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bent20

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When the season starts will there be logos, numbers or something on the helmets? So far they've just been plain white helmets, which is as boring as possible.
 

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i don't care about logos or #s, what I care about is if they look decent and if the team shows up and does well. Uniforms don't matter to me. Though I would like to see a nice sycamore logo on the side....but that is just me.
 
Sackalot said:
i don't care about logos or #s, what I care about is if they look decent and if the team shows up and does well. Uniforms don't matter to me. Though I would like to see a nice sycamore logo on the side....but that is just me.
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Coach used the logos as a disciplinary tool last season and it might be the same case this season as well. Not too sure I like the idea but he's the coach, not me. Rest assured, not too many schools would permit it, but my guess is, that they are on the helmets come Sept 4th. We'll see. New Sycamore Fan, do you have an opinion about their existence or lack thereof?
 
Let's pick one version and stick with it, but let's make sure there is something on the helmets.
 
If I'm going to watch a football game I wanna see some good uniforms too. Something we need to work on here at Indiana State too.
 

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sycamores28 said:
If I'm going to watch a football game I wanna see some good uniforms too. Something we need to work on here at Indiana State too.
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I remember how proud Trent was with his new logo helmets last year and something tells me, the motivational tool he used mid-season last year was a one-time thing. As I said earlier, wait until the first game. Something tells me the logos (and the school pride that comes with it) WILL BE BACK. Just a hunch but if I had any money (which I don't), I would bank on the return of the Sycamore logo to the helmets.~
 
yeah...those penn state and alabama helmets are soooo unappealing...lol.....

of course...their teams are sucessful....lol.......personally....i like either the helmets that coach raetz had....in the 1990s....that looked like the air force academy helmets....or the ones we had in the mid-1980s (powder blue helmets with the indiana state outline logo)....or the ones we had back in the tom harp days......now i loooooved those uniforms...looked like auburn university........
 
TJames said:
of course...their teams are sucessful....lol.......personally....i like either the helmets that coach raetz had....in the 1990s....that looked like the air force academy helmets....or the ones we had in the mid-1980s (powder blue helmets with the indiana state outline logo)....or the ones we had back in the tom harp days......now i loooooved those uniforms...looked like auburn university........
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I liked the SILVER ones in the 70's (probably referring to the Air Force ones). And yes, from PA, I like those PSU helmet's too, but no plain white in Terre Haute, please. Not quite the same tradition as you might be aware of.
 
At least Penn State has a stripe, but yeah, their uniforms are classic, but boring. Even the classics have something to them. At least Alabama is known as THE team with the numbers on the helmets.

As for us, I think Bally is right. Might be a motivational tool to reveal the helmets with logos before the first game. Just a thought.
 
Most teams don't put the stripes or logos on the helmets until the first game. I'm not sure if it will be the logo or the numbers, but it will be one of those. My vote would be for the same logo they had last year. I'd also like to see them wear the all whites with the pants with the double blue stripe like they did at Louisville last season--that is my favorite uniform.
 

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In looking back...

at a lot of the old State yearbooks -- it's hard to see a dominant design; Bama looks good today (not because they win - now, but because it's a good design)

Bama not the only school to use numbers; they're just one of the few (only?) FBS school that is STILL using numbers.

It's a great look -- Hope TMiles uses it!
 
I think Syracuse went back to some older design that includes numbers on the helmets, but other than that I think Alabama is the only FBS school. They're clearly the most recognized team to do it. Whatever we decide on the helmet at least needs to remain consistent. Ours seem to change every year or two. What about logos on the sides with numbers on the back?
 
deciding on what to do and sticking with it is my choice. We need to build tradition and you can't do that by changing things every year or two.
 
