Uni Watch Confirmation: All blue jerseys tonight!!
Clear blue skies in the forecast!!
Source: Michigan football Instagram
September 11th, 2021 at 10:35 AM ^
DO NOT WANT
September 11th, 2021 at 12:36 PM ^
We’ll file this comment in the
Snowflakes: Pregame
thread
September 11th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
September 11th, 2021 at 2:24 PM ^
For everyone saying "but the recruitz...", this uni change will do absolutely nothing to move the needle for an 18 year old when you have schools like Oregon and Baylor giving you new hypebeast jerseys every week to flex with.
Going with blue pants is the laziest, most low hanging fruit change possible. There's no recruit whose thinking about going to Michigan so they can wear the most common color of pants in history.
Either you go all out and create a new jersey, or don't mess with the most iconic jersey in the sport. Just don't half-ass it like this
September 11th, 2021 at 2:30 PM ^
You are clearly smarter than the rest of us & super in touch with high school kids but I will submit that changing up Unis is important enough that ESPN runs a weekly article on them
September 11th, 2021 at 2:34 PM ^
thanks for proving my point.
If you read articles like this and https://uni-watch.com/, you will see that blue pants aren't even going to register compare to the things other schools are doing.
Either go big, or go home with these things.
September 11th, 2021 at 3:10 PM ^
LOL so you are saying that green on green, orange on orange & red on red are out creativing blue on blue????
September 11th, 2021 at 3:17 PM ^
Did you take a normal bus to school or a... different length of bus?
September 11th, 2021 at 2:38 PM ^
If you think all our navy can compete with a dude wearing $300k of diamonds on his neck, then you're as bright as James Franklin is with timeouts.
September 11th, 2021 at 3:15 PM ^
Meanwhile every all black jersey, even when black isn't a primary or secondary team color, gets lauded with applause.
Not to mention this board regularly hates on the times Michigan went all out and created a new alternate uniform, citing how awful they are and how Michigan should make no changes or only very subtle changes.
September 11th, 2021 at 4:45 PM ^
Interesting choice on something to double down on.
September 11th, 2021 at 6:08 PM ^
Feeling the same, Bam.
September 12th, 2021 at 6:18 AM ^
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
September 11th, 2021 at 10:39 AM ^
I like it!
Go Blue!
September 11th, 2021 at 10:48 AM ^
A nice switch up
September 11th, 2021 at 10:49 AM ^
Will look great against the maize out and the pom poms!
September 11th, 2021 at 10:54 AM ^
The get off my lawn crowd are not going to be happy. I like how the all navy makes the helmets stick out and at least this time they won't have the stupid numbers.
September 11th, 2021 at 10:55 AM ^
Ok. This got me. I'm ready for kick off.
September 11th, 2021 at 10:56 AM ^
They look sharp. I still love the maize pants though.
September 11th, 2021 at 10:57 AM ^
Shouldn’t this then be a Blue out? Nice collaboration by the staff!
September 11th, 2021 at 11:15 AM ^
If the school colors were blue and blue, you'd be correct. I have no idea what the staff collaboration has to do with uniform colors - I'd think that that would be an executive decision, not a collaborative one.
September 11th, 2021 at 12:37 PM ^
Damn, if only the school colors were maize and blue, then the fans wearing maize and the players wearing blue would create some sort of cool combination of the school colors that involved players and fans
September 11th, 2021 at 10:58 AM ^
My biggest concern is whether or not the recruits like them. I don't care either way but with so many big time recruits here I am all for trying to make a uni splash because it does have some impact on 16, 17, 18 year olds
September 11th, 2021 at 11:03 AM ^
Judging by the IG comments from the kids on the team, it's a hit.
September 11th, 2021 at 10:58 AM ^
September 11th, 2021 at 11:03 AM ^
I like them! You can't beat the original, but the all navy is a sharp look. Excited to see how they look on the field.
Win the game!
September 11th, 2021 at 11:16 AM ^
LFG!!!
September 11th, 2021 at 11:16 AM ^
If they win they can wear nothing but pink tutus and polka dot jock straps for all I care.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:25 AM ^
That might not pass the “will the recruits like it” test
September 11th, 2021 at 2:21 PM ^
My $1 says that it's in Michigan's apparel contract that we feature alternate uniforms at least once or twice per season.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:20 AM ^
Love the jerseys, just not for tonight...
