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Whoa, LEDs in the helmet. Genius. I wonder if they are allowed

aus10fromhous10 wrote:That's definitely a different black uniform than what was worn for the Armed Forces Bowl in 2010:



The first version of black unis were Adidas, and had shoulder stripes on the side, not top. Also, it said SMU on the front, instead of the Mustang logo.

Any ideas where these new Nike black jerseys came from? Where they going to be used at some point and didn't?

yeah these are obviously the unis we wore season before last, just in black and with a chrome helmet. not much creativity went into this

Lebanese4Life wrote:
yeah these are obviously the unis we wore season before last, just in black and with a chrome helmet. not much creativity went into this

This is an understatement. IMHO, gray and black are on their way out. OSU and WVU both have exhausted the gray look for years and I have felt like black was never a good idea.

Has UT ever had a black uni? A&M? How about Ohio State? Or let's try Florida, Alabama or Florida State. Or USC? Or even ND? Let's fly our colors proudly. Black is not one of our university colors. If the players want to wear black so bad, why doesn't Tech have better recruiting classes versus UT or A&M. So, no, let's not go there.

EastStang wrote:Has UT ever had a black uni? A&M? How about Ohio State? Or let's try Florida, Alabama or Florida State. Or USC? Or even ND? Let's fly our colors proudly. Black is not one of our university colors. If the players want to wear black so bad, why doesn't Tech have better recruiting classes versus UT or A&M. So, no, let's not go there.

A&M - Yes
Florida State - Yes
Ohio State - Yes

Also: Miami, UNC, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Utah, TCU, UCLA, ASU, Washington, Baylor, Minnesota, Michigan State Im sure I can go on...

Pretty sure these jerseys are old though that these recruits are tweeting...

EastStang wrote:Has UT ever had a black uni? A&M? How about Ohio State? Or let's try Florida, Alabama or Florida State. Or USC? Or even ND? Let's fly our colors proudly. Black is not one of our university colors. If the players want to wear black so bad, why doesn't Tech have better recruiting classes versus UT or A&M. So, no, let's not go there.

We are not those schools and will never be them. We need to face that reality (mind you, I would never trade my allegiance to any of them). I'm all for traditionalism, but those school recruit on name brand alone. If you've been following recruiting you would know that there is a large number of kids, even in the DFW area, who didn't know anything about SMU before this coaching staff reached out to them.

Let's first get the recruits attention, get a team that produces results, then we can complain about the Unis colors... O and BTW the recruit that tweeted the initial post about the black Unis, Bryce English, is a high 3 star DL. He would be a huge get for the mustangs and he just tweeted that picture again today https://twitter.com/BryceEnglish34/status/558309555990310913 This time with the Pony express title... Looks like kids respond to the black.

I don't care about the color of the uniforms.
If the players (and recruits) care... awesome. Then let them pick the color.. not us.

skurtn wrote: If the players (and recruits) care... awesome. Then let them pick the color.. not us.

We tried that during the Cavan regime. Sometimes a little adult leadership is necessary.

Bergermeister wrote:

skurtn wrote: If the players (and recruits) care... awesome. Then let them pick the color.. not us.

We tried that during the Cavan regime. Sometimes a little adult leadership is necessary.

It doesn't have to be an "all" or "none" scenario. The people that care the most about what they're wearing, should be the ones with the largest voice. Clearly, a compromise can be struck if the people paying for it, take issue with it.

We have to do this in work/personal settings all the time. Seems reasonable that it can work here too.

I actually like the black we wore in the Armed Forced Bowl better than these ugly things. (What I didn't like was the BS idea of honoring "America" by wearing black, since America's colors are red, white, and blue, like ours. Honoring your opponent by wearing its colors is stupid.).

These unis look too much like Texas Tech with just the all black with red stripes with no outline. And that's coming from someone married to a Red Raider.

I happen to love the chrome red helments, but these unis are gross.

Believe it or not, I just saw three SMU football uniform mockups on my Instagram feed. I have no clue how to post them, but they are done by "Customunis." They are similar to some of Arizona's uniforms. Maybe one of you "who know who how to do these things" can find them on Instagram and post them.
Hey, I'm happy someone is interested in SMU and thinking about our Mustangs!

Best I could do is screen capture.

God those are horrible.

Those are apparently for the deep sea diving team.

That helmet - is the worst.