I hope the logo goes back on them. Maybe it is a thing that Miles will put the logos back on when the team earns it? I also wish the school would play in the power blue unis for Homecoming -- I think that would be awesome!
 
the helmet design usually changes when a new coach comes on board.....

they want their own design on things.....i really liked the uniforms and helmets that we had in the mid-1980s....the powder blue game pants were like the old houston oilers....except the players didnt like to wear them all the time because the thigh pads kept slipping down...they always had to tape them up.....the helmets were powder blue.....

and as i mentioned before...the uniform and helmets that we wore in the late 1970s....under tom harp...the whole design with helmets and uniforms were like what auburn now has.....the almost same exact dark blue jerseys...with isu on the shoulder pads.....a thick white stripe on each sleeve..bordered by a thin red line on top and bottom.....i know, i know...red is not part of the isu color scheme...lol.....but, boy, those were great uniforms.....the helmets were white...with a blue stripe down the middle...bordered by two thin red stripes....with a blue circle on each side of the helmet...and white ISU inside the blue circle.....harp also used to give out blue hatchets to put on the back of defensive players helmets...and blue footballs to put on the front of offensive players helmets......

i know that when coach jamieson came in, he went very simple.....light blue mesh jerseys for home games.....and light white mesh jerseys for road games.....with powder blue helmets...and the state of indiana logo with the star where terre haute is...on the side of the helmets.....he said at the time that he didnt want ISU on the helmets because there were already too many ISUs (Iowa State, Idaho State, Illinois State)...he wanted the helmets to be distinctive....

dennis ratez kept pretty much the same style as dick jamieson....until the 1990s...when he changed things up.....and went with the white helmets....and modeled them after the air force academy helmets...he said he thought that they looked classy...with the re-designed state of indiana outline logo on the side.....with a touch of gray thrown in so that you could see where the star of terre haute was......
 

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I don't remember what year it was, maybe six or seven seasons ago, but we did have one year with plain blue helmets and it annoyed me to no end because it seemed so cheap. I just don't want to see that again. Put something on there.
 
TJames said:
they want their own design on things.....i really liked the uniforms and helmets that we had in the mid-1980s....the powder blue game pants were like the old houston oilers....except the players didnt like to wear them all the time because the thigh pads kept slipping down...they always had to tape them up.....the helmets were powder blue.....

and as i mentioned before...the uniform and helmets that we wore in the late 1970s....under tom harp...the whole design with helmets and uniforms were like what auburn now has.....the almost same exact dark blue jerseys...with isu on the shoulder pads.....a thick white stripe on each sleeve..bordered by a thin red line on top and bottom.....i know, i know...red is not part of the isu color scheme...lol.....but, boy, those were great uniforms.....the helmets were white...with a blue stripe down the middle...bordered by two thin red stripes....with a blue circle on each side of the helmet...and white ISU inside the blue circle.....harp also used to give out blue hatchets to put on the back of defensive players helmets...and blue footballs to put on the front of offensive players helmets......

i know that when coach jamieson came in, he went very simple.....light blue mesh jerseys for home games.....and light white mesh jerseys for road games.....with powder blue helmets...and the state of indiana logo with the star where terre haute is...on the side of the helmets.....he said at the time that he didnt want ISU on the helmets because there were already too many ISUs (Iowa State, Idaho State, Illinois State)...he wanted the helmets to be distinctive....

dennis ratez kept pretty much the same style as dick jamieson....until the 1990s...when he changed things up.....and went with the white helmets....and modeled them after the air force academy helmets...he said he thought that they looked classy...with the re-designed state of indiana outline logo on the side.....with a touch of gray thrown in so that you could see where the star of terre haute was......
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Have never been a fan of the poweder blue; iconic MBB uniform (but only because of the Bird-era); am still (will always be) a fan of TRADITIONAL Royal Blue, not the 'web version' -- too bright

Have found some photos of the ISU across the shoulder pads... my only thought was 'what were they thinking'

The reason PSU, Bama, and other schools have such iconic uniforms is because of consistency, yes, they've won and won big but they've maintained the same uniform style and colors for a long time -- That's Branding.

I vote for Numbers on the helmets
 
Remember the uniforms about four or five years ago that had the powder blue (guess it was powder blue) stripe running down the side. It was one of those newer styles crossing both the jersey and pants but not reaching the ankle or shoulder pads. I didn't like those stripes. Really ugly, I thought.
 
Annually Oregon

has the ugliest uniforms in ALL of college football...

sure, it's great to have Nike money but wow! they get worse every year!

I've never liked the mono-chromatic look; PSU looks fine when they wear their blue jerseys but when it's all white... ugh
 
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