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


Nov 7, 2017, 7:01 AM

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

Chrome helmets. Camo uniforms. A hundred different color combinations. Color Rush. Factory Steel. Matte helmets. Platinum. College football programs have been all over the board in recent seasons with alternative football uniforms that are designed to drive excitement in fans and players. Will it happen at Clemson? Full Story »


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


Nov 7, 2017, 7:11 AM

so glad we dont focus on gimmicks. I like being able to recognize us in highlights

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I hate gimmicks


Nov 7, 2017, 8:31 AM

Kind of like this article that I clicked on thinking we were about to switch up our uniforms!

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Re: I hate gimmicks


Nov 7, 2017, 9:40 AM

Me also, the first thing I thought when I read the article head line was, OMG please don't be thinking about doing anything to our uniforms, there's nothing wrong with what we do in our uniform department. The Paw on our helmets informs everyone who we are when we enter the field!!!

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


Nov 7, 2017, 7:11 AM

We don't need to change our uniforms to create excitement - good job Dabo!

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Thank you, Coach Swinney!***


Nov 7, 2017, 7:13 AM



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Betting that this story gets "Most Read"


Nov 7, 2017, 7:18 AM

Good Job!

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Chrome helmets? We don't need no stinking..


Nov 7, 2017, 7:18 AM

chrome helmets!

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Good


Nov 7, 2017, 7:19 AM

Awful combinations I noticed just in the last week included Illinois in a hideous shade of grey, Miami in all black (what?!), and Ohio State in...some sort of gunmetal grey that had nothing to do with their school colors whatsoever.

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Re: Good


Nov 7, 2017, 7:25 AM

got to love the mot. the entitlement generation just please needs to go away.

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Me trying to figure out


Nov 7, 2017, 8:39 AM

how college football uniforms have anything to do with entitlement




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Please forgive me, @IneligibleUser


Heard we will dress will like Sir Lance-a- Lot


Nov 7, 2017, 7:39 AM

We will just open the rusty iron a demoralized FSU through tetanus. What the iron lack in spleen it more than make up for in toughness and loss of limbs. Losing coach gets the guillotine on the 50. Peneties will result in hit tar in eyes or being caged with starving dogs.

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Re: Heard we will dress will like Sir Lance-a- Lot


Nov 7, 2017, 7:54 AM

What's in your coffee?

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Alright BuzzPaw Jr.***


Nov 7, 2017, 9:36 AM [ in reply to Heard we will dress will like Sir Lance-a- Lot ]



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Re: Heard we will dress will like Sir Lance-a- Lot


Nov 7, 2017, 6:08 PM [ in reply to Heard we will dress will like Sir Lance-a- Lot ]

Dude

What have you been smoking

Good. Cause whatever it is, pass some over here.

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


Nov 7, 2017, 8:06 AM

:)

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Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ...


Nov 7, 2017, 8:09 AM



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Re: Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ...


Nov 7, 2017, 9:05 AM

That sure is tackie but yet somehow cool.??

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Re: Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ...


Nov 7, 2017, 10:40 AM

Not as cool as the Maryland rainbow-every color of the prism-clashing-hurts my eyes-football team sucks-can't make up my mind-what is that-putrid-rag tag-hideous-red white blue black green-cacophonous-disgusting- uniform-helmet-shoes-socks-claptrap-outfit. :)

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That looks terrible


Nov 7, 2017, 9:37 AM [ in reply to Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ... ]

But at the same time, I kinda like it.

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lol


Nov 7, 2017, 12:15 PM [ in reply to Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ... ]

good one

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Re: Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ...


Nov 7, 2017, 6:11 PM [ in reply to Yabbut .... Dabo didn't say nuttin bout this one ... ]

I'm gonna say it again.... whatever you've been smokin, pass it over here.

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


Nov 7, 2017, 8:12 AM

Whew, glad to see a common sense response. A big NO to uniform changes!!

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Uniform combos


Nov 7, 2017, 8:14 AM

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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If we ever play a home game for a


Nov 7, 2017, 8:43 AM

championship on military appreciation day, we should wear all orange with a camouflage paw on the helmets.

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^^^^^^This has @1portroyalty's name all over it***


Nov 7, 2017, 8:46 AM [ in reply to Uniform combos ]



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Re: Uniform combos


Nov 7, 2017, 10:05 AM [ in reply to Uniform combos ]

therefore your post was predictable

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Bah, Humbug, more David Hood clickbait!


Nov 7, 2017, 8:22 AM

:)

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You ought not troll us.***


Nov 7, 2017, 8:25 AM



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


Nov 7, 2017, 9:06 AM

I have it on a good source that we are bringing back the whitehurse uni combo purple top orange pants. can anyone else confirm?

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Nov 7, 2017, 9:11 AM

Thank you, Coach, for eliminating the uniform question. Everyone knows the Clemson uniforms......they are easily recognized and, personally, I love them. I can always find them easily. PLEASE stay with the uniforms we’ve always used. Save the FLASH for the playing field!

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


Nov 7, 2017, 9:14 AM

Has anyone ever sported clear helmets ? There is an idea . Helmets made of some form of ballistic lucite or whatever ( not an engineer or a chemist ) that show the pads and heads contained within .

If you're gonna do trends , set them .

