If we’re going to redesign the uniforms, let’s make them look better Dare I say it…I think our uniforms need an overhaul. They may be classic, but they don’t look cool, don’t sell well in stores (it doesn’t help that adidas and the UCLA merchandising staff don’t have a clue about national retail placement), and usually don’t fit well on our players. I don’t advocate the Lizard’s "UCLA in black" kit, but an upgrade to something akin to the women’s uniform would give our guys a fresh new look plus better alignment with our mythical official colors.

I hope this line of thinking won’t expose me to a firing squad of traditionalists, but if it does, I hope RN and, um, ND are the ones doing the shooting.

Here’s a link to the women’s bb uniforms.

…and here’s a concept for our football uniforms that I just discovered. Setting aside the little Nike checkmark on the chest, what do you guys think of it?

I look at the guy at the far right in the group photo, and see the jersey ‘blousing’ at the waist where it gets tucked into the shorts. In my eyes, the jersey’s don’t look different at all.

As for changes to uniforms, I like the classic looks unless you’re going to do a one game special occasion. I like the idea of a Clemson style football helmet with a bear paw on the sides for example. Probably never going to see it, and that’s cool. The Isolated C to celebrate our 100 NCAA championships was very cool. And they did it for a limited time. Oh, and yeah. we need to bring back the Clarendon numbers on our football jerseys.

Little changes like this go unnoticed in my book.

Adidas just redid all of the NBA jerseys with their Revolution 30 concept, and KU just announced their jerseys would be updated for the new season with the same concept.
I can’t really tell from the media day photos if our jerseys have the same mesh/breathable hole patterns like the new jerseys, but other than that, the larger numbers don’t really bother me.

the blue and gold trim on the shoulder wrapped all the way around last year, but this year it appears to stop at the armpit.

You had me worried until I looked at the pics. I thought that we might be going to the super tight Nike-type jerseys (See: Ohio State, Texas, Oregon). These might be a tad tighter and the numbers are wider than the ones from last season. I can live with that.

Put me in the camps that says, “Don’t mess with tradition.”…Of course, I’m a geezer, so what can you expect? :)

Here at P-Dine, we seem to change uni’s every year, especially now that we are a Nike school for Bball.

but I think the serifs on the letters are smaller this year.