Warm-up pants???

[Kinger]

Does anyone know when the Vols started wearing the orange-white striped warm-up pants? I know Indiana wears red-white striped ones. Wondering who wore them first

 

[Lefteye]

Best I found is the 70s. We may have had some in the 60s but I couldn’t find any in orange.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I think that Ernie and Bernie in the 70s was the first use. Actually had Carolina blue on the uniforms as well... before the Lady Vols adopted it.

 

[livefaith]

Dude. I loved those old "Tennessee Volunteers" bball jerseys with the carolina blue highlights. Dale Ellis era.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Dude. I loved those old "Tennessee Volunteers" bball jerseys with the carolina blue highlights. Dale Ellis era.

The blue might have been gone by the time of Dale Ellis.

TN was one of the last two schools that were grandfathered in after an NCAA rule that allowed either the nickname or the school name but not both. The jerseys used to have "Tennessee Volunteers" on the front. Kevin O'Neil got rid of "Volunteers" and then only "Oklahoma Sooners" jerseys had both.

 

[NCVOL327]

Ray Mears era.

 

[jeff1vol]

That "baby" blue is DREADFUL!!! Thank God somebody at UT wised up and just went with Orange and White. HATE it on LV uniforms as well.

 

[ru4real-really?]

I think Ray Mears stole it from the Globetrotters when he introduced some of their pre game warmup routine!

 

[ru4real-really?]

anybody old enough to remember Goose Tatum and Marcus Hayes?

 

[ru4real-really?]

and who remembers that Wilt "THE STILT"was with the Globetrotters for a year while he was getting old enough to go to the NBA?

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Does anyone know when the Vols started wearing the orange-white striped warm-up pants? I know Indiana wears red-white striped ones. Wondering who wore them first

My fading memory is that they were around early in the Mears years.... the whole Run Through The Big T, Sweet Georgia Brown warm up music, with other features like a guy on a unicycle thrown in.... All odd for a coach who was as conservative both offensively and defensively as he was upon arrival.... banners for offensive efficiency hanging from the rafters and a reliance on a 1-3-1 zone to slow down the other team.... had great seats those first few years starting in the pre-Stokely years.... BUT cannot remember introducing those pants for sure...guess I have always assumed they were around from the beginning...

Ok I cheated and before I pulled the trigger I googled a couple of things... it appears early on pants were mainly orange with big white stripes only down the side and it was the tops that featured alternating big stripes.... don't know when the changes were made... same warmup drills though....

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Roger Peltz and Bill Seale road the unicycle at the end if the warmup routine.

1973-74 might have been the first year with the striped warmups. Possibly 1972-73. Seems like Len Kosmalski wore them, but not Jimmy England.

 

[livefaith]

Not trying to be right. But, this is what my old tired mind has in it. Thot that blue trim was sweet. Seemed like Earnie & Bernie had it too.


Bring it back Rick! :-D

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Mears had the blue incorporated into the plaid sport coats that the coaches wore in his last few years. Devoe replaced those with sport costs that were more rust colored than the orange that Texas uses. It was almost red. Elbow patches, too.

The blue might have been a slight accent color even while Houston was the head coach. It was very prominent while Ernie and Bernie was the show. The blue might have even been on the Converse shoes.

 

[eaglevol]

At least since 1975

 

[PineyBluff Vol]

Ray Mears era.

Exactly!

 

[Kinger]

Thanks for the responses. Found on the internet that Indiana started wearing them around 1971 or so

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Does anyone know when the Vols started wearing the orange-white striped warm-up pants? I know Indiana wears red-white striped ones. Wondering who wore them first

I think Ray Mears started wearing soon after he came here to coach,

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I think Ray Mears started wearing soon after he came here to coach,

No, not the stripes. It was about halfway through his tenure.