OSU's "new" helmets for game this weekend. YUCK!!!!!!!!
October 24th, 2011 at 10:43 PM ^
Oh - didn't know that. Maybe this isn't the end of the world as we know it.
October 24th, 2011 at 6:18 PM ^
I can't wait until uniforms throughout the NCAA are on the runway at Bryant Park.....*wonders what monster someone has created*
October 24th, 2011 at 9:58 PM ^
October 24th, 2011 at 6:48 PM ^
I like 'em. They are going for the raised padding look that was previously worn back in the day......until it was found that the extra padding actually INCREASED the risk of neck injuries instead of reduceing them.
photo:
http://www.helmethut.com/College/Ohio%20State/OHXOSU1965%20(3).JPG
.JPG){kind=link}
description (very long):
October 24th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
Those helmets themselves are OK (the school behind them, not so much). That being said, I don't think the problem with changing uniforms is the change itself, it's just that so many of the changes are too wacky. "If the recruits like them, I'm OK with them" is thrown around a lot, but I doubt recruits like new crap uniforms over great, albiet old and stale, uniforms. I'm a full NINE years removed from freshman year, so maybe I'm too old, but I can't imagine that even back then I would have enjoyed our Mt. Dew Bengals jerseys. A jersey change once or twice a year is no big deal if it's done well. But not when the alternate jerseys/helmets/turf are the equivalent of the file "test.bmp" that is sitting on your desktop from when you first learned how to use Paint and used every tool all at once.
October 24th, 2011 at 7:00 PM ^
OSU will probably wear those helmets against us.
October 24th, 2011 at 7:04 PM ^
October 24th, 2011 at 7:32 PM ^
But aren't they basically helmets OSU wore a few decades ago? As far as the looks, nothing is worse than the MSU ones they wore against us. Those take the cake so far for me.
October 24th, 2011 at 7:47 PM ^
If MSU would have went all black on black throw out the golden brown helmets for black ones with green spartan logo then I think they would have been a lot better looking. I loved the Arizona State all black unis they wore opening weekend. Cant go wrong with blacked out jerseys imo.
October 24th, 2011 at 8:22 PM ^
the unis/helmets are the only good thing about that god forsaken place. Now that's gone too.
October 24th, 2011 at 9:23 PM ^
What are the chances that the "new jersey every year" fad ends in our lifetime?
October 24th, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^
Get your own identity Ohio.
October 24th, 2011 at 10:01 PM ^
I don't really get it. Objectively speaking, Ohio State actually has pretty decent looking uniforms. The red pops, and the helmets with buckeyes are distinctive. *sigh*
October 24th, 2011 at 11:01 PM ^
is no names on the back of th jerseys, helmet stripes that don't reach the back of the helmet edge (a la 1940-1959) and of course Wolverine helmet awards:
October 25th, 2011 at 12:02 AM ^
Being from Ohio and rooting for all Cleveland sports, I know ugly. But wow, those are pathetic, hideous, and need to be destroyed immediately.
October 25th, 2011 at 12:45 AM ^
In regards to team uniforms, usually the sponsor has a big say in what the teams wear. I'm not defending ohio by any means. If their game this week is one of the highlight games where Nike has made special uniforms then the school has nothing to do with the design.
Last year I remember sitting in the corporate Adidas suite for the UT/Ole Miss game and I was talking with one of the people from Adidas after small talk revealed that I am from Ann Arbor and he said ,"wait until you see what we have designed for UTL"
October 25th, 2011 at 1:13 AM ^
Hard to be critical of the Buckeyes when Michigan wears those "throwback" mutant bumbebee outfits. Seriously, DB needs to gather those clown suits up in a pile on the Diag, soak them in lighter fluid, and flick a match to them.
October 25th, 2011 at 6:51 AM ^
Don't be afraid of occasional change. It doesn't tarnish the history of Michigan football.
October 25th, 2011 at 10:45 AM ^
DB burn those things? Come on. He loves hucksterism and hoopla.
Special goofy unis? Check.
Guys parachuting into the stadium? Check.
Rawk music? Check.
Mascots and advertising? Next.
October 25th, 2011 at 9:16 AM ^
October 25th, 2011 at 10:35 AM ^
When did it become logical for teams with nice uniforms and tradition to follow in the footsteps of Oregon, MSU, and Maryland and just pump out avant-garde, fashion week-inspired "uniforms" that don't harken back to anything other than a bored artist at Nike's perception of American football in the mid-20th century? These uniforms all worked for over a century; why not keep it going? Does anyone look at Oregon or MSU and think, that's a look I was to imitate?