My personal taste on alternate uniforms isn't original, but I like the rule that if you're a traditional power with a uniform recognized nationally don't touch a single thing about the design.
If you're Ohio or Oregon or Maryland and your football history is...uh, underwhelming? Go crazy. Put a Warhol creation on your jersey. Mark Rothko helmets. Wear Shaq zebra shoes circa 1996.
Whatever.
When you're messing with Ohio's uniform, you aren't messing with some 100 year old tradition. These things are, what, five years old with the double stripes on the shoulders? The helmet design at Ohio has an historic shelf life of about 10 years (although I think they've finally stumbled upon something stable and lasting with this latest incarnation).
There's no dust-collected history book to live up to in this program. So create a culture and a style new and modern. Knowing your place in the college football landscape should be a guide to how you procede on things like this.
Ohio has a blank slate. They've decided to paint it black for now. I like it.
Last Edited: 10/28/2011 11:01:16 AM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)