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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 908072, member: 27"] I have a lot of friends who are college football fans but not Syracuse fans. They all know what the traditional Syracuse uniform looks like. It is a brand, it is very well known. There is no question it has been damaged with all the changes made during the Dr Gross era. You are correct, many young fans have no idea with the Syracuse standard uniforms are anymore. To me, the uniforms Minnesota wore for the Texas Bowl were an abomination. The colors didn't even coordinate; it looked like they forgot their uniforms and had to borrow tops from one team and bottoms from another. I don't want to see Syracuse do what so many other programs have done; throw away their traditions and history to be edgy. At this point, so many schools have done this that the way to stand out is to NOT do it. Please note that I am not against change completely. If changing the color of the blue used (making it metallic, etc) gets our kids excited, do it. If a metallic hue for the helmet gets kids going, go for it. But remember that the 3 colors for Syracuse are blue, orange and white and remember that orange is our primary color. Nike has a lot of ugly gray material they want to impose on every program in the country. IMHO, it looks awful across the board, but it looks especially awful in conjunction with orange, blue and white. Nike wants to make it easy on their designers and force Syracuse into the same standard duct type uniform scheme they use for all their schools. I say make them do their jobs the proper way and design uniforms for SU using our real school colors. I am convinced there is a compromise out there where Nike can design uniforms that college football fans will recognize as Syracuse but will also be something Syracuse players will be excited and proud to wear. That is the direction I want us to go for uniforms. [/QUOTE]

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