The 1972 Project - FCS: Morehead State Eagles

[colinturner95]

Happy March Madness! Boise State is still winless in 10 tries in the tournament but at least that's better than... no one actually. Anyways: 

 

 

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Football - This is a may or may not be a first for me, but I can remember maybe one other time that an individual player inspired a look for a uniform, let alone for a whole(ish) athletic department. In our case here with Alabama A&M, I believe its Joshua Williams from the late 2010's who in one picture was seen with 7 or 8 arm bands on that gives us our primary look here. I felt like AAMU has a pretty classic look about them to begin with and this carried it on. Helmets are pretty much the same, white and crimson, single stripe with the interlocking logo on the sides. Uniforms pare down the bevy of stripes to 5. Contrasting collars. New wordmarks and number font system round out the look. Pants match the helmet with a stripe. Alternate takes the newer double stripe look and puts it on a black base. 

 

Hockey - The SWAC takes to the ice! And the first go around is a very simple look. The 5-stripes can be found on the sleeves with a solid stripe rounding it out on the hem. Interlocking logo on the chest of the home and away. Just went with the red equipment for all three uniforms. Pants actually receive the stripe this time. Socks match their uniforms. Alternate replaces most of everything. Bulldog logo appears on the chest, Double stripe takes over for the other stripes where it needs to. 

 

Baseball - College is a fun place to experiment with uniforms and I want to try doing more non-traditional things, which feels fun doing it to a team that already has a pretty traditional look. So baseball replaces the 5 stripe with pinstripes, which I thought was a pretty equal trade, and adds a solid stripe around the collar and the sleeves. New wordmarks and numbers on the chest of the home and away. Red jersey also sees pinstripes. Black jersey also does something non-traditional, but not something new for AAMU. Headgear is similar to football, all crimson or white/crimson. Socks are striped either red or black. 

 

Basketball - I finally get a basketball uniform that isn't a :censored: to translate. A little more modern take on the five stripes, with them being found on under the arm and on the sides of the pants, with one stripe forming a full stripe around the bottom of the shorts. single color stripes around the arm holes. Alternate gets a little more traditional, with the double stripe down the sides, with the interlocking logo replacing wordmarks. 

 

C&C welcome and always appreciated!

[colinturner95]

Happy Easter! I managed to get a little sidetracked, trying to get an MLB series set up and started and that took some time building out an updated template and layout. But I certainly haven't forgotten about my work here.

 

 

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Football - We double dip in the SWAC, with Texas Southern. (It's also the 2nd of 3 consecutive red teams, which means I need to have a lengthy conversation my list randomizer), but in a similar vein to Alabama A&M, classic felt like a good approach for the Tigers, which in this case starts with classic UCLA/Colts stripes on the home and away uniforms. The same stripe can be found on the helmets, which come in maroon and white options. Pants match their jerseys. I didn't want to go with just a color swap on the grey alternates, but wanted to keep the classic feel. So the stripes move to the sleeves and are joined by a subtle tiger stripe that fades in towards the tops of the sleeve caps. 

 

Hockey - Another first timer to the good ole hockey game, the Tigers also opt for traditionally styled uniforms, but unlike LSU who in the last series got shoulder style stripes on their hockey jersey, I strayed away from that, going for the stripes on the sleeves and hem, and the added shoulder stripes, matched on the white jersey with an added shoulder yoke. The alternate functions like the football one, with the tiger stripe pattern now fading up from the bottom of the jersey itself and the sleeves. Maroon equipment for all the uniforms. 

 

Baseball - Somewhat of a paradox when baseball is one of the more forward facing sets. I felt like vests were a good way to go for the baseball team. Can't really explain why, but I just liked the result. Went with one set of headwear, all maroon. The jerseys get the stripes around the neck and arm holes, a lot like the Pirates' Clemente-era jerseys. All three sets of undershirts feature the fading tiger stripes, and would be interchangeable within the uniforms. I also kept the maroon pants the team currently wears. Two sets of socks, solid maroon or striped maroon. 

