Rutgers Adidas Uniforms Revealed then taken down

[robcac26]

Anyone else see the new helmet? Gray helmet with silver new Knight logo ... I think with the gray cleats, we will have an all-gray uniform like the other adidas schools have had.
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I sure hope not, I think gray uniforms look terrible, and I don't understand why you need more than two uniforms.

That is NOT what they are wearing now.

This is what Adidas made for them going forward...

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article102681277.html

I think those would look fine if they got rid of the stupid tire tread marks or whatever that is supposed to be all over the orange jersey. They look like they got run over by a truck.

 

[SC1221]

For the guys who are saying they are boring, do you mean boring like these?

Are these boring?

Yes, if those programs had no history, they wouldn't look like that. I do like LSU's and USC's to an extent but bama's uniforms are absolutely terrible. It serves as an artifact of their tradition but RU doesn't have 1/32 the tradition so there is no reason to wear outdated designs like that.

 

[madchuck]

Yes, if those programs had no history, they wouldn't look like that. I do like LSU's and USC's to an extent but bama's uniforms are absolutely terrible. It serves as an artifact of their tradition but RU doesn't have 1/32 the tradition so there is no reason to wear outdated designs like that.

Any program that is to be taken seriously has boring uniforms. Schools Hawaii, Maryland and Western Michigan have goofy uniforms. Here are some more boring uniforms. We're not in the fricking MAC. We should at least look like a serious team.

 

[SC1221]

Any program that is to be taken seriously has boring uniforms. Schools Hawaii, Maryland and Western Michigan have goofy uniforms. Here are some more boring uniforms. We're not in the fricking MAC. We should at least look like a serious team.

This is not true at all. There are several programs that have had success without having plain uniforms. Teams with boring uniforms have them because they tend to have lots of tradition dating back numerous decades. The powerhouses in the SEC and B1G have tradition of winning conference and national titles so they have boring uniforms. RU is not a program with any tradition so that rationale goes out the window. Programs who have had success here and there but haven't been Top 10-20 programs for 50 years don't have boring uniforms. Having a boring uniform for the sake of pretending to have tradition is a waste of time.

Programs more along the lines of where RU could be realistically:

 

[madchuck]

This is not true at all. There are several programs that have had success without having plain uniforms. Teams with boring uniforms have them because they tend to have lots of tradition dating back numerous decades. The powerhouses in the SEC and B1G have tradition of winning conference and national titles so they have boring uniforms. RU is not a program with any tradition so that rationale goes out the window. Programs who have had success here and there but haven't been Top 10-20 programs for 50 years don't have boring uniforms. Having a boring uniform for the sake of pretending to have tradition is a waste of time.

Programs more along the lines of where RU could be realistically:

Those are all alternates. I don't mind us having alternates. Louisville's uniforms are gross though. The traditional red ones are okay, the number font is worse than ours. Their alternats are embarrassing.

 

[e5fdny]

If those Adidas unis above are the correct ones they are not quite "right". Compare them to the nike one in madchuck's post. The nike logo is there, but does not take the dominant position. That is, it is off to a aside and allows the RUTGERS name to be high on the chest in the "right" position (above the nipples, if you were wondering). Meanwhile in the adidas version the adidias logo grabs the prime center-top positions and forces the RUTGERS and the numbers DOWN the chest. They just look "wrong" in that position.

Agree.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

We are the 1st ever college football program, we are the oldest FBS program and we played in the 1st college football game ever. If any team should have a traditional look it should be us.

But we can have our cake and eat it too, traditional uniforms for most games, crazy alt for one or two games a year.

That way we can have both.

 

[madchuck]

We are the 1st ever college football program, we are the oldest FBS program and we played in the 1st college football game ever. If any team should have a traditional look it should be us.

But we can have our cake and eat it too, traditional uniforms for most games, crazy alt for one or two games a year.

That way we can have both.

Agreed.

 

[RobotHunter]

Any program that is to be taken seriously has boring uniforms. Schools Hawaii, Maryland and Western Michigan have goofy uniforms. Here are some more boring uniforms. We're not in the fricking MAC. We should at least look like a serious team.

So you've now compared us to Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma, Florida St., Clemson...got it

 

[BlockR]

 

[MozRU]

So you've now compared us to Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma, Florida St., Clemson...got it

I'd rather look like an winner than a horse's a$$ looking for bad attention.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

So you've now compared us to Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma, Florida St., Clemson...got it

What's the point of that comment? And by "rubigtimenow" liking that comment?

Shouldn't we want to look "big time"?

These teams have classic looks (for the most part), why do we need to NOT look like that?

 

[SC1221]

What's the point of that comment? And by "rubigtimenow" liking that comment?

