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The Direction Miami Should Go With Adidas Unis

No. Best thing Adidas ever did was bring our old unis back. Now we need to get the color combo right.
 
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People, kicking everyone *** made the U and our unis cool and known world wide, not the other way around. We have three colors let’s use them, with generous amounts of other teams blood as acent. All this cute crap has brought Oregon how many NC? Can any of you uniform craze guys tell me if we still have the sand pits of the kids to develop their speed? I haven’t been on campus in years. I think we should be concerned why we run more like the Cornhuster team to took our first title from when we run than we do Miami Hurricanes, if you have a uniform that will make us run fast again, I am all it.
 
The first uniform thread of the offseason! Nice, even before the crootin cycle is over!
 
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I like this version and our Miami nights. I like the idea of a vice alternate too
 
PalyCane said:
Storied football programs have iconic "looks". All of them do. You should be able to look at a teams and know who you're seeing. When you see USC, Alabama, Penn St., Michigan, FSU, UF, etc., etc., etc. you can tell who you're looking at. An identifiable and recognizable look is part of a "brand". And UM is no different. We are a storied program with an inconic look and our uniforms are part and parcel of our "brand".

This is UM's brand. This is our historical and recognizable look. This is how the college football world identifies and recognizes the University of Mimi football team:

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Now here's what the dip****s at Nike did. There's nothing about this look (or any other that Nike did for us) that was right for UM. The graphics had absolutely zero visual relationship to our recognizable brand identity. Sure, you can take a historical look and update it. But Nike did no such thing. They simply picked a graphic style out of their *** and sent it down to Coral Gables. It literally looks a middle school graphics art class did this. You look at Nike's UM uniforms and you had no idea if you were looking at UM or some other team. Nothing about those unis screamed out "Miami Hurricanes".

And Nike didn't just miss on the graphics. Even the colors were atrocious. UM is located in the most visually tropical parts of the US. Historically, our colors drew from that tropical association; i.e. our colors were bright, vivid, tropical [plant and fruit based, and representative of South Florida. Yet Nike picked colors more appropriate and representative of the the rust belt parts of the mid-west. The orange wasn't tropical, it looked like rust. And the green looked like an industrial cleaning solution or the color of a commercial dumpster, rather than the tropical plant green evocative of SoFl.



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Happily Adidas understands good design principals, respects our brand, and has given us uniforms (after the first year's dumb-*** feathers on the sleeve) that have nailed it. The new graphics of our Adidas uniforms are emblematic and evocative of our historical look, and the colors are bright, vivid and representative of SoFl's tropical color palate. Anyone looking at our Adidas uniforms knows they're looking at the Miami Hurricanes.

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The bottom line is that Nike saddled us with the worst uniforms in program history. Complete and utter garbage. No way should we entrust those clowns with our uniforms in the future. If Youngstown State ever wants to go orange and green, Nike can just pull our old unis off the shelf. The look would work fine for Youngstown St or some other mid-west program. But they never made proper uniforms for SoFl based UM. The Adidas uniforms strike the correct balance between being modern and fresh, while remaining true to our iconic look and brand.
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Slap urself. Our best uniforms were w Nike, are u fckin kidding me? And u wanna talk about colors? How bedazzled is our green now? Orange is bright as fck. The most iconic uniforms are the 2000 joints, what r u talking about? For God’s sake, the first Adidas joints look like some flamingo dance crap w stencil names. Then we got the strawberry patches! The finally got the jerseys right now, and they can’t stay on shoulder pads for chit and the plates and the U on the color is crooked as ****. And guess who introduced The U on the collar?? That’s right, Nike.

Now did Nike create some ugly joints? Absolutely. That lazy *** bra strap design and that FAMU chit was the worst. And guess who introduced us to an aqua FAMU Jersey? Adidas.

As long as Adidas keeps trying to improve and give us money, I’m gucci. That’s a great thing about them, they actually listen.
 
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Unis are definitely important. These are 18 year old kids who love unique fashion and glitz. We need to compliment the chain. What a hut that was. So let get going.
 
I know this is a bit off-topic but my major complaint is this: Can we please, for the love of god, stop wearing the goofy white shoes with our uni's and go back to wearing black cleats every week? I don't know how everyone else feels, but I've just always felt like black cleats look tough, and the white style is wack, plain and simple.
 
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The only thing Adidas need to change from the current uniforms is where the C goes.

It's clearly sewed on as an afterthought and looks crooked / out of place.
 
I would be cool with a camo alternate uni for the Canes....it is how we rolled back in the day. Also the black unis are nasty.
 
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