 

Basketball - Finishing up on the hardwood, the basketball uniforms fully merge the traditional with the modern, with the side stripes on the jersey and shorts blending the fading pattern within the stripe. Texas Southern sandwich on the home and away, this time in a block font. They've tried it with a script with a less than satisfying result. Grey alternate gets the abbreviated TSU. 

 

C&C Welcome! for those that celebrate, enjoy the holiday! 

 

[colinturner95]

 

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Football - If there's any team or teams in this part of the series that don't need modern uniforms, that would be the Ivy League teams, and leading us off is the oldest "institution of higher learning in the United States" and one of the progenitors of the college football game many of us have fallen in love with. Now like I said, nothing crazy modern but that doesn't mean they're immune to changes. For starters, the updated branding does stick around, with the black outline returning to the H.  But more importantly is what returns to the football uniforms, mostly the team's triple stripe, which had existed in on the crimson shells since 1964. The same stripe can now be found on the sleeve cuffs, a bit of a homage to the 1968 Harvard team, famous for the declaration "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29". Finishing us off on football is the same stripe also returning to the pants. Also for the first time, a black alternate shell is added, giving the option for a full blackout uniform. 

 

Hockey - Much like football, there's a lot here that stays the same. The biggest changes are to the sleeves, which now fold into the same look as football, but much bigger obviously. Added to the sleeves are a smaller copy of the stripes. Despite it feeling like a tradition for their uniforms, I removed the front numbers in favor of the H-shield. I didn't like the look with the newer numbers under the arch. Other than that, everything comes over from football or previous real life existence and like football, the team now has the option for a black alternate uniform. 

 

Baseball - If you can believe it, Harvard's baseball team predates their football team by almost 10 years. That little factoid helped inspire the new home uniforms for the Crimson. Where football uses the cream/gold/tan color for a pants option color, I thought it would make for a unique home uniform for the baseball team, which all fall into the newish look. Biggest change really is the single stripe becomes a triple. The wordmarks also feature an arch, which I think works better than the fully horizontal they currently are. Crimson road tops, which come with a set of white pants. Black alternate that replaces the wordmark with the full boat H & shield. Two sets of headgear, four total sets of socks: sold black and crimson, or black and crimson with small stripes at the top. A white jersey is present in their rotation, but because it's the same design as the home and away its just tucked behind the crimson jersey. 

 

Basketball - And closing us out is basketball and out of the four sports, their uniforms needed the most help. Nothing overtly wrong with them from a design sense, but that's also what was wrong with them, there was nothing on them but names, numbers and a wordmark. When I was done with them, the design bears a recolored appearance to a professional basketball team based roughly 15 minutes away from the campus with no traffic. All in all, a very traditional basketball uniform set, also including a black alternate, which in this case, isn't a first for the hardwood team. 

 

I feel like I'm repeating this every four teams, but the website is getting worked on, just haven't gotten time to finish up the updates and hit publish. 

 

In the meanwhile, C&C is appreciated on the last bunch of teams!

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Football - Howard U is really one of the first schools in the FCS that I knew existed but beyond that I really didn't have too much off the dome to work on. I knew they are one of the few schools at the FCS level to be affiliated with the Jordan Brand and they had a huge upset over UNLV but that's where my knowledge ended. After doing my work, there was one thing I wanted to change almost immediately and that was the grey. They use a lighter shade of silver and so does Hampton. Really no issue, except that Howard has a nice unique grey already. So the teams switch over to that shade. The team's existing stripe carries over, but now ends in a horn point (sorry Texans, I've had this idea since 2021). The number font keeps the spurs but changes ever so slightly. I also went with the leaping Bison logo on the two helmets, which work better IMO than the static bison head. I tried shoe-horning the stripe onto the pants, but it fell flat in every attempt so plain pants with the logo on the side. 

 

Hockey - Howard joins NC Central in the creation of a hockey team, but as I found out, Howard U is in the process of starting a ice skating team, becoming the first HBCU do so. Pretty cool if you ask me. As for the hypothetical hockey team, the horn stripe ends up sitting much closer to the numbers than a traditional hockey stripe would. As a result, I added a second stripe at the bottom of the sleeves. Bison head logo anchors the chest. Alternate uniform swaps out the second stripe on the sleeves for a solid navy stripe, and moves the hem stripe up and makes it a chest stripe with the full Bison + Leaping logo. Silver helmets and navy pants for all the uniforms. 

