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On 4/17/2023 at 4:00 PM, oldschoolvikings said:

I’m happy they’re dumping the over done flag stuff, but I wouldn’t have just gone back to the throwback uniform. It looks more like a tribute uniform than a regular look.  
 

They should used that uniform as the basis for something new, something that closely references that uniform but has a better color distribution and updates the clunky elements. 

Who are you and what have you done to OSV?

(I completely agree, for the record)

As 2023-24 will be the Magic's 35th anniversary, I'm expecting that 1989 throwbacks will be back once again. In 2013-14 they brought back black, in 2018-19 they brought back blue, so I'm guessing they'll go with white this time around. However, I could also see it being the TMac jerseys, since those have been increasingly popular over the last few seasons and were referenced in the most recent Statement design. Time will tell.

On 4/20/2023 at 8:08 PM, kb105 said:

Excited to hear what y'all think, especially any of those that live or have lived in the area that might be able to give some insights to your high school.

A series like this is exactly what I've wanted to do for a long time, but never got around to it (I think did Timber Creek and Apopka, but nothing after), so needless to say I'm very interested! Boone looks great, I don't really have much to say about them.

As for specific high school suggestions, I went to Timber Creek so I have some on them. In the past, we used to break out the black pants for big games like Clemson does with their orange pants. That tradition ended over the last few years, with all black becoming much more common, but I'd love if that was brought back because the blackout game (usually against either Winter Park or University) was always the best attended and most fun to be at. However, despite going on that whole tangent about the blackouts, might I suggest that the primary color be changed to purple? A bunch of other OCPS schools use black but IIRC no one else uses purple, and the branding of the school aside from the football team is always purple first. It'd give us a much more unique identity in football than right now.

I wouldn't go as far as "worst uniform in the league", and I'm mostly fine with it on the away (although I still prefer white pants for those), but I wholeheartedly agree that the yellow pants make the home significantly worse. There has never once been a good uniform where all 3 elements were different colors and the helmet was the lightest of them. Someone will probably quote this with pictures of teams that have done that and "looked good" before, but I don't care. Every single one is ugly and would be much improved if one of those 3 colors were either in a different order or one was taken away.

2 minutes ago, upperV03 said:

Feel pretty confident that Orlando’s new primary will look close to this:

If this is it, looks like I'll be buying my first new jersey since 2017. Love that they're finally leaning back into gold.

37 minutes ago, WBeltz said:

Minnesota United’s jacket has a “3D” crest on it. Maybe it’ll use some kind of Japan design from their WC, or in a manner similar?

 

Only thing that came to mind when I saw that logo:

16 hours ago, upperV03 said:

- Orlando finally with metallic gold accents again.

 

YESSSSSSSSS

2 hours ago, Silent Wind of Doom said:

@GrayJ12, here's the updates!

 

 

@PrimalCookie, welcome to the party!

 

 

@jbird669, I've got your dawgs.  Already had the trophy ready.

 

 

@maxwasson, glad to have you here after you were looking for me before.  I've worked with the Jayhawks before and had them ready to go, but I've got silver runner-up trophies for the times they've made it to the final game.  Do you want Final Four instead of that for those instances?

Thank you!

Florida's adding a black alternate. No idea when they'll be revealed, or what they'll look like (it could follow the same template as the rest of football, look more similar to the ones basketball wears, or be something new entirely) but Napier said it'll be worn in the game closest to Veterans Day. This year, that'd be @ LSU, but I'm guessing it'll actually be the week prior at home against Arkansas so they can show it off to the home fans.

23 hours ago, MJD7 said:

I wouldn’t mind it if not for the stripes. Normally it seems the Bears almost always match their jersey with their socks, so that the stripes match. Having the “home” stripes on the jersey and the “away” stripes on the socks just bugged me.

I'm also bugged by the sleeve stripes being white-orange-white and the pants stripes being orange-white-orange. All white also has the same issue, with the pants not having the white in between the navy and orange. I'm usually not a "striping consistency above all else" type of guy, and it doesn't usually matter because they almost never go monochrome, but when they do it bothers me a good bit.

Hi @Silent Wind of Doom Could I please have

- Orlando Magic 1994-95 and 2008-09 Eastern Conference champions

- Orlando City 2011 and 2013 USL Pro champions + 2022 US Open Cup champions

- Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2002 and 2020 Super Bowls

- Tampa Bay Rays 2008 and 2020 AL pennants

- Florida football 1996, 2006, and 2008 national champions + 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2008 SEC champions

- Florida basketball 2006 and 2007 national champions

- Florida baseball 2017 national champions

- Werder Bremen 1964-65, 1987-88, 1992-93, and 2003-04 Bundesliga champions

- Greg Biffle 2000 NASCAR Truck Series and 2002 NASCAR Busch Series champion

- Tyler Reddick 2018 and 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion

Thanks!

1 hour ago, Ridleylash said:

Sun Devils introduce another new uniform to their assortment, and it looks really friggin' cool;

The numbers are a bit much, but this should become an all sports thing for ASU. Looks amazing

6 hours ago, pelicanfan said:

same old same old. wish they would take inspiration from the city they play in or the team that plays in that city. also what’s up with the hornets/hawks esque font?

Is it just me or is that ad a decent bit larger than usual? I hope it's just me.

15 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Seattle of late seems to really enjoy having ugly uniforms.

