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23 hours ago, Htown1141 said:

Their templates have been really strong since 2019

Their only good templates are the cheap ones they give to lower-level schools and schools that are leaving them for another manufacturer. The super-stretchy material they've been pushing on all their other clients for the last 14(?) years has never looked good and will never look good no matter how many minor tweaks they make around the margins.

As far as primary looks go, they just downgraded NC State and Kansas this offseason. Last year, they turned Georgia Tech's uniforms into an eyesore with mismatched shades of gold. A couple years ago, they made pointless changes to Texas A&M by removing the racing stripes and making the number font uglier for no reason. Even when Adidas comes up with a solid look, it only lasts a couple years and gets replaced with something worse.

They might not be as bad as they were in the 2010s, but they're still pretty bad. College football is in desperate need of more brands to compete with them, Nike and UA.

20 hours ago, JustABallCoach said:

You might not like the looks, but this is just not true. NC State is one of the premier Adidas schools and has had access others do not. 

NC State's uniforms have historically been so boring regardless of manufacturer. At some point, it has to be the athletic department's fault for wanting to look bland.

That's why I always defended the outgoing uniforms with the different take on Northwestern stripes (even the slashes never bothered me). It's the only time ever, or at least in recent memory, that a neutral fan could turn on a game and know right away that NC State was playing. The new look returns to the historical norm of making them blend into the background. Not exactly an ideal branding move for a perennial .500ish program with no major accomplishments.

3 hours ago, NOLAPelicans23 said:

The In-Season Tournament really just wanted to understand how EJ's Neat-O Stat of the Night has felt 

In-Season Tournament rings, Erneh!

19 hours ago, aawagner011 said:

Nothing new, but still interesting: Dawg Nation (part of the Atlanta Journal Constitution) did a deep dive on Georgia uniforms over the years, including various tweaks, alternates, and prototypes that were never worn. They also speculate a bit about the often worn white helmet seen on recruiting visits.

 

https://www.dawgnation.com/junkyard-blawg/alternate-dawgs-uniforms/FG2LNM7Y2VENLODOJS2SW6KIGU/

Interesting article. I had no recollection of UGA ever wearing red-over-black, but I can see why they never tried it again. It just looks off.

Those Kansas uniforms are high-schoolish at best. A clear downgrade from what they had before, which was already nothing special.

Purdue made it work.

On 7/2/2023 at 12:18 AM, monkeypower said:

 

Reebok did better with the Jets previous set than Nike did. Nike messed it up with the mismatching greens and the more pronounced shoulder cut out, which is because the Nike jersey was the Colts jersey with a coloured sleeve, so it added an extra white line that didn't need to be there.

 

 

The one improvement Nike made, I guess, would be the moving down of the logo onto the chest.

This feels like cherrypicking. Reebok did a better job with the QB cuts, I guess, but for many players, their jerseys didn't look any better than Nike's. Maybe the shade of green looked a little nicer, but they had the exact same problems with the stripes:

I would have liked to see the Sacramento script on one of those jerseys, but overall not too bad.

11 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

I said awhile ago and I’ll say it again now. None of these City Connect unis have been good. Not a single one. They’ve ranged from “Oh, that’s weird, but not awful I guess” to straight up 

 

None of these have been valuable enough to keep in the current rotation. It’s all been convoluted garbage that’ll end up selling for discount at Ross in big numbers. 

The White Sox and Marlins nailed it, in my opinion. If the White Sox ever want to update their uniforms, they should base them off the City Connects.

Seattle and Colorado were also thisclose to getting it right but flubbed the color schemes.

Doesn't the MLB have a PR department? Shouldn't they be reminding Manfred to stop talking because he's a jackass?

2 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

 

i swear, nobody hates the nhl more than the people who run it.

I wonder how much of this is just Fanatics cheaping out.

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

Jordan Poole and his 4-year $140 million contract.

 

I can't believe anyone in the league would take that contract on, bail out the Warriors, and only get an additional late first round pick.

 

Washington doesn't have to be the garbage can of the league, but they sure seem happy to.

CP3 is 38 years old, can barely move out there anymore, and is still overpaid.

At least the Wizards can talk themselves into Poole regaining his form now that he's away from the toxic environment where everybody blamed him for getting punched.

I like the idea of a Honolulu Blue helmet. I don't like that they just randomly stuck a throwback logo on there. Feels like something a MAC school would do, not an NFL franchise.

2 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

https://wkusports.com/news/2023/6/21/wku-football-unveils-new-uniforms
 

New Western Kentucky uniforms. Points for stripes on helmets, jersey and pants, minus big points for keeping the chrome helmets around. 

So pretty much Louisville with Maryland's helmets.

On 6/18/2023 at 9:12 PM, fortunat1 said:

While the circumstances are unfortunate, a move to Las Vegas gives the A's the perfect opportunity to adopt their superior logo (and color scheme) full time. The current logo just isn't as good as this one.

I never noticed until now that both the A and the s look different in the roundel logo than they do on the cap logo.

This is one of the most pointless redesigns in recent memory. The new, less-sickly shade of orange is a welcome improvement. But beyond that, it feels like they randomly changed a couple things just to say they changed things. It's a shame, since their uniforms are far from perfect and there was real potential for substantive changes to make them look better (starting with getting rid of those stupid-looking nameplates).

What bothers me the most is the single-layer TV numbers. They make the whole uniform look like a cheap screenprint job they ordered from a catalog.

2 hours ago, kimball said:

 

It's a Blipboard, they didn't pay much for it. 

It still probably cost more than their roster's payroll.

8 hours ago, bosrs1 said:

They haven’t wasted any time have they…

 

I'm surprised those cheapskates were willing to spring for an actual billboard. I would have expected one of those spraypainted vinyl banners you see on bridges over the highway.

I doubt they're going to throw back to an unused prototype, but I do like that idea and wish teams would actually do that sometimes.

4 minutes ago, bosrs1 said:

 

 

I mean he’s completely wrong on the ballpark part, but he’s dead on with the reverse boycott. Getting a literal average sized MLB crowd after 2 months of campaigning felt a bit underwhelming. I was hoping they’d near sellout but alas… It was too little too late anyway.

The reverse boycott drew about the same as the max capacity at the new ballpark in Vegas that Manfred is so excited about.

That quote was straight out of the Mark Fabiani playbook, except it's even more unbecoming when it's the commissioner of the entire sport saying it.

Wow. This guy doesn't just hate baseball, he resents the paying customers too.

1 hour ago, Chromatic said:

As far as "worst uniforms to lift the cup" I think a lot of people are sleeping on this

 

 

Yes it is associated with the best era in Capitals history, but its still not a good uniform imho. 

 

 

I don't think the design is bad, especially compared to the real Edge disasters, although I do think it would have worked better for a team like Nashville instead of the Caps. Certainly it's not an eyesore like this.

Never mind, misread the post.

12 hours ago, _RH_ said:

Will Vegas' gold jerseys be the ugliest to ever hoist the cup?  Off the top of my head, yes!

No, and it's not even close when the 2007 Ducks, 2009 Penguins and 2016 Penguins exist. Vegas' gold jerseys actually look good.

It was called JerseyDatabase.com and it's been offline for years.