Ricko said:

Again, I may be misunderstanding the discussion, but here’s a Texas baseball photo from earlier this season.

http://www.texasspor...

Baseball, yes…Football and Hoops, No!

Football has started becoming more uniform: Check this PG from Spring Practice out:
http://www.mackbrown...

Ricko said:

Not gonna take sides on the color-coordinated spikes discussion, but it occurs to me that perhaps it was the Texas and LSU coaches who nixed the “fancier” cleats. Maybe they’re old school enough to prefer cleats limited to a basic color and a single trim color.

I assume coaches still have SOME interest in, and control over, such things.

Don’t Texas have burnt orange trim on their white shoes? Have to admit I didn’t see them play this year—and haven’t been to the U Texas web site—but I’m pretty sure last year their white spikes did.

Only of late, since Vince Young vs. USC in the Rose Bowl have they started wearing BU accented cleats, and the problem is…not all of the players do…some wear black, some wear white with black… Very few wear white or black with BU as an accent. It it a question of the team remaining uniform with their uniforms!

ANd Nike, by not having BU shoes available, has dropped the ball.

This is out of the time period, and a different brand, but back when Roger Clemens was pitching for the Longhorns they wore white Riddells with burnt orange snug-ties and laces. I still have a pair of the burnt orange laces/snug-ties. They may be in their original package (know they’re in a box somewhere, and that I’ve never worn them).

I may have to dig them out for our annual Agency-versus-Rest-of-the-Company softball game in mid-July. Our jerseys are burnt orange undersleeves.

Damn, that oughta impress everyone.

Again, I may be misunderstanding the discussion, but here’s a Texas baseball photo from earlier this season.

http://www.texasspor...

Baseball, yes…Football and Hoops, No!

http://www.texasspor...

Not gonna take sides on the color-coordinated spikes discussion, but it occurs to me that perhaps it was the Texas and LSU coaches who nixed the “fancier” cleats. Maybe they’re old school enough to prefer cleats limited to a basic color and a single trim color.

I assume coaches still have SOME interest in, and control over, such things.

Don’t Texas have burnt orange trim on their white shoes? Have to admit I didn’t see them play this year—and haven’t been to the U Texas web site—but I’m pretty sure last year their white spikes did.

Only of late, since Vince Young vs. USC in the Rose Bowl have they started wearing BU accented cleats, and the problem is…not all of the players do…some wear black, some wear white with black… Very few wear white or black with BU as an accent. It it a question of the team remaining uniform with their uniforms!

ANd Nike, by not having BU shoes available, has dropped the ball.

Bill Fenbers said:

I found a pic of what the Reds’ camouflage jersey will look like. I didn’t see what the pants will look like though.

http://i192.photobuc...

Here is the hat for the “Welcome Back Veterans” foundation for the Reds.

http://i192.photobuc...

That camo uniform for the Reds looks like a garbage bag.
Hat’s not THAT bad, but it’s certainly not one of the better adaptations of the design.

BTW, Watching Yankees/Pirates, and Pitt’s wearing their vest uniforms. What is up with the Pirate’s “Pittsburgh 250 Anniversary” patch? It looks like a “Hello, My Name Is:” sticker.

I agree, the Reds are better off sticking to their regular home whites. I’ve noticed they are now wearing their red alternate jerseys for all day games now. Does anyone know when that started and why? It used to be they’d only wear them on Sunday home games.

LarenR said:

Watching the SF v. CLE game. Shin-Soo Choo is wearing a double-flapped helmet for the Tribe. I thought he might be a switch hitter, but it turns out he’s strictly lefty, and in his third AB Giants announcers Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow spent his whole time at the plate ridiculing him. A sampling:

Kuiper: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen that [a two-flapper on a non-switch hitter].”
Krukow: “Not since Little League!”
——
Krukow: “Mom said, ‘I’ll let you play in the big leagues, but you gotta wear a double-flapper’ ”
——
Kuiper: “It just looks weird.”
Krukow: “It just looks bad!”

Didn’t Trot Nixon (also strictly lefty) very briefly experiment with the double-flapped helmet? I recall reading that he liked the fact that it felt more balanced on his head. I’ll bet he gave it up for cosmetic reasons though.

Bronson Arroyo of the Reds wears a double flapped helmet and has been doing so ever since he came to the Reds in 2006.