Novelty Uniforms -- A Compromise Proposal
It seems to me that the rationale behind these novelty uniforms is that they appeal to players and make the program more attractive to recruits. I have my doubts about that but I'm not in a position to know.
Seems to me though that there's one way to know for sure: put it to a vote of the players. So we do a secret ballot. If they like the unis, the rest of us can put up with them. If the players don't like them, we send them back.
Let the players decide -- whaddya say Brandon?
August 9th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^
The businessmen like it. That the players like it is somewhat incidental.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:38 AM ^
That was kind of the point. Why else would businessmen like producing extra uniforms?
No they don't. See PSU and Alabama. If the money wasn't there we wouldn't do them.
August 10th, 2014 at 1:50 AM ^
hate to tell ya.. but Bama has had them on several occasions.
August 9th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
How about fans under 40 get one game a year where the team actually wears something different and interesting and you olds get the other 11-14 games. Is that fair?
August 10th, 2014 at 2:53 AM ^
Tradition for someone graduating in 1960 will be very different than someone who graduated in 2014.
I posted this uniform timeline on another thread earlier today.
http://mvictors.com/?page_id=63647
Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with age, or race, religion, sexual preference or choice of food.
Well I'm not concerned about how those in the minority feel about the situation. You don't really factor into the equation. College football has spoken and UNIFORMZ are here to stay. Get used to it (or don't and just continue to bitch about only getting 11 games with your preferred uniform. We don't really care.)
August 10th, 2014 at 2:55 AM ^
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August 10th, 2014 at 8:33 PM ^
Yep. I'd be happy with...
Home: maize pants. Small block M on upper left thigh. Blue shirt. Tiny maize "MICHIGAN" over large maize numbers on the front. On the back, maize names straight across over large maize numbers. Maize numbers on both sleeves. Tiny maize manufacturer's logo upper left chest.
Away: Maize pants, white shirt. Same logos and numbers as home, but blue on white.
The end.
I'm actually cool with alternative uniforms and doing wacky shit from time to time. I liked the bumble bee stripes. But alternatives should be cool looking. Adidas is just consistently hideous and their preoccupation with putting the three stripes everywhere fills me with murderous rage.
a 30 year old walking around in an UTL jersey to get punched in the stomach and I'm under 40.
August 10th, 2014 at 12:13 AM ^
It's really fucking sad that you think the traditional uniforms are not interesting.
August 10th, 2014 at 8:14 AM ^
August 9th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
By the time the players can vote the uniform's already been designed and prepped for mass production.
And you think any AD is going to say no for a chance to sell more jerseys? Hell no.
August 9th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
August 10th, 2014 at 2:56 AM ^
This time, even I like them. That almost never happens. Judging how most of the players reacted, I'd say they agree.
Texas has a good compromise: Use them in practice.
http://www.burntorangenation.com/2012/3/29/2910944/texas-football-2012-…
Players get their uniformz, school gets their traditional look on gameday. Everyone goes home happy.
The annual Adidas templates every #teamadidas school wears? That's true, we do.
Seems to work just fine for Texas. But, hey, whatever.
EDIT: And for those who say these things are for merchandising, Texas remains consistently in the top 2 to 3 merchandising schools each year. You can still sell plenty of gear without uniformz, it seems. Here's last year's rankings:
http://www.clc.com/News/Archived-News/Rankings-Annual-2012-13.aspx
here's a compromise. quit acting like you are the voice for the ghost of bo schembechler, and just watch the damn game.
Texas should want more want an alternate jersey, it should want an alternative primary color. Burnt orange is a butt ugly and clashes with other color except white.
crazy fool just called out Big Daddy Dave Brandon on Mgoblog.com....
ohhhhhhhh no u didn't.
i will say this. the arguments on both sides are ridiculous. tradition is more than a uniform worn for a single game in a season, and not many recruits will pick a school based on the chance of wearing a one off uniform in future seasons.
you know what is tradition? winning football games. you know what causes recruits to strongly consider picking your school? winning football games.
I'm in my mid-50's ... I've been watching Michigan football since 1973. I'm okay with the uniforms. Don't hate them, don't love them ... I'm okay with them. Beats the hell out of those awful throwback-to-the-40's uniforms.
I agree with slimj091's point above -- these uniforms are neither an assault on tradition, nor the game-changer for recruits. It's a relatively small datapoint in the shadow of the key thing, which is having a winning program.
Michigan's tradition is not based on just the classic home uniform. That classic home uniform is held dear because many of us recall the glory days when Michigan would maul opponents at home in those uniforms. It's not the uniform, per se; it's the winning associated with the uniform.
Go ahead and wear the all-blue uniform for the PSU game. But more importantly, go out and dominate PSU in that game.
August 10th, 2014 at 2:59 AM ^
That's obviously ridiculous, so clearly you care about something more than just winning.
If the alternates are here to stay, and there's no way around it, how about this: we use the alternate UNIFORMZ!! for bowl games?
(For the record, I do not like them, either.)
Some like it some don't.
Some like blue, some like purple.
What can you say?
I was looking forward to all blue uniforms, but the pinstripe numbers not so much.