Black Jerseys!!!

[BIGHORSE]

For what it's worth, there are coaches at a lot of schools who wear unorthodox colors so that when players look to the sideline, they can find the coach quickly. Jones wears black sweats with SMU logos at practice every day. There were times (maybe every game — don't remember) when secondary coach Derrick Odum wore a green golf shirt on the sideline so the DBs could find him. There was a time years ago (either Bennett years or Cavan years — don't remember that, either) when the linebackers coach wore white gloves on the sideline so his hands would stand out against the wall of red jerseys behind him while he signaled in calls from the sideline. Happens at other schools, too. It's not coaches being dismissive of school colors, but simply trying to be clearly visible on the sideline.

You said a lot of schools do this. Could you name 2 others.

It doesn't matter if he could name 20 schools, we want J.J. to represent S.M.U. with our colors.

[Rebel10]

I understand. I am just curious as to what other schools do it (wear non school colors on the sidelines). I have not noticed it before.

[mrydel]

Wonder why black is more visable than blue? Jones can wear whatever he wants but I am tired of hearing the "so he can be visable" excuse. He can be visable with a school color.

[BIGHORSE]

June wears black simply because he likes black, if someone stopped by our practice

that wasn't familiar with our school colors they would assume our colors are red and black

because that's what June and the team wears.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

You said a lot of schools do this. Could you name 2 others.

I agree with you Rebel. Even if some head coaches don't wear their school colors, most do. I think it's ridiculous June has never really embraced Dallas and our school colors, but hey I am not going to get upset about it as long as SMU is going to bowl games, mostly winning them, and seemingly recruiting better players than we were before June got here. June has his quirks and baggage, but pretty much anyone we get in here to coach is going have some odd idiosyncrasies.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

June wears black simply because he likes black, if someone stopped by our practice

June may like black, but I honestly think if our colors would have been Black and Gold, June would now be wearing red or blue. The dude is just a contrarian to the core. If everybody didn't wear socks, he would be wearing socks. He has and always will march to the beat of a different drummer. As long as we are winning I suppose it's just something we should accept.

[Grant Carter]

What color did he wear in Hawaii when they wore black and what color did he wear when we wore black in the bowl? If he wore black in those instances then it undermines the argument that he wears it to be visible.

[BIGHORSE]

June wears black simply because he likes black, if someone stopped by our practice

June may like black, but I honestly think if our colors would have been Black and Gold, June would now be wearing red or blue. The dude is just a contrarian to the core. If everybody didn't wear socks, he would be wearing socks. He has and always will march to the beat of a different drummer. As long as we are winning I suppose it's just something we should accept.

Accept to the point I can't do anything about it, but it does bother me.

[SMU2007]

June wears black simply because he likes black, if someone stopped by our practice

June may like black, but I honestly think if our colors would have been Black and Gold, June would now be wearing red or blue. The dude is just a contrarian to the core. If everybody didn't wear socks, he would be wearing socks. He has and always will march to the beat of a different drummer. As long as we are winning I suppose it's just something we should accept.

I think that's a little silly. I think he wears black because he doesn't give a damn and wears whatever he wants. Not as a personal F.U. to smu

[Sam I Am]

The Texas Ticks bed raiders should be blacked out when we play them.

[RGV Pony]

June wears black simply because he likes black, if someone stopped by our practice

June may like black, but I honestly think if our colors would have been Black and Gold, June would now be wearing red or blue. The dude is just a contrarian to the core. If everybody didn't wear socks, he would be wearing socks. He has and always will march to the beat of a different drummer. As long as we are winning I suppose it's just something we should accept.

I think that's a little silly. I think he wears black because he doesn't give a damn and wears whatever he wants. Not as a personal F.U. to smu

And to be fair, much of our fanbase is exactly the same way. Ditto the students wearing burnt orange around campus

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

I think that's a little silly. I think he wears black because he doesn't give a damn and wears whatever he wants. Not as a personal F.U. to smu

I didn't say it was "a personal F.U. to smu"?
I said he was/is a contrarian....
this isnt about SMU per se, it's about him
he would be a contrarian whether he is at smu or most other places
if he was @Tulsa he wouldn't be in "old gold, royal blue, & crimson" either
of course he wears "whatever he wants"....that's pretty obvious.
I doubt purple has always been Gary Patterson's favorite color
but he wears it as do most coaches wearing their school's colors
because it's who pays their paycheck
but again....as long as we win...i'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
I'd much rather have a winner in black than a loser dressed head to toe in red & blue!

[SMU 86]

What color did he wear in Hawaii when they wore black and what color did he wear when we wore black in the bowl? If he wore black in those instances then it undermines the argument that he wears it to be visible.

Interesting point. It seems all the Hawaii coaches wore black. No coach wore something different to distinguish themselves visually for the players on the field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUGNfrMQBy8

[ALEX LIFESON]

[quote="Insane_Pony_Posse"]i'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
I'd much rather have a winner in black than a loser dressed head to toe in red & blue!
[quote]

Mike Cavan was always dressed in red or blue, when congratulating the winning coach.

[EastStang]

Although to be honest, if we wore black, Tech might throw a pick or two out of confusion. I remember Georgetown losing a National Championship hoops game because they had worn their tricked up blue (almost Carolina blue) throughout the tournament, then in the finals they had to wear grey and Carolina wore the blue, and Billy Martin made that ill fated pass to Michael Jordon.