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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1128370, member: 204"] Oregon became a power because of gobs and gobs of money - not because of uniforms. Oregon was never a bona fide football power until Nike and its millions came on board. There was no Oregon football tradition. For an outlier program like Oregon the uniform gimmick was appropriate. The same holds true for Rutgers. That program has nothing else to offer but gimmick. Let me give you maybe the best example of what I am describing. My undergraduate school Indiana University has gone to the funky football uniforms complete with the all-white look and the silver helmets and the rest. The IU Basketball program, however, will not be making any change to its traditional uniforms. Why? Because there is no IU Football tradition. The program has been a bad one for years and years. The IU BB Program however is steeped in history and success. It would defy tradition if the IU BB uniforms, complete with the candy stripe warm up pants - were jettisoned. The notion that uniforms have nothing to do with tradition just seems very inaccurate to me. Try to convince the Michigan fan that the winged helmet has nothing to do with tradition. A program with a proud tradition - like the SU Football tradition or the Yankee tradition or the IU BB tradition - does not need and should not rely on gimmicks like funky uniforms - that have nothing to do with the school or its tradition. The new uniforms in my opinion are hardly intriguing. They look like one version of the Oklahoma State uniforms and the funky uniforms of other Nike programs - like the all white IU football look. The kids may like them - what else are they supposed to say by the way - but the kids are more concerned with playing at an elite level with a winning program that will launch them into the pros. And what is Shafer supposed to say? He can't say anything because the decision to make the change was well up the executive ladder. Sorry, but for me at least Syracuse University Football is the Yankees - frankly it's much more than the Yankees. [/QUOTE]

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