Anybody else up for an alt UCONN uniform?

[CL82]

I feel you freescooter... but the reality is fashion statementes are now a part of college sports ( football ) whether you or I or your kids or the kid that's still in college playing likes it or not... Santini's last comment pretty much illustrates what I'm trying to get across... Kids need to go to a school for the right reason, but some of this visual stuff gets a school noticed by a kid that, otherwise, might not have... All you need is a window of opportunity ... sometimes it's as small as a fashion statement.

You may be right but I think alternative uni's are pretty far down on our 'game day experience' to do list. Fill the rent, getting people to wear our colors to games, getting the band more involved on game day (less canned music and sideline reporting) getting better turnout for the spring game are all higher priorities, IMO.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I'd like to have good old Jonathan doggy face, on the sleeves and/or hips again.

Other than that the C on the helmet, and on the chest tag, and a nice clean lines, conservative blue/white uni with some red trim, is perfectly fine by me.

It's not what your uniform looks like before the game, that really matters, it's what it looks like after.

 

[Dann]

can i umass rant for a sec?

drop the black and stick with maroon. go to a block M. counter uconn basically. now your building a rival...

 

[Uconnalliance]

blue and chrome helmets lets blow the place up !

 

[CL82]

can i umass rant for a sec?

drop the black and stick with maroon. go to a block M. counter uconn basically. now your building a rival...

I was going to start a thread on this. Should we set up an annual game with UMass? They are a natural rival, at least in terms proximity and history. Or should we follow the BC model and ignore them in the hopes that it keeps them down?

 

[Nostical]

Don't mess with our great looking unis. And stop with all the prattle about how the the Oregon kids go there for the uni's. They go for the coach and maybe for some extra stuff (ahem), but it's not the uni's. You want to give us a boost? Forget the unis, hire Skip Kelly. Then watch all the other teams ask for those great "UConn type" unis.

 

[weyuo]

You ever add too much bleach to whites and get that blueish tint? It's almost phosphorescent. I wonder if you could make the white uniforms get that behind the scenes blueish tint, with a national flag blue helmet and matching numbers, names in dark blue. Under artificial light(not sun light) ..... like night games it might even give the appearance of glowing. That might be something different.

 

[UConnDan97]

Still kinda dig this helmet, even if it were for just a game or two (but they would need to make the blue a slightly darker blue to match our "national flag" blue):

 

[weyuo]

I second that. Really like that helmet...darker blue..slightly smaller logo.

 

[Srqhusky]

Our best uniforms were when we looked Like the giants. These uniforms need to lose the pinstripes. Looks like quasi- futuristic clothing. I appreciate a more old school look.

 

[Mr Blueskin]

The swooshy stripes on the pants along with the piping that never ends are the worst. The classic three stripe on the pants and maybe even on helmet would be nice slight adjustments to an already classic uniform. Throw in that johnathan helmet once or twice a year or flip flop the helmet to white with the navy 3stripe, never ever use Black in any of our uniforms and we'll be playing in the Big 10 in no time.

 

[junglehusky]

I liked Oklahoma State's flat grey uni's and helmets.

I'd prefer it a bit darker (insert 50 shades of grey joke here), like the color they painted Navy boats in WWII. The light grey / silver that ourbball teams used looks basically like white on TV, not distinct enough. I think football unis, all grey jerseys, helmets and pants would look good with blue trim. And give the helmets a matte finish. Of course, some fans would like it but ~67% of our fans would hate it.

 

[Dann]

no matter which way you argue the uni thing, it has to be painfully obvious by now that u either join the game or kids think your not about "it". from the newest of teams in umass to the oldest most historic in nd. everyone is rocking something. its time we join.

when u dont spend the couple extra bucks on a uniform, kids wonder what else are they not buying into. to older ppl it may be tradition or w/e branding wise. but to younger ppl and ppl who are advising these kids its a sign of $$ flowing in a program or not. play the game or get left behind. like i said earlier, i dont need to see a md type train wreck, just join the club with a black uni for 1 night game a year.

 

[ruskin]

Going into another direction here but BC's 'ignoring' us has really paid off fabulously for Gene DiFilippo, eh?

 

[TRest]

We wear dark blue; black uniforms aren't necessary and are a cliche at this point. I would rather work in a little red (like the hoop team always has) and get numbers that are easy to read from the stands and on TV. And put a stripe on the helmet.

 

[UConnDan97]

no matter which way you argue the uni thing, it has to be painfully obvious by now that u either join the game or kids think your not about "it". from the newest of teams in umass to the oldest most historic in nd. everyone is rocking something. its time we join.

when u dont spend the couple extra bucks on a uniform, kids wonder what else are they not buying into. to older ppl it may be tradition or w/e branding wise. but to younger ppl and ppl who are advising these kids its a sign of $$ flowing in a program or not. play the game or get left behind. like i said earlier, i dont need to see a md type train wreck, just join the club with a black uni for 1 night game a year.

Um...Dan? Trust me when I say this. NOBODY is happy about those ND uniforms......nobody!!

For more on that, check out the comments on this article (and how many "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" they received):

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...new-uniforms-for-soldier-field-game-vs-miami/

I'm not saying that a special uniform for certain games or a re-evaluation of one's look isn't in order. What I'm saying is.....those ND uniforms are arguably the worst things that I have seen in all of college football, including at least 3 of the Maryland uniforms!

 

[Dann]

Um...Dan? Trust me when I say this. NOBODY is happy about those ND uniforms......nobody!!

