90% of recruits at some point during visits put on school unis and helmets and gloves and all that stuff and take a pic. sometimes with lockers or w/e. while the actual physical uniform is not worth 2 cents in the grand scheme. its literally worth millions quietly. this goes back to the brand and marketing also. form a simple hat on a table when a kid is picking schools to a google image search kids do daily. kids have dreams. every letter they get in the mail they read or check out w/e. they google schools. they don't go read the home pages of those schools. they look for info and pics on anything about those programs and vids also. when u do uconn vs almost any other bcs school, we lose. and its somthing i have been mad about for years. i don't mean to flip out but i would literally cut my own right arm off(i jerk with my left) to get the person with vision down at texas, bama, fl, michigan, iowa etc up in the uconn ath dept. i am in such a desperate mode its hard to believe a fan can say that. this school, state, alums and fanbase are litterally within inches of breaking thru to the big boy status. its not that far. but yet we can not make the hump and it pains me. every time oregon or atm play on tv, besides the fans and just fball watchers, thousands of kids are at home watching. a good amount of them at some point say to a friend or tweet or something to the effect of "sick unis team x has".... its the biggest convo and interest starter in modern day college athletics. its a 20$ shirt to some, to others its milions of dollars in the dam bank. and i'm not just talking recruits for 1 sport. i'm alking all sports and all students. u know hoe many kids look at ecu and think purple first before anything else when they are thinking about it college wise? not a good perception start. whle that should not even factor into the education etc of college, bottom line is it does. now look at northwestern, see a bit of a difference? i do. i'm just going to stop.
