wvu board has a great thread. look at all of those. some are great some aren't but its painfully obvious we need to join the club and jump off the bridge with everyone else.
I hate to say it, Dan, but half of them look like crap and the other half that look good are the schools that stayed true to their colors. That's why I'd be in favor of a "national flag blue" version of whatever concept jersey they came up with. It doesn't have to be black to be cool, by the way. Notre Dame, Texas, Alabama, and Oklahoma figured that out a long time ago...
-i like baylors spraypaint green helmets. i wish we could do that in blue. -can we get sick gloves with the husky dog logo on them -i want the husky dog on our pants like the gator for florida -3 combos of blue white and black is what i think we need. -check out the mizzu black helmets. think husky dog aggressive new logo one day? ok thats a stretch
Can hear my mom now as we were growing up... "so just because HuskyFanDan jumps off the bridge, would you too??"
As I said before, white helmet, and now add grey gloves with white block C and grey pants, throw in some national flag blue and white, those would be sweet uni's. On a side note, jonathan needs a make over, show some fangs or a snarl, the happy face husky just doesn't do it for me.
How about we stick with the Block C and current uniforms until they are both recognizable to the general public as being representative of The University of Connecticut? Do we really need "alternative" uniforms when we're still striving to create traditions in our current ones?
people will notice those because they will notice the new or different special ones and say, hmm wonder what the other jerseys they have are.
Love ya, HFD but you're kidding with that, right? Are you sure you didn't go to Rutgers? It's late, grab your helmet and put away your crayons. Time for bed.
Agree somewhat, but the "tradition" of the block C started with FUCRE, so it's not all that sacrosanct. The point of an alternative uniforms is to create buzz so you have change this up a bit. The Husky helmet with the box C on the on the uni pants seems like a good balance.
While Edsall may have brought it back out of disuse, the Block C goes way back. If I wasn't in a car on my phone i'd show you visual evidence. Barring that just look a Butchy's avatar for an examplr
http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/bigeast.htm For those who haven't seen this site yet... Alphabetical order.
True enough, although not it it's current form. Still in modern conciousness the Husky dog was/is our emblem until the Randy era. Now that it has started to become the football brand, it doesn't make sense to abandon it. Still the helmet that I'm using as an avatar is a striking alternative uni option.
Some of you guys are really dating yourselves here. We absolutely should be on board with an alternative design one game a year. 1. They're free, Nike does it for publicity. Let Nike design a couple picks, have the students vote on the best each year. Wear it for a non-homecoming league home game. Sell them pregame at the Co-op that week, special deal. 2. It creates a buzz around the program. You can debate the level of buzz, but its there, especially if you get the students involved in the selection. Without doing anything besides wearing a different uniform (similar to a white out or blue out), you create increased energy before and during the game for the fans and media. 3. It gets the players fired up too. Again, even if it's minimal, when you're putting on the jerseys in the locker room at the Rent and talking about going out there and destroying Louisville on a Friday night in mid-November, it's an extra element to that fire because it's different, it's special. Why on earth would you not be looking for that little edge? 4. Recruits do like it. Of course they don't make their decisions based on one uniform a year, I don't think anyone is arguing that. But it does create a buzz about the program, especially for local kids seeing it in the papers as they come through high school. For better or worse, we have a reputation as a program of being pretty bland, whether it be playing style, location in East Hartford, relative youth as a big program, whatever. This helps combat that perception. It also shows recruits that we get it, that we want our players to have the best of everything and take care of them, and bottom line, it's just cool.
