can we just cut the BS and make today’s unis the full time scheme? Something magical about those colors.
Pitt unis
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The people choosing the unis each week apparently don’t know. Where were these for penn st?
appearantly saving them for next season full time. They better not be lying .
It’s a poorly kept secret. Once we announce a change all the navy and Vegas stuff becomes basically clearance sale crap. We’re trying to sell as much of that as we can, but you can expect a formal announcement in the spring.
“This football team in those throwback jerseys in there, they’ve got character,” Narduzzi said after the madness, pointing to his locker room. “They had their backs against the wall, everybody talking about who they are. We talked about who we are. We know who we are.”
We actually look like Heinz field is our home. The yellow seats stick out like a sore thumb when we wear vegas gold helmets and it looks like we’re playing at someone else’s stadium.
Completely agree. Was thinking the same thing yesterday during the game
Thing is,
Its not the colors that make this uni.....its the font of the number, the script of the Pitt, the gray facemask and the stripe on the pants
Apply ANY shades of Pitt blue and gold to this uniform and its a winner
Its not the colors that make this uni.....its the font of the number, the script of the Pitt, the gray facemask and the stripe on the pants
Apply ANY shades of Pitt blue and gold to this uniform and its a winner
This has been true since 2001 so it was amazing the school hadn't reversed the course back then, as soon as it became clear what color the seats in the new house would be. Especially since most of the fans weren't happy with the decision to change the look in the first place in 97. Tone deaf? Ego? Or merely relentlessly bureaucratic?
I think most fans miss how awful things were in the late 1990s, from performance on the field to perception of the program to the style of those mid-1990s uniforms.
Without rehashing the records of the basketball and football teams or how the region and country looked at the teams, the uniforms of the time were a bastardized version of the 1970s/early 1980s uniforms, substituting bright yellow and blue colors for the more muted darker blue and mustard of the Dorsett era. Pitt couldn’t figure out its brand identity, and ultimately allowed itself to become a school without a tradition and a brand defined by failure and trend chasing.
Steve P, rightly saw that a change was needed. He wrongly decided to go with a scheme that was poorly designed, and didn’t get back to any of the good things that Pitt had going (whether it was the University’s official colors of Navy Blue and Old Gold, keeping the script, going to the traditional block Pitt from the 1940s/1950s,etc). The torch cut Pittsburgh with Vegas gold was more trend chasing, without good design.
At this point, I don’t care whether Pitt sticks with the color scheme yesterday or goes to the navy scheme they’ve been using. What I do want is brand consistency for the athletic program overall, that is also in alignment with the academic branding. It should be cohesive, and be done in a way that enhances the reputation of the university overall. This changing the colors/logo/fonts every few years to the whims of the moment needs to stop.
Without rehashing the records of the basketball and football teams or how the region and country looked at the teams, the uniforms of the time were a bastardized version of the 1970s/early 1980s uniforms, substituting bright yellow and blue colors for the more muted darker blue and mustard of the Dorsett era. Pitt couldn’t figure out its brand identity, and ultimately allowed itself to become a school without a tradition and a brand defined by failure and trend chasing.
Steve P, rightly saw that a change was needed. He wrongly decided to go with a scheme that was poorly designed, and didn’t get back to any of the good things that Pitt had going (whether it was the University’s official colors of Navy Blue and Old Gold, keeping the script, going to the traditional block Pitt from the 1940s/1950s,etc). The torch cut Pittsburgh with Vegas gold was more trend chasing, without good design.
At this point, I don’t care whether Pitt sticks with the color scheme yesterday or goes to the navy scheme they’ve been using. What I do want is brand consistency for the athletic program overall, that is also in alignment with the academic branding. It should be cohesive, and be done in a way that enhances the reputation of the university overall. This changing the colors/logo/fonts every few years to the whims of the moment needs to stop.
Smiley sent out a letter about what should have been obvious, that Pitt’s various teams and every rack of Pitt apparel anywhere had different shades of blue and gold.....
Actually Midnight Blue and Vegas Gold ( to correct you all Pitt does not have Vegas Gold currently in use either) were good colors but he mucked up everything else.
Now it appears that Focus Groups Of teenagers and others have decided to go with colors not at all the school’s which is ridiculous....until groups of teens down the road determine the University should actually wear its own colors.
About the only thing that has remained constant it seems are the Lettermen Jackets. Go with that and be done with it....
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It's really not a personal criticism of the colors but a commentary on questionable business decision. Whether or not you or I like sharing Heinz, or whether we like yellow, once it was clear the seats would be yellow and there would be 70,000 of them, a change back to having that yellow in our uniforms or helmet should have followed automatically. Just for the synergy. Because no way we were going to fill 70,000 seats every game.
