WestCoastBias

21 hours ago, McCall said:

Clearly you didn't or you would've heard of him. Plus, whether or not you heard of a guy is not exactly the barometer for determining the best player in the country.

The 3 biggest games on LSU's schedule they lost. SEC wasn't very deep this year either. Idk it wasn't a good year for the Heisman but I would of given it to Penix.

2 hours ago, upperV03 said:

Leak of the new Miami home jersey (child’s replica version): 

 

This leak confirms a few things:

 

First and most significantly, the new MLS shirts will indeed be using the 2022 World Cup template still. I said it before on here, I personally am not surprised. Adidas will want their new template to be debuted on the Euro and Copa America kits, not the new MLS kits.

 

Second, Adidas is using a more saturated shade of pink for this new Miami shirt. Will be the third different shade of pink that’s been used for them.

 

Third, this confirms how the Royal Caribbean logo will look on Miami’s shirts. 

 

I like centered crests but this looks bad with the Royal Caribbean logo

6 hours ago, McCall said:

The three OSUs, ranked by popularity/recognizability, IMO:

1. Ohio State

2. Oklahoma State

3. Oregon State

No need to gate keep the use of OSU, they're all in different parts of the country so it doesn't really matter. In the PNW, if you say OSU it's Oregon State not Oklahoma State or Ohio State. 

3 hours ago, mjarvie said:

Ignorant thinking. Look, let's call a spade a spade, not everyone who watches sports is as deep into it as we are. Having OSU, while simplifying the uniform, is pretty dumb. Those casual fans don't know the difference between Ohio State, Oklahoma State, and Oregon State. They just see OSU and will ask who the opposing team is playing. Be simple and straight forward and put the school name or nickname on the jersey. It's not that hard.

These were Oregon State's previous jerseys, which they wore all throughout March Madness on their Elite Eight run, with an insanely small Oregon State which in my opinion is worse than a OSU that may or may not confuse casual fans.

Above are the womens team's jerseys which is what the mens team should do too. But there is nothing wrong or "ignorant" with the mens team Oregon State using their acronym either, casual fans be damned. I'm sure the baseball team does just fine with casual fans using OSU.

College football is such a joke now from the super conferences spanning the entire country formed by greedy TV networks to NIL, the transfer portal, and coaching changes effectively making bowl games pointless and now an undefeated Power 5 champ gets left out of the playoff over a one loss team that needed a miracle to beat  a 6-6 team two weeks ago. 

13 hours ago, stumpygremlin said:

I know that, which goes back to my point about the "OSU" Oregon State jerseys. I said that they should say "OREGON STATE" or "BEAVERS", and not "OSU", since there are two OSU's that have black and orange as their colors.

Oregon State doesn't need to do that because their name is OSU, it doesn't matter at all if there's other OSU's

11 hours ago, stumpygremlin said:

Osu - Wikipedia

OSU is both, hence the need for this disambiguation page. Yes, Oregon State did adopt an "OSU" name first, but both commonly use OSU.

 

Fun fact: osu.edu takes you to Ohio State.

Yeah there can be multiple OSU's

On 11/30/2023 at 8:01 AM, stumpygremlin said:

My problem with these is the fact that the script says "OSU". There's another OSU school (Oklahoma State) that uses black and orange as its colors, so why not just spell out "Oregon State"?

Because Oregon State is OSU

6 hours ago, Mingjai said:

You’re right. I’d imagine UCLA-USC would fit well in the B1G’s rivalry week lineup during the USC at Notre Dame years. I image the B1G will move some rivalry week games to Friday night to keep their broadcast partners happy.

 

I guess the other option for the B1G is to market a late October/early November mini-rivalry week for the B1G teams with secondary rivals and always have UCLA-USC there along with Michigan-Michigan State and Minnesota-Iowa.

UCLA has told the B1G that it wants to end every year with USC now, as they should. 

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-11-20/ucla-usc-football-rival-regular-season-finale-big-ten

B1G and ACC would need to come to an agreement probably to continue the usual final game rotation involving Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and ND. 

30 minutes ago, McCall said:

Never heard of Purina?

Dog food... Surely St Louis can do do better. Can they not get Budweiser/Bud Light? Edward Jones?

Why can't MLS get more well known companies for sponsorships? I understand it for less popular teams in smaller markets but LAFC, Galaxy, Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami are premier teams and all have not very well known or just weird sponsors. 

Only teams I can think of with well known sponsors are:

Charlotte - Ally (at least for me)

Austin - Yeti 

Toronto - BMO (big in Canada I guess)

Minnesota - Target

NYC teams - Kind of? But they are owned by them so not as cool

On 11/14/2023 at 6:15 AM, Gary said:

Knowing Crow it'll be someone who values education first and set the athletic program back another 30 years 

Universities shouldn't value education first??

On 11/15/2023 at 2:59 PM, TenaciousG said:

Yeah, it’s new. I don’t get it, but at least it’s something unique.

 

Still waiting on the following from Wazzu:

-1998 Rose Bowl throwbacks

-2003ish era throwbacks

-Retro WSC Cougar on the helmets

-Get rid of the boring mix and match monochrome stuff with either no gray or no crimson 

 

Maybe someday…

Perhaps a hot take here but the Cougs uniforms are fantastic, they just don't need that dark gray. I wish the Beavs could mix and match like WSU. 

4 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

Wyo really has one of the best uniform sets in CFB. There's something to be said about applying a rather nontraditional colorway to a traditional template; it just "does" something. That plus their own (upgraded) custom number font--and the fact that THANKFULLY--and let's hope this holds--they've yet to delve into unnecessary gray or black alternates (or, if memory serves me correctly, really any alternates aside from their yellow jerseys, now that I think about it).

 

I think the only other thing I'd like to see them try out with this current set is a pair of brown pants with the same braisher stripe as their brown jerseys. I don't think they've had brown pants of any kind since sometime around the mid-late '90s when Marcus Harris was tearing up receiving records.

 

(Kind of a funny coincidence: the guy who ended up breaking Harris' all-time receiving records also wore brown...well, sometimes...while in college. Want a further mindfreak? That guy's college head coach currently coaches the CFB team that plays in Harris' hometown...)

On 11/10/2023 at 7:19 PM, Ridleylash said:

Plenty of teams do it, like the Mavs, Bulls, Hawks, Raptors, Knicks, Nets, Sixers...it's not an uncommon practice.

Must be a relic when NBA divisions meant something? Did they ever mean something? In my lifetime they haven't at least.

On 11/8/2023 at 12:04 PM, Cujo said:

Denver's recent addition.

 

I never knew winning your division in basketball warranted a banner, or even being called a champion.

I think these courts are 

On 10/12/2023 at 2:00 PM, upperV03 said:

Circling back to this, here are the black uniforms:

 

These are a lot better than the whites IMO, though I feel like the wordmark is still a tad too small and I once again find it really odd that the shorts don’t have the Beaver head on them.

And here are the orange unis

It gives me Motor City FC vibes

wtf were they thinking

oh no

It's an improvement yet could be better yet better than expected all in one. 

11 hours ago, Squeezee12 said:

Man I really miss the O on the side of the helmets…

Agreed, it's such a better look than the wings. 

4 hours ago, Webfooter said:

Looks like further confirmation that Oregon will be wearing green jerseys and black pants this weekend but I can't tell if they'll be wearing green or black helmets (personally I think it'll be black.)

 

Makes sense for Oregon to wear black against a team who's colors include black

3 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

Like Oregon has done since Chip Kelly left

Lol cmon don't make me defend the Ducks, we all know that ain't true.