White jersey's with or without orange pants?

Which uniform combination do you prefer?

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#76
#76
Colored pants are for sissies and directional schools. Pants should ALWAYS be predominately white. We may as well wear pink panties (along with those god-awful orange cleats).

The stormtrooper white on white - with a generous amount of orange trim - is the hands-down winner.
 
#79
#79
White on white, but the orange pants are a nice change from time to time. Really looking forward to seeing the new jerseys more than the pants to be serious.
 
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#80
#80
rynrem said:
Another note for future reference: "Whenever Tennessee wins the toss, we like to defer. We like to create momentum to start the second half. It’s a way to impose our will."

I've been arguing this point since the history of ever. Especially when its brought up here to be debated.

I still say Orange jersey on Smokey pants
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Yep. It's the way it's done on ps3
 
#82
#82
Wednesday night on Vol calls, Butch Jones revealed that the Vols will most likely be wearing white jerseys with orange pants against Oregon.
 
#86
#86
mgutvol03 said:
Orange pants = loss. Always.
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If you don't like orange pants, that is certainly your prerogative, but please don't make me dig out the documentation to refute this highly erroneous assertion, because I've got it in spades. Some of our greatest road victories occurred while clad in orange pants. We rarely wore them in the Fulmer era or there would be even more ammunition to refute your claim.
 
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#87
#87
White on white. I truly believe we play like complete crap every time we wear the orange pants. THEY. ARE. CURSED. And nobody on here is changing my mind about them!!
 
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#88
#88
All right, if you insist. Let me give it a try.

Considering the fact that white jerseys and orange pants are a ROAD uniform, it is not surprising that we have a lower winning percentage when wearing them. However, beware such absolutist statements. A few notable exceptions to this assertion would include the following:

1980 Auburn game (42-0). See Vols Blast Auburn 42-0 in 1980 - YouTube.

1983 Alabama game. See 1983 Tennessee 41 Alabama 34 - 2nd Half (PPV) - YouTube.

1985 Alabama game. See 1985 Tennessee 16 Alabama 14 in Birmingham (TBS) - YouTube.

1989 UCLA game (Debut of Cobb-Webb tandem). See 1989 Tennessee vs. UCLA (Video 1 - Pay Per View) - YouTube.

1989 LSU game. See 1989 Tennessee 45 LSU 39 - YouTube.

1990 Cotton Bowl (Webb runs wild against Arkansas). See 1990 Cotton Bowl -CBS-Video 1 - Tennessee vs. Arkansas - YouTube.

1991 Notre Dame game ("Miracle at South Bend"). See 1991 MIracle at South Bend (Tenn 35 Notre Dame 34) - YouTube.

That doesn't include the host of road games played during that period against Vandy, Kentucky, and other lightweight SEC programs or opponents of similar caliber that we played during that period. When you consider that Fulmer flat out did not like orange pants, we have very few instances from his era to add to this list of games won when we wore white jerseys and orange pants. As for the "we-haven't-won-anything-recently-when-we-wore-orange-pants" argument, I would offer the following observation: We haven't won with great regularity over the last five years, regardless of uniform combination, now have we?

I hope that this will put to rest all nonsensical assertions which doom us to defeat when we wear specific uniform combinations. Unfortunately, I am certain that even incontrovertible evidence will not be accepted by people who are predisposed to dislike specific uniforms. For people who simply won't believe their own eyes when it comes to evidence that contradicts their opinion, I don't know what to say.
 
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#89
#89
We didn't start wearing orange pants on the road again until 08 and our program has been down ever since. It's not like all these road games would have turned into W's the past 5 years if we had worn white pants instead. Cursed pants? Good grief! Right on Volosaurus
 
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#91
#91
So WHAT? Dooley said he was "inspired to wear orange bottoms not by former basketball coach Bruce Pearl's orange sports coat as some surmised, but by watching "The Color Orange: The Condredge Holloway story," an ESPN documentary about the first black quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. Holloway started for the Vols from 1972-74 and is now an assistant athletics director at Tennessee.

Holloway's coach, Bill Battle, would occasionally wore orange pants, but his game outfit of choice was an orange shirt with a tie and slacks of a more conservative color. His successor, Johnny Majors, wore orange polyester pants, a white polo-style shirt with orange collar, a white belt and white shoes to games during the first few years of his Tennessee career, which stretched from 1977-92, but opted for a suit for games later in his career" (Tennessee coach Derek Dooley's orange pants inspire cult following - NCAA Football - Sporting News).
 
#92
#92
If they are not white on white (or gray, though I don't expect gray) I will feel jinxed. However the miracle at South Bend was white on orange.
 
#93
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Volosaurus rex said:
So WHAT? Dooley said he was "inspired to wear orange bottoms not by former basketball coach Bruce Pearl's orange sports coat as some surmised, but by watching "The Color Orange: The Condredge Holloway story," an ESPN documentary about the first black quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. Holloway started for the Vols from 1972-74 and is now an assistant athletics director at Tennessee.

Holloway's coach, Bill Battle, would occasionally wore orange pants, but his game outfit of choice was an orange shirt with a tie and slacks of a more conservative color. His successor, Johnny Majors, wore orange polyester pants, a white polo-style shirt with orange collar, a white belt and white shoes to games during the first few years of his Tennessee career, which stretched from 1977-92, but opted for a suit for games later in his career" (Tennessee coach Derek Dooley's orange pants inspire cult following - NCAA Football - Sporting News).
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Who cares what inspired Dooley? Condredge or Rommel, Bill Battle or bamboo...seriously, who cares?

Our orange jersey is awesome. The orange power T is a national icon. But the orange pants are hideous. Non-white pants are for also-rans; not the upper hierarchy of cfb.
 
#94
#94
I think that both white pants and orange pants look fine... but I tend to think of the orange pants as having a jinx on them-- don't really know for sure, would have to go back and look at the film. White will make that Power T stand out.. and after all, all ya really need is the Power T. Personally, I think that wearing no pants at all would provide quite the needed distraction for the other team:p Pretty sure that might be some kind of NCAA violation though- to go bottomless. Just can't wait for the game...GBO!!!
 
#95
#95
I like the orange pants. That may be because we haven't worn them much during and after the Fulmer era.
 
#96
#96
I'm told both sets of pants were packed because the gear had to be shipped before the team leaders selected the combination.
 
#98
#98
therealitytheory said:
Who cares what inspired Dooley? Condredge or Rommel, Bill Battle or bamboo...seriously, who cares?

Our orange jersey is awesome. The orange power T is a national icon. But the orange pants are hideous. Non-white pants are for also-rans; not the upper hierarchy of cfb.
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Right because Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, LSU, don't wear white pants. Are they also rans?
 
#100
#100
It may just be me but the whole "no orange pants we always lose" thing drives me crazy has everybody not seen how many games we have lost with white on white? I means geez! It's not the pants! If we don't wear pants we lose in we had better wear something other than white Bc the last few years we have lost a lot in white as well!
 
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