WestCoastBias

24 minutes ago, Kevin W. said:

 

Very solid, they fit in well with the football teams uniforms too. I was hoping for some side panels but I still like these.

No red uniforms though?

On 9/27/2022 at 9:06 AM, Dilbert said:

LA Galaxy will host LAFC to open next season at their former home, the Rose Bowl, in February 2023. The league will have an unbalanced schedule next season and LAFC and LA Galaxy will play each other three times. One at LAFC, one in Carson and a second Galaxy home game played in Pasadena.

 

I like this idea. I could see many of the teams play three derby games each year with one at a larger site.  I like the Galaxy and Earthquakes at Stanford. I could see others like Red Bulls and NYCFC at MetLife, Columbus and Cincinnati at Ohio Stadium, Houston/Austin at Dallas in the Cotton Bowl. This could bring an edge to the rivalries and bring in higher attendance.

I'll definitely try to make that game, seems like a great idea to me. I love the Rose Bowl and haven't been to a Galaxy game in years. Getting down to Carson is kind of a hassle and I refuse to go to a LAFC game even though their stadium looks amazing. Idk why but LAFC just gives me weird vibes and I also don't like overly try hard fans who think they're in Europe or South America.

1 minute ago, McCall said:

If your dream for the PAC was BYU and Colorado State, then that validates everyone trying to bail.

Sorry for wishing for a regional conference of like minded universities, aside from BYU playing the outcast villain role, instead of a dumb nation wide super conference.  Big 12 teams have no business being in the Pac-12 and Pac-12 teams have no business being in the Big 12, and of course Pac-12 teams should not be in the B1G.

2 hours ago, Digby said:

The England aways really need navy shorts as the default choice. The bloodclot look doesn't suit them. Also not sure about all the light blue trim... as much as I love a design that successfully omits white, the light blue is maybe too cute and it causes the numbers to clash with the also-bright red. Maybe the numbers need to be navy too.

I'm thinking white shorts with some kind of red, navy, and light blue striping/trim

Until this past summer, my dream Pac-14 was as follows...

Arizona

Arizona State

BYU

California

Colorado

Colorado State

Oregon

Oregon State

Stanford

UCLA

USC

Utah

Washington

Washington State

BYU was the last remaining G5 football program in the West that could actually be a successful P5 program. BYU has a massive fanbase, a lot of money, a stadium that would be the 4th largest in the Pac-14, and the historical success/brand (past National Championship & Heisman) needed to grab television attention. The addition of BYU would also make one of the countries fiercest rivalries, the Holy War with Utah, a Pac-14 conference game now played during rivalry week instead of early in the year. BYU though was never a real possibility due to its religious affiliation, strict student honor code, and conservative politics that clash heavily with the ideology of the rest of the conference. However, I think these vast idealogical differences would have made for must see games which was already evident with many of BYU's past games vs Pac-12 opponents. 

Colorado State would have been a massive gamble for the Pac-14. They are not a historically great football program nor do they have a massive fanbase like BYU. CSU certainly does not bring eye balls to the conference.  They do though fit in very well culturally and academically with the rest of the conference (enrollment, research, academic rankings, etc.), especially with the other ag schools, Washington State and Oregon State. The real hope in adding them would be to light a fire underneath Colorado's ass. Colorado has no real rivals in the Pac-12 right now and adding their little brother who have actually invested quite a lot in football the past decade (new stadium and facilities but they just can't hire an actually decent head coach) would force CU to care about football or risk falling behind to CSU. Jim McElwain also proved recently that CSU can be a successful football program. Hopefully with both major state schools in Colorado now in a P5 conference together, the state would begin to actually care about college football more too.

The final part of the new Pac-14 would have be that EVERY school would play their in state rival on campus during rivalry week. This means no neutral site games in Denver for CSU-CU and that Cal-Stanford and USC-UCLA play every rivalry weekend, no more catering to Notre Dame letting them end every season in California then go straight into recruiting West Coast players that should be staying in the Pac-14 footprint. And of course the Pac-14 Championship Game is played every year in Las Vegas. 

Some elite looks for France and Germany.

Really like the Portugal aways too. 

Not as much of a fan of the full England away kit now, maybe too much red idk?

4 hours ago, WSU151 said:

It looks like Arizona has ditched the navy facemasks this year (which is a downgrade in my opinion); all four games so far have white helmet/white mask:

 

I like the white face masks more.

I love Arizona's uniforms, one of the best looks in the Pac-12. But I think they should bring back their old custom number font.

5 hours ago, WestCoastBias said:

Looks like Oregon State is going with their orange uniforms for the USC game this weekend. The Beavs do have a history of knocking off highly ranked Trojans at home while wearing orange...

 

 

And the combo for OSU is black/orange/black...

