Ugliest Uniform Look Since Phil Bennett's Disaster

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Mexmustang wrote:Would it help for those of you critics, that the coaches urged the players to choose blue jerseys, but they voted for red.

Unlike most Dl schools SMU has only one game helmet. Yes, one compared to even schools in our own conference that have 2-3 helmets!

Well, how can we change colors? A new technique that Hal Mumme came up with when coaching another small school (Abilene) also without an adequate football budget. These are helmet "wraps" that he helped develop. Pretty innovative for a school like SMU that cut back on the football budget this year! Oh sorry, the budget was supposed to be a secret within the Athletic Department!



That might be the spin that was put on it but it seemed like in his interview a few days ago that June was saying red even before the vote.
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BIGHORSE wrote:The red hats would have looked good with the blue jerseys, but once again

june gave us the middle finger
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That is the way it comes across.
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How about telling the players what to wear. I played for shellas; he told us what color we to,wear and we wore it. He didn't give us a vote on anything.

And if you don't have the money to do it right don't do it. Just like wearing the black with our regular uniform in the armed forces. It comes off looking pathetic cause you dint have the guts to do it all the way. I was not in favor of wearing black, but I would rather of done that than wear a black jersey and then say it is to honor Army. It becomes a joke rather than going bold. Same thing today. It wasn't worth doing if all you domes change the helmet. Big deal.
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Mexmustang wrote:Would it help for those of you critics, that the coaches urged the players to choose blue jerseys, but they voted for red.

Unlike most Dl schools SMU has only one game helmet. Yes, one compared to even schools in our own conference that have 2-3 helmets!

Well, how can we change colors? A new technique that Hal Mumme came up with when coaching another small school (Abilene) also without an adequate football budget. These are helmet "wraps" that he helped develop. Pretty innovative for a school like SMU that cut back on the football budget this year! Oh sorry, the budget was supposed to be a secret within the Athletic Department!


And yet Hawaii can afford alternate uniforms and helmets........
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I knew it was going to look terrible and it did. SMU marketing with its head up its [deleted] as usual.
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ojaipony wrote:I knew it was going to look terrible and it did. SMU marketing with its head up its [deleted] as usual.

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Seriously- the red helmets on red jerseys looked terrible.
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We were the Calgary Stampeders today. Awful. But whatever. All of this season i want to erase from my memory.
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skyscraper wrote:We were the Calgary Stampeders today. Awful. But whatever. All of this season i want to erase from my memory.

It hasn't been that bad. I remember the 0-12 days. Those were horrible
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East Coast Mustang wrote:
skyscraper wrote:We were the Calgary Stampeders today. Awful. But whatever. All of this season i want to erase from my memory.

It hasn't been that bad. I remember the 0-12 days. Those were horrible


We weren't paying someone $2 mil a year to not get us to a dumpy bowl. Different standards.
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Helmets looked great!!!

Rest of the uniform - YUCK!!!

Funny thing about the Calgary Stampeders. We came out w the red helmets before they did. A little history there for ya.
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So you are telling me we wrapped red sticky stuff on top of our classic white helmets? That explains the red face masks...

I am sick and tired of hearing how we don't have money... Bull [deleted], SMU is an expensive private school that recently just raised over $750 million in the last 3 years...

Do it right or don't do it at all. It is not that expensive to have good looking uniforms. It
Is the product of poor design work and bad decision making. Out uniforms would look great if we just went back to the classic pony express days look. You can't tell me that we could afford that look back then, but not know. I can't wait to read uni watch and see how bad they rip our look today.
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Stallion wrote:I know-you correctly said to wait to see them-now we have. Think how many channel-surfers turned channel because they don't watch the CFL


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I thought the red helmets looked pretty good but combined with the red jersey, they was pretty bad.
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