 

Baseball - So Howard currently has no baseball presence. I can't find much information on their varsity team or when it shuttered.  Their club team's Facebook page's last post was in 2013. So for the most part we are starting from scratch. but it's a baseball uniform and I kept some traditional conventions in place. It's seemingly a paradox when you look at the basketball uniforms that I created a new wordmark for, but I didn't do the same because I didn't like how the current ones fit on a baseball uniform. So I went with the Bison head opposite a player number, with the horn stripe on the sleeves. Pants have the unencumbered stripe down the side. Alternate tops go to a v-neck with a 70's Blue Jays style logo setup. Headgear is navy/grey with the Bison head. The white hat is about the one thing I could find from their baseball history, which was worn in the late 50s. 

 

Basketball - Finally with basketball, like I mentioned up above, the biggest thing is the newish wordmarks, which keep the spurred look going but fit better on a basketball jersey. The design pretty much falls in line with the rest of the uniforms. Full stripes on the tops, with the horn stripe finding its place on the shorts around the legs. Alternate jersey loses the arm stripes and uses the Bison wordmark. 

 

C& C welcome!

 

[colinturner95]

 

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Colgate has a long history in college athletics and deserved a look befitting of that, but a lot like Harvard has a modernized identity that can shine through a design that isn't templated. Like the intro post image says, the overarching design comes from a short-lived helmet stripe that existed for just a season, maybe two. 

 

Football:

• Helmets - Ironically, the inspiration for the whole design can't be found here. I felt like it was a little too cluttering. But the shells remain pretty similar to the IRL buckets. Crimson and white, primary helmets get the team's 'GATE wordmark on the sides, with an alternate helmet using the team's C logo. 
• Jerseys - The new jerseys replace the templated double stripe look with the new stripe, that bears a similar resemblance to the Vikings throwback tops, with the larger stripe being un-outlined.
• Pants - Pretty scratch here, with the pants having the stripes on the sides. 

Hockey: 

• Jerseys - Probably the biggest departure. The jerseys take the team's shoulder stripe uniforms from the past season and adds the new Colgate stripe to them, creating a quasi-90's Flyers look. The alternate jersey goes a little more traditional with chest stripe and the Raiders' alternate logo. 
• Pants/Socks - Like a few teams before, plain pants to not clutter every thing up. Socks match their jerseys. 
• Equipment - Crimson all around. Helmets have the 'GATE wordmark and the 13 stripes shield. 

Baseball: Baseball used to be a varsity sport at Colgate until the program was shuttered in 1996 due to Title IX concerns and limits, but the Raiders did make it all the way to the CWS in the 50's, losing their lone trip to the eventual champs, Wake Forest. 

• Headwear - Crimson and silver for all 3 uniforms. C logo front and center. 
• Jerseys - A little sampling of everything. Full stripes on all 3 uniforms. White jersey has a wordmark, Crimson does the number-logo combo and the grey alts go for a V-neck with the 'GATE wordmark and slightly bigger stripes. 
• Pants - A much simpler take, just a single stripe down the sides. Socks are all striped. 

Basketball:

• Jerseys - Another similarity to Harvard in that, almost anything would have been an improvement on the IRL uniforms. Another somewhat traditional take, just with new elements. Single color stripes on the arms and neck with the full stripe running down the side. The grey alts are the only uniforms to make use of a triple stripe and the full sides go away. 
• Shorts - Pretty much a mirror of the jerseys. Alternate moves the stripes to the bottom and features the C-Shield on the sides. 

C&C Welcome as always!

[colinturner95]

we're like the Looney Tunes in 2003: Back in Action!

 

 

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For Robert Morris, I was immediately drawn to the hockey uniforms, and specifically, the Rangers' WC clones the team was wearing before they were demoted to club status and the club team continues to wear them. I was originally going to swap out white for the cream color of those jerseys, but end result was not what I was hoping for. But the northwestern stripe was already being utilized by the football team and it made sense to keep it going. 