We should be wearing our traditional uniforms on primetime. But if not, shouldn't we be wearing all maize like we did against Florida since it is a "Maize Out"?
What am I missing?
September 11th, 2021 at 11:24 AM ^
All-maize unis against an all-maize backdrop. Think about it for a second...
September 11th, 2021 at 11:37 AM ^
You mean like plenty of schools do when they wear all one primary color against their teams all black or blue or all green or all orange crowd?
Thought about it before. It's not that serious. It's not like the fans are field level.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:57 AM ^
I'm not too familiar with all the "color"-out games that have been played, but Penn State does their white out and wears blue jerseys.
What are some other examples you can provide? Genuinely curious.
September 11th, 2021 at 6:22 PM ^
Georgia, Cincinnati, Louisville all do black outs and wear black. NC State too...
Boise St and Oregon have both done "outs" and wore the color of the crowd.
I've seen teams do it with red (Houston for example).
We act like the only "outs" there are...are PSU and Michigan.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:23 AM ^
It's hilarious that grown men who have never thought about fashion in their lives are so repulsed by the idea of navy blue pants.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:32 AM ^
When are teams going to start rolling out the sleek "one-size-too-large t-shirt, baggy cargo shorts, and cheap sneakers I wear with every outfit" look? THE WORLD IS WAITING!!!
September 11th, 2021 at 12:50 PM ^
Whoa there, pal!
I replaced my cheap sneakers with a pair of Dudes, thank you very much. The rest of my ensemble is very practical. You can never have too many pockets.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:34 AM ^
Whoa, I always assumed the members of this blog took great care in putting together their wardrobe.
September 11th, 2021 at 1:31 PM ^
Hey, I'm a clothes horse. I always look good.
September 11th, 2021 at 12:40 PM ^
“It's hilarious that grown men who have never thought about fashion in their lives“
Speak for yourself.
September 11th, 2021 at 7:13 PM ^
As long as the kids are wearing brown cleats then it's cool.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:29 AM ^
I don't get the hate.
I'm an old guy (look at my user name)...and I love the all-blue look.
September 11th, 2021 at 11:35 AM ^
Also, one more question...why are we okay messing with home uniforms, but god forbid we ever switch up the always...
Again, I'm not a get off my lawn, I love all of our combinations and wish we used them all, every year (blue/maize, white/white, blue/blue, maize/maize, white/blue, white/maize).
I'd just think we break these out for a 3:30 game in late-October/early November where it gets dark earlier.
If it were up to me (and clear it is NOT)...
- vs. WMU (blue/maize...traditional home to open, always)
- vs. Washington (blue/maize...night game, primetime, go with tradition)
- vs. NIU (blue/maize...not worth wasting the blue/blue)
- vs. Rutgers (blue/maize...it's homecoming, duh)
- @ Wisconsin (white/maize...already too much white in that stadium, let's stand out a little)
- @ Nebraska (white/blue...nice contrast against red/white of Nebraska)
- vs. Northwestern (blue/blue...hopefully a 3:30 game, but even if it's not, this would be a great choice this time of year)
- @ MSU (white/maize...have to bring more maize to East Lansing)
- vs. Indiana (blue/maize...keep it simple, stupid)
- @ PSU (maize/maize...go bright against the white out)
- @ Maryland (white/white..."new" traditional)
- vs. OSU (blue/maize...traditional vs. OSU, always...EXCEPT, let OSU wear RED! And both teams where their home uniforms every year, like USC/UCLA and Utah/BYU...the contrast would be awesome!)
September 11th, 2021 at 11:57 AM ^
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THIS!
September 11th, 2021 at 6:23 PM ^
Uh...we've done it before.
Dennis Norfleet.
September 11th, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
I guess the kids like them. I don't mind the all blue, but would prefer the traditional look
September 11th, 2021 at 12:14 PM ^
All blue jerseys with a maize out makes no sense.
September 11th, 2021 at 12:40 PM ^
The Fans have a maize out.
The players wear all blue,
The school colors are maize and blue. The two groups of people you see will be, gasp, Maize and Blue.
Its not that difficult to follow.
September 11th, 2021 at 1:58 PM ^
The contrast actually will look really cool