Uniformz: Is this the UTL III vs. Penn State jersey?

The night game itself is enough. These alt. jerseys are too busy and take away from our helmets.

I'm imagining the Regents grumbling among themselves right now.

I don't think these are regular stripes on the jerseys.  It looks like these jerseys have stripes that reflect when light shines on them correctly.

It doesn't reflect in the image, but I think this jersey is essentially Michigan's regular blue jersey, but with a bunch of shiny stripes seen on certain angles, not hard and fast stripes.

you know what would be subtle and classic yet classic and give us a WOW factor? just heading out there under the lights in blue pants. maybe with numbers that are blue with a thick maize outline. matte blue helmets, with glossy maize wings. no announcement. change after warm ups so the crowd goes nuts when the run out under the M club banner.

 

With such an iconic uniform, and Brandon pushing the Michigan brand so hard, Im surprised he isn't content with just wearing our original home uniforms. I mean, its the most recognizable uniform in sports, how can you beat that branding?

These are awesome!

 

*DUCKS*

So we play in the Big House and wear jerseys that look like prisoner stripes. Awesome.

More bitching about jerseys? I would have never guessed. I think these are only a problem if the players who PLAY in them don't like wearing them.

I'd describe my hatred for this but every possible insult has already been used in this thread. Just awful.

I seriously wonder how much artists/designers make at Adidas. I have zero background in art and could make these better.

Fire Adidas!!!!

Just a thought. What if a bunch of guys who disliked Michigan, were working at Adidas and in charge of coming up with our alternate uniforms? I’m getting visions of some OSU grads in an Adidas back room office, just laughing it up.

Talking about. "I betcha we can make ’em go for it. They don’t know we dislike Michigan, and we’re trying to short change them by not coming up with better alternate uniform ideas. Michigan is trying to make extra money, so they’re going to use some of this crap we give them." Just a thought... just a thought.

This is another topic in itself,

but really, when will UTL stop being UTL? If we have a night game every season, the UTL name better get dropped and it just be a plain ol' regular season game or B1G conference game. We don't need UTL15 vs. Oklahoma  in 2026.

Fuck you, Dave Brandon, you clueless bottom-feeder.  Is this your response to the Regents sending you to your room?  You come out with, yet another, tacky jersey best suited for a third world donation bin?  Does the jersey play "Sweet Caroline" when you press a button on the collar?  No?  You should hope it pays PSDs cause it seems like you're purposefully trying to piss off Michigan's (once) very loyal fan base.

All that said, Dave, head back to your room and re-commence masturbating to Olive Garden commercials.

(I feel moderately better now)

If there is so much outrage, why are people apparently buying alternate jerseys?

The only issue is financial. If enough people buy these alternate Jerseys, Adidas will keep developing them. If you want to blame anyone, blame the fans that buy these things.

especially with that slack-looking bit of yellow at the bottom of the circle in the nine. All I can quite arrive at is "brown. . . old. . . football." Now if they all wore brown leather helmets and brown pants, I might actually go for it. 

Just win the damn game, Hoke. Get it done at home, and for all I care, wear pink uniforms. I just want a W.

WTF is this abortion of uniforms? This is worse than anything I've ever seen Nike or UA put out. These are disgusting. We should pay the players for just having to wear these.

Why not go ahead and make the numbers in Comic Sans font...

Does this uniform appeal to you? Would you buy one?

I must be way out of the target market because this uniform is a butt ugly to me. Of course if they win, Brandon and Adidas can dress them in clown outfits.

It sucks, really and truly.

And those whirring sounds you hear are Bo and Canham spinning in their respective graves.

I thought we agreed to only do these legacy jerseys on away uniforms.

They just released shots of UTL IV for 2015!
 

like venetian blinds.  GROSS

After looking at those jerseys in the OP, I just had a wow experience in my pants...and not in the front.  Those jerseys are ugly.  I truly hope those aren't the real jerseys that will be worn against Penn State.

I understand that traditions that are harmful need to die, but sometimes the preservation of tradition prevents harm from being done.  Those jerseys look God awful.  Seriously, whatever it takes to get whoever authorized that out of a job, count me in.

Hoke: "Um, I don't think this will go over well with the fans."

Lochmann: "Don't worry, we'll give 'em a free scrimmage the Saturday night before your first game! They'll be okay with the jerseys b/c they'll be excited about the scrimmage!"

Brandon: (arms crossed, smug smile on face, slow nods approvingly)

Hoke: "Wait. What scrimmage? We have to scrimmage for the fans?"

Brandon: "Thanks for stopping by, Brady.  Good luck this season."

Hoke: (jaw agape)

Brandon: "By the way, I have a replacement Defensive Coordinator ready for next year in case things don't work out."

Lochmann: "Analytics show that DCs of the BCS title winners were b/w the ages of 25 and 37."

One day in the Adidas Design Department...

"This is a hideous design. I mean...stripes...in several colors?"

"Yeah, it is. I hate it. But it's what the customer wants."

"What customer wants something this badly coordinated and unrelated to the history of any athletic program on the planet?"

"Dave Brandon. Michigan."

"Oh geez. I should have known. Well, send it to him for approval. And just be thankful he isn't asking for plaid."

"He did ask for plaid. I told him we can do stripes but not plaid. So then he said, 'More stripes, I need more stripes, then.'"

maybe someone has already said this, i apologize if it's been touched on, but does the football team has a case pending against them? they seriously look like maize and blue prison uniformS

I don't know why adidas continues to confuse "Oregon uniformz innovation" with "stripes," regardless of whether one is pro- or anti- uniformz. That said, don't hate tinkering with the uniforms once or even twice a year, but if you're going to mess with a classic, well, heck, do something creative that looks good. I actually think the blue pants look okay (but when the Chicago Bears went with them with blue jerseys as home alts, they quickly got meh-ish. Lots of images available of those if you want to get a sneak preview.). Block M on hip is cool. Stripes everywhere else are ugly. Could have done SO MUCH MORE (if you're gonna go, go big!). Stripes just piss everyone off from both camps. I wish they'd redo the M jerseys from UTL I, but make it like the modern M kinda like the HOCKEY M jeseys. THAT would be sweet. And if they're going to do stripes, do three maize stripes around each sleeve, for Pete's sake. A classic football look evocative of the stripes on the helmet.