PSU blocked maize uniforms for tomorrow.....

Submitted by smitty1983 on November 12th, 2021 at 3:14 PM

Rumor has it we were suppose to wear all maize and psu blocked it. This is the kind of pettiness I am here for. Beat Penn State. 

MaizeBlueA2

November 13th, 2021 at 12:10 AM ^

No they don't, because you know, the helmet (among other details).

And using that same logic. Our home combination looks like WVU and when we go all blue it looks like WVU as well.

When we go white and blue or white and maize or white and white...it looks like WVU. 

Because they do every combo with basically the same colors. That's what happens when you have teams with similar colors.

Yet, somehow you all are cherry picking just the all maize look.

...or maybe, just maybe, we can all distinguish WVU from Michigan and you all can just say I don't like the all-maize (which is fine), without making up a bogus reason to justify it.

phil610

November 12th, 2021 at 3:17 PM ^

I'm kinda glad they did if that's true. Too much maize is like too much chrome on a vehicle. Just looks like poo poo

The Homie J

November 12th, 2021 at 3:33 PM ^

As far as I know, this only applies to jerseys, not pants, but if the away team wants to wear a jersey color other than white, they have to get approval from the home team (who reserves the right to wear whatever jersey they want, obviously).  Most teams never worry about it, and sometimes both teams lean into it (like UCLA-USC wearing full blown home uniforms during their rivalry game, which we should absolutely steal for The Game).

The only thing I don't understand is why Michigan folks are acting like Penn State blocked it.  The default is that away teams wear white jerseys, so unless we had an agreement or something worked out with Penn State, I'm not sure that "blocked" is the correct word here.  Seems more like Michigan planned on something which wasn't likely to happen and got the expected result.  But I've yet to see anymore details beyond what this post says.

Sione For Prez

November 12th, 2021 at 3:43 PM ^

I'm pretty sure the home team also has to get approval from away teams if they wish to wear white at home. Franklin is quoted in 2019 while talking about PSU not wearing white during a white out as saying "We would have to get permission from the opposing team to allow us to wear white and I would never do that for anybody else,  so we haven't even kind of gone that route" (Emphasis mine).

This shouldn't shock anyone that PSU wouldn't sign off on us wearing anything other than white.

https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/ncaa-football/news/why-penn-state-white-uniforms-during-whiteout-game/19bnczovur3n21c4xaa01hil2q

Sione For Prez

November 12th, 2021 at 4:18 PM ^

I'm not sure about GT but LSU got the SEC to put in a rule that for all SEC games LSU gets to default to white as is their tradition and doesn't require permission. Or I guess they have compelled the rest of the conference to agree to the white for all conference home games. 

If I remember correctly with LSU they wear white on their first home OOC game (which would require permission) and then wear purple for the other OOC games. 

EDIT: The SEC may have their own rule that the home team gets to dictate for all teams but that's not the norm in college football.