GhostofBTT
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I am absolutely amazed that so many of you have put so much thought into something so unimportant. Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you a single detail of the uniforms they wore last season.
New Uniforms for the New McEra
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Point taken. Returning winning, entertaining basketball to CHA is the big thing. Unis are an obsession for me, I can't help it.
AFAIK, for now NCAA regs require the home team to wear white or light-colors. OTOH, NHL seems to be flipping to dark for home and white for visitors, ala football, so in theory NCAA could flip as well if enough schools went along.
TritonHawkeye
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Well, it appears that it must have been of some importance to you as you had exerted enough energy to open, read then respond to the thread.
Come on...you know you care, even if it just a little tiny bit, you care!!!
HAWKEY3
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What about our players though? To assume that their psyche has no bearing on their play is a dangerous gambit. If players perceive themselves as looking stupid, it could be a distraction for them. Likewise, if the players perceive themselves as looking cool and confident, they may play more relaxed.
Psychology of athletes is a huge business -- especially for young men 18-24 (Research Hayden Fry & the Pink Locker Room). The image our athletes project does leave an impression on themselves and the audience. Nothing unimportant about that.
Bucketochicken
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HuskerlandHawk
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I payed attention to what Nike was doing because that's who we have our contract through not because I'm necessarily awe-struck. To me, it didn't make much sense to deviate from what they're doing on most of their modern designs.
The "non-arched, no-gold trim IOWA" is way more common than you make it out to be. Look at Syracuse, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio State Jerseys. It looks classy and simple.
Your reference to the UCLA and Indiana Jerseys doesn't make sense. We don't have the tradition of wearing the same uniforms for the last 30+ year that those teams do. Old style jerseys make sense for those programs but not for ours.
And I understand many of you don't like the longer shorts but you can't argue with the fact that the kids want to wear the longer shorts right now. The trends according to fit will come and go but there is no reason to do what they did to the uniforms last year...they over-designed the crap outta those things.
If nothing else changes on our current uniforms, just PLEASE free the tigerhawk!
pin2win
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come down on every single post or thread it seems that isn't your idea. people do care about uniforms. think people were excited about the banana peels.
give the guy credit he is trying to speak his mind and creativity what message boards are for...
anyways shorts are too long and i know its not the 70's but maybe our white boys can run quicker if they don't have 4lbs of shorts on
iHawk
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Even though it's of little importance in the big picture, I think it'd be a great thing for Iowa to change out their jerseys once again. When they came out with the new uniforms about a year and a half ago I was expecting a clean, simple, design. Instead we over-designed uniforms with thick ugly collars (that look dog collars), a logo that's hidden within a diamond (since when did the tigerhawk have to be encapsulated in anything...let it stand alone), and italicized, skinny team name and numbers. It honestly leads me to wonder who Nike let design those things for them.
So, in my frustration with the new design and hope for an overhaul once again. I've decided to propose my own redesign to HawkeyeNation. I've tried to look at past classic uniforms and give them a modern look. Let me know what you guys think.
YES! Love what you have here. GREAT job. Looks quick, clean, and youthful.
Only thing I'd do different would be to add a touch more gold. I'd put the same thin gold piping you have at the bottom of the shorts around the very edge of the collar (all the way around the back of the neck and then breaking off around the collar bone).
Or you could put that thin piping stripe in gold at the very top of the shoulder seem from sleeve opening to collar, instead of doing the collar piping.
I'd also edge the IOWA in gold like the numbers. Love the thin and simple Iowa font, and I think some thin gold edging would make it pop.
All you would have to do to change these to the road unis is change the white to black, black to gold, and gold to white. Done. Also, no gold unis please. There’s just no way to make those things visually pop.
I actually started doing a simple design myself using a bitmap drawing tool, but it was taking too long so I stopped. It was VERY similar to in theme to these.
Iowa's current unforms are nasty. Quite possibly the ugliest uniforms they've ever had. I am all for a uniform revamp. Time for a fresh start.
Give us something that looks current, please! The program needs an overall facelift.
BUT - just say no to the old gold BB court/floor. It looks like a playing BB on a field of daisies. Just change the fonts on the floor to match the unis.
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To huskerlandhawk -
True, we're a Nike team and for our next unis we'll probably ask them for a design. And what you've done would certainly fit in with their overall scheme. And I wouldn't be surprised if the current players would be a lot more receptive to your ideas than mine. Just pointing out that Ferentz is not doing any of the new Nike stuff, so schools obviously have a choice whether to accept the Nike designs.
I know about Syracuse, Kentucky, etc. and I hate all of them. Just my personal preference.
As to the traditional stuff not making sense for Iowa, I'd argue McCaffery is trying to get us back to the days when Iowa BB was winning and fun to watch, and CHA was full. I think that a more traditional uniform design fits right in with that.
True, we're a Nike team and for our next unis we'll probably ask them for a design. And what you've done would certainly fit in with their overall scheme. And I wouldn't be surprised if the current players would be a lot more receptive to your ideas than mine. Just pointing out that Ferentz is not doing any of the new Nike stuff, so schools obviously have a choice whether to accept the Nike designs.
I know about Syracuse, Kentucky, etc. and I hate all of them. Just my personal preference.
As to the traditional stuff not making sense for Iowa, I'd argue McCaffery is trying to get us back to the days when Iowa BB was winning and fun to watch, and CHA was full. I think that a more traditional uniform design fits right in with that.
iHawk
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The VERY special occaisions are also the times I really don't want to see the Hawkeyes in their worst looking uniforms. No gold unis, please. Ever.
tm3308
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I agree with everything you just said, and I'll add one more thing: besides players maybe feeling like they looks stupid, it's not uncommon for new coaches to make some changes to uniforms. It's just an "out with the old, in with the new" kind of thing. Especially considering the past three years, getting rid of as many reminders of it as we can is a good idea. I remember getting a Dean Oliver jersey and shorts when I was about 7 years old. And to this day, that style of uniform is my favorite, with the ****** IOWA of Lute a close second. We could bring that one out in a few years if Coach can get us back to a level of play that befits those uniforms.
HuskerlandHawk
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Don't get me wrong. I'd love it if we had consistent uniforms over the years like UCLA and Indiana. The tradition part of that is awesome but the fact is, we've always changed our design every 3-5 years. To go back to some random uniforms we wore in the 80s doesn't breathe tradition it shouts outdated and irrelevant.
Now, I'd be in favor of picking a fan favorite 80's jersey and doing a throwback jersey like the Mich St Spartans do on occasion. (like someone suggested before)
tm3308
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The Nike Combat stuff your referring to for football was mostly a gimmick, IMO. Only a couple of the designs worked for the schools (Miami, Texas, Oregon). But the big deal with those uniforms is the material they're made of. The designs were just to grab attention. I'm sure most schools will be asking for their traditional designs with the new material, and only a handful will keep the gimmick designs.
As for basketball, I completely agree with you on Kentucky, Syracuse, etc. I don't like the jerseys that fit more like what the undershirts they wear do. Just keep them a little baggy, and no funky designs on the back please.
And this is a little off topic, but does anyone else miss the old Kansas uniforms? Their Adidas ones are alright, but I was pretty fond of the Nike version that Collison and Hinrich wore. I really liked the font that they used for "Kansas" and the numbers.
