Mr. Yost

August 1st, 2016 at 7:13 AM ^

Soccer, softball, golf and baseball are sweet. Some of the first pictures look too much like Cal. In fact, they look exactly like Cal. (Volleyball and one of the soccer pics)

Hockey is atrocious with no stripes.

Edit: it's not hockey...see below in this thread...people have screen captured it. PHEW!

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stephenrjking

August 1st, 2016 at 12:17 AM ^

Agreed. And I really hope they aren't serious about the white stockings with it. Slight possibility that there's a "regular" road jersey to come, but not likely. The home jersey is a mixed bag, with a return to the blue block M and sleeve stripes like the old days... But based on the teaser video, no white space between the stripes, a downgrade. I'll wait on a full verdict till I see the actual uniforms. Wasn't a fan of last year's road hockey jerseys FWIW but they were way better than this one.

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stephenrjking

August 1st, 2016 at 12:52 AM ^

Hope so and I'm glad they have it but I've seen three colors of hockey jersey with no script. Worth noting: Nike briefly debuted a maize alt in the 02-03 season with a script logo that lacked an underline. It was so terrible that it was scrapped after only one game. By the second half of the head an entirely new wardrobe of dazzle jerseys that looked similar but not identical, including a maize with underline script, had been shipped and was worn on the ice. So if they use the script on a hockey jersey (maybe there's a separate throwback wardrobe with a maize?) , I hope the underline comes back.

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kurpit

August 1st, 2016 at 2:44 AM ^

Blue jersey with white socks? No stripes on the jersey to match the striped socks? Only a shoulder yoke? This had better fucking be a practice jersey, because that's what they designed.

 

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mgolf4

August 1st, 2016 at 12:29 AM ^

I like the throwback to the old font. I just wish they would use the 1 from that era as well. None of it matters as much as winning, however. 

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Alton

August 1st, 2016 at 9:12 AM ^

I agree with this.  The one item I don't like that stands out for me is the white space between the blue stripes on the sleeve.  Why not make that Maize? 

I recognize that we need a white sweater for ordinary home games, but why put white on the maize or on the blue sweaters?  It was the one thing I didn't like about the '90s era Michigan hockey uniforms--too much white was used where there should be maize or blue.

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JDblue

August 1st, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^

The Larkin era block M jersey was perfect.

Nike's best one was obviously the script Michigan, but overall they do a poor job with their newer hockey jerseys. Take a look at the recent garbage they've put out like the Sochi Olympics crap. Adidas sucks, but their Reebok brand hockey jerseys were great. 

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stephenrjking

August 1st, 2016 at 12:40 AM ^

It's better than the blue (maybe there's a regular blue version and the throwback is for the last GLI at the Joe and such?) but I am not thrilled with it. The matte maize look is substantially inferior to the old dazzle look. May be too dark, too, though the matte maize jerseys that weren't highlighter were always dark (e.g. 2002 Molly Game) and thus less of a deal than the football uniforms.

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Dg

August 1st, 2016 at 12:34 AM ^

Why do you make me wait for the good stuff?  Waiting for football is already enough.  I think I might die from anticipation of this football season.  Just appease me I need things to help the off season!

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stephenrjking

August 1st, 2016 at 12:35 AM ^

Actually a lot of info in that promo site. All fascinating, some of it bad. The "font" is a custom Michigan creation. Given that they went for a custom font, I'm pleased that it's a block font and similar to what we had. Not necessary, but less bothered. There's also a script version, giving be brief hope that for the maize hockey jersey, but there's a brief video view of that and it has a block M. Also, proper script "Michigan" needs the underline. They've made this mistake before and I hope they don't make it again. The new "maize" whatever it is is supposedly a new "authentic" color. Looks dark to me. Pessimistic about it. There's a "pattern" for Michigan. It looks unimpressive but inoffensive. It is a sure bet to be a sublimated pattern on the basketball jersey, as seen on other Nike teams. As mentioned, there was a glimpse of the maize hockey jersey. It was: non-dazzle, lacked hem stripes, has a block M, and has no maize margins between sleeve stripes. I am bearish about the hockey look. It did have swoosh logos, though. I hope the maize doesn't look as bad in real life as the site pics make it look.

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JamieH

August 1st, 2016 at 12:55 AM ^

the maize doesn't look consistent at all from jersey to jersey, so who knows?  For example, it looks very dark/orangy on the golf & blue soccer jerseys, but then looks much more like the color of the '97 football team on the volleyball & track jerseys (at least the blue track jerseys).   And the all-yellow soccer jersey looks much lighter than some of the other all yellow jerseys.

So who the hell knows at this point?  

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Ghost of Fritz…

August 1st, 2016 at 9:00 AM ^

hired stephenrjking as a consultant. 

I agree that the maize looks too dark, at least on my screen. 

To be fair, the maize and blue hues vary depending on the picture on the new Nike uniform site, so it could be just down to lighting and other factors.

I'll have to see them under natural light at Michigan Stadium. 

Overall, Nike has shown some very good stuff.  This is year 1 of the Nike contract and some of the things that are not so great (hockey blue uniform) can be altered in year 2.  The look of the uniforms (except football) will probably change from year-to-year anyway. 

 

 

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TheRonimal

August 1st, 2016 at 12:47 AM ^

Anybody see the custom logo pattern that was created for UM too? It was created with a few different elements of Ann Arbor and UM design or something. Don't have a link from my phone but I found it through a link from one of the UM fb accounts. I'm interested to see how they actually use it.



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Mr. Yost

August 1st, 2016 at 7:50 AM ^

We'll probably have that as well, but that's specific to basketball usually pulls elements from the city, state, and/or the university.

I think this is some kind of small pattern that all or maybe most jerseys will have. Something in the fabric.

If you look through the difference sports, you can kind of see a trend with some of the fabric elements that may be what they're referring to.

But anyway, what you're talking about is...

Men's Nike #1 White Duke Blue Devils Authentic Basketball Jersey

 

 

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Lou MacAdoo

August 1st, 2016 at 2:43 AM ^

They all look pretty tame and pleasing to the eye. I love the baseball uniforms. I really hope hockey isn't going to rock those white socks with the blue jerseys though. That's just wrong. Don't overthink it Nike. All blue works just fine



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