Quote from: Trin8-0 on October 19, 2021, 03:52:06 PM
Your Week 5 NESCAC Football Uniform Report:
*There was a dearth of pictures from this weekend's games so I've included links (mostly to videos). Sadly, there were no real stand out combos this week but certainly some missed potential.

Amherst at Bowdoin
Grade C
What a shame that Bowdoin gets their first win since 2018 and they're wearing their dreadful mono-grey look. Mercifully, Amherst seems to have figured it out and we were treated to their sharp purple (on the road!) jerseys with white pants.

Williams at Hamilton
Grade B
Hamilton looked solid in their classic home set. Hopefully, if/when they add a second pair of pants they'll go with buff and avoid the dreaded all blue look. Meanwhile Williams did the best they could with their subpar options (hey, at least there's no black in the Ephs road jersey!).

Wesleyan at Tufts
Grade B
I think the all white is Wesleyan's best combo. It pairs great with the black helmet and the piping on the jersey is less superfluous with the all white pants. As previously noted, I'm a believer that Tufts should be in brown at home and if they need to mix in the powder blue, please do so in moderation. The all Smurf look is not ideal and tarnishes what could have been a beauty of a game.

Middlebury at Colby
Grade B
A perfectly fine looking match-up, but nothing spectacular. Midd looked sharp (as always) even though I prefer the white pants to the navy. This is your weekly reminder that Colby needs to bring back their grey pants. The white britches just don't look right with the grey helmets. The Mules used to have such an iconic look. I wish they'd move back to a more classic uniform.

Bates at Trinity
Grade B+
As always, Bates looks their best on the road when they can avoid the mono-maroon look. Trinity sported their classic navy jersey with white pants combo and the alternating color contrast between the two made for an above average looking game.

I know I missed the boat by a few days on this post but I had to wait for my account to activate....hi there, long time reader and former player at Hamilton (2016 grad). Funny that, of all the things said on this board, this is the one that made me make an account and comment (shows how little the Buff and Blue tend to come up...). Anyways, I felt like I owed you an insider shot on the pants issue you've referenced being that I was a captain on the team that originally decided to go away from the pre-2014 horrendous football stoplight look. At that time, if you remember, we normally wore a somewhat-gold helmet, blue jersey with gold cutouts, white pants with blue cutouts, and socks/shoes that normally one matched one if any (in fact normally they were white socks and black shoes). We all just wanted something that actually matched something else on our body.

Anyways, to make it simple, Buff is an awful color to put in athletic clothing, and Nike did not do well with making a custom buff. We also wanted to include some buff, because we assumed buff as Nike saw it was closer to gold, like our helmets had been. In reality, Nike sees buff on clothing as a medium-light khaki. So, at that time, the decision to wear buff meant wearing literal khaki pants, which makes sense because a continental soldier was just a guy in rather tight khaki pants. Being that wearing khaki pants to a football game felt a little square, we decided to cut buff altogether from the uniform and didn't really wait on everyone else to be ok with it. I'm happy they went back to incorporating it, because it's easier to hide in a stripe or a belt. Some other programs there also get away with a semi-gold type thing, so maybe it'll change, but I'm sure if those kids have a choice they'll shy away from khaki pants too.

Thought this was a pretty cool topic for you to do - as a former D3fb and current FBS football coach I've always thought the uniform game in the NESCAC is underappreciated.