GalleyBoy Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Best and worst of college basketball's gray jersey fad Akron mentioned in the article above. I'm sure the jersey topic was covered a long time ago but this is a new article. Its always good to see Akron basketball talked about right along with Texas, Purdue, and other big time programs. "When Akron had the opportunity to update its uniforms this past offseason, assistant coach Rick McFadden suggested breaking away from the school's traditional blue and gold color scheme and adding silver to the palette. Coach Keith Dambrot liked the idea, so this season the Zips have introduced home white jerseys with silver and blue trim and silver alternate jerseys with white and blue trim. "It looked pretty good and there weren't that many teams that had them," Dambrot said. "Anything you can do at the mid-major level to stand out, it helps you. We're always looking for ways to recruit better players and take our program to the next level, so giving kids a little different type of uniform is another way to do it."" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yazan07 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I haven't seen the third jerseys in action yet and I was thinking it would be cool if they wore them on Saturday for Can't, but then I realized that they are marketing this game as a white-out, and it wouldn't make sense if everyone was wearing white except the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 They're like Ohio State's colors, so Joe Akron must like them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xu9697 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Personally, I like the addition of gray but still feel a sliver of gold should be located somewhere. Also, screw that article: Xavier at least, by wearing gray, is wearing their school colors!!!! Dadgum!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I like the silver, but why not just gold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I didn't like it. The color itself didn't actually bother me, even though it was a bit foreign to me... but the silver and white didn't seem to lend itself to the trim and style pattern as well as the blue does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalapeño Zippy Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 I like the silver and think it's great. I'd buy one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 I like the silver and think it's great. I'd buy one... +1. I also like it. I do wish they would have mixed a little gold in there. I think old-gold & grey are an extremely sharp combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 I like the silver and think it's great. I'd buy one... Selling UA replica basketball jerseys? Whoa, there Mr. Loose Cannon...that's CRAZY-talk! No school does stuff like that. On a related note...the old Porky's Place selection is really sad. I used to look forward to seeing what's new. Not anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajgareri Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 When is the next time we will wear these? I figured it would be the Can't game but it wouldn't make sense with the white out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class of 82 Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Selling UA replica basketball jerseys? Whoa, there Mr. Loose Cannon...that's CRAZY-talk! No school does stuff like that. On a related note...the old Porky's Place selection is really sad. I used to look forward to seeing what's new. Not anymore. Yeah, Captain. What is up with the difficulty of buying truly nice Zips gear, as in real jerseys? And it's not a rhetorical question. I'd really like to know why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 What is up with the difficulty of buying truly nice Zips gear, as in real jerseys? And it's not a rhetorical question. I'd really like to know why?I stopped asking. Every time I ask, the answer is "we have to buy 100 of them, and we won't sell enough." So, you have to be creative as a Zips fan. Take me for example, I just bought all Steve Spagnuolo's coaching gear off of ebay CHEAP. Joe Akron will never notice. Ram? Kangaroo? Who can tell? PS I hope coach Bowden changes the attitude (in his spare time..)around there and demands quality gear for the fans. Does he sleep, or is he like Chuck Norris? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 You can understand where they're coming from. The 10-20 people who would want a replica jersey probably all post on ZNO. However, having said that, I think simply from a respectability standpoint, they should be in the offering. As an illustration, Acura is brining back the NSX supercar. Not that they're going to sell many of them - they will probably lose money on them. But a high-end car manufacturer has to have a sports car to add to their cache. Acura's cache had fallen, in respect to Lexus, Infinity, BMW, Audi & Mercedes because they didn't have a real sports car to offer. Even if the NSX just sits in Acura showrooms for guys to ooh-and-aah over, it shows that Acura is a serious, high-end brand & adds cache to their other, more mundane vehicles. IMHO, so it should be with replica jerseys. Unfortunately, Akron just doesn't take themselves as seriously as some of their fans do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZoner Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 If anyone goes up to Bowling Green, the Stroh has a really nice team shop with good stuff inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 If anyone goes up to Bowling Green, the Stroh has a really nice team shop with good stuff inside. My wife is there today. Is there something in particular you like? I'll have her pick it up for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I didn't like it. The color itself didn't actually bother me, even though it was a bit foreign to me... but the silver and white didn't seem to lend itself to the trim and style pattern as well as the blue does. I like that uniform that McClanahan is wearing. Didn't the Zips wear those for the FAMU game? I'd think a "light" gold version would make a nice alternate uniform rather than the "silver" or gray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 My wife is there today. Is there something in particular you like? I'll have her pick it up for you. Have her pick me up a Zips #22 replica jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 You can understand where they're coming from. The 10-20 people who would want a replica jersey probably all post on ZNO. I think you're off by a factor of at least 10. Probably much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZoner Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 My wife is there today. Is there something in particular you like? I'll have her pick it up for you. I saw some Skittles there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Interesting perspective. Nike Sterilizes Uniforms with Gray Many teams will be wearing gray -- oh, sorry, PLATINUM -- at some point this season. Nike teamed up with a bunch of universities, primarily because Nike has lot of employees with a lot of time on their hands and is obsessed with this gray/platinum trend way more than it should be. Because of this, nine teams will don these generic, already-out-of-vogue uniforms. Other schools duped into the marketing ploy include Arizona, UConn, Duke, Florida, Kentucky, both the men's and women's North Carolina teams and the Baylor women's hoops squad. Here's the thing -- they're not even that ugly. It'd be one thing if these threads were Oregon's court reincarnated, but they're just ... boring-looking, nondescript from the past half-decade of altering team jerseys up and down the grayscale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZoner Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 They're killing UNC's great uniforms? Too far, Nike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 I like the grey, of course, I like alternate uni's. It's interesting the article mentioned that the shade of grey, chosen by Nike, is boring. I'm not in 100% agreement with that, but I do feel with the columnist; I prefer a more distinct, bold, darker shade of grey ala Oklahoma State or Washington State. I still know we need old-gold alternates!!! (3 exclamation points! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 I've seen the pics of the Nike jerseys. I like them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKSportsFan Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Not to hijack the thread but: We could start a petition of people who would buy authentic football jerseys or hell pitch to them that we have to pre-order them and once they get 100 preorders....no risk there. I think they would be shocked at the amount they could sell even if they were $200 a pop. I'd get three just with the people in my household. You can't sit there and tell me that they wouldn't sell 100 jerseys to some 28,000 student body. That's insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Not to hijack the thread but: We could start a petition of people who would buy authentic football jerseys or hell pitch to them that we have to pre-order them and once they get 100 preorders....no risk there. I think they would be shocked at the amount they could sell even if they were $200 a pop. I'd get three just with the people in my household. You can't sit there and tell me that they wouldn't sell 100 jerseys to some 28,000 student body. That's insane. Unless you make your order through the bookstore run by UA, you might have trouble with copyrights for the logos. I guess you could have someone make a generic AKRON jersey. I would think that an exact replica would be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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