Jersey Color (Maize v. Yellow)

Michigan's maize has changed over time, from the Adidas Sun shade we have now to almost a marigold color bordering on orange.

For what it's worth, I'm a fan of the Sun shade we have now.  

I don't mind the color of the uniforms myself.

It's true that the shade has changed over the years, but it's not true to say it isn't maize.  Maize is yellow.  It's supposed to be the color of corn, as its name suggests.  If anything, our current shade is truer to the definition of maize than the old yellow-orange shade.  Look how dictionary.com defines "maize":

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maize

Don't care.

with the old gold-tinted yellow is that it threatens to become piss-yellow. Plus then we look like Minnesota in blue. Because they are made of piss, not because of their school colors.

I'm a fan of the brighter maize, but I'm not a fan of the stripe that Adidas added to the football uniforms. But I'm willing to take it rather than having to prevent Nike from going psycho on our logo and colors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize_(color)

#FBEC5D

that' kicking Spartan green!

with the old color, but it will cost you.  They call them "vintage" and charge more for them.

The color Maize is whatever color associated with the University of Michigan. I own Maize Out shirts from hockey and football that are in different shades from a Michigan hat that I own. Even wearing two different colors at once, both of them are Maize.

Also, my ex never once understood this.

anyone else catch that on sat?

It's like corn grown by a nuclear reactor. It's a lot shinier,  but it's still corn.

Highlighter Marker Yellow?  Are you sure you aren't talking about Oregon?  If anything our old gold shade of yellow looked MORE like West Virginia.  I think our current shade of maize is damn near perfect.

I think the current Maize color is kickin'. I love it. I also think that it doesn't much matter. The alma mater says "Yellow and Blue", so...  eh.

I love the current shade... I'm a huge fan of the "Maize" alternate uniforms we have now, although my favorites are the Blue away unis

As long as it's never the color of the Saints alternate jersey I'm fan.  That's too much like that church school in northern Indiana.

This generally doesn't bother me, but since its been brought up, the one thing that does bother me is the wings on our hockey helmets no longer match our "maize" jerseys, and for some reason it bothers me, that is all.

A bold, arrogant yellow.  Yes please!

I think Nike patended their Maize color, and Adidas came up with their own shade.  I don't mind the Adidas yellow basketball jerseys, but the Fab Five's were better.

Actually I think the only thing seperating our maize from WVU's gold is that our's is lighter and brighter. I for one like it. Darker blue with a more electric yellow is fine with me, and I think it's a more contemporary look. Graphic designers, weigh in please

Love our current Maize jerseys. I don't care what shade of maize they are I still call them Maize.

A lot of good comments here.  And I may have been off about WVU's colors.

I found some of the pictures from pages like this interesting:

10 best RBs

10 best LBs

I was surprised how yellow a lot of the 90s football jerseys looked.

I also was struck by the fact that, over the years, our shade of maize has been all over the map.

and maybe a little off topic but what about an alternative helmet, yellow with blue wings? i think it would look sweet, but tradition is tradition. 

Let's just call it "Fancy yellow"

Diamonds, baby!

Some guy asked me the other day what EXACTLY does MAIZE mean? My response "A bold, arrogant shade of yellow"

Whew, it's about time someone complained about the "new Maize" and how it's an "awful highlighter yellow."  It had been an entire month since we had this debate!

/s

EDIT: The maize around the "M" clearly is not the gold that the OP speaks of.  If you're going to complain for the sake of complaining, atleast try to be factual.