Syracuse University Just Blue Itself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

Did DOCTOR Gross have a study performed that revealed Blue was harmful to the health of SU students, faculty, and alumni?

Just ridiculus. What’s next, limiting the the numbers of beers you can buy at one time at the Dome? dooh!

Optometrists around the country sure hope so.

Anyone own pitchforks? Torches? Good. Let’s go raise some hell.

More specifically navy blue has always been the unviersity’s “unofficial accent color”, and it looks damn good with orange. This university sucks more and more each passing day.

The basketball uni’s have grown on me (but a blue accent wouldn’t be bad), but for the love of god can we get rid of the silver piece of duct tape that appears on the back shoulder? that is awful

I remembered that SU hoops wore blue at Kentucky back when I was a student. Apparently, it was one of only two times they wore the blue unis.

Syracuse breaks out blue uniforms for Notre Dame game
By Mike Waters
February 24, 2008, 12:52PM

For the first time in almost 20 years, the Syracuse University Orange will wear blue uniforms for today’s game at Notre Dame.

The uniforms, designed by Nike as part of its System of Dress line, feature "Orange’’ on the chest with silver numbers outlined in orange trim. The shorts have orange, white, silver and blue blocks down the side with the player’s number at the bottom of the short on the side.

The last time Syracuse wore blue uniforms was on Feb. 28, 1988 at Kentucky. Syracuse lost that game 62-58 and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim vowed never to wear blue uniforms again.

So in that case, it’s been slowly eating at me for years now. I HATE HATE HATE the latest basketball unis, and I guess my biggest problem is the lack of blue (and the silver duct tape on the shoulder and the silver numbers). Blue is almost as much a part of Syracuse as orange is.

Also, from a marketing standpoint, I just don’t understand why you’d move from something that’s standard and established to basically random colors paired with orange. I know I’m bias, but when I see someone wearing orange with blue, I wonder if they’re a Syracuse fan. It’s ingrained in my brain.

Is the problem that there are other schools out there with the same colors (Florida, Virginia)?

but lets keep it simple and stay with a classic college look. Classics never goes out of style and still look good 20 years later (I wish someone would tell that to the architects who design our buildings).

And whatever we decide on, lets keep for a few years. I dont want to have a different uniform each time we get on national TV. We need to be recognizable.

Teams like Florida, Bama, Georgia, Michigan, Texas, OSU, USC, UCLA… how often do they change their uniforms? maybe for special occasions… but nothing permanent. OSU fans went nuts when they moved the stripes on the selves!

Someone needs to tell Doc Gross and his wife that SU has an established identity, a “brand” if you will. Its good to unify it behind one symbol… but you dont change a brand every few months in hopes of getting people to like it more. You pick one and build it up. In business you call that brand recognition. In college sports its called Tradition.

where 2 su students walked around campus and highlighted all the TRADITION at syracuse. syracuse LOVES to talk about tradition, they’ll ram it down all of our throats non stop. yet this administration constantly finds ways to shit all over these traditions at EVERY chance they can. Oh, we were the “orangemen” for 100 years? lets go by “orange” now. oh, #44 has been active for football for 100 years? well how about we retire that to protect its legacy, yet pimp it out to Turning Stone Casino to name a club.

chancy nancy cantor and “i wish i was a real [doctor]” daryl gross love nothing more than taking SYRACUSE tradition and making it some bastard child of our once great/proud school.

Oh, one last thing before i go, lets take the legend of ernie davis, protected for 50 years, and stamp nike logos all over it. of course that was just one BIG misunderstanding!!

so why not throw the ORANGE AND BLUE out with the rest of the garbage this pathetic administration has forced us to endure.

just because you have a doctorate doesn’t make you a doctor.

a few months without tinkering with something traditional at Syracuse MISTER Gross cannot. If nothing obvious to be done (such as sprucing up the Dome) he moves onto fucking with colors and nicknames and marketing campaigns. Respond to an improved product on the field, he has a loyal fanbase in place that will. If there is a game going on behind them as they sip Grey Goose in Club Four-Four, MISTER Gross seems hell bent on recruting businessmen from Manhatten who care not.

The McNabb era uniforms were perfection. They just looked classy, and old school. I don’t know how long they were like that, but to me they looked the equivalent of Ohio State/Penn State/etc.

Please take that damn S off the helmets. I always hated that S.

Agreed the bball unis were much better in 2003. And does anyone else thing the current unis look RED?

I think the problem is that the administration just throws all responsibility to Nike. And, of course, Nike doesn’t give a shit about SU tradition.

Aren’t the home football jerseys blue?
On SUAthletics.com, the women were wearing a blue uniform in their last game.

I guess it’s being phased out of the men’s hoops unis, otherwise, the university is doing an odd job of having it phased out overall….