The new look, it's coming.
by agentdp009 on Feb 8, 2010 10:08 PM EST
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PrintOK, so there has been some talk of a new Syracuse (as shown here). Well I'm been off line all of last week when the talk begin to get louder. So it caught me off guard when I heard about it. To be honest, I don't like the current ones, not enough blue, too much Grey (or sliver or silver). So to be honest, I was looking forward to the new look. That was until, I saw this. And with the rumored target date this WED on national T.V. against UCONN, it going to be VERY interesting. So what's your take.
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I just saw Burnt Orange Nation’s story on this and was about to post the same thing. Note the dots on the shorts. We’re definitely getting something along the same line, part of Nike’s new “HyperElite” jerseys.
I really do not like the junk on the back. A basketball jersey isn’t supposed to have a mural on it. Maybe the prediction I made a year ago will come true.
Go, fight, and win.
A few thoughts:
- I like that, at least on the front, this Texas jersey is pretty simple. Just two colors and an interesting (if sort of cliche) font for their name. I can live with the dots on the shorts if the rest of the jersey is just orange and white with no silver.
- The back is just too crazy for a jersey. And what would they put on a Syracuse jersey for that? A big orange? Maybe DOC Gross would convince them to put a silhouette of the Empire State Building since we’re NYC’s team.
- This is actually most important: why fiddle with the jersey mid-season when things are going well?! Doesn’t Nike understand superstition? Changing the jersey just seems like asking for terrible luck.
I was watching the Texas/Kansas game ...
and I couldn’t help but notice something weird. In the link you posted, it’s definitely more noticeable since it’s their dark jerseys. BUT, in their white unis, I kept wondering a) why is their white so see-through, and b) are those t-shirts underneath with designs on them?
Anyway, HATE it if that’s what SU is going to do. But I’m with agent. I don’t like the current unis, so I’m looking forward to a change (mid-season change is dumb, though).
Christ I hate Nike
Why do they have to mess with our uniforms every goddamned year? Maybe I wouldn’t mind it so much if most of their uniform designs weren’t so hideous. That design on the back…whoever came up with that idea should have his teeth kicked in by a donkey. Can’t we just wear nice orange uniforms that say Orangemen (yeah that’s right) on the front, with white lettering and blue trim, you know, like we did for years before Nike introduced the duct-tape look for the “elite” programs? ARGGH.
That was my cranky old man post of the day.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
when is our nike contract over?
adidas and under armour is better… frankly, holy shirt could probably design better uniforms
i bought an under armour syracuse sweatshirt last year on campus
and its better looking than any nike syracuse item i’ve bought in the last 5 years..
Agreed
I bought an Under Armour golf polo at Manny’s last year, white with the Syracuse logo on the breast, and it’s far better than the Nike monstrosity polo I bought that is made of, what feels like a tablecloth.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
Haven't been a fan of any of the moves since the Nike contract
-Going from Orangemen & Orangewomen to fruit
-Statue with Nike logo
-Removing the blue from our colors
-Overall just altering the school as more of a corporation than a university
No sir, I don’t like it.
Go Orange(men)!
To be fair...
the statue and the blue have nothing to do with Nike. For the statue, someone wasn’t thinking and gave the sculptor modern equipment to base his work on. The unblueing was a Nancy Cantor call. When it was originally announced, they made it clear that blue would still be used as an accent color for the athletics department.
I’ve been surprised by the recent blue backlash. Blue never was one of “our colors.” I love the fact that Syracuse is the only school with a single official school color. It’s been that way since we got rid of the pink and green.
Go, fight, and win.
But it seems like blue is an unofficial official color.
Any piece of Syracuse paraphernalia I’ve bought in my life is either all orange or orange & blue. Together orange and blue just looks like Syracuse to me.
That’s why I’m so disappointed that it’s sort of being thrown to the curb. To me, orange is the main color of the team, obviously, but the combination of orange and blue is almost as much Syracuse to me as orange alone.
what planet you been on?
syracuse has been the orange and blue as long as any of us can remember. we were never just orange, we were orangemen [and woman].
