Our colors, yes. And they have since Rhoads, which were USC imitation with the gray facemask.
But our jersey now are a huge upgrade to the Rhoads era unis and a slight upgrade to previous Campbell unis. Although I suspect we missed a little on the cardinal/red on the new ones.
The Rhoads era uniforms were fantastic. Classic design (matching LSU’s, not USC’s). Perfect color comb. He was weird about not letting players wear arm bands or black shoes/socks, which was dumb. Now THAT would have made us look like USC, which honestly would be awesome. Cardinal and Gold is the best combo of colors in the world; we never play them in anything, so what if we look like them (we should).
I personally don’t believe this latest iteration is our “best” jersey. The best iteration was Monty’s JR year (Brock’s freshman) year, which was the first iteration of the CMC “redesign”. The numbers were perfectly sized, the jerseys fit tight and clean. Year 2, they changed them - getting rid of the black collar, making the numbers way bigger for some dumb reason, and adding yellow to the arm elastic portion.
Go back and look and how freaking cool Hakeem Butler or Monty looked in those jerseys. Form fitting, slick, perfect. These last rounds have been baggy and just fit weird. A subtle change it was in the template, but a dumb one nonetheless.
PS. I have stated in this thread that we should never have any part of our logo or yellow touching black. I actually need to walk that back a little bit. The black collar was
fantastic. It looked great. It was a bit unique (like Georgia). Again, those dudes look
mean in those jerseys! It actually made the “all-Cardinal” combo really solid.
Look at the OU home game that year, and compare it with the Iowa home game the next year (2 different iterations of home Cardinal jersey). Year 2 looks bad, kinda cheesy actually.