Napier's Head Coaching Premier

[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.

http://www.buckyslockerroom.com/under_armour

[Cajunrunner]

Damn. This is sad.

Can we please talk about actual football now?

[zephyr]

Damn. This is sad.

Can we please talk about actual football now?

Please yes..

[ManAboutTown]

And this abortion continues...

The man wears a black shirt.

Who the ____ cares.

We have football in 3 days.

[Cajun fan1]

And this abortion continues...

The man wears a black shirt.

Who the ____ cares.

We have football in 3 days.

But footballs are brown

[Corndog308]

And this abortion continues...

The man wears a black shirt.

Who the ____ cares.

We have football in 3 days.

Couldn't have said it better

[Cajunrunner]

If this guy brings an 11 win season, he can wear his birthday suit to press conferences!