Re: New Story: Chrome helmets? New uniform combinations? Will the Tigers change their look?

Dabo has a predictable uniform system:

Orange tops: Home
White tops: Road
All Purple: Military Appreciation Day
Orange pants: Championship football

2017 CFP Championship: Road, big game.
2016 Fiesta Bowl: Home, big game
2016 ACCCG: Road, big game
2016 CFP Championship: Home, big game

GT wears white at home, so we wear orange at GT.

We were the home team in the 2015 ACCCG, but allowed UNC to wear their home baby blue because the contrast was obvious. We were the visiting team in the 2016 ACCCG, but VT would not let us wear orange because that’s one of their colors.

If we ever played for a championship on Military Appreciation Day, we might see purple tops, orange pants, but we haven’t so far.

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Dabo's logic . . .

Nov 7, 2017, 9:32 AM

Dabo's had a point in there somewhere a few years back, but at some point he got wound up in some over-analysis. Back after the WVU Orange Bowl disaster, things started to taper off with orange pants and the use of purple, and it got asked of him at some point thereafter, and he basically said it had become a distraction, implying that once the culture of discipline and focus was optimized, we might see some venturing out again.

Well, that sort of happened, Orange Pants do get used, and the purple gets used once per year, but it's all rigid and overly predictable. If Clemson played the number one team in the nation in Death Valley the fourth week of the season, orange pants would be off-limits despite the obvious bigness of the game, but if Clemson played a winless team in, say, Durham in November, we'd wear them b/c of the division. Sheesh.

No one can dispute the wisdom of holding back in this area if it's needed to quell current distractions, to instill a culture of focus that's lacking, etc. But now that that by and large seems to have been done, is there no way to introduce a little variety whilst maintaining focus? In a program in which putt-putt courses, indoor slides, nap rooms, air hockey tables, and routine dancing are not distractions, a little uniform spontaneity IS?

I fully agree about not going the crazy-arse chrome, gray, black, hyperactive alternative-uniform every week route, like Ok State, Oregon, etc. But wearing purple pants on the road every now and then, or wearing the orange on purple combo, or wearing orange pants for what is simply a big game, even if not a "championship" is well ingrained in Clemson's history without messing with our identity. If you tune in and see a chrome helmet this week, a gray matte one the next, and so forth, THEN you might see identity get lost, but switching up the colors of the traditional style 2/3 times a season doesn't mess with identity - it simply enhances it a little. Folks aren't going to tune into a game, see the white paw on the helmet, and then, when they see the white jerseys and purple pants, get confused and say "who's that"?

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