IBleedOrangeAndBrown wrote:Works for me Flipper. Players love them and students love them. That's what's important. Alumni need to take a deep breath and relax (coming from and alum).
Perhaps you should consider changing your name to "IBleedOrangeandGray"?
I took a deep breath before watching the replay at midnight and they still looked like crap.
Michael W.
BGSU-12 TIME MAC CHAMPION
FALCON FOOTBALL ROCKS!
The players are the ones that have to wear them, their input should be all that matters, truthfully. It would be like the players trying to tell us what we have to wear when we attend the games. Personally I liked the uniforms last night. I can understand that some may not like it, it certainly was a shock when they were revealed before the game, but I liked them.
If the players picked these out and wanted that uni as their keepsake, fine. As I am in marketing, however, I thought the color combo was atrocious - especially on TV. Gray and orange are pretty hot marketing colors right now but only in certain hue combinations when they are combined.
The dark slate gray and "new" orange were a horrible combination because you had two colors of very similar hues on the same canvas. Instead of having two colors complementing one another, you had two colors competing with one another. It would have been better with a lighter color gray but even that combination would have made a better uniform for a Martha Stewart branded team.
My recommendation? Don't ever ** do that again. Just knowing how Globe like them should be proof positive what type of marketing disaster those unis were.
I had an email conversation with Kingston about this early in the season. He said our Adidas contract is up after this year at which time they will explore new jersey companies. I said I hope brown is a new color and I could see next year an alternate home brown jersey if enough folks make their opinions known, including players.
MarkL has spoken.
You may all now return to your daily lives.
I'm pretty sure the loss last night had everything to do with the uniforms and nothing to do with talent, size, or preparation.
On a serious note, it's too bad we're getting new uniforms again because the solid colors with the wings on the shoulders have been in my opinion the sharpest we've worn since the brown jerseys and white pants a few years back. I really wanted to see a brown jersey with white wings and white pants.
Rightupinthere wrote:If the players picked these out and wanted that uni as their keepsake, fine. As I am in marketing, however, I thought the color combo was atrocious - especially on TV. Gray and orange are pretty hot marketing colors right now but only in certain hue combinations when they are combined.
The dark slate gray and "new" orange were a horrible combination because you had two colors of very similar hues on the same canvas. Instead of having two colors complementing one another, you had two colors competing with one another. It would have been better with a lighter color gray but even that combination would have made a better uniform for a Martha Stewart branded team.
My recommendation? Don't ever f*cking do that again. Just knowing how Globe like them should be proof positive what type of marketing disaster those unis were.
I can agree with the color twist. The Orange was hard to read on tv. The Gray was awesome though. And I was nowhere near the only one to love it. There were hundreds of people on instagram that chimed in to say how much they loved it.
What is it about this type of thing that brings out the azzholes? What's wrong with people? It's Christmas but you disagree with someone and think it's cool to be a jerk. Go back to wearing your super cool jersey that says rightupinthere on the back and lay off the internets. This is a land of peace since I learned about the ignore function.
The Niz wrote:I'm pretty sure the loss last night had everything to do with the uniforms and nothing to do with talent, size, or preparation.
On a serious note, it's too bad we're getting new uniforms again because the solid colors with the wings on the shoulders have been in my opinion the sharpest we've worn since the brown jerseys and white pants a few years back. I really wanted to see a brown jersey with white wings and white pants.
Agreed. The Browns are my all time favorite. These are second IMO.
Flipper wrote:If wearing butt ugly jerseys are "getting with the times"....I'll start listening to music on a Walkman again and go back to getting my news from an actual ink and paper newspaper
Bring the blonde with you and I'll pull out my Slim Whitman Greatest Hits and we can listen to it on my reel-to-reel.
Rightupinthere wrote:
My recommendation? Don't ever f*cking do that again. Just knowing how Globe like them should be proof positive what type of marketing disaster those unis were.
"The name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back" -Herb Brooks
svillefalcon wrote:The players are the ones that have to wear them, their input should be all that matters, truthfully. It would be like the players trying to tell us what we have to wear when we attend the games. Personally I liked the uniforms last night. I can understand that some may not like it, it certainly was a shock when they were revealed before the game, but I liked them.
Ummmm....not in anyway shape or form do you let a bunch of 20 year old kids decide the image the university portrays...that's the job of the schools' marketing and paid administrators. Yes, they probably should be consulted to some extent, but not given carte blanche.
Problem with that is most of the school's marketing department and higher ups love these changes, but you don't see them very often because alumni flip out every time brown and orange is touched. Why were the jerseys not black? Because when men's basketball tried that out alumni went into an uproar. Trust me if you want to leave it solely up to the marketing department you would see these type of jersey changes more often.
Rightupinthere wrote:If the players picked these out and wanted that uni as their keepsake, fine. As I am in marketing, however, I thought the color combo was atrocious - especially on TV. Gray and orange are pretty hot marketing colors right now but only in certain hue combinations when they are combined.
The dark slate gray and "new" orange were a horrible combination because you had two colors of very similar hues on the same canvas. Instead of having two colors complementing one another, you had two colors competing with one another. It would have been better with a lighter color gray but even that combination would have made a better uniform for a Martha Stewart branded team.
My recommendation? Don't ever f*cking do that again. Just knowing how Globe like them should be proof positive what type of marketing disaster those unis were.
I can agree with the color twist. The Orange was hard to read on tv. The Gray was awesome though. And I was nowhere near the only one to love it. There were hundreds of people on instagram that chimed in to say how much they loved it.
What is it about this type of thing that brings out the azzholes? What's wrong with people? It's Christmas but you disagree with someone and think it's cool to be a jerk. Go back to wearing your super cool jersey that says rightupinthere on the back and lay off the internets. This is a land of peace since I learned about the ignore function.
Ah. Forgot to include THIS:
"Science doesn’t know everything? Well science KNOWS it doesn’t know everything… otherwise it’d stop."
Dara O'Brian - Comedian
I love that our school color is brown and think it should be used more yet was mesmerized by the striking charcoal/orange contrast and think it looked fantastic. How's that for fence sitting?
There are teams in the conference that have "THE HARD WAY" and "ROW THE BOAT" plastered on the backs of their jerseys. We could splatter random cans of paint on the uniforms and it wouldn't approach that level of ridiculousness.
svillefalcon wrote:The players are the ones that have to wear them, their input should be all that matters, truthfully. It would be like the players trying to tell us what we have to wear when we attend the games. Personally I liked the uniforms last night. I can understand that some may not like it, it certainly was a shock when they were revealed before the game, but I liked them.
Ummmm....not in anyway shape or form do you let a bunch of 20 year old kids decide the image the university portrays...that's the job of the schools' marketing and paid administrators. Yes, they probably should be consulted to some extent, but not given carte blanche.
I am not saying you let them design them. You give them a couple of approved options and let them pick that way, the university gets something that they have already approved and the players feel like the chose the uniforms and like what they are wearing. Look good, feel good, play good.
The brown with the white trim sleeves and script Bowling Green across the front were not only the only good thing to come out of the Gregg Brandon years but the best uniform we've worn.
That said, those gray unis last night were slick!
Give me Orange/Orange, Orange/White, White/White, Brown/White and Gray/Orange any day!