For more on that, check out the comments on this article (and how many "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" they received):

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...new-uniforms-for-soldier-field-game-vs-miami/

I'm not saying that a special uniform for certain games or a re-evaluation of one's look isn't in order. What I'm saying is.....those ND uniforms are arguably the worst things that I have seen in all of college football, including at least 3 of the Maryland uniforms!

i saw the feedback. but all that doesn't matter to the kids. guess what they do with those jerseys.
-they make girls wear nothing but them right before they fuck
-they sell them and autograph them for things
-they closet them and frame them 10 years from now
-they burn them at a party if they transfer or finish school

all the perception doesn't matter by alums and fans etc. if about what the kids view things as. cool unis are cool unis, they are additions to closets and show wealth in a program. its simple. if it was other wise, then so many schools wouldn't be doing it. think about it. notre dame is historic, there must be a pretty good selling point were missing out on if notre dame is willing to put a clown nose on its helmet face mask and play vs michigan with it.

 

[uconnfan68]

I do remember hearing of recruits who were all too happy to not have to wear the same uni twice at Oregon, and it was part of their decision, for better or worse it was, you just can't tell what really drives a kid to make any decision

They probably flunked out after the first year anyway. just to make sure they wouldn't wear it 3 times.

 

[UConnDan97]

i saw the feedback. but all that doesn't matter to the kids. guess what they do with those jerseys.
-they make girls wear nothing but them right before they Fecundity
-they sell them and autograph them for things
-they closet them and frame them 10 years from now
-they burn them at a party if they transfer or finish school

all the perception doesn't matter by alums and fans etc. if about what the kids view things as. cool unis are cool unis, they are additions to closets and show wealth in a program. its simple. if it was other wise, then so many schools wouldn't be doing it. think about it. notre dame is historic, there must be a pretty good selling point were missing out on if notre dame is willing to put a clown nose on its helmet face mask and play vs michigan with it.

You are kidding yourself if you think that the players of ND are happy about those uni's! I'm imagining that most of those guys, prior to the Fecundity, are telling the ladies to wear nothing but the original golden dome helmet (because, well, they're just not as good looking as UConn women, so keep the helmet on). I guarantee you that those uni's are not viewed as cool by the kids. A look is a look, no matter what age-group is viewing it...

 

[Dann]

You are kidding yourself if you think that the players of ND are happy about those uni's! I'm imagining that most of those guys, prior to the Fecundity, are telling the ladies to wear nothing but the original golden dome helmet (because, well, they're just not as good looking as UConn women, so keep the helmet on). I guarantee you that those uni's are not viewed as cool by the kids. A look is a look, no matter what age-group is viewing it...

its more fun to take the jersey off, but if u have a dark visor on the helmet then all the power to ya.

 

[CTMike]

-they make girls wear nothing but them right before they Fecundity

... one of the funniest sentences ever uttered on the Boneyard....

cool unis are cool unis

It really is that simple. Much rather have a cool, fresh uni than a simple/boring/traditional. It's an attention getter, a conversation piece. Our unis are nice, but not attention getting. I don't want UConn to replicate MD, but there's a happy medium between what they did and what we've got.

 

[freescooter]

The problem isn't cool fresh uniforms, its ugly dumb ones like Wisconsin and Nebraska (brought to you by the letter N) or those clown costumes that Maryland wore. The players should just refuse to wear them. there are some that are really fresh and cool, so to speak. But some of them are just ugly, and some are so predictable it reminds you of fashion week in New York...Black was the color for 2010...this year its grey. Everyone seems to have a grey alternate uniform. next year some guy at Nike will fall in love with puce and half the teams in the country will have a puce alternate. And the problem is that it seems that once you let Nike or Addidas do this there is just no stopping them and it seems you can't say NO when they come up with puce uniforms with roman numerals and the names written in greek.

 

[JayRU09]

I just wish your school would at least make the font of your uniforms, well, uniform across football and basketball. Sometimes it feels like two different schools playing.

You want the block C to mean something, put it on the basketball team.

Unless if they already do have uniforms with the block font, then you can disregard that.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I wish we knock the university of new jersey out the running for a conference title again, on our way to our third.

 

[JayRU09]

I mean yeah, cause I came in here to bash your football team and not the inconsistent uniform situation.

Also, regarding uniforms bringing in recruits, they may not be a big reason, but these 16-17 year old kids do want to look cool. And looking cool apparently means wearing shiny silver helmets to some of them.

The world of a young person is a weird place.

 

[freescooter]

I mean yeah, cause I came in here to bash your football team and not the inconsistent uniform situation.

Also, regarding uniforms bringing in recruits, they may not be a big reason, but these 16-17 year old kids do want to look cool. And looking cool apparently means wearing shiny silver helmets to some of them.

The world of a young person is a weird place.

Does someone from Rutgers actually know about football? we know they don't get basketball...

 

[JayRU09]

We know enough to know that even though you guys have actually won the Big East, you're still looked at as inferior to us in the sport.

That must hurt.

And look what you did, I never wanted to troll this place since I do like UCONN but here you go.

 

[Carl Spackler]

We know enough to know that even though you guys have actually won the Big East, you're still looked at as inferior to us in the sport.

That must hurt.

And look what you did, I never wanted to troll this place since I do like UCONN but here you go.

LOL. Take it easy bud. I fully expect the trip down the turnpike to one of the most difficult we've got this year. Lots of change down there since last november, but the players remaining aren't going to forget what happened at Rentschler last fall. It was an ass pasting you guys got, from us - and you a team that had aspirations of going where we've been. That's good motivation for you guys, that we're going to have to work real hard to overcome.

 

[B1GEast]

Just give me a white helmet with a blue block C and I'll be happy. I also think a racing stipe might be worth a look.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Just give me a white helmet with a blue block C and I'll be happy. I also think a racing stipe might be worth a look.

You know what I want? I want a football team, that doesn't need a fancy uniform to get people interested. Win the games.