DAB: Alternate FB Uni Plan Forthcoming

I'm pretty sure the "ram's horn" jersey referenced above is the 2010 away jerseys that were worn by some players because the 2011 fitted jerseys were too stretchy and tore too easily.  The "ram's horn" is the ugly yellow side-panels/piping.

You can see the ram's horn wrapping around Denard's left side.  

I mentioned it as the seventh distinct combination but didn't put it in the list.  It was kind of a stream of contiousness post so probably wasn't formatted very well.

"If Michigan can use alternates to regain the respect of the football world"

Wha?

"if Michigan can use alternates to regain the respect of the football world then eventually the product on the field"

Michigan's brand HAS been tarnished the last several years, but if you think wearing a gimmick uniform will gain the respect of others in the football community, then I feel you don't understand what the Michigan brand is(don't mean to sound like a condescending A-hole).  Only winning on the field, good academics and our student-athletes staying out of trouble will restore our reputation.   To me, Michigan was always about: Winged helmets, no advertising in the stadium, no piped in "arena" music, and no gimmicks.  We had tradition and the respect of everyone.  By 2016, Brandon will have made "The Noid" our official mascot and going to the Big House will be like going to a Piston's game.  Even though I love the Pistons, that makes me sad...

Winning will get the respect of the Football world. If Chip Kelly left Oregon last year for the pros, and Oregon dropped off the face of the earth, nobody would care what they wore. For all this talk about future recruits and how much the players like it, it's really irrelevant. Players want to go somewhere that wins

This is where DB, yourself, and other commentators go wrong. The athletes and coaches on the team today are caretakers of the Michigan Brand, they are not the most important part of the Brand. In fact, all students and faculty, all alumni, ex-players and fans comprise the brand, and the brand is also about the reputation of the university and teams. This idea that if the athletes like it everything is fine is completely wrong.

But the point i was making is that if Michigan can use alternates to regain the respect of the football world

If there are people that don't respect us because we don't wear alternate jerseys, 1, fuck those people, and 2, why would their opinions ever matter?

Except it's not just longer shorts, it's a multitude of things.  We now have in tons of piped-in music, which is fine as long as the songs are original (Enter Sandman at VT), and advertising on the scoreboards.  To add, we are changing our uniform constantly and it just doesn't look good.  Oregon's own "tradition" is their ever-changing uniforms and now everybody is trying to copy them but the Michigans and Marylands of the country aren't even doing it well as the uniforms are just plain ugly.  I'm just waiting on a mascot to appear to make me feel like I'm at a NBA/NFL/minor league baseball game (and those game day experiences suck).

Dave Brandon is chipping away at our tradition slowly but surely.  Yes, we most definitely needed to modernize aspects of Michigan but not gimicky things like unoriginal rock music, advertising, too many uniforms to count, and/or a mascot.  I'm tired of people saying that the players like the uniforms because I'm starting to think that either they have extremely bad fashion sense or they're blind.  There should of been no bumblebee uniform against Michigan State and no bowl uniform against Virginia Tech (though the latter does look good, it shouldn't of happened).  We should of had ONE special uniform this year which was the ugly-but-not-as-ugly-as-bumblee-unis against Notre Dame as it was a special occassion that will never happen again (it being the first night game, not other night games).

Tone down the maize from highlighter yellow, keep those home jerseys the same, and change our road jerseys to the Sugar Bowl uniforms without the outlining of the numbers.  After that, keep everything the damn same and stop changing the fucking uniforms.

Obviously they're doing it for attention - why else would they do it?  And is there really another kind of attention?

...18 Nov 2010 vs. Ole Miss.