A ing time east coast friend called about the game and uniforms

[CaliCuse]

This guy obviously knows I love football and Syracuse basketball.The first thing he said was " "What hell is with those uniforms?" who is getting paid off from Nike to put that crap n the team.Where are the orange pants and solid orange helmets. Grey? Really? Why? This is a guy who is familiar with the programs because as good friends I drove up from NJ to Syracuse a few times wives included.

 

[AccuRater]

This guy obviously knows I love football and Syracuse basketball.The first thing he said was " "What hell is with those uniforms?" who is getting paid off from Nike to put that crap n the team.Where are the orange pants and solid orange helmets. Grey? Really? Why? This is a guy who is familiar with the programs because as good friends I drove up from NJ to Syracuse a few times wives included.

The uniforms are hideous.

Whoever designed them must hate football, or Syracuse, or both.

 

[TheCusian]

Loved the platinum look. Helmets looked great.

 

[cuseguy]

Best uni combo this year.

Slightly ahead of the all whites.

 

[OrangeAl]

Loved the platinum look. Helmets looked great.

Loved the "platinum" look? Then you must love shopping at Wal-Mart. Years from now we'll look at pictures of players in this gear and laugh.

 

[Shermthegeneral]

I think this is a generation thing. College football is no longer solid colored helmets, jerseys and pants. There might be a few teams that don't change their look but even Notre Dame has tweaked it's uniform. Did anybody see their golden cleats that look like boxing boots?
I for one thought those uniforms looked awesome!

 

[CusefanATL]

i thought the uni's were great

 

[TheCusian]

Hmm... my reply disappeared.

I stand by my opinion, OrangeAl.

 

[longislandcuse]

Just walked into the office and had about 3 guys tell me our uni's looked sick.

 

[AirForceOrange]

I kind of liked the uniforms...especially the helmets.

 

[sufandu]

My wife thought they looked like they were playing in sweat pants, especially with the blue undershirts.

 

[Alsacs]

Did Nike even do anything different from the WVU jersey except changing yellow to orange around the blue numerals, 44 axe on the front and put the 44 degree blue on the wide instead of the yellow WV.

 

[SWC75]

Did Nike even do anything different from the WVU jersey except changing yellow to orange around the blue numerals, 44 axe on the front and put the 44 degree blue on the wide instead of the yellow WV.

That's the thing. We think we are doing something "different" because it contrasts our traditional uniforms. But if you look at how NIKE is outfitting other schools, there's a actually a sameness to them. Those are NIKE's uniforms, not Syracuse's or West Virginia's. What they are doing is advertising NIKE. That's the brand, not Syracuse.

 

[Cuse Action]

This guy obviously knows I love football and Syracuse basketball.The first thing he said was " "What hell is with those uniforms?" who is getting paid off from Nike to put that crap n the team.Where are the orange pants and solid orange helmets. Grey? Really? Why? This is a guy who is familiar with the programs because as good friends I drove up from NJ to Syracuse a few times wives included.

I loved the unis. Platinum looked great.

 

[Oakland]

Is platinum better than grey?

I loved the unis. Platinum looked great.

 

[SWC75]

Another point: If the uniforms help recruiting, how do they help recruiting if everybody is doing this? When Oregon did this, it was different. Now we are just joining the herd.

 

[OttoMets]

That's the thing. We think we are doing something "different" because it contrasts our traditional uniforms. But if you look at how NIKE is outfitting other schools, there's a actually a sameness to them. Those are NIKE's uniforms, not Syracuse's or West Virginia's. What they are doing is advertising NIKE. That's the brand, not Syracuse.

Like the dopey basketball uniforms that we've been wearing since 2008 with very few tweaks. Ohio State = Syracuse = Florida.

It's all about Nike building its own brand.

 

[SU2NASA]

Loved the "platinum" look? Then you must love shopping at Wal-Mart. Years from now we'll look at pictures of players in this gear and laugh.

 

[Nicknack]

I loved the helmets - I'll just leave it at that.

One thing that I think we all can agree on is that nothing was (or ever will be) worse than these...

 

[OrangeAl]

So, your point is that they could be worse?

 

[Melancer46]

The whites blew the grays out of the water. The gray itself doesn't look bad, but since the jersey had zero orange to it, the orange helmet just looked atrocious with it IMO.

The vast majority of the public was laughing at how awful our uniforms looked. If we had worn the blue helmets, it could work, though the gray and blue is just kind of dreary to me.

I still have no idea how we had three new uniforms made and none of them are orange, especially in today's landscape where outside of the gray, everyone is making bright colored jerseys. I think it was a seriously missed opportunity to bring orange back to Syracuse. A white helmet, orange top, white pants look could be amazing if designed the right way.

 

[Melancer46]

I loved the helmets - I'll just leave it at that.

One thing that I think we all can agree on is that nothing was (or ever will be) worse than these...

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They really ruined a gorgeous top with those shorts. If they simply made the shorts to match, that would have been the best Cuse jersey in awhile.

 

[SaltLakeOrange]

Best uni combo this year.

Slightly ahead of the all whites.

Which isn't saying much!

 

[SaltLakeOrange]

Loved the platinum look. Helmets looked great.

We should change our name to the Silver Surfers...whatever happened to tradition?

 

[TampaLaker]

My 16 year old daughter took one look at them, said, "What are they wearing? That's disgusting." Now obviously, not a HS football player, but she is definitely all high schooler...