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DB23


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


Nov 7, 2017, 9:21 AM

I think our uniforms are cool enough already. They look good! Who cares if it traditional! It looks awesome! I especially love the look of our away uniform (all white)! It just says "We're here. We're the program that is here to stay! And you are just a pretender with your faincy uniforms." There's just something elegant and tough, at the same time, about the Tiger uniforms. Don't change a thing!!!

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ALL IN with that decision too.***


Nov 7, 2017, 9:23 AM



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I’m wearing Chrome shoes to the office today...


Nov 7, 2017, 9:25 AM

Everbody needs MORE CHROME!

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Re: I’m wearing Chrome shoes to the office today...


Nov 7, 2017, 9:28 AM

Please stick with the traditional uniforms.

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Re: I’m wearing Chrome shoes to the office today...


Nov 7, 2017, 6:15 PM [ in reply to I’m wearing Chrome shoes to the office today... ]

I thought it was cow bell

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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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correction -"Dabo" in that first paragraph - my bad***


Nov 7, 2017, 9:34 AM

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Re: Dabo's logic . . .


Nov 7, 2017, 10:08 AM [ in reply to Dabo's logic . . . ]

Backed.

I like what we do. The only thing I've ever pondered was what it would look like with a White helmet with orange paw. Other than that, I like everyone in the country knowing who we are.

Oregon wore blue and black one game. Kindaaaaaa weird considering their colors are mustard yellow and kelly green lol.

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Agree, I like the tradition and


Nov 7, 2017, 12:20 PM [ in reply to Dabo's logic . . . ]

orange on white is my favorite uniform combo, but I think Dabo dials the guys in well enough (unless it's a Friday game) to where uniforms would not be a distraction.

For the majority of games I like that they wear orange on white or all white. Having two home games and one road game with purple would be such a bad thing / distraction. Thursday / Friday night football sucks so maybe for those type of games bust out purple on white or if away, white on purple.

A little mix up with our traditional looking uniforms would not be a bad thing. While we're at it, I would not mind seeing more purple trim on the white pants / jerseys to showcase the school colors a little more.

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Amen . . . the


Nov 7, 2017, 1:54 PM

white pants should definitely have a purple stripe in the middle - ala 1983-1991.

Yeah, like the standard home and away uniforms we have too. I wouldn't mess with that as the norm. But a 2-3 games a year with some purple combo or the all orange for big NON-championship games would be some nice variety.

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Nov 7, 2017, 6:20 PM [ in reply to Agree, I like the tradition and ]

Don't pass me anything you've been smokin. Reading this got my head twisted around.

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I agree with Dabo 100%.***


Nov 7, 2017, 9:36 AM



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


Nov 7, 2017, 9:49 AM

No need for tricked out uniforms! Lot to be said for being who you are. Clemson has built a brand and we need to protect that brand at all costs.

I used to enjoy NASCAR, but can't hardly watch it anymore because it is so hard to figure out who is who on track from week to week. Different paint schemes almost every Sunday! I understand that sponsorship's and $$$ dictate a lot of that but........ How nice would it be to see that Black #3 Goodwrench Car on the track again week in and week out.

Marketing 101 - build a solid brand and stick to what works! No gimmicks needed. Does not seem to be paying dividends for teams like Looserville!

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I prefer good ole a$$ whoopin Orange & White....


Nov 7, 2017, 9:56 AM

I think Dabo needs to bring back the sweatshirt and pleated kahkis as well for tradition. He's getting everyone distracted with this new fancy pullover wind breaker.

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Nov 7, 2017, 10:30 AM

IMHO change only if the new look helps the team. For example: Increased visual ability for QB to see WRs downfield.

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How many Teams have one a National Championship with


Nov 7, 2017, 11:50 AM

Chrome Helmets... Oh Yea, None.

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


Nov 7, 2017, 11:51 AM

No, no and H3LL NO!!!!

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I like that the uniforms have a traditional look and


Nov 7, 2017, 12:24 PM

I want them to stay that way. However, I would not mind seeing a little more purple to better showcase the team colors. Nothing drastic, but maybe adding purple back to the white pants like this:



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


Nov 7, 2017, 12:33 PM

All the old timers in here want a change??

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Enduring Legacy.


Nov 7, 2017, 1:18 PM

That's the catch phrase. Tiger's continue a long legacy of quality football that connects the past with the future. Football uniform antics are just crude attempts to mask an underlying problem of real team ability. Look at Maryland, OHSt. Changes to the uniform doesn't change the player. It may motivate for awhile, but the game dynamics take over.

Let's hear no more about uniform changes, imo.

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Nov 7, 2017, 1:29 PM

For the sake of competitive advantage, I think O-line helmets ought to be mirror balls.

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


Nov 7, 2017, 2:29 PM

Magic 8 balls!!

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Nov 7, 2017, 2:29 PM [ in reply to Re: New Story: Chrome helmets? New uniform combinations? Will the Tigers change their look? ]

Magic 8 balls!!

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He's talkin' to you, 1portroyalty.***


Nov 7, 2017, 2:26 PM



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Nov 7, 2017, 4:06 PM

Great Teams don't come from slick uniforms and shiny helmets, great teams come from hard work and focusing on the fundamentals of the game. Go Tigers!!!

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