Good morning, all. Final night time a few maroon and gold Solar Belt Convention groups unveiled new uniforms for the upcoming school soccer season. Additionally, what began out as an April Idiot’s joke has was an alternate helmet for Utah State.
Let’s start with our first maroon and gold college, the College of Louisiana-Monroe, who got here up with this straightforward however efficient black alternate uniform with a white helmet. The Warhawks are scheduled to put on this for his or her second sport of the season towards UAB on September seventh.
Effectively…largely easy. There’s a lot happening between the neck and the numbers, with the varsity emblem, convention patch, maker’s mark and chest lettering. I might have most popular sleeve stripes as an alternative of repeating the mouth design from the helmet, which is taken from the traditional P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft, nevertheless it nonetheless appears good. The star emblem from the aircraft is featured at school colours on the proper hip, the again of the helmet, and contained in the state of Louisiana design on the again nameplate of the jersey.
I’m loving these properly-sized highly-contrasting gold numbers, and the font they selected to make use of. It’s a step up from the blocky font they’ve been utilizing currently.
I do know a number of you don’t like a white helmet on prime of darkish jerseys and pants. I do, so I’m glad to see this alt as an alternative of head-to-toe black. Even with out stripes, this is without doubt one of the higher BFBS unis I’ve seen just lately. And hopefully that quantity font could make it onto the common unis as properly.
The opposite maroon and gold staff, which contains a darker shade of each, is Texas State. They confirmed off their new white uni with a gold helmet.
Not like ULM, the Bobcats didn’t share any pictures, so I needed to get screenshots of the dimly-lit hype video. The next are the one two first rate appears I may get of the script Bobcats helmet.
The script appears actually excessive on the helmet, which has maroon/white/maroon separated stripes. The jersey and pants, alternatively, function maroon/gold/maroon separated stripes.
Additionally featured on the jersey, above the convention emblem, is a patch commemorating 125 years for the reason that college’s founding…5 years earlier than they began taking part in soccer.
Kudos to Texas State for bucking the present pattern and never going head-to-toe white right here. I’m a sucker for script and stripes, so I’d name this an enormous improve over final yr’s all-white uni with small skinny numbers.
After which there’s Utah State, who will need to have gotten a number of optimistic response from their April Idiot’s prank. Their cow-themed helmet goes to be worn subsequent week because the Aggies host Robert Morris.
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Established because the Agricultural School of Utah, we’re proud to rejoice the agriculture historical past of Utah State College and Cache Valley as we take the sphere on August 31.
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The Salt Lake Tribune says “Cache County is dwelling to greater than 1,300 farms and is without doubt one of the prime 200 counties within the nation for ‘market worth bought of milk from cows,’ in response to USU.” I guess not one of the cows on these farms have blue spots, although. Or perhaps a few of them do, and that’s the place Luke Skywalker obtained his blue milk…
That is a type of instances the place I’m going to make use of Phil’s line and say I’ll must see what that appears like on the sphere earlier than I can remark.
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Benefit from the starting of faculty soccer right this moment. I’ll have a mini-SMUW tomorrow morning, and a few extra Thriftspotting with Wafflebored…and Jimmer. Take care, everybody, and I’ll see you then.