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Mingjai

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  1. Disagree on Coastal's field looking great under any circumstances. The field looks like old-school Astroturf (or various knock-offs), which is not a good thing.
  2. Ugh. Rival game and the Gophers don’t even wear school colors. This is a game that should be color versus color: Gophers in gold and Wisconsin in red.
  3. Or this one, every bit as good as UCLA-USC:
  4. Right, but by translating it as "branch" as opposed to "campus" creates the perception is that it's the subordinate branch to the University of California, which rightly or wrongly everyone perceives as Berkeley.
  5. Of course, if you're going global recognition, Stanford and Berkeley are easily the biggest brands in the Pac 12. And Northwestern and Duke are without question the biggest brands in the B1G and ACC. These schools struggle to compete with schools Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UChicago, and NYU for global brand recognition. That's primarily because very few outside of the US except US expats care about college athletics. And I doubt international merchandise sales drive much value. Based on my experience in Asia (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea), I wouldn't characterize UCLA's recognition as huge. It's a known school, but just within the Pac 12, UCLA is definitely behind Stanford and Berkeley, and probably behind USC as well. Heck, in Chinese, UCLA's name is "California University, Los Angeles Branch," making the school seem like some branch school, inferior or subordinate in some way. (For the record, in Chinese just as in English, Berkeley is usually known as Berkeley. Or sometimes you here people call it "California University," the equivalent of Cal I suppose.)
  6. Unless one team is willing to go gold jerseys, I don't see the game working out well as navy versus black. I always watch Army-Navy, but never consistently cheer for a specific school (my family ties are to the Air Force). Generally I cheer either for the underdog or for the team with the better uniforms. Looks like it's "Go Army, Beat Navy" again for me this year.
  7. I prefer metallic gold. Idaho should be metallic silver and metallic gold with black accents. The state and school colors are silver and gold. It's a very underused color combination.
  8. Yep, I remember those uniforms.
  9. I'm in the eliminate altogether camp. Their school colors are so amazing, to use anything else dilutes the effect.
  10. Maybe it's the juxtaposition of seeing them with a team wearing gold helmets and horrible mustard pants that tricks your mind into thinking that both teams are mismatched.
  11. Is lack of contrast a euphemism for ugly?
  12. I think nominally these are alternates, but they shouldn’t be:
  13. Looks like BYU is halfassing a Gifford Nielsen throwback when they play at Houston this week (Go Cougars!). All they did was switch the normal facemasks to grey--no old school helmet logo, no TV numbers on the sleeve (though I'm not sure where numbers would fit). Maybe what they actually wear in the game will be different, but I'm not holding my breath. This is basically like the Manning era Colts wearing black shoes and saying the Unitas look was back.
  14. If they really wanted to channel the Ligue 1, they would be called AS Saint-Louis.
  15. The blue hen is a specific breed or strain of chicken that is the state bird of Delaware. Apparently there are male blue hen chickens. Agreed. It’s up to the teams what they prefer to be called. Louisiana Tech women’s basketball still goes by Lady Techsters. And Hawaii women sports teams are called the Rainbow Wahine.
  16. The old logo--though not without its flaws--has character. The new logo is generic among current designs, though I do like the mountains incorporated into the shield. They really should have just focused on cleaning up the old tiger.
  17. Me too. Logo updates are really all that was necessary. The name is fine.
  18. I agree with this. General discussion is broad enough that anything, including news, qualifies. But in the news forum there is plenty of discussion goes beyond simply news and should be put under general discussion. It’s hard to draw a distinction between the two. A better solution would be to go back to the combined forum and allow topics to be tagged as either “News” or “General” and add the ability to filter along those two broad categories. If for some reason someone wants to filter on one or the other they can do so, otherwise if they want to view the two together, they can also do that.
  19. Maybe I need to post this in the News forum, otherwise it won't get the views.
  20. For the record, I don't like that we're now making a distinction between News and General Discussion. Most of the posts in the News topics would qualify as general discussion. If we had a vote, I would say recombine the two forums. Also, if there is already a topic for this, please point me in the right direction so I can make my opinion known there.
  21. Probably applies to all schools, not just the small ones, because even big schools may skimp and have someone in the athletic department take a stab at the added variants.
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