OT: WTF Adidas
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I live in Louisville. The fans here love it. The kids here love it.
On local radio yesterday they literally said "The uglier the better, as long as people are talking about Louisville, it's good."
I mean this team has never had traditional uniforms, they change every year, so they may as well change them up and get people talking. I honestly dont think they are that bad. And if Adidas : Louisville :: Nike : Oregon I think it would be pretty cool for the Louisville program.
Wanna be Oregon is no way to go through life, son.
This is Louisville. It could be much much worse.
"The uglier the better, as long as people are talking about X, it's good"
That is Adidas marketing slogan.
Must be where Dave Brandon got his theory of branding from.
Louisville fans appear to be having a positive overall reaction and like that adidas does lots of unique stuff for them. adidas won't do anything that crazy for Michigan anyway. Nike has done plenty of atrocious uniforms and UA has done pletny of atrocious uniforms.
The background is the only actually bad thing about those images.
I actually really like the jerseys but that background though.....
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the MGoBlog reaction if Adidas tried to put a Wolvervine on our helmet, removing the stripes.
This place will be 503 backend fetch'd to purgatory.
Michigan helmets are iconic though, and dont forget Hoke and DB actually DID change the helmets by adding off color numbers.
There is no iconic or traditional unifroms for Louisville Football so nobody cares when they change every other game.
These are also for the big time national spotlight game in Atlanta against Auburn so Adidas is doing their big reveal.
I don't know that Hoke had anything to do with any of that. He was very traditional.
I'm not sure either. I am guessing it was mostly DB, but it happened while Hoke was coach so it's in the "Hoke-era."
I just find it funny that people would blast RR about not knowing Michigan Traditions' "What's next, he gonna change the helmets? LOLZ?!?" and then Hoke came in and the helmets actually did change and nobody really said shit.
Upon appearance of the photo / ensuing thread -
I've never seen anyone explode out of a dugout like Brett.
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What a gorgeous bird. Louisville has nothing to lose by going all-out UNIFORMZ like this. Nothing. Next thing you know, they'll rehire Bobby Petrino.
Dude.
Awww they try so hard.
I'd hate it if I was a Louisville fan, but, as I'm not, seeing players actually wear that on the field will be fun.
I think most people on this blog would write the same response if they didn't even look at the renderings. It's much better than any alternate we've had in my opinion. The only crazy thing is the undershirt. The uniform itself is actually pretty simple. I think it's pretty cool. You have to keep in mind that Louisville doesn't have half the history of UM.
Said it before; saying it again now - All shoe companies make terrible uniforms if the schools so allow. It's up to Michigan to maintain a STRONG veto over any garbage whether it be Nike, UA or Adidas.
All that said, I think I'm seasick.
I think the image background actually makes it looks MUCH worse than it really is. If I was a Louisville fan, and without the same history as us or Bama or OSU or any of those caliber teams, I'd actually like this. Seems they are going the Oregon Ducks route with those feathers and other things. Overall, again, it's probably a plus for a team like Louisville.
the school doesn't have long rooted history, and adidas has made them their Oregon in the last couple years. They get a few of these special unis a year, like the ones they did for the FSU night game last year that people here would have hated, but Louisville fans almost all loved.
Fan tastes are just widely diffrent.
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What's wrong with that, LandryHD ?
No, no, no... get it right, dammit!
The proper response is: "As long as they win, they can wear pink tu-tus for all I care."
"I think most of you would prefer watching players run around naked."
Depends. I will take a pass on many of the lineman. Thanks.
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Anyone else initially think this was a new Arizona Cardnals Jersey that Larry Fitzgerald was modeling?
The jersey looks a lot like Oregon and Adidas doesn't make helmets.
There is nothing different or special about uniformz anymore. They've lost their ability to impress or even shock. Every podunk wanna be school is doing it now, from Maryland to Louisville. It's become a big yawn.
The more this shit happens the more the traditional retro unis like Penn State, Alabama, USC, Texas, and Michigan become cool . . . without doing a thing.
Nailed it.
The powerful image-creation capabilities of design and illustration software combined with advanced methods of printing the images on fabric and curved plastic surfaces has now made all this complicated graphic stuff—much of which is visually lost to fans in the upper deck—commonplace and ordinary.
Less is indeed more. I just hope that Hackett and JH recognize that.
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Fire your design teams because.....
Hackett - let's make a break for it!