Multiple players having the same jersey number - new trend?
Older person who remembers the old sales pitch "Get your programs here! Can't tell the players without a program" way back when.
Having two players have the same number has occured in the past, but not that frequently. When tring to get ready for this season, made my own spotting chart and realized that there were a lot of players sharing the same number:
For example:
0 - Mike Sainristill and Darrius Clemons
1 - Roman Wilson and Amorion Walker
2 - Blake Corum and Will Johson
3 - Fredrick Moore and Keon Sabb
4 - Jayden Denegal and Micah Pollrd
5 - Karmello English and Josaiah Stewart
6 - Cornelus Johnson and Brandyn Hillman
7 - Donovan Edwards and Makari Page
8 - Derrick Moore and Tyler Morris
9 - JJ McCarty and Rod Moore
10 - Alex Orji and Zeke Berry
etc.
There were 54 pairs on the roster: https://mgoblue.com/sports/football/roster ? Is this a new trend in CFB? It is an economical issue? Does it simplify jersey stocking each hear, just replace the name strip.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
can have up to 125 active players. only 100 numbers available. gonna be a lot of duplicates
September 17th, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^
And the single-digit numbers, in particular, are popular among the players.
September 17th, 2023 at 6:21 PM ^
And this has been the case for 20+ years...not necessarily some new discovery, lol.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
This has been the norm for a long time. There are over a hundred guys on the team. Duplicate numbers are a mathematical necessity.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
especially since there are like 8 retired number at Michigan.
September 17th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Maybe Michigan should un-retire those numbers but put a patch on the jersey. I’m sure that would go over really well
September 17th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
Great idea, or did you come up with that yourself....David
/jk
September 17th, 2023 at 2:26 PM ^
A guy like Devin Gardner never really had his own number.
Although Brandon's idea of making every Michigan game like a Super Bowl seems to have won the day over the idea that we really want a college football game.
September 17th, 2023 at 4:24 PM ^
He was a man ahead of his time. Unfortunately, that time is now.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:26 PM ^
Oh look, Toys R Us, another thing from my childhood that I loved that got ruined by Dave Brandon.
(Although at least he didn't permanently destroy Michigan Football).
September 17th, 2023 at 7:43 PM ^
I love that idea. While we’re at it I suggest that we give everyone a ticket that buys a Coke and put a giant noodle directly outside of the stadium. Come on, you know you‘ll love it. /s
September 17th, 2023 at 1:04 PM ^
They're doing duplicate numbers specifically to spite Seth when he does UFRs.
Likely because of an offhand game thread comment that YOU made
September 17th, 2023 at 1:47 PM ^
1 on offense, 1 on defense. Penalty if they're ever on the field at the same time.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:06 PM ^
Let me take you back to 2017, when our starting kicker, QB, and DE all wore #3
September 17th, 2023 at 2:48 PM ^
IIRC, a punter also wore #3 that year.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
Of all the numbers you listed, thus far only #8 has had more than a cursory usage on both sides of the ball.
For the others, 1 of the players is playing little or not at all...
Although I guess upon reflection you could think to yourself "Hey, they're using Sainristil at WR again?!" on the rare plays Clemons is in...
September 17th, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
Seriously Clark? These guys would disagree!
2 - Blake Corum and Will Johson
7 - Donovan Edwards and Makari Page
9 - JJ McCarty and Rod Moore
Do you even follow Michigan football?
September 17th, 2023 at 9:50 PM ^
Pretty sure Johnson, Paige and Moore have played very sparingly thus far.
Do you even follow Michigan football?
September 17th, 2023 at 2:30 PM ^
This reminds me of UTL I. At this point, duplicate numbers was around for a while in the program, they would usually never be 2 players who both were contributors/scholarship players on either side of the ball.
In UTL 1 we had a backup QB who was pretty well known and he wore #7 named Devin Gardner. We had a less known LB wearing #7 named Brandin Hawthorne. Hawthorne made quite a few plays that game, and since there also were not nameplates on those uniforms that day, the older gentleman behind me all night was convinced “Devin Gardner is playing LB tonight and making a ton of plays!”
September 17th, 2023 at 2:59 PM ^
The answer is hexadecimal numbers.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:40 PM ^
Exactly… great minds think alike. But, imagine the challenges the officials will face…
September 17th, 2023 at 7:56 PM ^
Binary 7-bit is the classic and clean look. No uniformz like with Hexadecimal. Let Oregon do that.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:08 PM ^
It’s not new, you’re just old
September 17th, 2023 at 5:25 PM ^
Is this a new trend in CFB?
- No, this has been happening for years. As mentioned above, there's only 100 possible numbers so at minimum there will be at least 30 duplicates.
It is an economical issue?
- Nike (Jordan) are paying for them. The Athletic Department is not paying for the jerseys.
Does it simplify jersey stocking each hear, just replace the name strip?
- All players keep their bowl game jersey at the end of each season. Seniors keep their regular season jerseys once their career is done. With differing jersey sizes and cuts it's unlikely that a specific jersey would be reusable for another player.
September 17th, 2023 at 5:36 PM ^
I'm not going to lie: I would love some three digit numbers!
I want to see 187 lined up next to 666 and 3.14!
September 17th, 2023 at 6:12 PM ^
One factor compared to the old days (which I was also around for), is there are more walk ons than there used to be. I'm not sure what's driving that though. Maybe Harbaugh likes the idea of having more hard working players on the roster that don't cost him a scholarship, a few of which can turn into starters.
September 17th, 2023 at 11:17 PM ^
Low numbers are more popular for all positions (except the o-line obviously). More defensive lineman are wearing 1-30 than in the past which is leading to even more doubling up of starters.
September 18th, 2023 at 8:48 AM ^
We can either double up the numbers or limit the roster to 100.
September 18th, 2023 at 11:58 AM ^
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I am so so bored with the single digits. Roman and Rod could have redefined #14 and #19 so that it was theirs and now it's kind of boring to see the roster.
September 18th, 2023 at 12:14 PM ^
Been like that for a while. I believe it’s that all the single digits are highly desired (historically stars in skill positions). So, as long as they are on different sides of offense/defense then it’s fine. Special teams is a nightmare though and sometimes they get caught with 2 at the same time and get flagged but I guess the demand for those #s is high enough that it’s worth it to make the kids happy.
September 19th, 2023 at 8:38 AM ^
When you're so old you forget there were always players with the same number on the same team.