Don't mean to clog the board w/ another UA thread, but i wanted this to be about the unis specifically. Marc, feel free to merge this if you think it's too much. I'll follow up this post w/ a few tweets/pics I've seen re: this.
IMO, our unis will only be ugly if we let it be ugly.
If our staff, players, etc. [Cal Atx says each staff will have their own design process and will decide who gets to be involved] do not have the right vision for how we want our image to look, Under Armour will probably make it worse. UA hasn't had the quality of designers Nike and Adidas has had, and that's really want the bottom line is. Their designs in the past has been trash, but that doesn't necessarily have to stay that way. Adidas was garbage too, until about a year or two ago.
If UA really wants Cal to be the West Coast Flagship, then they need to hire or give us their best design guys to come up with not only clean throwback uniforms, but also innovative one-offs. As the other partner in this equation, Cal needs to know what it wants, and demand to have it done.
And for those who don't want "new" uniforms and/or "new" colors, you're sh*t out of luck, because this staff gets the need for cool stuff recruits care about. Look at the white helmet w/ the chrome grill and bear logo plastered by recruits on their trips. They're willing to experiment, and now with UA, we may actually get to implement it.
Really up to Cal and UA to make it actually impressive instead of all the flexing done in this announcement about how innovative and great it is. As great as it may be for the University as a whole, on the football side, it won't mean much unless they execute the uniform and apparel well--that's what the public sees.
(RB coach at Antioch HS [Najee's dude])
IMO, our unis will only be ugly if we let it be ugly.
If our staff, players, etc. [Cal Atx says each staff will have their own design process and will decide who gets to be involved] do not have the right vision for how we want our image to look, Under Armour will probably make it worse. UA hasn't had the quality of designers Nike and Adidas has had, and that's really want the bottom line is. Their designs in the past has been trash, but that doesn't necessarily have to stay that way. Adidas was garbage too, until about a year or two ago.
If UA really wants Cal to be the West Coast Flagship, then they need to hire or give us their best design guys to come up with not only clean throwback uniforms, but also innovative one-offs. As the other partner in this equation, Cal needs to know what it wants, and demand to have it done.
And for those who don't want "new" uniforms and/or "new" colors, you're sh*t out of luck, because this staff gets the need for cool stuff recruits care about. Look at the white helmet w/ the chrome grill and bear logo plastered by recruits on their trips. They're willing to experiment, and now with UA, we may actually get to implement it.
Really up to Cal and UA to make it actually impressive instead of all the flexing done in this announcement about how innovative and great it is. As great as it may be for the University as a whole, on the football side, it won't mean much unless they execute the uniform and apparel well--that's what the public sees.
(RB coach at Antioch HS [Najee's dude])
