How's this for tradition

[lwjr]

No but I did once pick up a Girl with a hay(what do you call them?) in the back of her truck-I think I admitted that before.

you did. Hay bale?

Actually, they do have black uniforms.

http://1ac1.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/ne ... -uniforms/

[Stallion]

No but I did once pick up a Girl with a hay(what do you call them?) in the back of her truck-I think I admitted that before.

you did. Hay bale?

Yes! (actually just mugged with her in Parking Lot and talked her out of going home with me because she was geographically undesireable and I feared that hay bales in my neighborhood might violate city ordanances or deed restrictions)

[smupony94]

Mugged? What are you 14?

[One Trick Pony]

It's one of two leagues we can look down on from where we sit lol.

[NickSMU17]

pretty telling of the mindset of the HS senior as it relates to tradition. all they want is whatever is kicka$$

They Like whatever you tell them to like...just like the guy in the video...

[PonyKai]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=6003943

see the last paragraph

So does that mean all I have to do is go get Penn State's tailback Evan Royster to say something along the lines of "Anybody that visits hear and sees the facilities and the overwhelming amount of history and tradition would be crazy not to go here" to refute that idea?

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=6003943

see the last paragraph

Considering that they are essentially Nike's college team, what do you expect?

[Mexmustang]

According to June, it was the players request to have one black uniform. He promised last year that he would do it if they could make it to a second bowl. I would imagine that ED will promtly remind him of tradition if the future uniforms get to off track. I just wished they liked the blue Cotton Bowl uniforms of ED's team.

[PK]

I would imagine that ED will promtly remind him of tradition if the future uniforms get to off track.

We can only hope that is the case.

[SMU1523]

Name Change to War Horses. Sounds tough and the kids love them

Hhahahaha

[SMU1523]

SMU Song Girls would be a nice tradition to start

I second this fantastic idea...

[OR-See-Nee]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=6003943

see the last paragraph

Considering that they are essentially Nike's college team, what do you expect?

Great article. They are Nike's college team. From the article:

One question for former coach Mike Bellotti, who succeeded Brooks and set the table for current coach Chip Kelly: How important is Knight's influence on Oregon football?

Phil Knight's contributions to Oregon's rise are impossible to overstate.
"How important is the sun to life on Earth?" Bellotti said. "We wouldn't be here without him."

By most calculations, Knight has spent more than $300 million on Oregon athletics. The money just keeps coming, and the facilities just keep getting built. A $41.7 million academic-support building is under construction. Then there will be a six-story football operations building.

And unlike that old domed stadium, those will get off the drawing board and into active use.

Like a lot of big-money boosters and a lot of big-time schools, Knight got seriously invested in Oregon football when Oregon football showed signs of serious promise. He'd helped bump up coaches' salaries, but he got really interested during Brooks' breakthrough Rose Bowl season of 1994.

The correlation was direct and dramatic. When Oregon won nine games in '94 for the first time since 1948, Knight went all in. From that point forward, the Ducks have won nine or more games in a season nine times.

The more they spent, the more people noticed. Facilities lured recruits on official visits. Bold marketing moves -- remember the huge Joey Harrington Heisman Trophy billboard in Times Square in 2001? -- drew media curiosity.

And then Nike went all mad fashion scientist with the uniforms, turning initial public disapproval into widespread public fascination.

And that's the interesting thing about this "hip brand": It's radically different from the other great brands in college football.

Think of Notre Dame, Alabama, Penn State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan and Ohio State, and what generally comes to mind? Tradition and continuity. The uniforms almost never change, and neither does much of anything else associated with those programs.


The trendy Ducks get a jump from their uniforms.
But Oregon has gone the other way, building a brand on constant change. The Ducks change clothes more often than Vegas showgirls, making their uniform combinations a newsworthy item every football game. Anticipation for the Dec. 14 unveiling of what they would wear in their first title game was immense.

(The answer: white jerseys, white pants, pewterish helmets, DayGlo green socks, white cleats with DayGlo green accents. I was hoping for jerseys with built-in cloaking devices.)

It's a smart strategy. If the object is to appeal to teenagers who are so comfortable with the staggering pace of change in today's society, then what better way than putting an emphasis on here-and-now trendiness?

"If anybody pays a visit to Oregon and sees the facilities and the uniforms and everything," said star running back LaMichael James, "as a 17-year-old or 18-year-old kid, who wouldn't want to go to Oregon?"

[LVPony]

Tradition - it actually means something as does the Harvard red and Yale blue. Do you think Penn State will go with black uniforms and helments when JoPa signs off?

[Waldorf]

Tradition - it actually means something as does the Harvard red and Yale blue. Do you think Penn State will go with black uniforms and helments when JoPa signs off?

Jo Pa is gone, well almost

they encased him in Carbonite!

[SMU1523]

The new uniforms haven't been released, but I've heard we have dropped adidas in favor of these guys.

Now, Nobody can complain about tradition. In this jersey, everyone can be happy... June and the traditionalists...