Report: M to wear alternate jerseys for The Game

Submitted by JeepinBen on

Per a retweet from Ace we should all remember the glass house that is Dave Brandon's Block M Branded Michigan Athletics brought to you by Lowes.

@Leo_Blavin, U-M Student TV Reporter tweets "U-M will be wearing alternate jerses against OSU according to players I have spoken with"

How could this go poorly? Remember that awesome time that some bumblebees in all white played Baylor?

Because why should the best rivalry in sports look anything like it has for years and years when you can try to make a few bucks?

 

AMazinBlue

November 18th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^

EXCEPT:  Don't mess with the helmet AND no stripes!

Please Dave Brandon: put down your thinking cap, Michigan doesn't need gimmicks.  Michigan needs to WIN.  Get us an offensive identity and an O Line coach and a real QB coach.

Bama, Oklahoma, USC.  These schools don't need gimmicky unis to draw attnetion.  Winning will get all the recruits you'll ever need.  Helmets that look like Christmas ornamets are for schools with no class.

Stay Classy DB

True Blue Grit

November 18th, 2013 at 6:41 PM ^

I hate ALL of them and believe each team should just stick with one away and one home uniform FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON.  The alternative "comic book" jersey's add absolutely nothing to the gameday experience, player performance, or brand ID.  The only possible benefit I can see is more shameless profiteering by the athletic department in selling more merchandise - pretty much the same motivation as the obscene $4.50 water bottles which I've never forgiven Brandon for. 

So, David, if you're reading this blog, here's a suggestion:  stop saying yes whenever a sports clothing manufacturer waves a bunch of money in your face in exchange for making OUR team look like a bunch of ass-clowns! 

mgobleu

November 18th, 2013 at 6:42 PM ^

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on. Or, if no boots, a poorly translated facsimile of some revisionist history wrapped in a commercialized platitude (all yours from the Mden for $179).

Wendyk5

November 18th, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^

My vote is all white, for a white-on-white game. Then I hope it snows. Not impossible in late November. Blizzard snow. A complete white out so that I don't have to see anything that's happening on the field.  

Finance-PhD

November 18th, 2013 at 7:17 PM ^

I remember when Alabama got Uniformz.

 

Basically they just put houndstooth faintly in the numbers.

It is possible to not have Uniformz and still recruit a half decent class.

Avon Barksdale

November 18th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^

I just read about 90% of the comments posted in this thread and realized how grateful I am to not be a 50+ year old living in the past of Michigan athletics. Maybe we should go back to leather helmets since that's "Michigan Tradition." Maybe we should just line up in Wing T since that's "Bo's offense." Maybe we should just take the Big House down to 90,000 seats since that's "how it started." Most of you are pitiful and you wonder why there's such a disconnect from the students to the alumni.



"You can't begin your future when you're still living in your past." Get with the times, or get left behind, old timers.

Wolverine Devotee

November 18th, 2013 at 7:45 PM ^

Just wondering, how old are you?

I'm 18. Guys my age go to Michigan & play on the team. 

But I think wearing alternates against ohio and vice versa should not happen PERIOD. There is no better picture than seeing the Blue jerseys w/Maize numbers line up against the white and scarlet jerseys ones in November at noon.

That is college football.

I'm not against alternates at all. The kids really do like the concept of new gear because it's exciting and NEW. I've seen it first hand and I've experienced the feeling as a player on a team where we got the chance to wear all-orange Nike pro combats. 

Avon Barksdale

November 18th, 2013 at 7:50 PM ^

I would personally rather not see us or Ohio State wear alternates, but I get it. I understand it. It's 2013. Not 1969. I'm not going to sit here and cry about Dave Brandon "creating profit." I mean that's what he's supposed to do; that's his job. Bo's teams wore white pants. I can only imagine this blog back in those days when that change was made.

MSHOT92

November 18th, 2013 at 8:46 PM ^

modern atlhletics is a corporate machine. with multi-million dollar contracts and uniformz deals. the KIDS who wear them seem to dig them. in my day I didn't give a shit what it looked like, just go play.
And for those who want Brandon's head on a platter over this...and want to return to the "Bo era"...where the hell do you think marketing the great product started? how about a guy named Don Canham? yeah...the guy who trademarked the BLOCK M and saw the potential to profit from selling and licensure of our "Brand"... the same guy who HIRED GLENN "Bo" SCHEMBECHLER....SO stop the bitching about shit that has zero relevance on performance except for the part where the contracts help hire coaches and stuff...if you want to bitch at least be productive instead of sounding like a bunch of high school girls displaying their jealousy of "that hot girl all the guys are drooling over" because thats how it comes across.

Robocrofts

November 18th, 2013 at 8:04 PM ^

Alternate jerseys are here to stay.  The younger generations like them.  That includes potential recruits.  If you don't adapt you become extinct.  Yes, that can even happen to Michigan.  To some degree it already has.  Stop being whiny old fucking dinasaurs...change happens.  Embrace it or get the fuck out of the way.

bjk

November 18th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^

just chose dinosaur-y Alabama over MBA-driven Uniformz-y Michigan.

Michigan isn't winning as much as dinosaur-y Alabama or uniformz-y Oregon.

Uniformz may not be the answer to winning and losing, but they may have something to do with holding on to the devotees of the team that once wore what Bo once called "the uniform with the proudest tradition in college football."

What you're hearing is "feedback." "Whining" is just a term of arbitrary deprecation. Stop whining.

Don

November 19th, 2013 at 12:43 AM ^

That's a logical impossibility. By their nature, alternate jerseys show up once and then disappear forever. They're like a ridiculously garish outift a desperate whore puts on in a pathetic attempt to appear attractive to younger paying customers out on the street. Worn once, and then discarded.

CoachParker6

November 18th, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^

Some people on the Michigan Facebook site have posted some uniforms that I've never seen before. If I were more techno savvy is post the photo.



Take it fwiw bc it was apparently an Ace Williams site.