Press Conference notes are up....

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:49 am

BGFan wrote: I'd be curious to see what their home record would be if they were forced to wear whites at home. It may have been the TV but I had trouble following all of their players with their blue uniforms on that blue turf (and so did the announcers). What was it like on the field?

I wondered the same thing.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:53 am

kdog27 wrote:
BGFan wrote: I'd be curious to see what their home record would be if they were forced to wear whites at home. It may have been the TV but I had trouble following all of their players with their blue uniforms on that blue turf (and so did the announcers). What was it like on the field?
I wondered the same thing.

Count me in that contingent as well. Is there any team that wears all green uniforms? Wonder what their record is when wearing all green?

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:58 am

Warthog wrote:
kdog27 wrote:
BGFan wrote: I'd be curious to see what their home record would be if they were forced to wear whites at home. It may have been the TV but I had trouble following all of their players with their blue uniforms on that blue turf (and so did the announcers). What was it like on the field?
I wondered the same thing.
Count me in that contingent as well. Is there any team that wears all green uniforms? Wonder what their record is when wearing all green?

Well ... Michigan State, Marshall, Eastern Michigan, Tulane ... all could wear all green. Not sure if they have, though.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:01 am

Yeah but it's different with Green Uni's and grass. Grass has some other colors mixed in from dirt and sod. That blue turf was solid monochrome blue all the way. It looked like it was the exact shade of the jerseys. Considering how many different shades of blue there are, that almost had to be on purpose.

This begs the question -- Why would they make the unis and field the exact same color unless they thought it gave them a competitive advatage?

[/sour grapes]

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:22 am

1987alum wrote: Well ... Michigan State, Marshall, Eastern Michigan, Tulane ... all could wear all green. Not sure if they have, though.

EMU and Tulane are yeses when it comes to wearing all green at home. Eastern wore the all green ensemble in 2003 against us.

momtartin · Post by **momtartin** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:27 am

I was talking to Metz yesterday and he said its not as bad in person as it is on TV, the TV made the field darker than it really was

always a falcon · Post by **always a falcon** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:29 am

BGFan wrote:
Schadenfreude wrote:
hammb wrote: What I would like to know is why Omar had a bad night. How many of those incompletions were due to misreads by the receivers? Why was the offense having trouble reading the defense? What was Boise State doing to cause that?
I'd be curious to see what their home record would be if they were forced to wear whites at home. It may have been the TV but I had trouble following all of their players with their blue uniforms on that blue turf (and so did the announcers). What was it like on the field?

I'm not making excuses here, we played terribly and probably would have lost regardless, but I wonder just the same.

It was unbelievable. Their uniforms were the exact color of the field. We saw them come out for warm ups and could not believe what we were seeing or not seeing as they blended right in. As I said before, let them keep the smurf turf, but the matching uni's- uh uh

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:29 am

UK Peregrine wrote:
EMU and Tulane are yeses when it comes to wearing all green at home. Eastern wore the all green ensemble in 2003 against us.

wow, I sure hated that all white uniform.

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:34 am

kdog27 wrote:
UK Peregrine wrote:
EMU and Tulane are yeses when it comes to wearing all green at home. Eastern wore the all green ensemble in 2003 against us.

wow, I sure hated that all white uniform.

Sorry to get off topic, but I somewhat liked those all-white AND we never lost wearing them. We lost at OSU and Miami while wearing white jerseys and orange pants.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:35 am

Baylor and Noth Texas wear all green as well and their greens match there turf more closely than EMU to Rynearson Field's astro-crap.

I can't believe people actually think that gave Boise a distinct advantage.

They weren't playing in a vacuum. The players still move and have depth, reflections etc.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:45 am

Dayons_Den wrote:Baylor and Noth Texas wear all green as well and their greens match there turf more closely than EMU to Rynearson Field's astro-crap.

I can't believe people actually think that gave Boise a distinct advantage.

They weren't playing in a vacuum. The players still move and have depth, reflections etc.

I hear what youare saying DD. But I suspect that it takes the brain just a little longer to differentiate the differences when they are not so distinct. And when playing a sport such as football, that split second can be difference between a completion, incompletion, interception.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:34 pm

BGFan wrote:It may have been the TV but I had trouble following all of their players with their blue uniforms on that blue turf (and so did the announcers). What was it like on the field?

From Section 10 Row A Seat 7 - I had no problem spotting the BSU players on the field or on the opposite sideline.

BelieveNBG · Post by **BelieveNBG** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:58 pm

...but you weren't lined up running an offense and making quick reads to find the open man. A seat in fan row does not compare to players on the field in action that need to make split second decisions. Only the players can answer that question. It may be a good one for someone to ask Omar.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:41 pm

I have been wondering since about mid-way through the 1st qtr. last Wednesday how long it would take people around here to start asking this question about the turf. I always thought that the blue turf was a really neat idea, but I had never really paid much attention to Boise playing on it. I kept wondering how in the world a quarterback is supposed to see downfield with the defense all in the same blue as the field.

Given the fact that Omar was throwing into double coverage or throwing late to routes giving DB's time to catch up all night long (two things that he normally is very, very good about not doing), it was obvious to me that this was a huge factor in his accuracy.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:50 pm

Bleeding Orange wrote:I have been wondering since about mid-way through the 1st qtr. last Wednesday how long it would take people around here to start asking this question about the turf. I always thought that the blue turf was a really neat idea, but I had never really paid much attention to Boise playing on it. I kept wondering how in the world a quarterback is supposed to see downfield with the defense all in the same blue as the field.

Given the fact that Omar was throwing into double coverage or throwing late to routes giving DB's time to catch up all night long (two things that he normally is very, very good about not doing), it was obvious to me that this was a huge factor in his accuracy.

I would be interested to see a side by side analysis of Boise's pass defense home and away the last 3 or 4 years. I'm betting that they have much better pass defense at home. Most of it is probably the atmosphere, but I think just a little bit of it might have something to do with the color scheme.

I didn't bring this up after the game because I knew it would sound like whining from the loss, but I have to admit I was thinking about it at the beginning of the game.