Evidently those are on a five-year cycle, so yes.
Year 1 = rebuilding
Year 2 = Shayok year
Year 3 = Haliburton's last half-season
Year 4 = we don't talk about it
Year 5 = Brockington year
So time for new ones, I think.
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Evidently those are on a five-year cycle, so yes.
Year 1 = rebuilding
Year 2 = Shayok year
Year 3 = Haliburton's last half-season
Year 4 = we don't talk about it
Year 5 = Brockington year
So time for new ones, I think.
I mean, Ohio State is maybe the biggest brand in college football, and they wore alternate black uniforms last week. I'm fine with them one time a year, but I agree, we should be using our school colors.
Agreed on the "BFBS" - BFBS is probably in it's third decade now - it lead to GFGS ("anthracite", HUGE eye roll here...) & probably WFWS ("icy white"), although the white is a bit less offensive
Don't get me wrong - some of these have their place (e.g. Neb having a black alternate to celebrate "blackshirts") - but, in a lot of cases, I prefer not (like Ohio State)
I do think our BFBS uniforms look great, but I wouldn't miss them... I would not be disappointed if we went CCW @ home & CWC @ away & never changed again
Another state in the Midwest spelled with four letters (three of which are vowels) also behind the time?
Couldn't be.
Ohio State at least has the fig leaf of an excuse that black has been a secondary color of theirs since the 1960s and their normal home/road looks integrate some black for trim and accenting.
It is just forced in there in comparison with Iowa State. It also happens to be the "main" color of one of our main rivals. Ohio State would never put any maize and blue in its uniforms for obvious reasons.
Certainly possible we get something new
However, the coach of each sport, I think by and large decides what they will wear, within the color boundaries. Stated that way, Campbell has expanded the color boundary to black. If you can call black a color.
Edit: I meant next year.
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They are definitely getting new black uniforms, per TJ/CW. Unsure of the rest of the set, but I would assume so.
I mean Stanford, Miami, Oregon, USC I think have all had black uniforms in the past 2-3 years.Another state in the Midwest spelled with four letters (three of which are vowels) also behind the time?
Couldn't be.
Ohio State at least has the fig leaf of an excuse that black has been a secondary color of theirs since the 1960s and their normal home/road looks integrate some black for trim and accenting.
It is just forced in there in comparison with Iowa State. It also happens to be the "main" color of one of our main rivals. Ohio State would never put any maize and blue in its uniforms for obvious reasons.
It's not some cringe idiot mid west thing.
Thought we were past arguing about black uniforms lol.
This argument will never end until BFBS ends... which seems unlikely, unfortunately
I tend to hold on to such matters.
There are elements of the Treaty of Utrecht that still annoy me.
Haha that is a hell of a stretch. Ohio State is as ahead of the curve as anybody in the country. They had a receiver wearing an Apple watch and Louis Vitton cleats last week. But because they have four letters, lol.Another state in the Midwest spelled with four letters (three of which are vowels) also behind the time?
Couldn't be.
Ohio State at least has the fig leaf of an excuse that black has been a secondary color of theirs since the 1960s and their normal home/road looks integrate some black for trim and accenting.
It is just forced in there in comparison with Iowa State. It also happens to be the "main" color of one of our main rivals. Ohio State would never put any maize and blue in its uniforms for obvious reasons.
Sorry, you're way off here. Comparing black to maize and blue. We disagree often, but this might be your worst take. And you liked Prohm.
I liked Prohm the first four seasons. I went on the fence after Season #5 but held out hope.
Then I totally bailed -- as did everybody -- during/after that season we don't like to talk about.
That is, I updated my beliefs as the facts on the ground changed.
I neither never gave him a chance nor clung to him after it was clear he needed to go.
I just think BFBS is stupid and cliché. I could articulate it much better than I did in my silly joke about Iowa and Ohio having similar names and being from the same region of the country.
I don't think you want that longer post, though, so I'll leave it there.
Does anyone know what would commonly be considered the first BFBS uniform (as the primary color of the uniform or jersey - not an accent)? GFGS?
Exhaustive history of the phenomenon here --
https://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/121138-the-color-black-in-sports-and-the-birth-of-bfbs/
I would love throwbacks someday but honestly there isn't any past uniforms that jump out to me as must see again outside of the ones chizik wore. The Blenderbird was the logo I grew up with but i didn't much care for the uniform outside of the logo.
As far as a black jersey for a team that didn't have black as a primary color, the earliest collegiate team that pops into my head is Northwestern when Gary Barnett arrived in '92.
That matches my memory, too. Probably occurred prior to that and I don't recall, that might be the earliest that used it consistently.
Oregon of course did plenty of alt-black stuff but it was one of only about 17,000 combos that didn't involve black at all, so it doesn't truly count.
I remember the Oregon unis with the steel tread shoulders. That was back when Nike Pro Combat was rolling out unique alternates for several schools.
FSU does a black “UNCONQUERED” uniform that looks pretty good because they incorporate the garnet and gold into it.
Everyone always talks about teams weaing black when they arent supposed. I think we need to discuss why Colorado said **** it and starting wearing blue in the 80s.
