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#127
#127
Vol in Buckeye Land said:
You can dislike them on principle, but it’s silly to act like they don’t look good.

Oh, just saw your username. Who cares what you think about our uniforms? Go fret about your quarterback situation.
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Been a Vol all my life. As a matter of fact my Great Grandfather's 2nd cousin was the 1st All American at Tennessee. Maybe you have heard of him Graham Vowell.

These Black and Orange uniforms look HIDEOUS!!! Tennessee is Orange and White. Those are the best looking uniforms in the country.

What is the love affair with Black. Black is darkness, Black is of Satan.
 
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#128
#128
Chitlin&theDude said:
Because AL's unaltered uniforms can't attract and retain talent? Or USC can't seem to get any talented kids to play there?
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FFS.

After we win 20 National championships in the next 25 years and are recruiting better than everyone else then maybe we won't need to do EVERY. SINGLE. THING. WE. CAN. to get caught up.

Like sales in business, winning cures everything. If that's what it takes who gaf?

We cry over the silliest crap.

*Yes, I'm crying about y'all crying. Sue me.
 
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BearBryant said:
Been a Vol all my life. As a matter of fact my Great Grandfather's 2nd cousin was the 1st All American at Tennessee. Maybe you have heard of him Graham Vowell.

These Black and Orange uniforms look HIDEOUS!!! Tennessee is Orange and White. Those are the best looking uniforms in the country.

What is the love affair with Black. Black is darkness, Black is of Satan.
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Nah, black mixed with white in the form of houndstooth is of Satan, BEAR.
 
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BearBryant said:
Been a Vol all my life. As a matter of fact my Great Grandfather's 2nd cousin was the 1st All American at Tennessee. Maybe you have heard of him Graham Vowell.

These Black and Orange uniforms look HIDEOUS!!! Tennessee is Orange and White. Those are the best looking uniforms in the country.

What is the love affair with Black. Black is darkness, Black is of Satan.
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Re: "Those are the best looking uniforms in the country."

This. Exactly this.

When you already have the best why change?
 
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Behr said:
FFS.

After we win 20 National championships in the next 25 years and are recruiting better than everyone else then maybe we won't need to do EVERY. SINGLE. THING. WE. CAN. to get caught up.

Like sales in business, winning cures everything. If that's what it takes who gaf?

We cry over the silliest crap.

*Yes, I'm crying about y'all crying. Sue me.
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Nobody is crying. Just voicing an opinion. All good my man. If changing uniforms would help us win, (which of course it won't) I'm all for it. I think we have a killer brand, and like to see it as much as possible. Deep breathes.
 
#134
#134
Volsfan1313 said:
Thank you! Vols fans act like we’re getting out of hand with alternates when we have 2. Traditionalist are annoying, the players love them so let them be lol
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Divisive post. You may be right. Everyone says, “from a player’s viewpoint?” If our school colors are a barrier, then change them. Twenty years from now you will have another generation and no tradition when they want to change them.
 
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#136
BruisedOrange said:
Valid points being made on all sides here. And, yes, in one sense they are only uniforms. Yet, on a sociological level, they're part of the social fabric that creates unity among strangers.

But let's be real with each other--uniform variety exists solely for making money off of fans. It's what's left of capitalism in a debt-based economy when the actual manufacturing of products with inherent value has been traded away. All that's left for Americans to sell today are trends and fads and "intellectual" property.

We are now where war-depleted, socialized Britain was in the early 1960s, as skewered by the Beatles' George Harrison in "A Hard Day's Night":

"Of course they're grotty, you wretched nit! That's why they were designed! But that's what you'll want."

When I was young, our "assault on sports tradition" was wearing white cleats instead of black. Drove my dad crazy! Every American young person since the 1870s has gone through a similar phase, and by the time they're 30 or 40, they are embarrassed by their earlier ideas. I'm not yet 70, but every style of clothing I've worn since grade school has now been "in style" thrice! (Sometimes I think obesity is a plot by the fashion industry.)

Speaking now of things much more important than clothing or team uniforms... what I'd like to remind the younger fans who love variety is that what makes tradition (in any realm) valuable is the number of decades it takes to build a tradition, and the short time it takes to destroy it. It's like a successful long-term investment account. Its value accumulates over time--but if you withdraw early, you lose the great benefit you had earned.

