys-created-fan
these lose way too much tradition
I'm a real traditional type of guy. Don't fuck with my M Football team type guy.
But. I actually think a maize and blue "chrome" type finish could make a badass alternate, if we're going that route. Anywho...
agree. Keep Maize and Blue just change the shine to chrome and it might look good. probably better than the matte.
occasional alternate uniforms if Adidas' alternate uniforms didn't always make our team look like rogue circus clowns.
from former players that wanted alternate uniforms but didn't get them. So far I haven't seen anything. So until proven wrong (like if Tom Brady says he would have liked to rotate jerseys each week during his Michigan days), I will hold the belief that interest in alternate jerseys is artificially created by those that market them, and future football recruits do not have the free will necessary to make a choice of whether or not to have alternate jerseys.
Sadly, quotes of players/recruits that don't like the alternate uniforms they have to wear will be filtered under "reasons for mancrush on said player," so they don't weigh nearly as strongly with me.
You incessantly whiny bitches.
I hope we can still get some matte helmets with numbers on them :(
if the Tradition-Hating, Dave Brandon God changes his mind.
(THDBG?)
Winning three out of the last four MNCs will do that.
The surprise is that this will be purely semantic. There are no alternates, because they will be changing the official uniform each week!
Good fucking riddance.
I'm not opposed to alternate uniforms, just ugly alternate uniforms. So far, Adidas keeps missing the mark on that front.
over the "piping" on the jerseys during RR's first season? If he'd introduced the bumble-bee jerseys that so many today think are awesome, Bill Martin would have had to post armed guards down at Fort Schembechler.
So you're suggesting there was a double standard in the way Rich Rodriguez was treated by the Michigan fanbase versus the way Brady Hoke has been treated by the Michigan fanbase?
No way! You're way off base there.
/s
From Dave Brandon?
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2013/05/michigan_alternate_uniforms_du.html
But athletic director Dave Brandon said this week that Michigan is expected to change course in 2013, ditching the alternate uniforms and sticking to its classic home and aways for at least the regular season. "We don't have any plans to do anything," Brandon said during the Big Ten athletic director meetings in Chicago. "Now if we get into the postseason and the kids all get together with the coaches and they want to do something unique, which we've done the last couple bowl games, I'd be just fine sitting down with them and empowering them to come up with something that would be fun for them and energizing for them.
Tradition isnt ruined by alt unis.. stop that nonsense. Moderation is the key.
Moderation is the key
Except that we've had no moderation whatsoever when it comes to Alt-Unis