re: I’ll just say it … the alt uniforms we wore last year need to go

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When we can’t be differentiated from the likes of East Carolina, Northwestern, or Evansville flip flopping uniforms is a branding mistake.

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You mean the schools that don’t have LSU and a tiger on the side of their helmet? If you can’t tell the difference between LSU and and a helmet with a pirate or a big N on it…

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That’s jumping the shark, which others like UT and A&M have done. But we have never worn a combo that wasn’t Purple, Gold, or While. I don’t think we ever will.

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Feel like that’s something that was really just pushed by Adidas early. Kentucky, Arkansas and Florida are Nike schools that have done an all black look.

Nike has done a good job of working within the colorway of most of the original SEC schools when introducing a new template.

As long as LSU never wears a tiger print like the one time Florida went with gator print.

Three games max

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As long as LSU never wears a tiger print like the one time Florida went with gator print.

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Haven't they worn a helmet with ghost tiger stripes? I believe the helmet was white

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Your overall post was good but calling a uniform combo a “kit” really irritated the shite out of me for some reason lol.

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That’s because it’s a soccer term. And soccer is queer.

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They are trying to make the 18-35 year olds happy, and interest kids in becoming new fans

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It’s crazy…Alabama and Texas and Georgia and OSU and Clemson and Notre Dame and Michigan and Penn St. and Oklahoma and on and on don’t do this and they don’t seem to have a hard time keeping the 18-35 year olds happy and interesting.

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Accept the fact you are not the target demo for uniform or stadium light decisions

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That would be really harsh if Grandpa knew what “target demo” meant

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It’s crazy…Alabama and Texas and Georgia and OSU and Clemson and Notre Dame and Michigan and Penn St. and Oklahoma and on and on don’t do this and they don’t seem to have a hard time keeping the 18-35 year olds happy and interesting.

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First of all, of them and everyone else in college football have different home and away jerseys. We are the only school that doesn’t by default.

Second- you’re fricking wrong. Everyone who says this bullshite is wrong. All of the schools that you listed except Bama and Texas has had at least one alternate uniform in the last 4 years. Clemson (ugly arse Purple) and ND (green) have them as regular rotation options. UGA has also done several, including black jerseys. Ohio St does several, both throwbacks and alts, including playoff games. Penn St isn’t known for doing this, but they just did it last year for a playoff game and did it before in 2021. They are right there with Bama being known for plain arse uniforms that never change. Even Bama did it once back in the 2010s (Nike Pro Combat). This argument is bullshite.

Some of you wake up in a new fricking world every day.

The upside of having a few alternates in rotation is increased merchandise sales potential. That may not have meant as before, but with rev share beginning and full employment of players likely coming soon, that is not a trivial thing today. More money is more money. They just need to keep the numbers of times they use them lower, which will actually increase demand. A good example is the gold jersey, which did go on sale last year because its use in a game was planned.

I agree with the OP. Wear the traditional uni most of the time. I get that alternates are popular, but it was too much last year.

Personally, I really dislike the all white look. I also hate the Saints’ all white or all black. But that’s my personal taste.

I really like the baseball team’s Sunday uniforms. I’d like the football team to try a purple helmet, gold jersey, white pants look for an alternate uniform.

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Hey dumbass, they don’t wear alternates every other game like we did last season. They may do one or two (at most) alternates a year. Go be a fricking Oregon fan if you want a new uniform weekly.

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I get you aren’t happy having to backtrack because said something that was easily proven wrong. Do some research next time and know what the frick you are talking about.

Every one of those teams wears a different jersey at least 5 or 6 times per season, even if they don’t use alternates. Again, everyone has different home and away uniforms except for LSU. That’s doesn’t confuse anyone.

Many of them (Clemson, OSU, UGA, and ND) do at least one alternate or throwback per season. That gives them 3 jersey combos every year. Yet everyone still knows who they are when they take the field. Your branding argument doesn’t hold water. We do not have to wear Gold-White-Gold 11 fricking games per year for people to know who LSU is. Confusing the branding would be going outside of Gold, Purple, and White, which we have never done, and I would definitely oppose us ever doing that.

You talk about Oregon but LSU isn’t doing anything like that. They have 4 viable alternatives (GPG, WWW, WPW, WGW) that haven’t changed. There aren’t different designs and new elements every season. This is nothing but mixing and matching what we’ve already had outside of the Gold Jersey, which we’ve done multiple times in the past.

As for me- I would prefer to see other jerseys than Gold-White-Gold no more than 4 games per year. Last year was over the top in my opinion. 3 is ok, but we actually NEED some variety in the lineup, even though some of you can’t accept that for some stupid reason. Just because I make fun of you old heads for blowing this shite out of proportion doesn’t mean I have some extreme view on it.

I have my opinion, but I also accept the fact that it, just like yours, doesn’t mean shite. This is a business, and if wearing 3 or 4 different jersey combos per season helps us make money and in recruiting, then it’s stupid to oppose it to cling to the past. So unless you are a big donor cutting a check to offset that potential extra revenue, it doesn’t matter what you think about this. It never will again.