Oregon Uniforms

[Roscoe Pound]

Oklahoma

Alabama

Perhaps now that Paterno has left PSU, they will incorporate an alternate uniform once a year as well.

And we cannot use facilities as an excuse, for anything, really. We've got Top 5 material in our facilities.

Following those links, neither of those uniforms are even remotely as ridiculous as the Oregons and Marylands of NCAA football.  Even though those uniforms for OU and Alabama are the new Nike Combat, they are actually a pretty traditional look, IMO.

They don't. But you missed the point of the post: Alabama and Oklahoma are willing to change their uniforms once a year, regardless of how radical the changes are. We consider ourselves as contemporaries with Bama and OU in the upper echelon of college football, yet we are "too good" for a once-a-year uniform change. 

Anyone touches our uniforms, or our helmets, and I will cause pain to that person or persons....and trust me, I will have help.  :twisted:

Love it. I've done a 180 in terms of uniforms. As long as you don't touch the helmet, give me an all black uniform.

Just ribbing a little, nothing wrong with exploring options  .  For me uniform changes are fine provided the change does not result in ridicule, mockery, and jest. Production technology allows for design change hopefully for the better and not for the sake of change.

  I'm afraid I've turned masochist.

I went back and looked up a uniform suggestion by SanDeigoHusker that was a nice retro influenced design and happened on to your  post.  

Beyond this and separate,  I think that for Husker fans in general they like, consistent, stable, predictable, and control. To me this is a carryover from homesteading and living in a harsh and often unpredictable environment. Clearing the land, planting a seed and praying on an outcome for survival.  A little change can mean the difference.  The culture and the program are one in the same. This is what makes it great and such a good place for young people to grow. Tried and true, reliable, not a follow a flash in the pan. Now change from innovation moves us forward, not carnival smoke and mirrors of a midway clown show.  The selling point for NU is success through stability and consistency, not what can you do for me now uniforms. Remaining centered while the bluster blows around and not being distracted by old codger arguments.  The more others flail over uniforms the more desperate they appear to me. Attention seeking is not the right path to moving forward, I think these are two different things. The changes made by Nebraska have been substantive not frivolous.

[Roscoe Pound]

Facility upgrades cost an awful lot of money.  Uniform changes do not.  

Facility upgrades last for decades. Passing wardrobe fads do not.

Upgraded facilities actually enhance the program's success. The color or style or design of a uniform does not.

And since we've added skyboxes we've won one conference title.  Since we've redone the weight room and did the entire north stadium project we've won zero.  Heck, even Illinios, that bastion of facilites and tradition has been to two BCS games since our last.

Listen, I'm not saying that facilities are worthless, and I'm not saying that uni's are a cure all.  What I'm saying is busting out a fun alternate jersey, be it a spruced up throwback or something completely new, won't hurt anything.  This is a game, it should be fun, not life or death.

More to it than the picture you paint.  All the coaching turmoil at Nebraska the last 10 years has been the biggest thing disrupting the program.  Just look at how many times we've changed offensive strategies (Solich single wing, Callahan West Coast, Pelini run oriented spread).  All the coordinators we've been through.  

I agree that new uni's, used sparingly, is a nice idea.  The only teams I've seen who don't use them (and are traditional football powers) are: Oklahoma, Penn State, and Alabama.  Even Michigan and Notre Dame have used some odd combination uni's.  Solly is also right... more so IMO.  If we don't have the facilities, it doesn't matter if we wear a red S on our chests... we're going to get beat a lot.  

Oklahoma

Alabama

Perhaps now that Paterno has left PSU, they will incorporate an alternate uniform once a year as well.

And we cannot use facilities as an excuse, for anything, really. We've got Top 5 material in our facilities.

Great catch, cdog.  I hadn't seen these uni's.  I like the new OU threads.  

Yes... Nebraska needs to change it up some.  

The OU version is based on the Wilkinson era, (though they kept the crimson helmet),  and the Alabama is simply the same basic design with new materials.

