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Is it time for Blue football helmets?

As most of you know during this lacrosse season the team wore some new blue helmets with orange chrome face masks.

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The Lacrosse team wore the blue helmets twice this season, once in an all-blue loss @ Cornell

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& in a Virginia looking win @ Hobart.

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During the basketball season I mentioned the fact that we've struggled in Alternate uniforms, especially in all Blue.

Syracuse Athletics: An Alternate Uni-verse

However with the recent uniform explosion that is Nike-Oregon & now Under Armour-Maryland. I think that teams that aren't sporting the the mutli-uni looks aren't as attractive to recruits. We saw how players reacted to new uniforms at a school like Ohio:

Some schools have even decided to let the fans vote on what color combinations they are going to wear for certain games.

Schools like Oklahoma State now have 4 helmets, 4 jerseys & 4 pants to choose from:

OSUni Tracker - Combo Creator

I am a big fan of multiple uni-options. We know how bad the all-orange football unis have looked in the past, but they might not look to bad with blue or white pants to with a blue or white helmet.

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A blue matte-finish helmet with a shinny orange S could look pretty sweet.

If we had 4 color choices like OSU I'd have to vote for:

1) Orange

2) White

3) Blue

4) Platinum (Not Gray)

To avoid the gray complaints we should stick with 3 color options & let NIke & Hydro Graphics, Inc. make us a helmet that looks like the skin of an orange.

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Hey you never know what they'll do next.