OT: Uniformz! (Row the Boat Edition)
February 20th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
February 21st, 2018 at 2:54 AM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^
Sink the boat.
February 20th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
If you ignore the oar (and that rhymes and oh man how do I use that to be understatedly ironic) the maroon and white unis look pretty conventional. The numbering is white now, instead of gold, but overall not a huge deal. The oars, of course, are silly, and while I suppose the chrome-plated helmet will be cool, as others have stated it doesn't match the gold they use on their uniforms.
The "anthracite" look was a bad idea when they debuted it against us in 2015 and it's a bad idea now. It has never stopped striking me as dumb that teams with a perfectly good three-color palette would make black or dark grey a primary uniform color. I can understand it for schools that have one primary color and white (Duke, MSU, Stanford, Texas, Northwestern, etc). I don't always like the uniforms they produce, but an accent color can be good and some of the black options (mid-90s northwestern, mid-00s Duke) are actually really good.
But Minnesota has gold as an available third color and would look much better using it. The same goes for other schools (looking at you, Washington and YTM Miami and Florida and UCLA) that do the same thing. Idiocy.
I suspect 60% of Minnesota's uniform combinations will be fine. Ignore the Oar.
February 20th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 9:59 PM ^
Never say never.
February 20th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
100 possible combinations? Who cares? They're not '05 Oregon.
February 20th, 2018 at 5:04 PM ^
"Minnesota will have more than 100 possible uniform combinations next season, but will stay true to tradition."
Umm...you can either have 100 uniforms OR stay true to tradition. You can't do both.
February 20th, 2018 at 7:27 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
on the helmet, I think for the most part they look pretty sharp.
February 20th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
What's Minnesota gonna do when Fleck leaves for another program and takes his "Row the boat" campaign with him? Will they have to change the uniforms back?
February 20th, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
I don't think he'll ever be good enough to "move up." Their complete failure to adjust to some pretty basic stuff (like, you know, Khaleke Hudson flying into the backfield umolested on every play) told me quite a bit about them. In my limited opinion, anyway.
But it would be hilarious if that happened and they were stuck with these helmets for a year.
February 20th, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
but this specific uniform is a crime against humanity.
February 20th, 2018 at 5:42 PM ^
Nothing about the guy wearing the backwards 'S' 1 jersey looks scary.
February 20th, 2018 at 7:48 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 5:45 PM ^
I was really hoping they were going for a gopher-shark hybrid animal for night games.
February 20th, 2018 at 6:43 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 6:47 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 8:34 PM ^
Nothing says brand cohesiveness like "over 100 possible uniform combinations"
February 20th, 2018 at 9:05 PM ^
February 20th, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^
mock Minnesota with a rendition of "Row, row, row your boat" when up comfortably in the 4th quarter.
Too bad we don't host them next year. EDIT: I'm over it.
February 20th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
February 21st, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
Jesus. P.J. Fleck is a shameless douche bag. Row that shit barge right over the falls.
February 21st, 2018 at 7:58 AM ^
February 21st, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
February 21st, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
who runs a satirical Minnesota Facebook fan page, I think they look absolutely spectacular.