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The picture’s just a mockup, but UF will have black alternates by 2023 at the latest. Blech. 

20 hours ago, TheGiantsFan said:

 

I'll definitely keep that in mind for Wisconsin at the very end of the series!

 

Do you have any local suggestions about what you would like to see on a Wisconsin (Illinois suggestions would be cool too!) license plate? That would be appreciated if you have any!

 

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FLORIDA

 

 

My colorful Florida license plate depicts a beachside sunset scene. Referencing Florida’s “Sunshine State” nickname and famous citrus industry, an orange slice sun is featured in the middle of the design. The font choice is inspired by the short-lived Miami Floridians basketball team of the late 1960s. The formerly embossed county names return as county stickers.

 

Also, shoutout to @raysox for suggesting a beachside sunset design for this license plate!

Great job on this one. Fits Florida really well, and looks better than the current one to boot.

Straight from the website:  

Now we're talking Vandy. No standalone V, no weird star that the V is breaking out of, this.

54 minutes ago, Conrad. said:

Statement:
Royal

Please be Orlando please be Orlando please be Orlando please be Orlando

9 hours ago, EJ_Barlik said:

I'd also like (sometime) to see them whip up a helmet with the oval gator logo on it.  Can't yet put my finger on the shell color though.  Might have to be an alternate in midnight black to make it work.

They did try once. But it was for these abominations:

5 hours ago, BBTV said:

Just about everything else about A&M's 2020-present jerseys is better, but they should've kept the shoulder stripes. It was a look exclusive to them among big college teams and looked great in general.

...oh.

Well, that's not quite what I was imagining. If the purple wasn't there and it was purely yellow rays, it'd be better. With that said, I still don't hate it, and I'm really happy they finally tried something out of the box after 7 years.

I can't find anything on Twitter myself, but on the r/OCLions kit release megathread they said someone on Twitter posted this picture:

...which if it's true I'm so incredibly excited. Take my money, all of it

On 2/14/2022 at 10:37 PM, officeglenn said:

Another hint for Orlando City's away kit, to be unveiled Friday:

 

 

Oooooh, now you're talking City. I'm a lot more excited now. A sunset inspired design and purple shorts? Yes please. 

EDIT: Another teaser!

Seems like a sunset on water. I'm thinking white with a gold reflection pattern that gets thicker further and further down the shirt? We'll see, but I'm excited.

3 hours ago, GriffinM6 said:

They really need to go with a lavender away shirt like the color of the text in the logo in that tweet. It would be unique and match well with the darker purple and gold. 

I'd still prefer red as a callback to the USL days, but that would also be nice. Anything but plain white, I'm begging you Adidas.

Orlando City away coming Friday. They haven't teased anything about it yet, but 99.99% chance it's another plain white shirt.

16 hours ago, rams80 said:

Anyway for use in a few years I invite everyone to consider the story of the scorpion and the frog.

Re: the Magic, I absolutely LOVE it. It pays tribute to every design in team history, even the super bland 04-07 look (the shoulder stripes). The original wordmark coming back is always a win. “Why not us? Why not now?” in the pinstripes is one of those things that no one will ever see from more than a foot away, but it’s an amazing detail. The original comet ball streaking down the side panels with the sublimated stars from the early 2000s jerseys in there is also brilliant. Instant buy for me, although it’s be even more of an instant buy if it had blue instead of orange.

….that doesn’t make sense. But you know what I mean.

Southern Miss makes it official:

Marshall, Old Dominion, and James Madison should be announced later this week. Marshall is appointing a new university president on Thursday so they want to wait to make their final decision until he/she gives it the go ahead - I'm not sure what the holdup is for the Virginia schools but everything I've seen says they'll be officially in by next week at the latest as well.

Perhaps I spoke too soon.

It can’t be overstated how huge of a deal this is for Marshall. The Sun Belt has way better geography, pretty much all of their historic rivals from the FCS days, and is quickly becoming one of the top G5 (soon to be G4) conferences. Basically the only thing that would make it better is if WKU was also tagging along.

That’s got to be it for C-USA. They’re down to just 5 members spread all across the country, and their previous top target Liberty is no longer interested. At this point it’s a matter of where the others end up. Right now I’d guess UTEP goes to the WAC, but I have no idea where everyone else will - maybe A-Sun?

14 minutes ago, heavybass said:

So Sun Belt is now 12 football members minus ODU and James Madison but CUSA wants James Madison too as well as Liberty... no one wants UConn or UMass

Both are way outside of pretty much anyone's geographic footprint and are possibly the 2 worst programs in college football at the moment. Plus, neither would leave their regular conference (Big East for UConn and Atlantic 10 for UMass) in non-football sports because it would be a massive step down. So, it's not that surprising that no one wants them.

