Here’s all we need. Many will beg to differ, I’m sure.
* Current home basic
* Gold helmet with home basic
* White helmet for all-white road look (if cardinal-white-cardinal is off the table)
* Bruce-era road-uni for Iowa game, regardless of location (might as well)
* Trice throwback on special occasions, with some viable solution to having those ridiculous white numerals
* Can go all-gold once per season
* Occasional use of walking-Cy on the helmet, with the rest of the standard outfit.
That provides plenty of variety (to “excite recuits,†if nothing else) but also keeps the branding and is identifiable as “Iowa State.â€
And, as if I haven’t mentioned it before: helmet stripes to match the piping.