illwauk Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 So pretty much every school that uses black & gold is gonna start wearing grey now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henburg Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Tennessee looks fine, but I really wish Adidas would quit standardizing a template for all of their schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDixonDesign Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 The "W" in Milwaukee's wordmark just urks me to no end.As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuordr Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I would have thought that Tennessee would have went with a checkerboard design...oh wait, I almost forgot, we stole that from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Fair enough - although, what's stopping these schools from going with a smaller uniform manufacturer with lower costs and getting a custom design?Additionally, it's one thing for small schools to recycle the same old templates... it's a whole other thing for Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, etc. to all trot out in the same exact ugly template. There's REALLY no excuse for Adidas to not come up with unique uniforms for those schools. POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 This version is far superior: POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDixonDesign Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Fair enough - although, what's stopping these schools from going with a smaller uniform manufacturer with lower costs and getting a custom design?Additionally, it's one thing for small schools to recycle the same old templates... it's a whole other thing for Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, etc. to all trot out in the same exact ugly template. There's REALLY no excuse for Adidas to not come up with unique uniforms for those schools.Then you end up with horrible designs from Russell. It all ends up being cost vs. reward. You'd probably all be suprised to see how much it's probably not Adidas saying "Hey, we need to standardize this to create more profit" as apposed to schools saying "We want new uniforms, but we don't want to pay an arm and a leg. Give us what you got!"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy B Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Fair enough - although, what's stopping these schools from going with a smaller uniform manufacturer with lower costs and getting a custom design?Additionally, it's one thing for small schools to recycle the same old templates... it's a whole other thing for Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, etc. to all trot out in the same exact ugly template. There's REALLY no excuse for Adidas to not come up with unique uniforms for those schools.Yeah, I don't think people would be complaining if all the mid-majors came out wearing templated uniforms. But other companies at least have different options for those schools to pick from. The fact that Adidas has their top programs coming out in the same uniform just seems incredibly lazy. So Adidas is going with a low-cost approach now? They're supposed to be leaders in the market, not some small company trying to survive by stealing schools fro Nike on the cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 The "W" in Milwaukee's wordmark just urks me to no end.As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...No doubt. UW M would not be that bad if not for that W. It just looks like a chipped tooth. Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." Â BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDixonDesign Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Fair enough - although, what's stopping these schools from going with a smaller uniform manufacturer with lower costs and getting a custom design?Additionally, it's one thing for small schools to recycle the same old templates... it's a whole other thing for Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, etc. to all trot out in the same exact ugly template. There's REALLY no excuse for Adidas to not come up with unique uniforms for those schools.Yeah, I don't think people would be complaining if all the mid-majors came out wearing templated uniforms. But other companies at least have different options for those schools to pick from. The fact that Adidas has their top programs coming out in the same uniform just seems incredibly lazy. So Adidas is going with a low-cost approach now? They're supposed to be leaders in the market, not some small company trying to survive by stealing schools fro Nike on the cheap.In the other side of the coin, how great for mid-tier (Small, and D2, D3 schools) and lower-teir (High School) business is it for Adidas to have these top dogs in a template that's available to the public? Let's keep it in perspective, it's about selling equipment and merchandise to retailers / schools / programs.No matter how much we cry, criticize, or praise about aesthetics, Adidas, and Nike, Russell, Warrior, UA, or any other manufacturer care about selling product, and making profit 10,000 times more than how a product is perceived . It's not as if the interwebs is flooded with Sports Logo boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave-Bird 08 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Extra tidbit from KSU AD Vaughn Williams, who I spoke with today.No Kennesaw State athletic team will have a white garment. Not as long as he's here. He's implementing gold as the home jersey for every team and black as the road.Thought you guys would find that interesting.I'll have multiple photos of the new Adidas bball uniforms tomorrow night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDixonDesign Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Extra tidbit from KSU AD Vaughn Williams, who I spoke with today.No Kennesaw State athletic team will have a white garment. Not as long as he's here. He's implementing gold as the home jersey for every team and black as the road. Grey replaces white as the accent in every case as well. So, white will not be a part of any uniform on campus. Thought you guys would find that interesting.I'll have multiple photos of the new Adidas bball uniforms tomorrow night!Someone should show him how horribly Gold and Grey contrast with one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 The "W" in Milwaukee's wordmark just urks me to no end.As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Milwaukee has always worn templates, so I don't have a problem with that. I can even think of some instances where a template ended up looking better on a smaller school than the big school it was designed for. But the "W" is even irking people in our fanbase (what's left of it, anyway) who normally don't give a rats posterior what the team is wearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuordr Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 This is how you introduce the CHAMPS: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 This is how you introduce the CHAMPS: #secvalues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raysfan12 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 This is how you introduce the CHAMPS: The UK dynasty won't last that long until NCAA investigates the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuordr Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 This is how you introduce the CHAMPS: The UK dynasty won't last that long until NCAA investigates the problem.Don't be hater like me, it is unbecoming of you. Besides, Coach Cal has never been charged with anything except winning a National Title, now him and Pitino have something in common other than once residing in heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 This is how you introduce the CHAMPS: #secvaluesI will say that's a pretty badass presentation. Many kudos to UK's athletic department. Smart is believing half of what you hear. Genius is knowing which half. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart717 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 As for the Adidas template, yes, we all hate it here, but in a business sense it makes all the difference. We'd love for all these smaller tier schools to have unique, amazing uniforms. They simple just don't have the budget to partner with Adidas to make custom templates, so they have to adapt to a standard system that Adidas offers.For these smaller schools it just doesn't make sense to drop thousands of dollars to develop a custom template with Adidas, for 75 uniforms, when you can choose to use the new standard template for a few thousand dollars, and make it as best your own...Fair enough - although, what's stopping these schools from going with a smaller uniform manufacturer with lower costs and getting a custom design?Additionally, it's one thing for small schools to recycle the same old templates... it's a whole other thing for Louisville, Tennessee, Michigan, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, etc. to all trot out in the same exact ugly template. There's REALLY no excuse for Adidas to not come up with unique uniforms for those schools.Wake Forest is a Nike school, don't include them in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC in Da House w/o a Doubt Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Special Maryland uniforms to be worn against Kentucky http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/terrapins-insider/wp/2012/10/17/maryland-to-wear-special-uniforms-for-kentucky-game/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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