I didn't realize those guys were design/art students. Maybe Joe Washington can paint all the shoes.Originally Posted by cvsooner
I didn't realize those guys were design/art students. Maybe Joe Washington can paint all the shoes.
I'd bet they played that video at the reveal. Hell, I started getting geeked up by the music. They kids probably wanted to wreck the joint with the jams pumping and the new unis strolling in.
They look a little Louisville, but still cool. It's hard to break from our badass traditional unis. Odds are that these won't last long. If we win, I don't care too much about the new look.
I'm working up a Rondo thirst.
Aweful! Also no stripe on the pants. Hate the tiger striped helmets, though they are saying it is a"wood" grain pattern, still stupid! One of things I liked about watching the Sugar Bowl was that BOTH teams were in tradional uniforms, and you KNEW who was playing. Now the teams look like arena football, and lesser schools TRYING to look important.
agreed. I really don't care, but there's something to be said for simplicity and old school style. In the same way that having a matte finish black corvette with non-glare, tinted windows would be cool.
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
Most people knew. My wife, on the other hand, kept forgetting which team was which.
Never have been a fan of gimmicky uniforms. Tradition rich schools should stick with tradition and let wannabes tinker with Arena League uniform combinations.
I vote thumbs down.
But they didn't ask me.
Not crazy about them.
Aries
I will add that at LEAST they didn't add gray and black and green and extra colors to our palette of possible combinations like the morons in stillwater.
that would have really made me flip out.
The only thing I like is putting OKLAHOMA across the chest in place of SOONERS.
But I'm an old stick in the mud. . .change is bad. Leave things alone. Been fine for 100 years, should be fine for another 100.
But they didn't ask me. . .and as long as we win, I don't care if they were sparkles and tap shoes.
FINALLY! I've been saying for years that college football needed more tree bark pattern.
I don't want to see these duds against anyone but the East Popcorn States of the world.
La ola es mía.
Totally agree. In the 90s, the home reds were Sooners and road whites were Oklahoma. I always thought both should be Oklahoma and, instead, they changed them both to Sooners.
I went away from the internet to let you all have your say. Now I'll have mine... in motivational poster format:
Are they giving a nod to the 20th anniversary of the baseball NC with the "home plate" collar design?
La ola es mía.
You, too, can spike your armpit, pay homage to the 1994 baseball team, recall a simpler time where "Oklahoma" was on the front of our jerseys and whatever the hell else Nike claims for a low, low cost of $134.95*
*No name on the back of the jersey but of course
Those collars look stupid and they look like the players will be pulling them down when they need to let off some steam.
If you had a quarter for every time OSU beat OU you'd have $16.
when you look at it from behind it looks like a baseball jersey... might be onto something with the '94 nat'l title pricetag:
All of the pants have stripes. They used the same stripe pattern they used on the Nike Pro Combat uniforms we have worn in the past.
It didn't really matter what the new alternate uniform looked like, there was going to be initial push-back. We have one of the few traditional uniforms in all of college football, so even a minor change would draw the ire of some (see last year's RRR uniforms). This was a much bigger step, and there is no way OU & Nike didn't know there would be some folks upset.
Since we already had (IMO) the best looking uniform in college football, anything was going to be a step back. But, in this day and age, recruits/players want options. So, we ended up with a couple of alternate looks.
I was thinking last night "wow, that's two huge announcements in less than a week". Then it kinda hit me, that was done purposely. Like I said, we've had such a traditional look, for so long, there was going to be push-back. So, why not "announce" the changes on the heels of the stadium renovation project?! At least that way the blowback will be toned down.
In the end, the players/recruits are very excited about these, and that's really what matters, as it directly relates to winning on the field.
There's a nice graphic showing how the Sooners' uniforms have changed from 1890 on that's worth a browse at the site originally noted with the new uniforms. Some of them are pretty wild, indeed.
Despite the abysmal way we've played in them in the past, I haven't been against having alternate jerseys. Maybe if there were clearer pictures of the helmet in profile it would be easier to decide, but as far as the jerseys go, I don't much care for them. The armpit spikes and color blocking just look awkward to me.
The enduring image of Oklahoma was that ridiculous double–middle finger of a game-icing kick. It was probably an accident, which somehow made it more, not less, insulting. It was as though Stoops had partied so hard on the corpse of the SEC that he woke up with an unplanned tattoo.
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