Shouldn't we want to look "big time"?

These teams have classic looks (for the most part), why do we need to NOT look like that?

Because a classic look is just a perception and does nothing for you if you aren't a classic program. UL Lafayette and Georgia Southern also have "classic" uniforms but nobody cares because their programs have no tradition so posters aren't attaching pictures of their uni's when trying to vouch for a "classic" look. If RU has a basic uniform, the program is copying Georgia Southern and UL Lafayette not Bama and PSU. Nobody cares about your basic look if you don't have longstanding tradition.

 

[e5fdny]

Because a classic look is just a perception and does nothing for you if you aren't a classic program. UL Lafayette and Georgia Southern also have "classic" uniforms but nobody cares because their programs have no tradition so posters aren't attaching pictures of their uni's when trying to vouch for a "classic" look. If RU has a basic uniform, the program is copying Georgia Southern and UL Lafayette not Bama and PSU. Nobody cares about your basic look if you don't have longstanding tradition.

I think it was Hayden Fry (but I know it was an Iowa HC) said if you want be a winner you should look like one too.

Black and gold/yellow have always been Iowa's colors but it wasn't until then did they start to really look like the Steelers.

 

[madchuck]

So you've now compared us to Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Oklahoma, Florida St., Clemson...got it

No, I just said they don't have goofy uniforms. If we can't play like a powerhouse, we can at least look like one.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Because a classic look is just a perception and does nothing for you if you aren't a classic program. UL Lafayette and Georgia Southern also have "classic" uniforms but nobody cares because their programs have no tradition so posters aren't attaching pictures of their uni's when trying to vouch for a "classic" look. If RU has a basic uniform, the program is copying Georgia Southern and UL Lafayette not Bama and PSU. Nobody cares about your basic look if you don't have longstanding tradition.

Baloney.

No one has played football longer. No school in the FBS is older.

We should not run away from "tradition" and an old classic style.. we should be embracing it.

We should just be thankful that we reclaimed the Block R before someone else absconded with it because we were fiddling around with those over-produced over-stylized knights logos.

You guys keep throwing *it* against the wall.. when the classics are there for us to embrace all along..

 

[SC1221]

Baloney.

No one has played football longer. No school in the FBS is older.

We should not run away from "tradition" and an old classic style.. we should be embracing it.

We should just be thankful that we reclaimed the Block R before someone else absconded with it because we were fiddling around with those over-produced over-stylized knights logos.

You guys keep throwing *it* against the wall.. when the classics are there for us to embrace all along..

Sorry but there's a big difference between design for a logo and designing a uniform. Logos should be simple so they can scale but that is an entirely different argument and process from design for uniforms. Trying to pretend we have tradition because we are the oldest program is a pathetic argument. RU has changed their uniforms over the past 100 years I don't even know how many times. Being old doesn't mean having tradition.

 

[G- RUnit]

Have to laugh that a uniform that we had for what three or four years is somehow "traditional" or "classic". That uniform looks good because it was Brian Leonard, not because it was a great uniform. Even Coach Schiano wanted to change it! The late 70's and Marco years and the Kroll team of '61 are the only uniforms close to classic or traditional uniforms.

 

[demauroj]

It was not Flood.

Correct...... The Deity Known as Schiano designed those uniforms.

 

[demauroj]

Fact, approximately 50% of the fan base will hate the next uniform, and the one after that, and after that...until we start winning regularly which at that point the uniform worn will be synonymous with success.

If (insert any school name with iconic uniforms) had our records and history, they'd all hate their uniforms too.

FACT: When We start winning again nobody will give a Sh*t about the uniform.

 

[theRU]

FACT: When We start winning again nobody will give a Sh*t about the uniform.

thanks for confirming what i said in my post. lol

 

[SJScarlet]

The "we haven't won enough to have a clean, consistent, classic looking uniform so instead we need to have constantly changing, flamboyant, garish looking uniforms" argument gets more idiotic every time I read it.

 

[SC1221]

The "we haven't won enough to have a clean, consistent, classic looking uniform so instead we need to have constantly changing, flamboyant, garish looking uniforms" argument gets more idiotic every time I read it.

That's not the argument, looks like you need to keep reading it.

 

[SJScarlet]

That's not the argument, looks like you need to keep reading it.

The powerhouses in the SEC and B1G have tradition of winning conference and national titles so they have boring uniforms. RU is not a program with any tradition so that rationale goes out the window. Programs who have had success here and there but haven't been Top 10-20 programs for 50 years don't have boring uniforms. Having a boring uniform for the sake of pretending to have tradition is a waste of time.

