Our home Jersey is white???

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stephenk24

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Hey,

How comes our Home Jersey is white? You would think we would want to play in Orange on our home floor...

On the verge of purchasing a Vols Basketball Jersey, but can't decide what to get, home or away.. Home is home but away is the lovely traditional orange...

I will most likely get the orange because it's more Vols to me...

What do you guys prefer? Our home or away kit and which do you guys own?

Have a great weekend!

Stephen
 
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In college basketball, home jerseys are white and away jerseys are color. That is just how it is traditionally. In college football, the tradition is opposite (color at home) although there are some exceptions, like LSU
 
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Home wears white. It's only been the standing rule in basketball since they started playing the game.
 
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Home wears white. It's only been the standing rule in basketball since they started playing the game.

cut the OP some slack. Notice his location. He wont be as familiar with American sports rules as the most fans.
 
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cut the OP some slack. Notice his location. He wont be as familiar with American sports rules as the most fans.

Fair enough. And to be perfectly fair about it, there are some noticable exceptions to the "home white" rule in hoops. The LA Lakers wear yellow with purple trim. The Cleveland Cavaleers wear yellow at home (sometimes) too.

In the college game LSU has worn yellow at home many times. I have seen Illinois wearing orange at home when they have an opponent wearing a darker color (such as black or navy). So, no rule is absolutely foolproof.
 
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Just to shed some light on the OP and the second comment by softec17, it's not just tradition that dictates colored jersey vs white jersey. Maybe so in basketball, but in football, when games were first being televised, they were only televised in black and white (obviously), and so one of the teams was always required to wear a white jersey to differentiate home vs. visitors on television. The team that wore white didn't matter, but the home team always gets to decide what color jersey is worn. This is where most of the tradition of it fits in, as most home teams in football want to wear their main school color at home. Again, it may be more based on tradition (or even rules, for all I know) in basketball, but that's why it is the way it is for football.
 
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Fair enough. And to be perfectly fair about it, there are some noticable exceptions to the "home white" rule in hoops. The LA Lakers wear yellow with purple trim. The Cleveland Cavaleers wear yellow at home (sometimes) too.

In the college game LSU has worn yellow at home many times. I have seen Illinois wearing orange at home when they have an opponent wearing a darker color (such as black or navy). So, no rule is absolutely foolproof.

And to further illustrate my previous post, LSU wears white at home for football (because they're the home team and have the right to decide).
 
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Wow wow, don't shoot me... I know its like this in the NBA apart from the Lakers and I noticed that when we played Oakland they wore Silver at home.... It's not a complete rule.
 
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Wow wow, don't shoot me... I know its like this in the NBA apart from the Lakers and I noticed that when we played Oakland they wore Silver at home.... It's not a complete rule.

:machgun: :gun: @ OP Just kidding. No one's upset. Just trying to help you understand. :hi:
 
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OP whatever you do, just don't ask about black jerseys. :) Unless you want watch the ensuring train wreck thread.
 
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:machgun: :gun: @ OP Just kidding. No one's upset. Just trying to help you understand. :hi:

That wasn't directed at you, it was directed at the guy who wrote the stroppy, "Its only been the rule since basketball started" comment...

Should have made it clearer....
 
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Seems I recall watching Ole Miss play earlier this year with red uniforms against Middle Tennessee in Oxford. Middle was wearing blue with white and silver trim.
 
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Just to shed some light on the OP and the second comment by softec17, it's not just tradition that dictates colored jersey vs white jersey. Maybe so in basketball, but in football, when games were first being televised, they were only televised in black and white (obviously), and so one of the teams was always required to wear a white jersey to differentiate home vs. visitors on television. The team that wore white didn't matter, but the home team always gets to decide what color jersey is worn. This is where most of the tradition of it fits in, as most home teams in football want to wear their main school color at home. Again, it may be more based on tradition (or even rules, for all I know) in basketball, but that's why it is the way it is for football.

It wasn't always a hard and fast rule, as back in the 70s and early 80s, there was a time we wore orange at home for the mid week game and white for the weekend game, but some where I do believe they mandated white as the official color or the lighter color for teams that don't wear white at all, but you can always file a request with the league for a waiver in special circumstances like for a throwback jersey game.
 
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Only time I remember seeing orange at home is the Outlive game against Kentucky when the Outlive shirts in the crowd were orange.
 
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Only time I remember seeing orange at home is the Outlive game against Kentucky when the Outlive shirts in the crowd were orange.

In the 1970's the SEC had a one-season-only rule one year where the home teams would wear colored uniforms at home for the mid-week games and the road team would wear white or the light color. On weekends, the regular home-wears-white rule was followed. This was the rule for conference games only. Seems it was the 1977-1978 season (King and Grunfeld's last season at UT).
 
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In the 1970's the SEC had a one-season-only rule one year where the home teams would wear colored uniforms at home for the mid-week games and the road team would wear white or the light color. On weekends, the regular home-wears-white rule was followed. This was the rule for conference games only. Seems it was the 1977-1978 season (King and Grunfeld's last season at UT).

I didn't know that. I personally think it would be neat to see more games where the home team do color at home or even color on color if the two teams uniforms contrast enough like Memphis/UT in Maui.
 
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Home wears white. It's only been the standing rule in basketball since they started playing the game.

Our HS basketball team wore white at home in the '60s. I never understood it then, either.

White doesn't show sweat, maybe? (Like the reason for white at Wimbledon.)
 
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The white collars were on for most of the Pearl era. Can't remember what the unis looked like under Buzz that well.
 

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