From an article printed in The Daily Orange – September 26, 1904:
THE SYRACUSE FLAG
For the protection of our honored college color, “The Orange,” we desire to call the attention of the freshmen to the fact that the only Syracuse flags or banners which are truly representative of Syracuse are the ones with the entire orange field.
Unfortunately there are among the stocks of the city dealers a few flags with a field half orange and half blue.
Some of these have already been sold to students ignorant of the fact that Orange is the college color. It is true that we use blue for lettering purposes; but this color has never been either officially or customarily adopted as a coordinate color.
Buy a Syracuse flag and buy it right away; but see to it that it has an all orange field.
Go, fight, and win.
These are changes made since the Nike contract
not necessarily blaming Nike, but if you think the statue’s logo wasn’t influenced by Nike, then I really don’t know what to say.
As for the colors, according to Glidden: http://www.mostcolorfulfan.com/teamfinder.php?s=3
The SU colors used to be Orange, Blue, and then White. I know this because I specifically purchased the team licensed colors to paint my kids room (which came out awesome, BTW). So Blue might be “unofficial” to some, but they sure as hell charge money to have the exact right shades or Orange, blue & white to be called Syracuse Orange, Syracuse Blue, etc. I still have several paint cans of the stuff still at home.
Go Orange(men)!
The licensed colors look like this:
Top half of the room is orange, bottom half is blue, with a white stripe across the middle. Inside the stripe are various SU stickers.
2nd picture features a sign “liberated” from a street post from back in my more “liberated” days at SU
3rd picture shows what a full wall looks like, came out great in my opinion. The black part is chalkboard paint (kids can draw on it with chalk and it rubs right off easily), it’s important to have the kids follow the correct team from an early age.
Honestly, the blue and orange look great together, and having it as only an accent color is a shame.
Go Orange(men)!
by SUmonkey on Feb 9, 2010 1:36 PM EST reply actions 6 recs
how many +1's can be given
for a room, and parenting style, this superb? bravo, sir, bravo.
Nice touch...
The Euclid Ave. sign really brings the room together
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Feb 9, 2010 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
Ah, brings back memories of senior year
Though the kids do ask questions about the sign, and trying to explain “drunk logic” to a 5 year old is never easy.
Go Orange(men)!
Very nice.
I make sure my 2 1/2 year old is wearing one of his SU outfits every game day. I can’t wait for him to be ‘trustworthy’ in pants so I can take him to his first SU game.
You need a new TV!!!
Nice job with the room!
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
Eh, the TV is only there so the kiddos can watch an occasional DVD
They don’t need high def to watch the latest Disney/Pixar/Barbie flick.
Go Orange(men)!
Other than Pixar I agree.
Truth be told, Pixar movies are so good I almost feel bad watching them on anything but a high definition big screen.
Go back in time...
Let’s just be the Saltine Warriors again
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Feb 9, 2010 2:11 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I might regret this
But we did have a Special LeBron
Got a take on this (now don’t go crazy).
What does Syracuse do...SHUT IT DOWN. Nuff said.
And
I know that Nike goes off the weird end sometimes, but this isn’t Nike
Yeah I’ll do Swish and not the “3 stripes”
Our colors with black will just about give me nightmares.
What does Syracuse do...SHUT IT DOWN. Nuff said.
Just saw this on a Miami blog...
“The Hurricanes will be among just eight men’s basketball programs around the nation unveiling a new series of Nike uniforms this month, joining Gonzaga, Kentucky, Michigan State, St. John’s, Syracuse, Texas and UConn. Miami will debut its new unis in Coral Gables on Feb. 10 versus Georgia Tech.”
That’s pretty much confirmation right there. (Even though it was already all but confirmed)
Go Orange!
I’m surprised to see St. John’s on there. Usually these new uniforms are debuted by teams that… ummm… win games.
Then again, UConn is on there, too.
Go, fight, and win.
well, if it is tomorrow
we just have to win, and then we’ll all be lauding the new uniforms as we’ll be undefeated in them
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