The '07 Bruce-era throwback jersey game vs. Iowa is the only time I remembered it occurring.
Sometimes, I wish our cardinal-white-cardinal would be a standard home look. But I digress.
Iowa State Uniform Discussions (update: new basketball unis)
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Sometimes, I wish our cardinal-white-cardinal would be a standard home look. But I digress.
Yes, good example. Everybody liked that one.
But as you say, everyone likes our recent Away c/w/c too. It would have made sense to do one of those over the last few years, but no. I think the fans and players would have liked that.
Now we are doing an all white Home game this year. The only question, will it be the C/G accented white, or the monochrome white/black new version.
My guess, due to the recent release, for better or worse, it's going to be the mono version.
ISU Fans have never been great at or cared enough for the color games.
White out has never been a thing, we have never pushed section striping, and Cardinal or Gold games have always been pretty poorly participated in.
I dont know what it is, I have a few guesses, but our fans just dont do good at it. I mean 95% of cyclone fans have Cardinal gear, then probably 50% have Gold gear. Maybe 30% have black gear, but may have other black outerwear that they can or will wear. I would guess less than 20% have white gear or white outerwear. I actually dont know if I know anyone with a white coat let alone a white ISU coat.
My guess is only about 50% will actually wear the proper color on the proper day. White out might be cool but JT wont look anywhere close to PSU because their just wont be enough participation.
White out has never been a thing, we have never pushed section striping, and Cardinal or Gold games have always been pretty poorly participated in.
I dont know what it is, I have a few guesses, but our fans just dont do good at it. I mean 95% of cyclone fans have Cardinal gear, then probably 50% have Gold gear. Maybe 30% have black gear, but may have other black outerwear that they can or will wear. I would guess less than 20% have white gear or white outerwear. I actually dont know if I know anyone with a white coat let alone a white ISU coat.
My guess is only about 50% will actually wear the proper color on the proper day. White out might be cool but JT wont look anywhere close to PSU because their just wont be enough participation.
Troll alert! I'm not even sure what he ^ just said.
Not that I want to know.
Not that I want to know.
In addition, football seems harder to try a color game compared to basketball. For one, you tend to see more of the crowd on TV for football. Secondly, bball isn't weather-dependent, so fans could wear the proper color of shirt (even a blank) (in theory) ... football you need having several layering options (as I mentioned earlier).
I think it's getting a little better at Hilton with the striping games recently, still not all the way there. Who knows, maybe ISU will improve as more of these become routine/customary.
I recall JTS looked pretty good for the CBA gold-out a few years ago. But that had a direct honorary "motivation," for lack of better term, I guess.
I was over the black-and-white a long time ago. Let’s stick with school colors and variations of that.
That would be nice but it doesn’t look like it will happen
...and past shades of gold. This is likely one of the reasons Pollard does not want to change the color scheme (again).
The current cardinal is fine. I like that it is a little darker than some previous shades.
The current shade of yellow/gold has worn out its welcome (in the FB uni) in all but possibly trim, nameplates and numbers. The brightness shines there, no pun intended. The current gold is also quite good in our logos and signage. It is too bright and shiney for large swaths on uniforms (FB uni, in particular). And for our greater history, we have had a darker shade.
I hope Pollard doesn't die on this hill, but it is time for a darker shade of gold.
You'd think the AD has noticed that no one in the football team wears anything with the mustard yellow (or the I-state logo). Not sure who in the basketball team like the yellow jerseys they keep wearing.
I blame 2 things.
The 4 shaded bevel logo, which none of the companies can ever figure out which is the primary shade.
and
The constant changing shade of our primary color, over the years.
No one can agree on what is the right shade or best shade.
So you have people with gear from all different sources and timelines, including Retro themed things etc. and no consistency with any of it.
And double your dumb count and I hardly EVER dumb anyone but, this blatantly obvious troll deserved it.
The cool thing about adopting a darker shade of gold, and not completely eliminating our current mustard gold, is that the BB uniforms could have the option of using either shade (current or darker). They could even have a set of each; they are inexpensive compared to FB unis.
For some reason (I know the reason; in the BB unis nearly half the overall color scheme is in skin or flesh tone), BB unis are OK with me in the current mustard gold. But they are horrible with the FB uniforms.
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I’ll probably be dumbed to infinity on this but changing the color scheme at this point would a disaster. Not that i necessarily disagree ( I kind of do) but what’s the age of the majority of our fanbase? I’m in my middle 30’s and only remember our color schemes from the early 90’s -current which is the red/cardinal and gold with a little blue mixed in for a brief moment.
At some point you need some continuity and as the older generations (who actually remember the old gold) start decreasing in numbers then we have an entire fanbase who has no ties to what that looked like and you are basically starting from scratch again. Not to mention college fans in general would never associate those colors with Iowa state.
I like Pitts current colors but I’ll always think of them has the dark blue/gold combo ala Larry Fitzgerald.
At some point you need some continuity and as the older generations (who actually remember the old gold) start decreasing in numbers then we have an entire fanbase who has no ties to what that looked like and you are basically starting from scratch again. Not to mention college fans in general would never associate those colors with Iowa state.
I like Pitts current colors but I’ll always think of them has the dark blue/gold combo ala Larry Fitzgerald.
Which proved that it could be done, unofficially, on almost zero notice, with what we've all been told repeatedly is the color that is hardest to find and that nobody has in their closet.
On the flip side, there's a very "**** you" vibe given off by fans when the AD schedules it months in advance.
They should hand out oversized white t-shirts to slip over coats if they want the white out game to be effective.
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Might be possible with a few sponsors footing the bill. Everyone would see the names of those sponsors on the back of a shirt in front of them. Put an ISU logo on the front.
That being said, oversized for some is different for others. An oversized shirt for me is quite different than my wife or kids.
But usually they only do these things for the student section.
