Minnesota Gopher Football Concept

[bucskick20]

Here it is. It is another Appleworks concept. Tell me what you think.

HOME

AWAY

I went with the all white look on the away because I like all white away and maroon pants don't look good and I decided not to do the gold pants.

[VitaminD]

Honestly, I really really like these.

You pretty much need to avoid gold pants - or you'll be labeled a Southern Cal clone. Maroon pants... eh, maybe. But I love the UCLA-style stripes. I love that there's no white on the maroon jerseys.

My lone suggestion is on the white jerseys - maybe add a gold stripe in the middle of the 2 maroon shoulder stripes. The Golden Gophers should have a little gold in the jersey, or you start wandering into Indiana/Oklahoma territory with just maroon and white. Beyond that, well done.

[Robert89]

I'm not liking the away. It needs gold. Other than that, they look great!

[bucskick20]

Honestly, I really really like these.

You pretty much need to avoid gold pants - or you'll be labeled a Southern Cal clone. Maroon pants... eh, maybe. But I love the UCLA-style stripes. I love that there's no white on the maroon jerseys.

My lone suggestion is on the white jerseys - maybe add a gold stripe in the middle of the 2 maroon shoulder stripes. The Golden Gophers should have a little gold in the jersey, or you start wandering into Indiana/Oklahoma territory with just maroon and white. Beyond that, well done.

The Gophers already have gold pants though and have for quite some time so I dont think they could call it a USC rip off.

[VitaminD]

The Gophers already have gold pants though and have for quite some time so I dont think they could call it a USC rip off.

You're correct, but you added an element to Minnesota's look that resembles USC's shoulder inserts. Keeping the gold pants while adding shoulder designs would bring them closer to USC's look, which is what I meant. For what they wear now, gold pants are fine. But for your concept, I like the direction you went in better, with the white pants.

[bucskick20]

The Gophers already have gold pants though and have for quite some time so I dont think they could call it a USC rip off.

You're correct, but you added an element to Minnesota's look that resembles USC's shoulder inserts. Keeping the gold pants while adding shoulder designs would bring them closer to USC's look, which is what I meant. For what they wear now, gold pants are fine. But for your concept, I like the direction you went in better, with the white pants.

Yeah, I thought that as well, just checking what you were say, thanks for the compliments up there.

[spyboy1]

If you are going to have maroon/gold/maroon stripes on the white pants, you really have to be consistant and have the same on the shoulder stripes.

[Mingjai]

Since you're going with white pants, I'd like to see you add a gold alternate jersey to the mix. From what I understand, the Golden part of the Gophers' nickname comes from the gold jerseys they wore in their glory days.

[Thunderstruk]

Sharp!! Very sharp!! I usually don't like all white but there is something I like about these!!

[bucskick20]

Thanks for the Suggestions, I might do some of the idea's. I have to figure out a way of fixing the away to add gold. If you don't think about adding the gold, It looks pretty good. But they are the GOLDEN Gophers so that should probably be added somewhere.

[winghaz]

I believe the Gophers once wore UCLA-style shoulder stripes, back in the 1950s and maybe early '60s. So it wouldn't be totally new.

[bucskick20]

Here is Bobby Cox of the 1956 Golden Gopher Football team. Maybe it was changed soon after, but I never saw them wearing California Stripes.

[Mingjai]

Here's a picture of the Gophers' 1960 Outland Trophy winner Tom Brown. Judging from the pictures I've seen, only their away jerseys had the Cali-stripes.

[bucskick20]

Yeah, I like the Cali stripes

[Shumway]

Very nicely done. The all white look is great. I love how you limited the color pallette to just maroon and yellow on the home set. My only suggestion is just to put slightly more yellow on the Road jersey, possibly in between the two maroon Cali stripes. Just a thought.

[winghaz]

I also believe those old road uniforms for the Gophers had gold on the inside of those UCLA-style stripes. And that would look great on the Gophers.

One problem, though: Would that make them look too much like the Vikings? At least on the road uniforms?

[usahockeyrube]

very sharp

[cableguy]

My suggestion or comment would be directed towards the dark jersey and white pants...there is too much gold and maroon in the jersey to have white pants since there is no white in the jersey, perhaps white numbers trimmed in gold would match the white pants better.

I actually like the Gophers current uniforms just the way they are (even though they are almost identical to Southern Cal) but this is an interesting concept none the less.