Your unpopular Michigan opinions?
This can be any sport.
-I think we should keep the all-Maize as a permanent alternate in Football and wear them for big non-rivalry games (PSU, UW etc.)
-The endzones being green is stupid. Make it Blue and step into the 21st century. Almost everyone has colored endzones and they look great.
-The renovations have made The Big House feel smaller and boxed in. Not a fan. They look great don't get me wrong, but I miss the stadium I first walked into as a 9 year old kid.
-The holier-than-thou degree waver fans are obnoxious, thinking because they went to the school they're higher than non-grad fans on the totem pole.
Beat MSU, OSU, and win the B1G
I was gonna say the exact opposite
MI can be too cold, damp, dark and dreary for about half the year. Is that unpopular enough?
Shhhhhhh! Don't tell recruits.
He meant half the month of February.
The rest is terrific.
Not sure about maize uniforms for football, but I’ve always thought that the maize uniforms are by far the best looking for basketball and hockey.
The Florida maize uniforms looked awful. Put them away forever.
I think we saw them in the worst possible context, a dome with significant quantities of Florida orange scattered about. The color clash was bad. In broad daylight I think they'd look a lot better.
I'm fine with another attempt that's not a home game. I'm also fine if we never see them again.
I liked the all navy much more than all maize
Take away the stupid Venitian blind numbers, and those were sweet. I'd like to see them more often.
That’s not an unpopular opinion.
kind of an inverse look to the old road uniform. IMO, the all yellow look was a little tough on the eyes however.
I'd like to see them try the maize jerseys with white pants at an early-season non con when it's usually hot.
I do not like the maize jerseys at all--the blue neck accent kills it. That look just didn't work for me. Now, the all-blues on the other hand...would love to see blue pants matched with a white jersey on the road and all blue at home. As one-offs, not every game. That would look sharp.
the jersey made it a lot easier for the refs to see holding penalties.
the referees need all the help they can get especially the last two years against Ohio State.
the jersey made it a lot easier for the refs to see holding penalties.
the referees need all the help they can get especially the last two years against Ohio State.
As far as alternatives go, I wasn't as annoyed as I thought I'd be.
From what I gathered from before though, my slightly unpopular opinion is to wear the all-white away uniforms. Love those. The thick bands of maize and blue along the sides helped put it all together while making the helmet stand out even more.
I love the all whites as well. My only problem with the uni's as they are now is having the stupid BIG logo on the front. I would love for Michigan to go back to the plain swoosh on the chest and nothing else.
I slightly disagree with the idea of "putting them away forever." My solution would involve a can of lighter fluid and a book of matches.
Blue is the primary color of the university, so it should be the color of the jerseys. When the cheerleaders start chanting "Let's Go Maize," then I'll reconsider.
I LOVED the Maize uniforms against Florida...Looked Awesome on TV and rally popped
I agree. For the team who claims to be the "Maize and Blue", we have a serious lack of maize going on. Lose the white away uniforms (everyone has white away uinforms) and rock on with the maize!
Their maize unis are spectacular, but the white unis with the maize and blue piping or stripes for both sports are so clean
- Taylor Lewan, while a great player and nice to many people including myself, is a bad person that should not be celebrated by this University in any way.
- Brandstatter is horrible at his job, and Dierdorf isn’t much better. Both should be removed from game duties. Brandy can keep doing Inside Michigan Football, that’s fine.
- The white pants for away games is an improvement over the maize ones, and the helmet stickers are an improvement as well. These feel like unpopular opinions from internet interactions but I could be off here.
I second the Brandstatter thing. He's good as an analyst, but Michigan needs a bonafide play by play guy.
Also, this one is going to be unpopular, but the football team hasn't won a conference title since 2004 and yet we still beat our chests about being a great football program. Michigan can be that again, but the fans need to take a slice of humble pie.
