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Anyone expecting the new uniforms to not be a hot wet shart of ugliness and embarrassment hasn't been paying much attention to the people involved in the decision making around the UM football program.
It would be one thing if UM were like Oregon and just said, "Nike, go nuts breh. Just make us look good to the kids we're recruiting and we'll stay out of your way." But UM isn't. They talk about "working closely with our partners at Nike to come up with a design that is cutting edge blah blah blah."
And I don't even need to point out that the people who'll be "working closely" with Nike aren't exactly fashion plates themselves. The septuagenarian who has spent the last 50 years wearing conservatively colored pant suits is in charge? That should work out great. "That's not fair Rep you pessimistic ****, I'm sure Blake James has some input." The guy who wears a polo in the shower is in on it? Awesome. "No, there are a lot of people in on the decision making process!" Oh there's a whole bunch of middle class white people 40+ calling the shots? What could go wrong. If there is anyone who appreciates trends, it's the guy driving a Pontiac Aztec!
The same people approving a design that's supposed to appeal in part to black teenagers were opposed to cooperating with the making of The U, which is the single largest ancillary recruiting positive in UM's history. Why? Because kids they were recruiting would go ******* wild for it? No, because they were scared ****less at the thought of some faceless provost at another school furrowing their brow and shaking their head at how out of control Miami had let "their blacks" get.
Like everything else around UM football, the uniforms won't be designed to make the football team look good, they'll be made to make Shalala, James and Co. look good to their counterparts at other schools. And what's "good" to other schools is a UM that is weak and as least threatening as possible.
Miami intentionally shoots themselves in the foot to impress other schools in the hopes that they'll be accepted. They're the nerdy kid who'll eat bugs to make the popular kids laugh because he thinks they'll be his friends eventually. Except they know what he doesn't: that they'll never accept him no matter how he humiliates himself, but they'll continue to benefit via laughter while he does.
It would be one thing if UM were like Oregon and just said, "Nike, go nuts breh. Just make us look good to the kids we're recruiting and we'll stay out of your way." But UM isn't. They talk about "working closely with our partners at Nike to come up with a design that is cutting edge blah blah blah."
And I don't even need to point out that the people who'll be "working closely" with Nike aren't exactly fashion plates themselves. The septuagenarian who has spent the last 50 years wearing conservatively colored pant suits is in charge? That should work out great. "That's not fair Rep you pessimistic ****, I'm sure Blake James has some input." The guy who wears a polo in the shower is in on it? Awesome. "No, there are a lot of people in on the decision making process!" Oh there's a whole bunch of middle class white people 40+ calling the shots? What could go wrong. If there is anyone who appreciates trends, it's the guy driving a Pontiac Aztec!
The same people approving a design that's supposed to appeal in part to black teenagers were opposed to cooperating with the making of The U, which is the single largest ancillary recruiting positive in UM's history. Why? Because kids they were recruiting would go ******* wild for it? No, because they were scared ****less at the thought of some faceless provost at another school furrowing their brow and shaking their head at how out of control Miami had let "their blacks" get.
Like everything else around UM football, the uniforms won't be designed to make the football team look good, they'll be made to make Shalala, James and Co. look good to their counterparts at other schools. And what's "good" to other schools is a UM that is weak and as least threatening as possible.
Miami intentionally shoots themselves in the foot to impress other schools in the hopes that they'll be accepted. They're the nerdy kid who'll eat bugs to make the popular kids laugh because he thinks they'll be his friends eventually. Except they know what he doesn't: that they'll never accept him no matter how he humiliates himself, but they'll continue to benefit via laughter while he does.
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