 

Football - So football really is just a clean up project. The helmets stay largely the same, with the navy helmets gaining the same stripe as the white helmets. The jerseys get the stripes on the sleeves, white jersey drops the colored sleeve caps. The Colonials also introduce a new number font, which is a little more athletic than the Atlanta Thrashers' style font previously used on the navy and grey jerseys. Bucking the Nike trend of plain pants, all three options have the northwestern stripe with the team's star logo on the hip. 

 

Hockey - As I touched upon in the preamble, hockey at RMU has gone from a varsity program to a club program and back to a varsity hockey. I also felt like they had the best uniforms out of their sports teams (though I guess it could be argued football is pretty much the same style before I got a hold of it). What changes the most for hockey is the triple stripe skates away for the northwestern stripe, but I kept the shoulder yokes, including the white one on the navy jersey. white yokes are unique and work well when done well. RMU on the chest of the home and away uniforms. Alternate stays largely the same, with some changes to the sleeve stripes and a circle style wordmark set-up on the chest. 

 

Baseball - One I think I really appreciate about RMU is they really seem to treat their club sports like their varsity programs and as a former club athlete, that is really cool to see. For baseball, the recently retired Colonial logo returns to the hats, which the club team has been using and I felt like it worked better on the hats than the current branding. Navy/red and tricolor serve as the headgear options. The jerseys are of the two-button variety, with the northwestern stripe around the neck and sleeves. RMU on the home/away tops and a script Robert Morris on the red tops. Pants have the stripes to match. 

 

Basketball - I took the Under Armour uniforms from recent years and took the modern elements out and made things a little more traditional I guess. On the shorts, the stripes now connect around the bottom of the shorts and run up the sides to meet up with the stripes on the sides of the uniforms. Home and away uniforms have a wordmark sandwich and the red alt borrows the circle combo from the hockey jerseys. 

 

C&C Welcome as always!!

 

[Section30]

Robert Morris looks good, though I do think the hockey jerseys might look a little better with the Colonial man head logo instead of RMU on the front.

[colinturner95]

On 5/7/2024 at 12:32 PM, Section30 said:

Robert Morris looks good, though I do think the hockey jerseys might look a little better with the Colonial man head logo instead of RMU on the front.

 

 

I did go back and forth on it before I posted them originally, just because RMU has been trying to de-emphasize their use of the Colonial man logos (which they've technically retired them all) but since I used the headshot on the baseball hats changing the hockey jerseys would work too. I went with the headshot logo that's combined with the wordmark. It filled the space a lot better. I also dumped the two-color collars and swapped the circle wordmark out for the previous Rangers style jersey treatment. 

[Section30]

I think that works a lot better for the home and road, but now I miss the rounded wordmark on the alternate lol

[colinturner95]

On 5/10/2024 at 5:51 PM, Section30 said:

I think that works a lot better for the home and road, but now I miss the rounded wordmark on the alternate lol

 

One day I'll listen to my gut and not make the extra, unnecessary change. 

 

And with a new team ready to go: 

 

 

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Football - I'll admit that Monmouth was one of the first schools that I was pretty much in the dark on in all facets. And this feels like an odd thing to say about a thread that I'm technically the admin of, but this feels like the first truly creative design I've done. Hopefully that continues down the line. Starting off with the Hawks' football team, the helmets lose their stripes and the hawk head logo becomes the main helmet logo on the silver and white buckets, with an alternate option using the stylized-M. The jerseys get a little more fun, with a "wing" pattern of sorts, born from roughly the weights of the beak from the logo, mixed up with a color scale based on the jersey's base color. A new number font joins the fray that closer matches the team's wordmarks. Pants have the team logo on the front hip and the wing stripe up the sides. 

