Report: M to wear alternate jerseys for The Game
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?
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
November 18th, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
And that comes from someone who didn't mind the so-called bumblebees.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:29 PM ^
Someone is going to have to answer to me!!
November 18th, 2013 at 8:01 PM ^
this reversed colored helmet really highlights that if you look at the "negative space" of the helmet, you see a laughing pac man.
once you see it, it's hard to unsee it
November 18th, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
Because he ate all of the dots as my three year old says.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^
My eyes!!!!!
/grabs knife and goes all Greek tragedy.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:25 PM ^
will flip back to us if we offer more gimmicky uniformz like we did in '11. After all, recruits eat that shit up.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:55 PM ^
Not if they keep picking Alabama
November 19th, 2013 at 8:19 AM ^
We have to offer him better academics.
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!
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).
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
That would be great.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:44 PM ^
UM-Dearborn won the game?!
November 18th, 2013 at 9:27 PM ^
+1 for knowing UMD are the Wolves.
November 18th, 2013 at 11:57 PM ^
They're actually the Wolverines now so they can re-use old equipment from Ann Arbor.
November 18th, 2013 at 6:57 PM ^
fuck it... shirts VS skins
November 18th, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
Blouses.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:23 PM ^
Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?
November 18th, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
I guess you could say she was a sex fiend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:46 PM ^
yeah, it's got to be a major chore to be able to do nothing right
HOKE SUCKS, NO MORE MICHIGAN MAN BS
UNIFORMZ SUCK, NOT MICHIGAN TRADITION
waaaaah
November 18th, 2013 at 7:58 PM ^
that us "older" alumni go to games and get there on time, while students do not. Just sayin'
November 19th, 2013 at 12:32 AM ^
You're not 50+, and you also don't know fuck-all about football since you think that Bo was running the Wing T.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:52 PM ^
Keep the traditional uniforms. Just add sweater vests.
November 18th, 2013 at 7:54 PM ^
worse. The inevtiable huge embarassing beatdown was bad enough. Now this.
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
Alabama is laughing.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:18 PM ^
And this collective board is whining like petulant brats. Your point?
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:12 PM ^
Most of the younger people that I know hate them. I also doubt the recruits really care much about them at all. Is Dashwn Hand going to Alabama becuase of their alternate unis? yeah no
November 18th, 2013 at 8:17 PM ^
As evidence by the fact that people who have a vested interested in the financial outcome of their production causes me to respectfully disagree. It's called economics. If they were not making money with them they would disappear.
November 18th, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
If it makes money it must be good?
This mindset brought Maryland and Rutgers to the B1G, and is rapidly eroding something special (college football - michigan in particular) into a generic, mediocre product.
It's shortsighted at best.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:42 PM ^
He's going there to bank.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:44 PM ^
I know in their 20s hate them. On the other hand my 12 year old nephew loves them.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
because my 13 year old says if he can't attend Michigan, he's picking Oregon because the uniforms are awesome...
November 19th, 2013 at 8:23 AM ^
They are surprisingly bad academically. #109. Not good. But if he plays football, the recruiters could convince him they are better.
November 18th, 2013 at 9:31 PM ^
Let's have a different uni for every game! MORE NEWER FOR THE ADD GENERATION!!!!!1 LOL OLDSTERZ
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
Clearly we lost Hand due to Alabama's alternate uniforms.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:08 PM ^
Lovely...poorly veiled denial.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
What ever happened to not wearing alternates at home? I thought DB said we were saving them for bowl games or some random away game bumblebee shit.
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.
November 18th, 2013 at 8:56 PM ^
Soooo it's not worth anything