Napier's Head Coaching Premier

[KajunKrazy]

I'm not sure he's complaining. I'm thinking he'd just like to see red & white more than black which is actually an outstanding accent color.

This somewhat, Correct I am not complaining, I am just 100% correct on this. Our traditional colors are great and we have no need for black. Basically uniforms before and throughout the Stokley years and the red and white we had last year are just fine. As someone who spent 9 years on campus from 70 to 74 and 87-92 and never saw an ounce of black in a uniform or any paraphernalia, I just don't get the love affair with black, when it comes to the Cajuns. Our best looking uniforms through out history have all been ones with no black in them at all. The best looking Cajun gear produced has no black. We don't need black. Thank you Jerry Baldwin.

[CajunVic]

This somewhat, Correct I am not complaining, I am just 100% correct on this. Our traditional colors are great and we have no need for black. Basically uniforms before and throughout the Stokley years and the red and white we had last year are just fine. As someone who spent 9 years on campus from 70 to 74 and 87-92 and never saw an ounce of black in a uniform or any paraphernalia, I just don't get the love affair with black, when it comes to the Cajuns. Our best looking uniforms through out history have all been ones with no black in them at all. The best looking Cajun gear produced has no black. We don't need black. Thank you Jerry Baldwin.

Not that I was really paying attention, however I fail to remember one (1) black tooth pic in his three (3) years as coach or twenty (20) years of litigation.

[Turbine]

... Thank you Jerry Baldwin.

This one isn't on J.B.

You can thank the New York branding agency (that did a shallow quick dive with no guidance) for giving UL the Hot Wheel logo, yellow, the Pepper, and black.

Jerry just happened to be here when it happened.

[LouisianaB]

This somewhat, Correct I am not complaining, I am just 100% correct on this. Our traditional colors are great and we have no need for black. Basically uniforms before and throughout the Stokley years and the red and white we had last year are just fine. As someone who spent 9 years on campus from 70 to 74 and 87-92 and never saw an ounce of black in a uniform or any paraphernalia, I just don't get the love affair with black, when it comes to the Cajuns. Our best looking uniforms through out history have all been ones with no black in them at all. The best looking Cajun gear produced has no black. We don't need black. Thank you Jerry Baldwin.

Yea, because the university was experiencing massive loads of success back then, so we should keep with those times.

[KajunKrazy]

This one isn't on J.B.

You can thank the New York branding agency (that did a shallow quick dive with no guidance) for giving UL the Hot Wheel logo, yellow, the Pepper, and black.

Jerry just happened to be here when it happened.

Introducing black into the football uniform was actually every bit on JB. It started with a simple face mask and now you are seeing the evolution.

[Turbine]

Yea, because the university was experiencing massive loads of success back then, so we should keep with those times.

Interesting, do you think they were honing in on 1997 results when they made this pivot?

[KajunKrazy]

Yea, because the university was experiencing massive loads of success back then, so we should keep with those times.

Yep. If you give Stoleys teams the schedule that bustle and hud had you may have several 10 win seasons. Having said that success has nothing to do with using your school colors. If coaches are saying we can win in a black shirt but not a vermilion shirt then they should all be fired.

[zephyr]

Introducing black into the football uniform was actually every bit on JB. It started with a simple face mask and now you are seeing the evolution.

I cannot believe we are still talking about this. More importantly, I can't believe we are arguing who brought black in to our color pallet. The answer is this was trending long before goofball Baldwin. This whole thing started way back with the Fab 5 and just evolved over the years. More and more schools over the years have been bringing black into their uniform variations. Young kids love the color and its a popular alternative to the traditional red and white. Notre Dame even wore black uniforms last season and they are about as traditional as it goes. Its just a new way of doing things. We have to get over it.

[Turbine]

Introducing black into the football uniform was actually every bit on JB. It started with a simple face mask and now you are seeing the evolution.

A black facemask was irrelevant to the devolution. Schools who have never ever been accused of deviating from school colors have used black facemasks.

Reverse engineering this adoption finds a coincidence in the face mask, not a correlation.

The pallet dump logo rebranding from the same period (including the mostly black fleur-de-lis) is a different story. It's the story source.

[KajunKrazy]

I cannot believe we are still talking about this. More importantly, I can't believe we are arguing who brought black in to our color pallet. The answer is this was trending long before goofball Baldwin. This whole thing started way back with the Fab 5 and just evolved over the years. More and more schools over the years have been bringing black into their uniform variations. Young kids love the color and its a popular alternative to the traditional red and white. Notre Dame even wore black uniforms last season and they are about as traditional as it goes. Its just a new way of doing things. We have to get over it.

You are obviously missing my point because the 2 schools you mentioned and most others use it on special occasions once or twice a year. I am OK with that. We are using it more and more everyday and it’s becoming equal to vermillion. Our on line merchandising store has more black than red. I hope you can see the obvious difference.

I have said before I have no problem with black in general. If our U made an official announcement that we are officially changing our colors to red and black I’d embrace it. As long as our colors are vermillion and white I will stand by opinion on the over usage of black.

[Rainman66]

Outside of caps, red easily out paces black on our online store. I just ordered $200+ dollars worth of stuff (all red). Under Armour may have more black, but Adidas is heavily red and Nike is mostly red.

[zephyr]

You are obviously missing my point because the 2 schools you mentioned and most others use it on special occasions once or twice a year. I am OK with that. We are using it more and more everyday and it’s becoming equal to vermillion. Our on line merchandising store has more black than red. I hope you can see the obvious difference.

I have said before I have no problem with black in general. If our U made an official announcement that we are officially changing our colors to red and black I’d embrace it. As long as our colors are vermillion and white I will stand by opinion on the over usage of black.

I'm not missing anything. I get what you are saying and its your opinion. No biggie. You are missing what I'm saying though. As i mentioned before, I have as much UNC gear as I do Cajun gear and much of it is black or has black in it. That is not one of their school colors and they are much more traditional than we are but much of their merchandise has been branded with that color. It's not just them either. If you look at Wisconsin who has similar colors to ours, much of their merchandise comes in black options. This is not just a special use situation.

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