 

Hockey - I couldn't get a clear read on the current existence of the Monmouth club hockey team. They have a social media presence but it hasn't been updated since early 2022. The more positive outcome would be that they're just on hiatus and the worst case is the club is no longer skating. While I wanted to keep the pointed stripe idea on all the uniforms, it really only ended up flourishing on football, so the stripes sit on the sleeves like normal stripes, even if the stripes are anything but. The unique part of the home and away jersey hem stripes flip direction. The grey alternate moves the stripes to run down the sleeves and the hem does as good of a point as it could on the hem. 

 

Baseball - I actually really like the current Monmouth baseball uniforms, but their crime is just not being modern enough. But the v-necks stick around, with the wing stripes taking up space on the sleeves. Hawks and Monmouth take their places on the home and away uniforms. Added in the contrasting collars, which was just enough to tie the tops together. The headgear options are either all-navy or navy/grey with the M on the front. Pants are either white or grey, with the wing stripe up from the bottom of the pants, a la the Diamondbacks and their attempts with the snake skin. 

 

Basketball - Finishing us off on the hardwood, a similar take on the tops as baseball, minus the sleeves in this case. The stripe moves down from the non-existent sleeves to the sides of the jerseys. Wordmarks do the same thing as baseball. The shorts take the stripes and run them up at an angle, using the shorts cut out as their starting point. Contrasting waistband adds some contrast between tops and shorts, and the Monmouth wordmark can be found under the stripes. 

 

C&C welcome! I'm hoping to start updating the website soon, hopefully can get started next week!

[slapshot10]

On 5/15/2024 at 4:49 PM, colinturner95 said:

 

One day I'll listen to my gut and not make the extra, unnecessary change. 

 

And with a new team ready to go: 

 

 

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Football - I'll admit that Monmouth was one of the first schools that I was pretty much in the dark on in all facets. And this feels like an odd thing to say about a thread that I'm technically the admin of, but this feels like the first truly creative design I've done. Hopefully that continues down the line. Starting off with the Hawks' football team, the helmets lose their stripes and the hawk head logo becomes the main helmet logo on the silver and white buckets, with an alternate option using the stylized-M. The jerseys get a little more fun, with a "wing" pattern of sorts, born from roughly the weights of the beak from the logo, mixed up with a color scale based on the jersey's base color. A new number font joins the fray that closer matches the team's wordmarks. Pants have the team logo on the front hip and the wing stripe up the sides. 

 

Hockey - I couldn't get a clear read on the current existence of the Monmouth club hockey team. They have a social media presence but it hasn't been updated since early 2022. The more positive outcome would be that they're just on hiatus and the worst case is the club is no longer skating. While I wanted to keep the pointed stripe idea on all the uniforms, it really only ended up flourishing on football, so the stripes sit on the sleeves like normal stripes, even if the stripes are anything but. The unique part of the home and away jersey hem stripes flip direction. The grey alternate moves the stripes to run down the sleeves and the hem does as good of a point as it could on the hem. 

 

Baseball - I actually really like the current Monmouth baseball uniforms, but their crime is just not being modern enough. But the v-necks stick around, with the wing stripes taking up space on the sleeves. Hawks and Monmouth take their places on the home and away uniforms. Added in the contrasting collars, which was just enough to tie the tops together. The headgear options are either all-navy or navy/grey with the M on the front. Pants are either white or grey, with the wing stripe up from the bottom of the pants, a la the Diamondbacks and their attempts with the snake skin. 

 

Basketball - Finishing us off on the hardwood, a similar take on the tops as baseball, minus the sleeves in this case. The stripe moves down from the non-existent sleeves to the sides of the jerseys. Wordmarks do the same thing as baseball. The shorts take the stripes and run them up at an angle, using the shorts cut out as their starting point. Contrasting waistband adds some contrast between tops and shorts, and the Monmouth wordmark can be found under the stripes. 

 

C&C welcome! I'm hoping to start updating the website soon, hopefully can get started next week!

I feel like the hem stripe should be switched between the Home/away and alt on the hockey jerseys. but great set all around for monmouth

[colinturner95]

 

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A little bit more of a comprehensive redesign on these, which starts with the logos:

 

 

Not a full rebrand by any means, but with the new design style coming in, the logos started to feel a little dated (old logos on the mothership for comparison purposes). So the new logos basically gain a new font style, mirroring the inline design style I gave Bucknell. 