And like @upperV03 mentioned, it's a callback to 2008 when the unranked Beavs upset #1 USC in Corvallis. Also, with their impending move to the B1G this is very likely the last time USC ever plays at Reser Stadium. All I got to say about that is... Go Beavs.

2 hours ago, -Akronite- said:

 

These uniforms are 

They're perfect one game a year alternates for Ohio State.

5 minutes ago, upperV03 said:

They’re very likely gonna go black/orange/black, which is the combo they wore in 2008 when they beat the then-#1 ranked Trojans. If so, it’ll be just the second time for them wearing that combo with their current set (the first being last year against Idaho). Personally, I’m hoping they go black/orange/cream, which they haven’t worn yet with this set. They wore black/orange/white in their 2010 win over USC.

I'd like to see black/orange/black, it just feels like the right combo for a night game.

Knowing OSU and they reluctance to mix and match with this uniform set though I wouldn't be surprised if it was black/orange/orange. 

23 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

 

I hadn't thought about what the jersey would look without white, so I made a crappy five minute mockup.

 

I like the real one better, personally. Though neither of them are really that bad.

 

Neither are really that bad but neither are really that good. 

44 minutes ago, 29texan said:

TCU's new Southwestern Zig Zag uniforms:
 

Only thing I'd change is on the purple uniforms, the stripe is black in between the white instead of more purple. It would make the red stand out more.

 

 

TCU going all in on the red now?  Is this the first time the basketball team has used it?

That striping is awesome though, get rid of the red and these uniforms are some of the best in the country.

Looks like Oregon State is going with their orange uniforms for the USC game this weekend. The Beavs do have a history of knocking off highly ranked Trojans at home while wearing orange...

Some new uniforms in the Pac-12 on the women's side...

Some closer looks at OSU's uniforms. I like these more than the men's uniforms.

23 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Maryland teasing a (presumably throwback) helmet for their Michigan State game in two weeks. My money is on a script helmet

 

 

City of San Jose inspired black uniforms for SJSU. Getting very strong late 2000's San Jose Earthquakes vibes from these.

3 minutes ago, GriffinM6 said:

The issue isn't really the stripes themselves. It's the Nike logo that pushes everything down a bunch. In college it looks fine. 

This.

This board hates the swoosh on the front of any uniform but it's gotta happen for the sake of getting back full sleeve stripes in the NFL.

Only three Nike kits have the weird different colored neck triangle thing and the US is the only one with it on their home kit. Seems like most countries realized how bad of a look it is and refused to have it, especially on their home kits, but not the US. Adidas still won the round of World Cup kits but Nike didn't do all that bad, aside from the US disaster.

And poor Canada has to keep their Nike catalog kits, that's a bummer. 

1 hour ago, FiddySicks said:

I agree with this but I still think their time in Orange County proper is just about done. It’s just more prosperous further north. 

Long Beach or maybe the South Bay would be the furthest north (or west I should say) I could see them going. They've been in Anaheim for over 50 years, they can't go too far out of Orange County and risk alienating their whole fanbase. Long Beach or the South Bay gets them into LA County and opens them up to actually challenging the Dodgers for fans but close enough to still get their OC fans. They definitely should not double down on the OC and move further south (Santa Ana, Irvine, Tustin, etc.).

On 9/12/2022 at 6:42 PM, SSmith48 said:

Nike seems to be all over the place with designs this cycle. Some are awesome, others should go straight in the trash. Makes what they designed for the USA look like some of the worse they've designed yet. Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar (minus centered crest), and Australia are the strongest of the looks IMO.

I agree Qatar's kits are both great, I like them a lot even the centered crest. The Poland away kit is also beautiful, I might buy one . 

I think England's away kit will end up being the best Nike kit judging off the leaks. 

2 minutes ago, aawagner011 said:

I don’t know if it’s actually happening, but there are heavy rumors that Auburn is bringing out orange jerseys for this weekend against Penn State. They are definitely wearing orange facemasks.

 

I believe it’s been decades since they’ve done that.

 

 

 

In recent memory, they’ve done orange and white facemasks, gray facemasks with the “AU” on one side and “7” on the other to honor a former Heisman winner, and a fauxback with a logoless helmet and gray facemasks back in 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

Auburn doesn’t usually change things up, so this would be a big deal.

An orange jersey would be awesome, I hope it happens. The fans are doing an orange-out right?

Is that a new Under Armour template?

No way the Angels leave the Los Angeles market, that'd be the stupidest thing the team has ever done.

1 hour ago, Danny the Sheeb said:

Can we please shoot this trend in the head?  It's not 2015 anymore.

 

On a conciliatory note, I've always thought Marching Willie would be a decent helmet logo.  (I'm actually wearing a Marching Willie shirt at this moment.)

Unpopular opinion...

Retro mascot logos like this rarely look good on helmets.