Programs more along the lines of where RU could be realistically:

Honestly it is so silly and nonsensical it is not even worth discussing, feel free to create made up rules about uniform style that are dictated by some notion about level of program "tradition". Meanwhile, decision makers at Rutgers will do what they see fit, and some people will complain about it no matter what.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

I'm in the "I really don't care what the uniforms look like as long as the numbers are easily readable" camp.

 

[Caliknight]

Please, not boring Ped State knock offs.

adidas doesn't do boring. Looking like every other non descriptive B1G team is not something to strive for.

Kids like hot gear. That's who you are playing to. Not the message board warriors.

 

[e5fdny]

Please, not boring Ped State knock offs.

adidas doesn't do boring. Looking like every other non descriptive B1G team is not something to strive for.

Kids like hot gear. That's who you are playing to. Not the message board warriors.

Love what they did with the Miami reboot.

If we get their A-team to give us something like that (meaning EFFORT and not necessarily the design) many will be happy.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Have to laugh that a uniform that we had for what three or four years is somehow "traditional" or "classic". That uniform looks good because it was Brian Leonard, not because it was a great uniform. Even Coach Schiano wanted to change it! The late 70's and Marco years and the Kroll team of '61 are the only uniforms close to classic or traditional uniforms.

There's another ridiculous argument.

EVERY FOOTBALL TEAM HAD 'TRADITIONAL" uniforms... including RUTGERS. There just wasn't much variety during the entire history of college football.

The efforts to "modernize" have largely been responsible for the absurd things teams have worn.. and Rutgers was touched by this as well.

The RETURN to a traditional look and the BLOCK R logo was well received among Rutgers fans for good reasons. Rutgers has a couple things going for it that no one can take away.. its age (1766) and its help in the founding of college football (1869). The traditional look reinforces these key points. Everything more "modern" runs away from them.

 

[LevaosLectures]

we will want to look good when we become a national story for beating Washington week 1.

 

[G- RUnit]

There's another ridiculous argument.

EVERY FOOTBALL TEAM HAD 'TRADITIONAL" uniforms... including RUTGERS. There just wasn't much variety during the entire history of college football.

The efforts to "modernize" have largely been responsible for the absurd things teams have worn.. and Rutgers was touched by this as well.

The RETURN to a traditional look and the BLOCK R logo was well received among Rutgers fans for good reasons. Rutgers has a couple things going for it that no one can take away.. its age (1766) and its help in the founding of college football (1869). The traditional look reinforces these key points. Everything more "modern" runs away from them.

Ridiculous response. Throwing a busy Rutgers across the chest for a few years was far much "modern" then traditional. Just a silly argument to make that the 2006 uniform is/was "traditional".

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Ridiculous response. Throwing a busy Rutgers across the chest for a few years was far much "modern" then traditional. Just a silly argument to make that the 2006 uniform is/was "traditional".

Common sense and common thought on the subject tells you that those mid-2000s uniforms were "classic" and "traditional".. but because you think they were boring, you now argue against them based on the use of the words "traditional" and "classic".

You are pissing into the wind there.

 

[G- RUnit]

Common sense and common thought on the subject tells you that those mid-2000s uniforms were "classic" and "traditional".. but because you think they were boring, you now argue against them based on the use of the words "traditional" and "classic".

You are pissing into the wind there.

Never said they were boring, if anything thought way too much going on.

Uniforms of Burns, Anderson, Graber and even Shea were much closer to the RU "Traditional" uniform then the Schiano years. The Block "R" was by far the best part.

Although you could read the numbers last year, they were boring uniforms.

 

[Sir ScarletKnight]

This looks likely.

 

[miketd1]

This looks likely.

Reminds me of this:

 

[G- RUnit]

Actually like the font of the numbers. Make the R a little more visible and bolden the stripes and maybe you got something.

 

[e5fdny]

Reminds me of this:

Don't see it.

 

[jersey07080]

Pretty sure the white font numbers are on his current high school jersey. Don't read to much into tweeted mockups.

 

[miketd1]

Don't see it.

The number outline is black-white-scarlet which is similar to the color pattern of OSU's block O. It's also similar to OSU's helmet stripe pattern:

I'd much rather ditch the white and simply have a scarlet font with a black outline:

I've mentioned this before, but NC State is almost perfect:

 

[BlockR]

https://snapchat4.com/rfootball+snapchat

 

[e5fdny]

The number outline is black-white-scarlet which is similar to the color pattern of OSU's block O. It's also similar to OSU's helmet stripe pattern:

I'd much rather ditch the white and simply have a scarlet font with a black outline:

I've mentioned this before, but NC State is almost perfect:

Think I'm with you on the single outline but would like to see it in red first before I decide.

NC State not bad but as others have said if we're going with the RUTGERS across the front would hope the Adidas triangle is moved to the side.