Does anyone one know what unis Tennessee is wearing this Saturday?

[RDU VOL#14]

Will Heupel wear orange pants?

That’s not funny.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

The white cleats started in The Dooley era I believe.

We wore white cleats several times under Fulmer. Pretty sure we did in ‘03 and 04. White cleats look a lot better w/ our unis IMO.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

As expected.

You guys need to bring back the Dick Sheridan era NSC helmets . Those were nice

 

[JCHateSteve]

We wore white cleats several times under Fulmer. Pretty sure we did in ‘03 and 04. White cleats look a lot better w/ our unis IMO.

Could just be the first time I noticed the change. I know Kiffy did black cleats and I think of Fulmer using them with the all white uni with the black outline on the numbers (which I also don't like).

I agree it looks better. I'm not in favor of black on the traditional uniform at all. Leave that for alts.

 

[Jpcisco]

Everytime I see an Adidas uniform (that wolfpack video as example) I am so thankful we are a Nike school. Everything Adidas puts out just looks like it's 10 years behind and looks so bad. Could just be me.

 

[JlorVol]

Bring back the black outline around the numbers.

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

Am I the only one who doesn't like the font we use for our numbers? It came from emulating the TN word mark Nike did for us a few years ago, but it looks so weak for the numbers. I wish we had our traditional numbers like this: which looks so better than this:

 

[TAF]

 

[UT97Vol]

No, the white over orange is traditional. Johnny Majors teams almost always wore those on the road, with a few exceptions. Fulmer was the coach who made the stormtroopers the more common road uniform.

Curious. Why does Johnny Majors tenure get to define what’s traditional?

Before Majors Tennessee wore white pants with orange stripes on the road. It wasn’t until 1970 that the SEC required teams to wear white jerseys on the road. Before that and you can go back and look at old photos you would have Tennessee and Alabama both wearing their orange and crimson jerseys and both with white pants.

If anything Majors broke tradition with the orange pants. Hell even UGA used to wear white pants if we go back to the 70s. Colored pant options were probably pretty limited once you go back to the 50s/60s and prior.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Everytime I see an Adidas uniform (that wolfpack video as example) I am so thankful we are a Nike school. Everything Adidas puts out just looks like it's 10 years behind and looks so bad. Could just be me.

Adidas is so bad. The tire treads were the worst. State’s unis don’t have to be as bad as they are either. They used to be decent.

 

[Nicovfl8]

Adidas is so bad. The tire treads were the worst. State’s unis don’t have to be as bad as they are either. They used to be decent.

Yes adidas is so outdated and under armor as well.

 

[The Original Fade]

The white cleats started in The Dooley era I believe.

I like the black cleats with multiple layers of tape circa 1998

 

[Vol737]

I like the black cleats with multiple layers of tape circa 1998

That's how I wear my black dress shoes to work! Always a good conversation piece.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

Like it when we mix our away uniforms throughout the season and wear all orange for the homecoming game. Still perplexed why we went away from the white shirt/ orange britches away uniform throughout fulmer’s time until the 08 ucla game.

Because the orange pants needs an orange helmet to make sense.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

The orange pants just look Tampa bay creamsicle to me

Weird look without the matching helmet.

 

[The Original Fade]

That's how I wear my black dress shoes to work! Always a good conversation piece.

Also prevents rolling an ankle when having to make an athletic move to avoid the boss in the break room. I approve

 

[volsfan125]

Theses orange britches looked pretty sweet. They glistened brighter than the Notre Dame helmets did that day

 

[NighthawkVol]

Curious. Why does Johnny Majors tenure get to define what’s traditional?

Before Majors Tennessee wore white pants with orange stripes on the road. It wasn’t until 1970 that the SEC required teams to wear white jerseys on the road. Before that and you can go back and look at old photos you would have Tennessee and Alabama both wearing their orange and crimson jerseys and both with white pants.

If anything Majors broke tradition with the orange pants. Hell even UGA used to wear white pants if we go back to the 70s. Colored pant options were probably pretty limited once you go back to the 50s/60s and prior.

If we’re talking about traditional road uniforms, we’re obviously talking about 1970 forward. Because, as you allude, the same uniforms were worn home and away prior (which, frankly, I’d love to go back to). You’re correct, the orange pants didn’t debut until 1977, Majors’ first year.

It’s hard to define anything that Bill Battle did as “traditional Tennessee,” at least to me. But yes, his road uniforms were all white. Of course they also had the orange shoulder pads, which added more orange to the equation. We’re not doing that (other than a few homage games here and there). Those Majors road uniforms were the first really good UT road uniforms that screamed “Tennessee” and were clean. I guess if we want to call the Battle ones “traditional” because they were first, I get it. I take issue with folks saying all white is “traditional Tennessee” because that’s what Fulmer teams wore, however. I think many do, because they’re either too young to remember the Majors years or because that’s the last glory era for Tennessee.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

If we’re talking about traditional road uniforms, we’re obviously talking about 1970 forward. Because, as you allude, the same uniforms were worn home and away prior (which, frankly, I’d love to go back to). You’re correct, the orange pants didn’t debut until 1977, Majors’ first year.

It’s hard to define anything that Bill Battle did as “traditional Tennessee,” at least to me. But yes, his road uniforms were all white. Of course they also had the orange shoulder pads, which added more orange to the equation. We’re not doing that (other than a few homage games here and there). Those Majors road uniforms were the first really good UT road uniforms that screamed “Tennessee” and were clean. I guess if we want to call the Battle ones “traditional” because they were first, I get it. I take issue with folks saying all white is “traditional Tennessee” because that’s what Fulmer teams wore, however. I think many do, because they’re either too young to remember the Majors years or because that’s the last glory era for Tennessee.

BILL Battle was a pretty good Xs&Os coach. His problem was recruiting really good football players .

 

[ksgovols]

Actually, the team wore black cleats in Fulmer's era - at least during the 90s - can't recall when the full all white storm trooper came into existence. Seems like that's more of a newish thing.

Yeah. Not counting the shoes. That fad comes and goes when the uniform doesn't particularly change that much. Orange bottoms went away when Fulmer was coach, so white on white on the road by default during Fulmer's run.

 

[Tenacjim]

If we’re talking about traditional road uniforms, we’re obviously talking about 1970 forward. Because, as you allude, the same uniforms were worn home and away prior (which, frankly, I’d love to go back to). You’re correct, the orange pants didn’t debut until 1977, Majors’ first year.

It’s hard to define anything that Bill Battle did as “traditional Tennessee,” at least to me. But yes, his road uniforms were all white. Of course they also had the orange shoulder pads, which added more orange to the equation. We’re not doing that (other than a few homage games here and there). Those Majors road uniforms were the first really good UT road uniforms that screamed “Tennessee” and were clean. I guess if we want to call the Battle ones “traditional” because they were first, I get it. I take issue with folks saying all white is “traditional Tennessee” because that’s what Fulmer teams wore, however. I think many do, because they’re either too young to remember the Majors years or because that’s the last glory era for Tennessee.

Also, the white pants had no stripes in the Fulmer era (started with just the road unis then spread to the home uni as well). That’s not “traditional” IMO and even though we won a Natty in them, I always preferred the double stripes.