We can all agree that when tradition ceases to be functional, then it must be changed.

But if you diminish something that took decades to build merely for the sake of novelty, you can't just "rebrand" tradition again when the novelty of novelty has worn off. You're only left with memories and regret.

Variety for the sake of novelty is not a healthy place for any mind or society to be. Sometimes your elders dig in their heels on something silly like uniforms, because what they're really worried about the more important traditions in life that they see being plowed under by design, not free choice.

For all our crankiness, what we wish more than anything is to pass on to following generations the joys and opportunities we enjoyed, that we see being taken away. But that's all complicated and intellectual and hard to articulate. It becomes much easier to just yell, "Stop screwing with the team colors!"

...and stay off my lawn!" (which is still the traditional green for valid, scientific, and widely beneficial reasons.)
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Since you opened the door to days gone by and we're back in black, I can't let it slide.
 
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#137
#137
Dark Mode is for the players.

Blackout is for the fans.

It is an official blackout....like it or not. Wear primary black with orange accents to match the unis.

GBO



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#138
NighthawkVol said:
Hubbs said Tennessee is under contract with Nike to wear the Smokey greys 1x per year and dark mode 1x per year. I like that they did the Smokies against AP (although the version this year didn’t look good….I think the ones we wore in Baton Rouge are the best version of Smokies). I like that we’re wearing dark mode against SC if you have to pick a game. I want to be in traditional uniforms against Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Even against Vanderbilt. I will say, I prefer traditional uniforms against Kentucky, but with it being Halloween weekend last year, the dark mode was cool.

This is a big recruiting weekend, so I actually would’ve been surprised if we hadn’t pulled them out this weekend.
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Re: Hubbs said Tennessee is under contract with Nike to wear the Smokey greys 1x per year and dark mode 1x per year.

And why would they care? Money ...and money only!!
They've successfully managed to create a situation where fans buy more of their gear which means more money for NIKE which means more money for Phil Knight which means more money for Oregon via NIL deals....which means more competition for other schools including UT.

I said this months ago on this board..... when the NIL situation became reality..... that you could count on the Oregon roster to improve within a short period of time.

Oregon composite team player rankings

2017.....23
2018.... 25
2019....17
2020 ...12
2021....9
2022....7
2023...10
 
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#139
Well, me and my crew of 5 will be at the game, and have no black Vol gear.

And I’ll not be dropping 3 bills before the game, so I guess we’ll be the idiots in Orange.
 
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Voltopia said:
Uh, okay, but the last South Carolina game buried the orange helmet idea for a good five or ten more years. You gonna bring out the dark mode jerseys for the rematch, you best be careful not to get those burned too.
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So should we to ahead and burn the All White since we lost to Florida again in the swamp?
 
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#144
cobbwebb0710 said:
Can we just wear orange and white? Is that too much to ask?
I don’t want black, I dont want grey, I want orange and white!
I’m not opposed to the black or grey, I just think we need to get back to being the BIG ORANGE!
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I’m glad your opinion doesn’t count. It’s not 1982 anymore..
 
#145
#145
Volsfan1313 said:
Comments like this irk me lol. The orange helmets looked great and they were not the reason Tennessee lost last year.I don’t understand the superstition this fan base has against alternate uniforms.
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Imo the orange helmets were by far the worst looking alternates we have put out. The gray, and the black helmets looks so much better.
 
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#147
jarnol32 said:
Imo the orange helmets were by far the worst looking alternates we have put out. The gray, and the black helmets looks so much better.
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What was that you said about opinions?
You’re right, this isn’t 1982 anymore, it’s 2023 and only your opinion matters, right?
 
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#149
jarnol32 said:
Imo the orange helmets were by far the worst looking alternates we have put out. The gray, and the black helmets looks so much better.
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I disagree. The orange helmets with the all white unis looked awesome. I don't care that we lost while wearing them! I hope we wear them at least once every year now.
 
#150
#150
I think its fun wearing alternate Uniforms. If i had a say so, i would ditch them all but the dark mode. Wear orange and white then dark mode once a year. I am not a fan of smokey greys, or the orange pants. But i am not one of the older guys that would go as far as saying "THEY LOOK AWFUL". I think dark mode looks sweet. I think its a great changeup. The cruits love them too.
 
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