18 hours ago, Red Wolf said:

 

Especially when they already have the DFW market in SMU. Maybe it's to prepare in case SMU leaves, or perhaps the talk that the AAC was going to just gobble up all of Texas to keep the Mountain West away was true. This does feel very much like when C-USA focused too much on markets. Rice and UNT seem like duds, though I think UTSA is good pickup. At least they were smart enough to go with FAU over FIU and also not go with both.

 

Assuming this happens, C-USA is left with

• Florida International
• Louisiana Tech
• Marshall
• Middle Tennessee
• Old Dominion
• Southern Miss
• UTEP
• Western Kentucky

I feel like UTEP is pretty much screwed here because nobody really wants them due to geography and general lack of on-field success. Everybody else at least has a shot at getting into the Sun Belt. Louisiana Tech might be a hard sell.

The talk on Marshall boards that my dad's on is that Marshall and Southern Miss to the Sun Belt is basically a done deal (the smoke has been there for a few months, and IIRC the SBC commish was spotted in Huntington about a month ago) and that the conference doesn't want to go past 12 after that - meaning the remaining 6 in C-USA are pretty much screwed (but especially UTEP, who I'm expecting to go the New Mexico State route of indy in football and WAC in everything else).

C-USA will have to cobble together some semblance of a conference from this. Liberty is probably a top contender, as is James Madison. Adding Connecticut and Massachusetts as football only members (since neither would leave their regular homes for this Frankenstein league) would do pretty much nothing but pad numbers considering how terrible both are, but it might be necessary in the short term. After that, who knows, because I'm not sure who might be in the position to move up from FCS.

An aspect of the AAC expansion that I haven't seen many people talking about is Wichita State. I can't imagine they're very happy with these additions from a basketball standpoint - the most recent tournament appearances from each team (aside from North Texas, who went dancing this year for the first time since 2010) are 2015 (UAB), 2011 (UTSA), 2005 (Charlotte), 2002 (FAU), and 1970 (Rice). They're probably wishing they never left the Missouri Valley right now.

2 hours ago, kimball said:

This is one of those jerseys that I'm half ashamed to admit that I think look amazing. It's so early 2000s and I love it. I don't really like the white and red versions of this either, just the yellow one.

23 hours ago, Geoff said:

God I love realignment. I've missed the crazy crap like this.

 

So where does the AAC go now?

 

This kills the Army to AAC talk (which was just online chatter and not gonna happen). UAB seemed a lock so I think they're still in it. 

 

I know the Sun Belt is being aggressive and supposedly one of the schools they're looking at could be holding out for the AAC. Could that be JMU?

With the Mountain West schools out of the picture, I think the top targets will be UAB, Appalachian State, FAU, and either Rice or UTSA. C-USA is about to be unrecognizable, if they even survive this at all - I remember seeing reports that Marshall and Southern Miss to the Sun Belt is gaining steam.

2 hours ago, Dilbert said:

Tell that to West Virginia

Or UCF, or BYU.

With the recent statements by some Big 12 ADs (I think Texas Tech and Iowa State were the most vocal ones), I won't be surprised if the Big 12's not done expanding yet. However, I wouldn't hold my breath if I'm San Diego State, as I think Memphis easily gets in over them. Unless they want to go to 16, but that seems pretty unlikely.

2 hours ago, Burmy said:

I honestly think that Colorado State and Air Force could be beneficial for the American...not only would they give Wichita State a close rival, but having Air Force on board could sweeten the pot for Army to join (at least as a football-only member).  Only roadblock is, I assume it's essential to both schools that the Army-Navy Game be the very last game of the FBS regular season and get a weekend all to itself, so I don't know how that would work out if it was an intraconference game.

 

And of course, who would the Mountain West look to pick up to replace any departing teams? (My guesses would be Montana, Montana State, Eastern Washington and Portland State, with Northern Colorado being an alternate pick should one of these four decline)

For the Army-Navy Game, I think they'd make a deal so that it's never a conference matchup and they continue it as an OOC on it's own week thing. UNC and Wake Forest have scheduled OOC games with each other before, so it's not unprecedented.

For right now, I think the Mountain West will stand pat at 10. I'm sure they'd like to have the Montana duo, but there's nothing that says they want to move up to FBS (in fact, Montana had the chance in 2010 and turned it down). Maybe they'll take a swing at North and South Dakota State, but they probably wouldn't want to leave their in state rivalries behind and the travel would be much worse than in the Missouri Valley. From FBS, it's pretty slim pickings. If the conference wanted UTEP or New Mexico State they'd already be in by now, and what other options are there - North Texas? UTSA? Rice? The MWC is pretty boxed in by their geography, especially after (potentially) losing their Colorado members.

The real wild card pick would be Gonzaga and Saint Mary's, but as with the Montanas/Dakotas I'm not sure they'd want to join.