That's actually true. I remember when MD rolled out the new uniforms with a new HC and promptly beat Miami on national TV. Those uniforms while ugly...seemed edgy. Then when MD started to suck...the uniforms seemed sad and desperate for attention.
No, that is called addressing the buying market with what they want. Its business 101. Merchandizing matters for both brand awareness and revenue generation. There is a reason RL has a little Polo Horsey on its products instead of a pile of steaming . Sure, the steaming pile is edgy but it aint selling. Its the same reason you don't market stretch tube tops to senior citizen women.
yeah, they looked really cool at the national championship celebration...oh wait...well the PAC 12 championship...oh wait...Oregon got a good coaching at a time when the PAC12's royalty was going through some issues,both on the field and off it, as happens from time to time. The put Paul Pasqualoni in Eugene and Chip Kelley in Storrs and I guarantee you that all the snazzy uniforms in the world won't make Oregon a national name, while you could send UConn out in generic unis from Walmart and we'd be the name brand. Coaching is what matters. Uniforms/helmets can look good or bad. Ours look like they belong on an arena league team. You want, or at least I want, our helmets to give off a feel of a first class program, associated with a first class institution not some clown college. If you win, you can get away looking like clown college, but if you don't you look like, well, a bunch of clowns. It happened to Maryland and now to us. You'll note that the Terps have mostly toned things down of late. If Oregon starts going down hill under the new head coach the snazzy uniforms will start to become a distraction. they are still winning so right now they are still kewel.
Do tell, aside from saying "or" instead of "of" what part of the statement do you disagree with or find such comedic value?
Oh good grief! though I have said that too. Even worse, I expect a red shirt. Traditon be damned. We'll come out looking like this. It is a fine Uniform, just not UConn.
Oh good grief! though I have said that too. Even worse, I expect a red shirt. Traditon be damned. We'll come out looking like this. It is a fine Uniform, just not UConn.
Oh good grief! though I have said that too. Even worse, I expect a red shirt. Traditon be damned. We'll come out looking like this. It is a fine Uniform, just not UConn.
We should go with plaid. I don't think anyone has done that yet. Really loud plaid shirts and a different plaid for the pants. If your uniforms don't have any connection to the institution you represent you might as well just hand out random jerseys on game day like they did in gym class. hand out those 2 sided jerseys. Visiting team wears the white side and the Home team wears the color, whatever it might be. In basketball the home team can be shirts and the visitors can be skins. It has nothing to do with "big boy football" or little boy football or medium boy football. It has to do with connecting the program to the university and the larger community. UConn is national flag blue and white. Alabama is Crimson, Notre Dame is Blue & gold, Michigan is Maise and blue, It really doesn't matter whether we're playing in the NESCAC or the SEC. When USA Hockey plays in next year's Olmpics, they'll wear red white & blue uniforms, not green and gold. Because red white & blue stands for something, and connects them to the nation they represent. In the same way that my high school wore green & white. It connected us to the school and to the town, and them to us. At UConn we wore blue & white. it was significant and to me and my teammates it was said something about who we represented. Red & white was worn by BU and maroon & white by UMass. We wouldn't, and wouldn't want to wear those colors. I still think that is important to a team and its fans.
Just to be clear, Phil Knight (i.e., Nike) has donated at least a hundred million to Oregon. They wear whatever Nike (I mean Phil) tells them to wear. Whereas on the other hand, we crap on our major donors and wonder why they stop giving.
Argyle sox, plaid pants and striped shirts. We can look like my wife's uncle on thanksgiving!
BINGO!!!