 

 

 

 

As for the uniforms, I really liked the current football uniforms' number font which in turn, became the genesis for the look. I also wanted to mix in a little of the classic with some modern touches, so let's get into it. 

 

Football - It's a quasi-return to the old days, with the new inline stripe being found on the shoulders of the home and away uniforms. The new number font, which matches the new wordmarks can be found on the front, back and sleeves. Primary helmet stays navy, but gains a new orange facemask. The orange helmet is brought back from the late 70s/early 80s. Both have the charging Bison on the sides. Pants have the matching stripes to their jerseys. The orange alternate combines the iconic jaws of Husky stadium with the new stripe that forms a Bison horn. 

 

Hockey - unlike Monmouth, Bucknell's club status is a little more established. They won their conference in 2022 and seemingly fell short the following two years. Uniform-wise, like many club teams, they could use some help. The current (or at least most recent I can find) look needs more orange on the uniforms. But out the gate, a pretty traditional hockey set up for the home and away. Stripes on the sleeves and hem. Phantom yoke created by the stripes on the aforementioned uniforms. Went with the full logos on those uniforms. Pants and socks have the matching stripes. Alternate uniform was very much inspired by the black and red era Sabres uniforms with some Bucknell flavor. This uniform introduces an orange alternate helmet. 

 

Baseball - A little more on the modern side of things for baseball. I was a big fan of their navy uniforms with the big stripes, but wasn't a fan of the subtle old English B. So the stripes are big on the home/away tops. The new wordmark makes an appearance here, just the Bucknell one, I didn't like the way the Bison wordmark was looking on the white jersey. Pants have the same stripes, just scaled down a little. Alternate kicks it modern a little, opting for a v-neck, with the Bison sleeve stripes and the Bison head on one side with the number on the other. Two sets of headgear: navy/orange or the inverse with the Bison head logo on the chest. Socks come in two flavors both in navy and orange, and they're either striped or not. 

 

Basketball - Ironically, basketball really keeps things the most classic in a sense. The tops stay mostly, entirely traditional. Stripes around the arms and neck. The Bison wordmark finally makes its appearance, with the Bucknell wordmark taking up space on the navy and orange uniforms. All three of the shorts make use of the Bison horn stripe, which is repeated on the hemline, with the team logo on the front. 

 

C&C welcome! The website update is coming along nicely. It should be a lot easier to manage for tablet and mobile users and not completely broken. The work is still on-going but I'll keep passing updates along as I have them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Finally able to get back to this series. Have two good updates to share, the first being our next team up:

 

 

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UAPB was one team that I vividly remember from the early NCAA Football games, based solely on their logo and they were one of the few FCS/1-AA teams at the time that were included in those games. and years later I found out the lions mane in the logo spells out UAPB. crafty stuff. 

 

 

 

 

Football - So as the spoiler image says, I took Adidas' job and finished for them, forming a full racing stripe on the jerseys and obviously omitted the random side panels and oddly shaped jaws of Husky Stadium. The helmets don't really change all that much from real life. The stripes go away for a matte shell. Lion logo on the sides. Alternate helmet just swaps facemasks for a gold one. Jerseys all have the racing stripes. Home black jerseys have a double yellow stripe, though the stripe is built as a triple stripe, with the center stripe always being black. This is echoed on the pants which match their corresponding jersey color. 

 

Hockey - UAPB's entrance to the ice hockey world is a simpler one. the racing stripe motif continues here. This moves the TV numbers to the chest, as I wasn't super interested in breaking up the stripes to make them contrast enough. Lion logo front and center. Hem stripe maintains the stripe idea but stretches out to fill out the bottom of the jersey. Alternate maintains the design but goes towards a college jersey style front, with the UAPB logo above the number. 

