It's Official: Blue Pants
he didn't want to be a hypocrite
amirite?
Definitely. They're really comfy. Glad I got mine. The road game socks should be coming any day now in the mail.
I'll say it. I don't hate it.
the brand?
if it aint broke, break it
I think the road uniform can be changed around from time to time but leave the home uniform alone.
Also, the helmet should never be messed with.
Anyone else look at the picture and think the eyeblack was the eyes? Freaked me out at first.
Am I the only person who thinks these jerseys are not too bad / pretty cool for just one game?
Yama Hama it's Fright Night
This is not Michigan fergodsakes.
As long as it's spelled M-I-C-H-I-G-A-N and there is a big block M on the front, it will be Michigan. The fans/students/alumni who go apeshit over cosmetic changes to the program should really refocus their frustration towards the administrators who have continued to let the program stagnate since 1997.
OK, so if it's black and red, and the game is played in the JerryDome, and the helmet has a wolverine head instead of wings, it's all still Michigan then?
Look: Michigan is not a discrete set of traditions with no relation to one another. It's the whole package. Dave Brandon says The Brand, The Brand, The Brand, and then continues to change things that are absolutely fundamental to The Brand, one of which is the uniform.
Don't be absurd, black and red jerseys would obviously not be considered a cosmetic change, that would be a complete overhaul. The Universityn needs to be modernizing the football program on a consistent basis or we run the risk of turning into an outdated and obsolete Dinosaur of a program. Every year since 1997 with the exception of 2006 and 2011 this program has underachieved, that is a sure sign of complacency and laziness and it has crippled the program. If minor changes like this help to keep the program fresh it is not a bad thing.
This is not "keeping the program fresh." It's desperately following a trend. It's like expressing your individuality by saying Blurred Lines is the greatest song ever.
You're telling me this is a cosmetic change, and ironically, I agree in a sense - telling everyone we have a modern, not-complacent program because the color of the pants is different for one game is the very definition of lipstick on a pig. This doesn't mean we're shaking off complacency, it means we're desperate to sell jerseys and incapable of figuring out how to brand a program without joining a herd of sheep.
I've never heard of any blurred Lines...
Listen I don't disagree with you. After receiving my Mden catalogue today, my stomach turned in horror after seeing of the monstrosities that Adidas is pulling out of their asses. However I am loving these jerseys and can't help but think we really could use some well thought out new stuff in the program. These jerseys would be one of those things.
I think the night game itself is what qualifies as well thought out new stuff. Nobody ever thought, "Michigan, yeah, that's that program that never plays night games." If a random football fan had been asked, "which program doesn't play night games?" most of them would've struggled with the answer, big-time. It wasn't part of the brand or identity or anything. Having night games improves the whole deal. Mike Barwis was well thought out new stuff because the program badly needed some better ideas in the S&C realm.
But if you put a football player in a blue uniform and maize pants, hell, nobody would even need the helmet to identify the school. Put him in blue pants and it could be any number of schools. This is just a gimmick that homogenizes us.
His spread offense was following the herd. It was a radical change from Michigan tradition. It violated your idea of "the whole package". Doing away with the #1 jersey, bringing in smaller, quicker players, using the 3-3-5, playing music at practice, not wearing white and blue gameday shirts instead of maize and blue, swearing at players in practice and openly ridiculing some... and many other "25 cent cuts". Many people hated RR for making Michigan not Michigan.
If you agreed with them, I applaud your consistency. I wouldn't have agreed with you. But if you thought all of those things were minor and not a big deal, you need to examine your hypocrisy.
August 8th, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
RR invented the damn spread. This is not hyperbole. The zone-read that he ran was his own creation. The herd followed him, not the other way around.
Your list is chock full of things that nobody ever associated with Michigan. The 3-3-5? Really? "Michigan doesn't run a 3-3-5" is something that nobody said, ever. "Michigan doesn't play music at practice" is absurd. The only things I'll grant you are the offense and the #1 jersey, and RR backed right off handing the #1 jersey to just anyone after there was backlash, so it shouldn't really even be on your list.
There's nothing hypocritical about what I'm saying, because all those things are complete non sequiturs.
August 8th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
August 8th, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
It's all well and good to have your own perception of what the Michigan "package" is, or even trying to convince people to see it your way, but you're out of your element telling other people what their perception is.
August 8th, 2014 at 11:59 PM ^
Maybe you actually don't understand my point.
You are just like the anti-RR crowd, in that you see a collection of "25 cent" changes and declare that Michigan is being lost. You probably didn't agree with the blue hairs back then, in othe words, you dismissed what they thought was important in This is Michigan.
Now, you are presented with a set of 25 cent changes that you disagree with, and now you are declaing that Michigan is being lost. I'm saying it's hypocritical of you to have ignored their complaints - because you thought they were minor and didn't affect you perception - and then turn around make the same complaints about Brandon.
My view: I was OK with the RR years (except the losing), it didn't affect my perception of Michigan. I am OK with Brandon, it doesn't affect my perception of Michigan. So to the extent that I believe both represent a significant overreaction, perhaps I do disagree with both of your perceptions. Though not violently so. I just don't understan why either of you were/are so upset.
But if you dismissed the blue hairs concerns, then you did tell those people their perception was invalid. That you represent the mirror image of them, flip-flopping RR for Brandon, seems hypocritcal. Again, if you were a RR-rager, I withdraw and applaud your consistency in opposing anything that violated the Bo Schembechler model. But I don't agree with you.
the same for the last 120 years? Wow, I didn't realize that.
you are kidding, right?
I can deal with this as long as they don't touch the helmets
Apparently maize helmets were the player to be named later in the Rodriguez/Beilein trade.
Are so lame. But, this is going to be a shit show.
These uni's are sick.
All that remains now is to beat Penn State. I would be EXTREMELY dissappointed if we do not send them back to Pennsylvania with a loss (hopefully a double digit loss). God...we MUST beat them this year.
After the "Starting OL" thread and this one, our fanbase is going to be diminished by half due to mass suicide.