I agree with everything except, the beating our chest part. Maybe the circle of friends you hang with beat their chests but the people I hang with know better. That's one of the reasons I get frustrated with people thinking kids turning Michigan down is stupid. Kids don't know the Michigan I grew up with. I'm 46 and I haven't been happy since 2006.
we lost Both the next day, then the Game the following day, and we've been ass ever since
I feel like he's probalby referring to most of the fans who participate in online discussion boards. It's all "We're the best because Michigan and JH" rather than "we've been mediocre for a LONG TIME, better wait and see an improved team before shouting how great we're going to be".
love the guy, but easily the single worst play-by-play guyin the business.
"first down. they run right! {silence...) well dan, what do you think they'll run on second down?'
I guess we have different metrics of what makes a program great, but I think it would take about 30 years without a conference title to remove Michigan from the "great" list.
There's no explaining away 13 years without a conference title, it is what it is, but that doesn't make us not great in my opinion. We've had great seasons in that span where we came just a couple plays short, we've put a ton of guys in the NFL still, revenue, attendance, etc. I don't share that specific unpopular opinion.
I would rather send zero guys to the NFL for 20 years and win even a single conference title than what we’ve done the last 14 years.
Same, but that doesn't change our status as a "great" program in my eyes.
Exactly. If we're not beating our rivals and winning conference championships, then we're not great. Simple as that. We might be "pretty good" or "above average", but "great"? Nope. Not at all.
Dude, Taylor made a bad decision, and will admit as much if you actually talk to the guy. He is not a bad guy in the slightest.
If you knew him like I do, you wouldn't think that at all.
Taylor made a string of bad decisions under the umbrella of the same incident. I don't claim to know Taylor on a personal level, but I've met him and been around him. My second day as a walk on he introduced himself and took me around the whole locker room to introduce me to everyone individually - he was very nice to me personally. I've also seen him act a fool at parties and partake in a fair amount of booger sugar. Not necessarily immoral, just acted a little douchey in my eyes. Obviously it's the incident with the female student that truly stands out as an indictment against his character.
I don't think there are many people who are irredeemable, and I certainly hope that Taylor has realized his wrongs and apologized to the right people. However, I don't think that it's right for the university to celebrate him. He did a really, really bad thing when he was here that went virtually unpunished by the university. As far as I can recall, he has made no public apology for what he did. I'd be willing to change my mind if he made a public apology and did some kind of charity or public service work in the arena of sexual assault (and maybe he's done this privately and I don't know about it), but until that happens I really don't think that he should be someone that the athletic department brags about publicly or invites back to games.
I am old and don't know much slang. Are you accusing him of snorting cocaine? Because that's quite the accusation to casually toss in the middle of your comment.
it's not really an accusation if he personally witnessed him do it multiple times... it's an observation
Should take over everything at UM since he is an expert in everything - just ask him
Love the white pants and the helmet stickers. I've got your back on that, and on Lewan being a shitbird. Threatening a rape victim? Fuck him.
Really don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion of him here
I suppose not. Guess "not nice opinion" fits better.
I wonder if Michigan will ever get the right combo of recruiting and coaching to win another national title. The population shift from the midwest is not helping us.
Maybe, but our rival is still able to haul in monster recruiting classes. With a little sustained success, we could absolutely do it too.
Did Coach Harbaugh have a "passing game coordinator" and a "run game coordinator" at Stanford or the 49ers? And how does that work? On running downs the run game coordinator calls the play and passing downs the pass-game guy gets it? What if it's a 3rd and 4? (I know defenses make personnel changes on passing vs. running downs but that's a little different.) Then somehow Harbaugh has veto power if he doesn't like the run play? Does he ask the passing guy what he's got available to run?
So my unpopular opinion is we'll never win the B1G or make the playoff running our offense this way. We can get back to a 2016-level season this year with the talent we have on defense, but that season ended up short of those major goals.
We don't need another John Navarre or Chad Henne. (no thanks)
To be fair, I would not mind having those arms again at all.
Those arms would need to come with actual legs, however.
Exactly... we probably win the OSU and MSU games last year with one of those arms
I'd argue we'd probably beat Wisconsin as well with one of those arms.
i'd prefer to avoid bolivia
We choke in everything...