Anybody else up for an alt UCONN uniform?

[UConnDan97]

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.

That is completely condescending! HFD always has his helmet on! Safety first...

 

[CL82]

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?

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.

 

[Santini35]

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

 

[huskymedic]

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/bigeast.htm

For those who haven't seen this site yet... Alphabetical order.

 

[mets1090]

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/bigeast.htm

For those who haven't seen this site yet... Alphabetical order.

The current helmets are by a landslide the best looking ones in our history

 

[CL82]

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

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.

 

[jrazz12]

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.

 

[Adios]

Maybe we should get camouflage unis using the colors of fall foliage.

 

[CTMike]

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.

About as well as it could be said. Nice post.

 

[Adios]

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.

We never used the Husky on helmets.