This week UT logo replaces Power T

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HarderKnox59 said:
JMO but I prefer the fully checked orange and white end zones. Like in the early 90's. Come on Danny am sure you have the extra paint.
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I remember my pops saying he had heard it had something to do with the white-on-white when it was painted sideline to sideline. He could be making that up, also...kind of like the milk story he told when I was 8.

JK My pops was always around...who would've driven him to the golf course to get pizza at 11 when he had one too many gameday drinks?
 
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Volfan76 said:
I'm ok with mixing it up, but this is hot garbage.
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We can't please everyone with everything. I realize we all have preferences, and many don't like changes. At the end of the day, its about evolving our brand. It's not permanent, its for the General. In saying that, its fine by me.
 
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MiramarVol said:
We can't please everyone with everything. I realize we all have preferences, and many don't like changes. At the end of the day, its about evolving our brand. It's not permanent, its for the General. In saying that, its fine by me.
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...also, by the math, I think we've had a UT at the 50 for as many years as we've had a T.
 
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ButchPlz said:
...also, by the math, I think we've had a UT at the 50 for as many years as we've had a T.
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I guess its the design of it now, that impliesa difference. Folks just don't like chnahe, but in this case, its remembering the one who brought is out of darkness and into the prominence of College Football elite.
 
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MiramarVol said:
We can't please everyone with everything. I realize we all have preferences, and many don't like changes. At the end of the day, its about evolving our brand. It's not permanent, its for the General. In saying that, its fine by me.
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Are we sure that logo has anything to do with the General? I've personally never seen that logo used before 2000. I'm thinking people are getting confused by the kneeling Neyland emblam and thinks they are referring to that logo that someone created.
 
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I have very vague feelings about uniforms, logos, shoes, helmets, etc as long as the orange is still prevalent...but that's just me....Let's just win.
 
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Volfan76 said:
Are we sure that logo has anything to do with the General? I've personally never seen that logo used before 2000. I'm thinking people are getting confused by the kneeling Neyland emblam and thinks they are referring to that logo that someone created.
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this is a screen grab from the YouTube video in post #20 of this thread. The explanation begins at 6:25 (although they are wrong about UT baseball winning the NC, that year. They lost in the final game to OK). Every aspect of the uniform is intended to have some tribute to Neyland.


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Tenacjim said:
this is a screen grab from the YouTube video in post #20 of this thread. The explanation begins at 6:25 (although they are wrong about UT baseball winning the NC, that year. They lost in the final game to OK).


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Wow...of all the awesome Neyland era vintage ways we could have honored General Neyland, somebody dug up that thing?
 
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Volfan76 said:
Wow...of all the awesome Neyland era vintage ways we could have honored General Neyland, somebody dug up that thing?
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Well, I’m just answering your question about “what it had to do with Neyland”. I don’t disagree a logo from the baseball team from a hat “he wore this one time” shouldn’t be a prominent logo on the uniforms much less the logo on the 50 yard line. Yet, here we are……
 
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BillyHoyleVol said:
I remember my pops saying he had heard it had something to do with the white-on-white when it was painted sideline to sideline. He could be making that up, also...kind of like the milk story he told when I was 8.

JK My pops was always around...who would've driven him to the golf course to get pizza at 11 when he had one too many gameday drinks?
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Your Pops is correct. I don't recall the exact year, but I'm guessing in the early 2000s, the NCAA issued a ruling that sidelines and goal lines must be of a stark contrasting color.
Our white square of the checkerboard would obviously not contrast and make it difficult to determine if a player crossed the goal line or was out of bounds in the end zone.
Hence we frame the checkerboards in a wide swath of green.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing that strip of green colored in with all orange once to see what it would look like.
 
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IndianaVol said:
Your Pops is correct. I don't recall the exact year, but I'm guessing in the early 2000s, the NCAA issued a ruling that sidelines and goal lines must be of a stark contrasting color.
Our white square of the checkerboard would obviously not contrast and make it difficult to determine if a player crossed the goal line or was out of bounds in the end zone.
Hence we frame the checkerboards in a wide swath of green.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing that strip of green colored in with all orange once to see what it would look like.
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It used to be orange around it with the turf, no?
 
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I kind of like the throwback logo and the tribute to Neyland as this is the 100 yr anniversary of his arrival.
Should it be a permanent fixture or rotation of the 50yd line logo? No thanks...but for a one off tribute, it's pretty cool.
 
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ButchPlz said:
It used to be orange around it with the turf, no?
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In the first rendition of the checkerboards in 1964, there was a much smaller area of green between the tiles and the field lines. That field was natural grass.
In 1968 the first artificial turf was installed on Shields-Watkins and the checkerboards went away for a long time because the shade of orange at that time could not be properly matched.
In 1989 a new artificial surface was installed that could support the proper shade and the checkerboards returned. There we some years that an orange border existed...early 90s.
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In 1994 the natural Bermuda grass was reinstalled. The endzones were painted (dyed when turf) and there seem to be some games where the border was painted and some that were not.
First picture here shows painting in progress in early 1994, but then the Florida game that year shows a green border.
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The rule I cited previously says the endzone may be painted up to the boundary line provided it does not obscure the line itself.
 
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Nothing wrong with honoring the best coach we ever had. I just wish we could get back to his style of football…dominating opponents.
 
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