Neither represents anymore drastic a change than you've seen in NU's pants stripes, sleeve style, sleeve stripes, epaulets, or TV numbers over the years.

I particularly like the Texas cowboy touch on the OU uniform. They borrowed the idea of the name stamped on a belt. They have their name across the back of their waist, that way you know the name of the pardner with whom you are camping.

[Big Sky Husker]

I think we're talking past each other a bit. There seem to be two basic issues: 1) Are you comfortable with any changes being made to the uniforms for an alternate look; and 2) What degree of change are you comfortable with? If we do decide to mix things up, there's nothing to say we have to go as radical as teams like Oregon and Maryland have. Changes can be made in a tasteful way and one that balances tradition and the desire to change things up a bit.

I'm comfortable with an OU type change.  That's it.

[Cdog923]

I think we're talking past each other a bit. There seem to be two basic issues: 1) Are you comfortable with any changes being made to the uniforms for an alternate look; and 2) What degree of change are you comfortable with? If we do decide to mix things up, there's nothing to say we have to go as radical as teams like Oregon and Maryland have. Changes can be made in a tasteful way and one that balances tradition and the desire to change things up a bit.

I'm comfortable with an OU type change.  That's it.

After getting  pages into this, I should clarify my stance: I'm all for a black version of our current uniform. Same jersey style, patches in their proper places. A black matte-finished helmet with a glossy black N would be gangbusters as well.

The only thing I'd like to see gone is the stripes on the pants. I always liked the stripe-less look from '95-2001.

[Hort]

Wait... the NCAA does/used/to/did they ever? regulate socks, jersey tightness etc... and THIS gets approved?  How, on a sunny day, will this not be significantly distracting?

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/1/2/2676824/oregon-rose-bowl-helmets-photo-2012



I'm about to jump on the "knock football down a few pegs and get the focus back on academics" bandwagon.

[Hort]

Meanwhile... the band wears tracksuits... 

[redroy]

Watching the Rose Bowl.

Despite all the techno gadgetry of the materials and helmet Oregon's uni's do not look good.  Schizophrenc, dumb, etc.  

Just doesn't work, coordinate.    Looks like the helmet and uni design groups never talked and compared notes.

[Roscoe Pound]

The Mrs. think they look like Hot Wheels...

[Solly]

Their huddles look like the trailer hitch section at NAPA.

[Roscoe Pound]

Their huddles look like the trailer hitch section at NAPA.

That's funny

[skrzfan]

Their huddles look like the trailer hitch section at NAPA.

That's funny

ha! baseketball reference! used to love that movie.  tried watching it again on netflix and it wasn't as funny as I remembered however....

oh and oregon's unis sucked. 

[tfree32]

I didn't think they were that bad...and the kids seem to like them. They look better as they stand on the podium and accept the Rose Bowl trophy.

[AlbqHusker]

To drum up interest in a program that is on the brink, I think the Spring game should be black vs white, and see the fans reaction.  If the black unis (all the same red accents, flat black helmet) get a positive response, we pull those out for the Wisconsin rematch.  For the record, the black on orange that Okie St is sporting for the Fiesta Bowl is hideous.  Too Holloweenish.

[Red Ghost]

I didn't think they were that bad...and the kids seem to like them. They look better as they stand on the podium and accept the Rose Bowl trophy.

That's all that matters.  Do the kids (i.e., potential recruits and current players) like them?

Yes, they do.

Too bad that our administration doesn't seem willing to go against the old fart tradionalists who would have a conniption if we did something similar only once a year.

[tfree32]

I didn't think they were that bad...and the kids seem to like them. They look better as they stand on the podium and accept the Rose Bowl trophy.

That's all that matters.  Do the kids (i.e., potential recruits and current players) like them?

Yes, they do.

Too bad that our administration doesn't seem willing to go against the old fart tradionalists who would have a conniption if we did something similar only once a year.

Agreed.