Did you like the jerseys?

Submitted by Livonia Wolverine on

Simple question: Did you like the jerseys last night? Personally I loved them. They were modern and sharp. I bought a #5 jersey at the tent yesterday morning. (Although I wore my Mike Hart 2005 Alamo Bowl jersey into the game)

Gerald R. Ford

October 12th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^

No. I try to fly up for one game per year. If I take the time to come up to Ann Arbor to see my team play, I want to see the team that I recognize as Michigan. It would be like going to see your all time favorite band, and they come out and only play songs off their new album. Just disappointing.


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MaizeAndBlueWahoo

October 12th, 2014 at 6:02 PM ^

No more blue pants.  It doesn't look like Michigan.  I don't get how everyone can be like "boo Dave Brandon for destroying tradition" and then pivoting immediately to "man I love it when we change something that's been traditional since even before the winged helmets."

Besides, teams just look dumb in general when the jerseys and pants are the same color.  It's a terrible look regardless of what color they use.

double blue

October 12th, 2014 at 7:15 PM ^

I think the all navy looked awesome w the maize cleats . I think our helmets looked even better than normal and that's the important tradition part , but I don't think we needed all the stuff going on on the jersey. Our normal navy jersey w matching navy pants w maize m would be good.


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JTrain

October 12th, 2014 at 7:19 PM ^

I thought they were ok. A good change of pace. The players love that stuff so I think we have to do it a few times a year to keep with the times. The shoes....several times made me think there was a flag on the ground....
All-in-all though I thought they looked good.


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Vasav

October 12th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^

I hated them. I hate that alternates are now an acceptable thing at Michigan, and these ones, with their weird "striping" on the shoulders and pant legs were terrible. But still ahead of the bumblebee look we lost to Sparty wearing, and the bowl game unis where you couldn't read the numbers.


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m1jjb00

October 12th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^

I hated the brown stripes in the numbers.

The black stripes on the shoulder pads were fine.

I wouldn't want blue pants all the time, but as a change up I thought it was fun.

123blue

October 12th, 2014 at 8:11 PM ^

Not a fan, but I'm a traditionalist. Helmets looked weird with the wet texture, pants looked weird, jerseys looked terrible. All that said, still better than bumblebees. Know what a great uniform would be...? The Michigan uniform; that's a great one.

goblue20111

October 12th, 2014 at 8:34 PM ^

Hate them.  I don't get the "uniformz" craze.  I consider the following programs to be traditional college football blueboods, steeped with tradition, that have classic and sharp helmets/jerseys that shouldn't be messed with.

Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State, Alabama, Texas, Southern Cal, and Oklahoma.  

Have any of these schools messed around with their uniforms with alternates recently to the extent Michigan has? Ohio State has done some Nike camo stuff with their numbers a couple of times but nothing major.  I think Nebraska has had some black alternates in recent years.  

Other than that, no one else.  Why does Michigan feel the need to do this? It's not needed.  We have the best helmets and best color schemes in my opinion.  Why does there have to be such a freaking produciton around playing a nightgame? Programs have been doing it for years.  Just play the fucking game -- you don't need to have special unforms each time or a special fucking name,  Just play the goddamn thing.  

I hope the next AD puts a stop to all this shit.

Team 101

October 12th, 2014 at 8:58 PM ^

I love the blue pants but like the traditional jersey better.  I'd like to see what the blue pants looks like with the white jersey.  One day I'd like to see the all-maize alternates.

KSmooth

October 12th, 2014 at 9:40 PM ^

The thing about these uniform gimmicks is they are all about fashion, not football.  We're all talking about number stylings and detailings and the way the colors showed up under artificial light, instead of about how the defense made big stops and how Devin Gardner managed to lead an offense on one foot.

Do recruits love the uniform gimmicks?  I dunno, did Brady Hoke show artist renderings of uniform designs when he went to visit them?  Did he take fabric samples, or drop designer names?  (At Michigan, our uniforms are the epitome of style, created by such well known designers as Yves St. Laurent and Coco Chanel!)

Or did he talk about the stadium, the chance to play in one the best leagues (still!) in the country, and the great academics?

As far as I'm concerned, there's only one good thing about these uniform gimmicks, and that is they keep Dave Brandon busy.  Every minute he's going over fabric swatches and mulling over accessories ("Do these wristbands go with the stripes on the cleats?  Oh God, the color on this chinstrap is HIDEOUS!") is a minute he isn't butting into film sessions.  Otherwise, the fiddling with uniforms just strikes me as unseemly.

realfootballfan

October 13th, 2014 at 7:48 AM ^

I liked them. It's not like Michigan trots out every week in new unis.

Sidenote: I wish we would go back to the helmets with the numbers on them from UTL1. We went 10-2 wearing them =]

Sambojangles

October 13th, 2014 at 9:00 AM ^

Monochrome in football is always a bad look. Especially all blue, with no pants stripes. It's like they were wearing jumpers. We have worn maize pants for nearly every game for most of our lifetimes--why stop now?

 

mgolund

October 13th, 2014 at 9:49 AM ^

I didn't mind the blue pants. I did not like the shiny strips on both the jerseys and the pants. Numbers were a bit hard to read. Some have suggested the blue pants with the traditional jersey - I disagree. Love the traditional jersey - but keep it with the maize pants. Now, I wouldn't mind seeing the blue pants with an away jersey.

User -not THAT user

October 13th, 2014 at 10:02 AM ^

I always thopught would look good as an alternate road/bowl game uniform.

All-navy blue at home looks like a high school team...

And the numbers were an absolute HAIL to the NAW.  What the hell, didn't they learn anything from the bowl game against USC (not THAT USC) a couple of years back?  LEGIBILITY IS KEY.

Schmoe

October 13th, 2014 at 12:57 PM ^

The jerseys were pedestrian.

The yoga pants were feminine, so they were stupid for football.

The maize shoes are a disgrace.

Guess I am too old for this.

ChicagoGangViolins

October 13th, 2014 at 5:19 PM ^

 

Sayeth a poster whose homeboyz sport a humongous gob of commercialized snot on their helmets from time to time. Oh please, don't attempt to persuade us there was no corporate branding tie-in. Swarbrick and Brandon are the same dude and there is nothing either will not change for change sake if permitted.