Uniforms

[508mikey]

I vote we go back to the 1970s and early 80s style of shorts. Imagine these in Orange. View attachment 235336

 

[508mikey]

first several minutes of that video is pretty cool -- the warm up drills and all

 

[Willy14]

Forget the uniforms, can we please just warm up like that? Just one time? Would pay good money to see that

 

[JoAllan]

Forget the uniforms, can we please just warm up like that? Just one time? Would pay good money to see that

I saw those type shorts in the exhibition game (Eastern had their shorts jacked up all game long) don’t need to see it again.

 

[sport3500]

Tennessee could pull out the smokey grey uniforms for a home game against Alabama, Kentucky or Florida.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

The TN football used to always wear orange jerseys. Then for the 1969 Cotton Bowl versus Texas TN had to get white jerseys because of black and white television.

I believe that around that same time the basketball players often had different numbers for home and away games.

When I was growing up, our high school home unis for basketball had even numbers and the away ones had odd numbers. Never really understood the logic of that.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Great lineup of Ernie & Bernie, Rodney Woods, Mike Jackson, and Doug Ashworth. Ashworth was the center and really isn't taller than Ernie or Bernie. Ashworth would have been a great 6th man. It was tough for TN to go against teams with 7 footers when Ashworth was only about 6'5 or 6'6.

0:25 Stu Aberdeen... TN's greatest assistant coach ever. English could pass him if he stays here long term.

4:55 JV players would sit behind the TN bench wearing the orange sport coats. Freshman became eligible in 1973, I don't know when TN quit fielding a junior varsity team.

5:05 The scoreboard was on cables and would be lowered to the court to change the visiting team's name. During the Volunteer Classic tournaments they'd change it between the games.

Andy Holt used to sit in the left center of the Endzone near the opponent's bench. I didn't watch the entire video, but I bet he's on it at some point.

They made about 30 of those orange Smokey outfits (at the beginning of the video) for AD Bob Woodruff's retirement in 1985. Woodruff went on the field and lead the band dancing and waving a couple of conductor's wands while the 30 Smokeys ran circles around him. It might have been closer to 50 orange Smokeys. It was surreal.

 

[The Dog]

When I was growing up, our high school home unis for basketball had even numbers and the away ones had odd numbers. Never really understand the logic of that.

Same way for my Junior year at Fulton in '87-'88. I was #34 for home games and #35 on the road

 

[realmenwearorange]

Can we bring back the Smokey grey’s for the basketball team?

NO!

 

[VolsSportsFan]

When I was growing up, our high school home unis for basketball had even numbers and the away ones had odd numbers. Never really understood the logic of that.

I've never heard of that.

 

[Vols All Day]

Still waiting to see what our orange jerseys are going to look like this year.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Still waiting to see what our orange jerseys are going to look like this year.

I'm thinking we still have the same one as last year.

Also strange that we had the team picture in our other white home uniforms, considering we never wear them anymore.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Still waiting to see what our orange jerseys are going to look like this year.

Guess we got our answer; I have to say I'm disappointed we didn't get orange versions of our now standard home uniform.