 

Baseball - The racing stripes were never in question. But I saw their old pinstriped white jerseys and I really liked the way they looked and wanted to add in new wordmarks. So the white jerseys end up looking a lot like the 86 Mets. Before we get there, the headgear options are either all black or black/gold with the lion logo on the front panel. The jerseys, as I mentioned, have the racing stripe design, the white jersey gets pinstriped. New GOLDEN LIONS and PINE BLUFF script wordmarks for the home and away tops, logo+number treatment on the gold alt. White pinstipe pants, black and white sold pants, all with matching stripe down the side, rounded out by black and gold socks. 

 

Basketball - A bit simple but the racing stripes finish out their mission here, going from collar down the sides, where the their met at the sides on the shorts. UAPB wordmark on the home and away jerseys and Golden Lions sandwich on the gold alts and really not much else to be said there. 

 

C&C welcome! The second big update is that the website updates are finishing up to the point that I can start populating the FCS teams. Still making some adjustments to make everything function properly across all platforms but I think we're finally close!

 

 

[colinturner95]

 

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Team #19 isn't in the FCS anymore. But they weren't in the FBS when I did the first round so now they're the first of the six FBS new(ish)comers. Still not sure how I'm approaching them on the website because I really don't want to have to realign the teams there (It'll ruin my plans for a future series related to this one, and it'll be a cold day in hell before I recognize the death of the Pac-12) but that's a different discussion. 

 

Football - The youngest full member of the FBS now (I think) is in desperate help of something new. But first, the helmets stay largely the same, but the JAX STATE wordmark goes away in favor of an actual Gamecock logo.  The pointed helmet stripe sticks around and becomes a secondary element if needed. The new look on the jersey and pants comes from the now retired (?) academic logo, featuring 3 tail feathers of a Gamecock. In this case, the feathers function like a step gradient, going from white to grey or red to lighter red (which came out a little orange). The team's wordmarks now get featured on the uniforms. New number font rounds out the uniforms. Pants have the feathers coming up from the bottom of the pant leg. Alternate goes back to black. I strayed away from a black alternate helmet for football, just because I felt like the white helmet did work better for the uniform as a set. 

 

Hockey - JSU joins the teams with a hypothetical hockey team in this series, and you can imagine how it goes. The feather stripes take up residence on the sleeves. I went with the school's full logo on the chest. Felt like it fit the best, rather than just the standalone Gamecock from the side of the football helmets. On the hem, the feather wasn't super practical, so a straight up stripe done in the same color balance fits that space. Pants go simple with the JAX STATE wordmark on the leg. Alternate jersey goes a little off script. JAX STATE wordmark on the chest, Gamecock logo on the upper chest, similar to what Boston College did with their throwback jersey.

 

Baseball - To the diamond, a fairly traditional look, mixes with the modern. The hat option is singular, red/black with the Gamecock on the front. Jerseys blend the feather stripe with the straight stripe, because the feathers didn't really work by themselves well and I wanted them on there somehow. A new script gets made for the home and away jerseys. Jersey is rounded out by single color headspoon piping. Pants get the straight stripe down the sides. Alternate top trades in the button up for a v-neck and the team's JSU + Gamecock script. Sort of a best of both worlds in terms of a wordmark and a logo. 

 

Basketball - Had a bunch of different ideas initially here but none of them worked out exactly how I wanted them to. Which was very frustrating. Ultimately, the straight up stripe fits up under the arms on the home and away. red and black stripes around the collars. JAX STATE wordmark on the home and away uniforms. Shorts feature the stripe on the hem, JSU on the front of the waistband, feather up the sides, Gamecock on the front. The alternate goes for a modern classic style look, featuring the straightened out stripe around the arms and collar but cut more like the NBA Nike jerseys. The baseball script comes over for this uniform. Stripe moves down the sides of the shorts. 

 

C&C welcome!

[colinturner95]

 

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UC Davis has always been classic or had a very classic vibe. Even being a catalog school, things haven't gotten out of hand, even with the school embracing the Adidas Invader font as their own. Well, that ends here. Gone are the invader fonts and wordmarks, replaced by a classic block font and new block wordmarks. 

