Schools do it two reasons. 1. Nike pays them a ton of money for it. 2. Recruits love the cutting edge uniforms and care little for tradition. You can believe coaches use this. Play here at Georgia for the tradition and every other year you can dress out like Spiderman.
Haha touché. You make valid points, but like red said it's all about the benjamins and recruiting prowess. And I'd like to think that every college football fan could read the scoreboard on the tube, but who knows with some people. But for being a gimmick, I think it's becoming a nice touch finding out what they come out with every year. I'm just not too crazy about nikes inability to distinguish from gold gold and LSU gold.
I repeat: Nike, started by a Duck, headquartered in, Beaverton, Oregon; Nike, has gotten the country thinking about football style,.... and the Ducks. In college football, it .....“Last night a very foolish school and a very foolish company showed just how desperate for attention they are,” he wrote after the Maryland game..... .....there are plenty of other college football uniforms to be delighted or offended by. Just for example: There is Arizona State’s new look, including a redesigned Sun Devils pitchfork on the helmet that resembles a medieval alchemy symbol crossed with a corporate flow chart; Georgia’s football team is suddenly ablaze in candy-apple red; Oregon, the trailblazer in the unorthodox, has worn dozens of variations of its uniform combinations in the past five years and has hundreds that it can go with any Saturday; Oklahoma State, meanwhile, is vying to become the Oregon of the Great Plains by making fiery orange the new yellow..... .....The company responsible for the most controversial uniform, the Maryland outfits turned out on Labor Day, is Under Armour, a Baltimore-based manufacturer that leads Nike in the U.S. athletic apparel market but is trying to catch up in the overall athletic market, which includes footwear. Kevin Plank, the co-founder of Under Armour, played football at Maryland. His relationship with the university is often compared to the one that Nike chief executive Phil Knight has with Oregon, his alma mater..... The article was about Under Armer, and Maryland's uniforms, but it wasn't really. It was about Nike, Phil Knight and his vision for Oregon. When you cut the fat away, and get to the crux of the whole football fashion matter, what you see is; Phil Knight, smiling,.. with his arm around the Oregon Duck.
