Uniform/Helmet/Shoe design thread (merged)

[RDU VOL#14]

The commissioner and some schools would like to see it that way, with the ability to “flex“ like the NFL does to put good games in the prime time slot.

I don’t think you’ll ultimately see every game get a firm start time in the preseason, but I think once ESPN/ABC takes over the entire TV contract next year you will see a time assigned to almost every game in the preseason, with the ability to change the start times on a limited basis around team performance. Though I would hate it because my favorite fall lunch time tradition on Mondays is to eat my lunch at the sports bar across from my office building while listening to the weekly press conference waiting for the game time announcements, but coming in for games from out of town, I would like the certainty of knowing what games I can drive to day of, and which games I need to come up on Friday. It would be easier and probably cheaper to know that in July rather than two weeks before.

I hope they leave quite a few flex options. I’m sure CBS wishes they could’ve flexed out of the primetime Bama vs aTm last season, even though it turned out to be competitive . I figured ABC/ESPN would actually give us more flexible options moving forward, especially with everything being on 1 family of networks and there being no competition of first choice with CBS. I hope that they don’t just give a LSU vs Florida a night game just because it’s supposed to be good and then it turns out to be a top 5 team vs a sub .500 team.

Im with you on the lunch time thing on Monday’s . Im always anxious to see the press conferences and hear what the game time is.

 

[HalfullVol]

Orange helmets looked great. They had nothing to do with the performance on the field.

Orange helmets coincided with Jeremy Banks suspension.

That performance and the mentions above will be indelibly linked for many years.

They gotta go!!

 

[Vol865]

Orange helmets looked great. They had nothing to do with the performance on the field.

We could've won by 60 and those helmets would've still been awful

 

[indian rick]

Orange helmets looked great. They had nothing to do with the performance on the field.

I agree, orange helmets were awesome

 

[HooahVol]

Not completely on topic but has anyone else noticed Oklahoma State keeps inching closer to our uniforms? Specifically our unique shade of orange:

I know Texas sued us for the UT emblem back in the 80's and won requiring us to change our T over the U emblem. Should we sue OSU or just assume imitation is the greatest form of flattery?

 

[onevol74]

Not completely on topic but has anyone else noticed Oklahoma State keeps inching closer to our uniforms? Specifically our unique shade of orange:

I know Texas sued us for the UT emblem back in the 80's and won requiring us to change our T over the U emblem. Should we sue OSU or just assume imitation is the greatest form of flattery?

We did not lose the interlocking UT. We own it east of the Mississippi.

As far as the color is concerned we have also added more red tint since the Fulmer era. Our jerseys back then were more of a golden orange. Kentucky used to wear more of a navy and now they are much lighter these days.

 

[HooahVol]

Thanks, I did not know we could still use it east of the Mississippi. That is interesting.

 

[deezvols]

The commissioner and some schools would like to see it that way, with the ability to “flex“ like the NFL does to put good games in the prime time slot.

I don’t think you’ll ultimately see every game get a firm start time in the preseason, but I think once ESPN/ABC takes over the entire TV contract next year you will see a time assigned to almost every game in the preseason, with the ability to change the start times on a limited basis around team performance. Though I would hate it because my favorite fall lunch time tradition on Mondays is to eat my lunch at the sports bar across from my office building while listening to the weekly press conference waiting for the game time announcements, but coming in for games from out of town, I would like the certainty of knowing what games I can drive to day of, and which games I need to come up on Friday. It would be easier and probably cheaper to know that in July rather than two weeks before.

I just assumed you worked for UT athletics… the mystery lives on.

 

[lukeneyland]

Aren’t we getting a new gray uniform this year?

 

[ButchPlz]

I just assumed you worked for UT athletics… the mystery lives on.

Not everyone that works "for" UT athletics is in Knoxville...could be IMG or something like that, you know.

 

[deezvols]

Not everyone that works "for" UT athletics is in Knoxville...could be IMG or something like that, you know.

