According to Front Office Sports’ Andrew Goodrich, Middle Tennessee State saved $668,000 by condensing its uniform options. The program nixed their black and gray uniforms and four helmet designs...

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“How are we going to best compete against different positions if we’re sitting here spending money on stuff that really we’re only wearing one time a year?” MTSU general manager Dana Marquez said. “We just went with one color, and we did a game helmet and a practice helmet.”

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“If we’re going to pay you $2,000 a month and you want to make $4,000, you’ve got to work to get the $4,000. And we show you how to do that,” Marquez said.

“What it’s doing collectively is getting them engaged in the community, and now our fan base is now recognizing our players,” Marquez says. “That’s what NIL was supposed to be. It wasn’t meant to be, ‘Here’s a bunch of money. Go play football.’ Our big difference, across the country, is that our athletes have bought in.”(The Spun)

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TFH•9 months

“Just one helmet and two jerseys”

You mean how it should be?

Black n Gold•9 months

Respect to them. Many other schools out here playing dress-up like little girls in daycare.

Spelt it rong•9 months

About time there's some financial accountability. Sad that it took having to pay the players for it to come to fruition though.

New Money•9 months

With a few exceptions, such as Oregon, gimmick uniforms are a sign of a struggling program.

atltiger6487•9 months

no, it just freshens things up a bit. I'm an old school traditionalist, but there's nothing wrong with a little uniform change once in a while.

scottydoesntknow•9 months

A good number of the p5 only has two jerseys, one helmet...Bama being one for sure. Its silly to waste money on stuff like that

CBandits82•9 months

You don't need anymore than that

TouchdownTony•9 months

The Bama way. The old saying is we have an alternate Jersey, it’s our white road jersey.

theballguy•9 months

But everyone wanted mult-scheme color uniforms. That's what brings in the croots amirite?

southernboisb•9 months

So, if you have a different uniform each game, but go 0-12 or 1-11 yearly, they still gonna care more about what you wear?

RedPop4•9 months

Some of them, yes. :(

AtlantaLSUfan•9 months

109% of rhe savings will go to bribing players to play there.

CDawson•9 months

bribing?

HagaDaga•9 months

They could have just come out and said they are going retro uniform style. I like they are doing, but not the reason.

chadr07•9 months

Well I mean if they want to field a competitive team with decent talent then they have to cut the spending elsewhere to be able to pay for good talent if they don’t have the funding to do all of it. It’s just the world of NIL now as bad as we hate it.

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