 

I can't really remember the last one I loved. The pink one had promise, but it was an ugly shade of pink. Maybe the 2016 title set?

I was a pretty big fan of these ones:

Plain, sure, but I really liked the turquoise details.

25 minutes ago, upperV03 said:

Unlike Georgia and Ohio State, looks like they didn’t receive the new Vapor FUSE uniforms. Not all that surprising IMO, they didn’t even switch over to the Vapor Untouchable template until 2019. Nike’s probably had the template switch for programs like UGA, tOSU, Alabama, SC, etc. in the works for a couple of years, whereas for TCU it could be another year or two. I would fully expect Michigan to have the new template.

That, and their current collar (ish) design probably doesn't mesh well with the new template's front seam.

6 hours ago, Sport said:

I know. My system is simple: Take the 4 best conference champions. If one of them has 2 or more losses then I don't care because they took the path to the 4 team playoff that was outlined to every team before the season in the FBS. Win your conference or you can't gripe. It would be purely based on results on the field, still exclusive for the regular season games to matter same as they always have, turns the conference championship games into games with some actual stakes, essentially turning them into playoff games of their own, and it would lessen the power of  committee bullshirt. 

These statements contradict each other. How do regular season games matter if Utah, who lost 3 games (one of which to a 6-6 Florida who lost to *Vanderbilt*), makes it over TCU, who didn't lose at all in the regular season and then lost (in OT!) against a top 10 team they'd already beaten a few weeks earlier*? In your system, only one game matters, nothing else.

*This is more of a problem with doing a round robin and then a redundant CCG after that, but it still applies as long as that's how we're determining the champion of 10 team conferences.

10 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

you know, I'm starting to think the BCS should come back.

It'd work this year, sure, but I think 2019 was a perfect example of why the BCS was broken. We had 13-0 LSU, 13-0 Ohio State, and 13-0 Clemson. Who do you leave out? There's no good answer. That possibility alone makes the 4 team playoff better than the BCS.

35 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Either way, that 12 team playoff can’t come soon enough. 

Assuming Michigan and Clemson win, the bracket would probably look something like this:

#12 Tulane @ #5 Ohio State

- Winner plays #4 Utah*

#11 Penn State @ #6 TCU

- Winner plays #3 Clemson*

#10 Kansas State @ #7 Alabama

- Winner plays #2 Michigan

#9 Tennessee @ #8 USC

- Winner plays #1 Georgia

*Byes can only go to conference champions, so Utah and Clemson jump up

Sign me up!

If I was a betting man, I'd bet some serious money that the final rankings will be

1. Georgia

2. Michigan

3. TCU

4. Ohio State

2 losses has always been a dealbreaker to the committee, even for conference champions, so I'd be genuinely shocked if Alabama's in. They'll then swap TCU and Ohio State so we don't have a first round rematch between Michigan and OSU.

12 hours ago, Seadragon76 said:

Thanks a lot, Utah. You done screwed the conference over again.

2019: #5 Utah makes the playoffs with a CCG win, loses

2021: #3 Oregon makes the playoffs if they win their last 3 games, loses to Utah twice

2022: #4 USC makes the playoffs with a CCG win, loses to Utah

Are we sure they're not a double agent?

2 hours ago, TBGKon said:

Two things that come to mind for me to monitor:

- How will this effect how conference championship games are handled.  Will we see divisions dissolved and take a top 2 structure (like the current Big 12)?  Will conference championship games be eliminated?

- I read this a few months ago when the CFP expansion was announced, but could we see some domes and neutral site games holding first round games?  Of course, campus sites would be preferred but maybe an emergency dome site (Indy, Detroit, Minnesota) could be held in case of major weather concerns.

The Pac-12 went divisionless this season, and the ACC, American, and Mountain West will join them in that next year. I imagine the SEC and Big Ten will as well once Texas/Oklahoma and USC/UCLA join. Soon enough, the only conferences that still have them will be G5 leagues like the Sun Belt trying to keep travel costs down.

I'm not a huge fan of it, tbh. The Pac-12 showed us the flaws of a divisionless system this year by having a 3 way tie between Utah, Oregon, and Washington where Utah and Washington didn't play each other (which I have no idea how Utah was the winner considering they lost to Oregon and Washington beat them, but that's besides the point). If that's happening in a 12 team conference, it might get really bad in a 16 team one. I also don't like that both this year and last, without divisions Michigan and Ohio State would meet for a second straight week in the championship, basically rendering the first game pointless. It's like how Alabama beat Georgia to win the SEC championship last year, but no one cares because they lost the game that really mattered a month later. I don't want that to happen to big rivalries as well... aside from Florida-FSU in 1996, of course. 

Look on the bright side, Mexico - you finally broke the round of 16 streak going back to 1994!

As for the US, that means if we get past the Dutch we'll play the winner of Argentina-Australia.

1. Costa Rica #3

2. Morocco #2

3. Costa Rica #2

4. Germany #1

59 minutes ago, Digby said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Player_representation_by_league_system

 

Interesting link. Would not have expected MLS to be the sixth-most represented league, or that 3/4 of MLS players would play for someone besides the US (I imagine Canada makes up a lot of that extra, though). Would've guessed that a few more European leagues would be higher than MLS.

41% (11) of the non US players are Canadian, so 16 for everyone else. That's 8th, behind the Big 5 plus Belgium and Turkey, which isn't half bad.