True. He just has such a grasp on the day to day, I assumed he was in the building.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Orange helmets looked great. They had nothing to do with the performance on the field.

No they did not

Looked like total crap

 

[DeusExMachina]

Unless the throwback is the same as the 2004 UNLV game throwbacks,

Please, I'm begging you, do not speak those abominations into existence.

Those jerseys were so damn awesome. I

That's not how you spell any of the following: hideous, unsightly, ugly, replusive, repellent, grotesque, or ghastly.

Worst uniforms in UT history, with the Condredge-era similar uniforms as a clear #2. #3 isn't even in the same galaxy. The '09 black jerseys would be a superior option to those catastrophes.

 

[DeerPark12]

I just assumed you worked for UT athletics… the mystery lives on.

No, live in a completely different state, actually. Went to law school at UT, my company works with a lot of contracts that are college sports adjacent, let’s say.

 

[IndianapolisVol]

No, live in a completely different state, actually. Went to law school at UT, my company works with a lot of contracts that are college sports adjacent, let’s say.

Remember like 8-9 years ago when you swore that Tennessee’s number font on the Nike uni’s would be atrocious? People don’t forget, man!

 

[DeerPark12]

Remember like 8-9 years ago when you swore that Tennessee’s number font on the Nike uni’s would be atrocious? People don’t forget, man!

I still think it's awful. The only difference between the first version that I described and what we ended up with is they put caps on the top of the 6 and the bottom of the 9.

 

[Christian Lowe]

I still think it's awful. The only difference between the first version that I described and what we ended up with is they put caps on the top of the 6 and the bottom of the 9.

Didn’t you say we’d have 2014-15 baylor numbering? I remember being very upset about that, but I can’t remember who said it’d come to fruition.


I just wish we’d put the black outline on our white jersey numbers again

 

[DeerPark12]

Didn’t you say we’d have 2014-15 baylor numbering? I remember being very upset about that, but I can’t remember who said it’d come to fruition.


I just wish we’d put the black outline on our white jersey numbers again

I believe I said it looks like a combination of Baylor and what Syracuse had at the time, which I believe it does.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Please, I'm begging you, do not speak those abominations into existence.



That's not how you spell any of the following: hideous, unsightly, ugly, replusive, repellent, grotesque, or ghastly.

Worst uniforms in UT history, with the Condredge-era similar uniforms as a clear #2. #3 isn't even in the same galaxy. The '09 black jerseys would be a superior option to those catastrophes.

These would be awesome and to say otherwise is treasonous.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

No, live in a completely different state, actually. Went to law school at UT, my company works with a lot of contracts that are college sports adjacent, let’s say.

Do you have any insight into Notre Dame’s new deal? I heard they are leaving Under Armour, which it sounds like a lot schools are starting to.

 

[DeusExMachina]

These would be awesome and to say otherwise is treasonous.

It's spelled "horrendous" and "truthful". Those uniforms would make us the laughingstock of CFB, without question. They're uglier than the southbound end of a northbound donkey, my dude.

 

[peaygolf]

Didn’t you say we’d have 2014-15 baylor numbering? I remember being very upset about that, but I can’t remember who said it’d come to fruition.


I just wish we’d put the black outline on our white jersey numbers again

No to the black outlines. They were the absolute worst…….

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Do you have any insight into Notre Dame’s new deal? I heard they are leaving Under Armour, which it sounds like a lot schools are starting to.

Under Armour made a big splash back in the mid-late aughts when it first came on the scene but now it just seems chintzy imo. I think their time has come and gone.

 

[jaguinn5]

These would be awesome and to say otherwise is treasonous.
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Im usually all about alternate uniforms, but these ain't it.

 

[DeusExMachina]

No to the black outlines. They were the absolute worst…….

Black outlines are VASTLY superior to the "orange chest" '04/Condredge throwbacks.