 

Football - leading us off as usual, are the boys of the gridiron. For the first time in a long time, a stripe adorns the helmet. Gold and white shells with a triple stripe down the middle. Both the gold and white options either feature the CA logo or a new Aggies script, derived from the long time Davis script. The same triple stripe can be found on the sleeves and around the collar. Again a very simple design for a team that doesn't need anything flashy or over the top. Single color numbers on the home and away. Pants feature the same stripe down the sides. Alternate brings the gold rush back to California. Only real change is that the numbers gain an outline. 

 

Hockey - I feel like its been a minute since we've had a team with a hockey team, either club or varsity. The uniforms actually bear a resemblance to the team's current look with the triple stripe around the sleeves and hem line. The major additions are to the collar stripes, which utilize the Rangers' style squared off shoulders (bet you thought I was gonna mention the chest script). AGGIES and UC DAVIS spelled out diagonally on the home and away tops. Alternate uses a college wordmark style but with the CA logo under Aggies rather than a number. Pants and socks carry on the stripes as well. 

 

Baseball - Baseball has kicked it classic like the other sports and no reason was found to mess with that. Only big deviation is the use of a navy hat, as a gold hat doesn't really work in baseball. Secondary option there is a tri-color joint, both hats with the CA on front. Triple stripe headspoon piping and same stripes on the sleeves form the base on all three jerseys. AGGIES arch on the home whites, CA on the road blues and script AGGIES on the gold rush jersey, which comes complete with gold pants to round out the look. I doubled up the stripes on the socks, just liking the way it turned out. 

 

Basketball - The Aggies' men's basketball team actually go a little heavy on the modern side, at least more so in the past than currently. So these ended up looking a little closer to what the women's team has worn in recent days. If you ask me, I took the Celtics, kept the pot of gold and told the green to take a hike. there are a few differences, notably in the additions of side stripes, and the side stripes on the shorts being larger than the stripes around the bottoms of the shorts. 

 

C&C welcome! We've made it through 20 teams. I am going to try now and get the website officially updated, and get those of you that might be interested in messing with football combos able to do so with our new FCS teams!

 

 

[colinturner95]

The updates to the website continue along. Having issues sizing some of the elements on the site for computers. Tablets and phone are still behind those, but teams are going up in order. But I thought I'd get another team up here and keep whatever little interest is still out there going:

 

 

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Football - Another trip getting started in the Pioneer League! Morehead State really embodies the catalog life with Under Armour, but now it's time for something new. Doesn't have to be modern to be new, because similarly to UC Davis, we go back in time a little to get the Eagles a new set. We go back to the days of Phil Simms and a good ole fashioned northwestern stripe on the sleeves. In addition to the return of the Simms' stripes, the Eagles get one of everything in terms of helmets, jerseys and pants. 

 

Hockey - I overestimated in my own mind how many of the FCS schools have a club hockey team or a hockey team period, so Morehead state is another new creation in terms of hockey. A  another classic take, one that almost looks Blues-esque in nature. the northwestern stripes can be found all over the uniform. The team's secondary logo felt like it worked best on the chest. The alternate keeps the bones intact with a few minor changes. The school wordmark takes the logo's place on the chest with the player number underneath, moving the Eagle head up to the shoulders. 

 

Baseball - Keeping it classic and in-line, the baseball team adopts the new standards. Unlike hockey who didn't add a gold helmet, baseball gets a three headgear rotation, much like football. Home and aways get the Morehead wordmark. Alternate gold gets the Eagles script, akin to real life, but doesn't bring the gold pants with it. Both gold and blue socks are available for all three uniforms. 

 

Basketball - Another simpler finish, but it was as simple you would expect. The home and away are pretty classic basketball uniforms, with the stripes around the neck, arms, down the sides, meeting up with the shorts and wrapping around the legs. The alternate changes ever so slightly. The wordmark from the hockey jersey resurfaces, this time with the Eagle at the direct base, number under that. The stripes can be found on the shoulders now, interrupting the collar and arm stripes. the side stripes disappear and the short stripes get bigger. 

 

Not the flashiest look but let me know what y'all think!

[sky1324]

Morehead looks nice! I love that classic UC Davis logo, glad you made such extensive use of it. Keep it up!!