If Coach Hoke wants to unite the fanbase and bring back Michigan Football, I have a simple yet obvious suggestion for Step 1
January 13th, 2011 at 12:26 PM ^
Conceivably, knowing our "passionate" fan base, they could make Pro Combat uniforms that work for us. Very basic jerseys, just using the Pro Tec fit, and then go nuts on the under-layers.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:27 AM ^
Does anyone know when the adidas contract runs out?
January 13th, 2011 at 1:32 AM ^
I believe 2014
January 13th, 2011 at 1:48 AM ^
dammit, I was hoping it was like 2012 or something.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:28 AM ^
I'm all for ending the curse and bringing back Nike. Long before I ever came to Michigan--probably goes back to the Fab Five era--I've always seen Michigan as a foundation "Nike" school. Hoping we can get Nike to outbid Adidas next time. Bring back the swoosh.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:34 AM ^
For a while in the 1990's, I believe Michigan and North Carolina were the only schools to have contracts exclusively with Nike that encompassed all varsity sports.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:39 AM ^
I believe PSU and FSU were the first two schools to sign university-wide Nike deals. They signed them around 1993. We signed ours in '94, and OSU and others signed around the same time. (Our football and men's basketball coaches had deals with Nike going back to the early '80s.)
January 13th, 2011 at 1:44 AM ^
Michigan's uniform components pre-Nike were a hodgepodge of manufacturers. And some of that stuff was swoosh-ified once the switch was made in '94-95. In fact, I have a pair of football game pants I bought at the athletic department garage sale sometime in 97-98 (I think) that have a Wilson manufacturer's tag inside, but a Nike swoosh embroidered on the front.
Also, anybody remember the general grumbling and gnashing of teeth when it was announced the swoosh was going to be on the football jerseys?
January 13th, 2011 at 2:33 AM ^
Yeah - and I vaguely remember that Nike screwed up the colors on the uniforms of one of our women's teams (volleyball?). They had like UCLA blue or something.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:30 AM ^
The hockey jersey's they used for the big chill were awfull as well.
Not impressed.
I would like to see captains and the #1 jersey comeback, That would be a good step for me.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:32 AM ^
I'm in for bringing the #1 back if we have a receiver who deserves it.
The hockey jerseys were fine except for that stupid Arby's logo on the shoulder.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:36 AM ^
I don't really care if we have Adidas or not, but we definitely need to get rid of those stripes on the sides of the away uniforms. I don't understand what the designers were going for.
January 13th, 2011 at 8:27 AM ^
Those were designed before RR got here. The designs are made up the previous fall. So, if there were going to be any changes for this fall's uniforms, they'd already be in the mix.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:42 AM ^
http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd85/fingersbshreddin/?action=view¤t=bilde.jpg
Looks ugly as hell to me. To each their own though.
Also
I just realized they are throwbacks so I dig the tradition and it's not addidas fault completly.
I agree if we have a reciever that deserves it.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:43 AM ^
January 13th, 2011 at 1:44 AM ^
Thanks. How do you post pics on here?
January 13th, 2011 at 1:48 AM ^
That power is given only to those who earn it.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:53 AM ^
I hope once the contract is up, we sign with Puma. We can be the first with the Puma Prowlers.
January 13th, 2011 at 1:58 AM ^
We should go with Asics. Asics make your team sick (the good way)!
January 13th, 2011 at 2:11 AM ^
Where corporate sponsorship is more important then the actual product itself!
January 13th, 2011 at 2:17 AM ^
I like it. Can we keep the flames?
January 13th, 2011 at 3:09 AM ^
This is completely wretched, but it made me laugh.
January 13th, 2011 at 12:07 PM ^
those are the helmets for UM-flints club football team. hot stuff
January 13th, 2011 at 1:58 AM ^
we should just have the MDen make our uniforms
/s
January 13th, 2011 at 5:33 AM ^
We make SO much $$$ from the Adidas contract (~$7.5M/yr, that's more than OR gets from Nike BTW) that Nike would have to ante up big time come renegotiation time for us to switch I think. Business is business.
January 13th, 2011 at 6:14 AM ^
Just what I want..Go back to Nike so they can come up with a "cool" design that wont have our own colors in the Uniforms..No thank you..The hidious nike uni's that I saw this year are enough for me to think of Under Armor before Nike....Adidas is fine....But yeah...changing back to Nike will bring together the in fighting..Not wins or anything like that...
January 13th, 2011 at 6:38 AM ^
That will REALLY unite the fanbase...How about playing some defense? Adidas horns? Really? Who gives a crap about who makes our uniforms?
January 13th, 2011 at 12:29 PM ^
I do! Thats why I post on message boards instead of doing things in real life though.
January 13th, 2011 at 8:31 AM ^
I really like the Adidas stuff. Unlike Nike's fake history (pro-combat), they've worked really hard to integrate our history into the uniforms. I'm not a fan of the away unis either, but they're an upgrade from the stupid yellow piping from the last set of Nike away jerserys. Plus, our home jerseys don't have the blue diaper look.
I was never a huge fan of the Nike apparel and have been really happy with the stuff Adidas has done.
January 13th, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
you don't get it.
people want something to bitch about. now that all talking points over the CC have been covered, people are looking for something new. well, it seems that is one place they've settled.
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i mean, it'd be great to throw away the guaranteed best athletic contract (outside of the Oregon-Nike marriage, something which we'll never get) to go back to a product which wasn't all that different, except for the corporate branding. our contract with adidas promises us that we'll always be the highest paid adidas school. but seriously, who needs that money anyways. and who cares that we have dedicated reps from adidas on campus at all times ready to do the bidding of our athletic department.
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January 13th, 2011 at 8:34 AM ^
Big10 wide in the same vien as the BTN. I'd also love to see it operated out factories in the Rust Belt as opposed to some SE Asian sweatshop but I doubt that will ever happen.
January 13th, 2011 at 12:17 PM ^
now that is a great idea...
which, unfortunately, is exactly why it won't happen (unless an entrepreneurial someone with plenty of dough gets something like that up and running... )
also makes me wonder where Dhani's bow-ties are made?
January 13th, 2011 at 9:01 AM ^
I just wished Adidas made more nice looking stuff for the fans. It seemed Nike always had a wide variety of stuff to chose from back in the day.
I can't see how Adidas is making that much money off of Michigan athletics compared to Nike. I remember in the mid to late 90's everyone bought Nike Michigan gear. I don't really see a lot of Michigan Adidas stuff today. IMO.
I like the brightness of the "Sun" color, especially during the game, it drowns out the other schools colors in the stands. At least it's not that god aweful highlighter yellow Oregon had in the National Championship game.....
January 13th, 2011 at 10:45 AM ^