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cyclejacket

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wore their white road jerseys at home yesterday. Does anyone know why? I thought GT and LSU were the only major schools to do that.
 
It was a special occasion so they could do a true whiteout... I think it was the first time F$U wore white at home. Mississippi State also did it yesterday, forcing LSU to wear their purple tops.
 
New rule this year. A team may wear any color combo they want as long as the other teams agrees to it before hand.
 
I knew there were some new rules in place. I thought they allowed both teams to wear home jerseys if there was sufficient contrast and both teams agreed. I didn't realize they had a "whiteout" in Tallahassee yesterday. Looks like it whitewashed their offense. Why didn't they have a "garnet-out" or whatever color red it is they wear?
 
cyclejacket said:
I knew there were some new rules in place. I thought they allowed both teams to wear home jerseys if there was sufficient contrast and both teams agreed. I didn't realize they had a "whiteout" in Tallahassee yesterday. Looks like it whitewashed their offense. Why didn't they have a "garnet-out" or whatever color red it is they wear?
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Cause it'd make sense....
 
boozinbuzz said:
New rule this year. A team may wear any color combo they want as long as the other teams agrees to it before hand.
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What's the new rule? This has been the rule for quite some time. In order for us to wear white at home we had to get permission from every team that played us to do so. You may have noticed a number of years ago that we didn't wear white when playing Wake Forest at our place and that was because Wake didn't grant us permission.

As far as I know the permission has had to be requested prior to the season. Has that changed?
 
Before, you weren't allowed to wear colors on the road.

Now you can, with agreement

That's the difference.
 
gsu_paintballer said:
Before, you weren't allowed to wear colors on the road.

Now you can, with agreement

That's the difference.
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So what it sounds like you're saying is that the home team can request to wear white at home and can do so as long as the away team agrees but the away team, up until this year, couldn't request to wear their darker jerseys on the road?

I'm asking because I know that in the ACC for a number of years the home team has been able to request, prior to the start of the season, to wear white at home and the away teams had to agree to it.
 
JOJATK said:
So what it sounds like you're saying is that the home team can request to wear white at home and can do so as long as the away team agrees but the away team, up until this year, couldn't request to wear their darker jerseys on the road?

I'm asking because I know that in the ACC for a number of years the home team has been able to request, prior to the start of the season, to wear white at home and the away teams had to agree to it.
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Yes.
 
gsu_paintballer said:
Yes.
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OK, now I'm getting it. This is the USC-UCLA rule, right? Last year USC and UCLA wanted to both wear their "dark" jerseys but there was no provision in the rule book to allow both teams to wear their "dark" jerseys. USC, being the away team, was going to be penalized by losing one TO at the beginning of each half and I think Rick Neuheisel said he'd call a TO at the beginning of each half to equalize things. Perhaps I'm fuzzy on that but I think that's about what happened.

So I looked up the new rule and combined with your confirmation I now get it. What was confusing me was what sounded like, from other posters (and I am suggesting I was reading it wrong, not that others had it wrong), that the home team now had the ability to pick the color the away team would wear.

My understanding is that now:

1) The home team may wear white if they have requested and received written permission from the visiting teams PRIOR to the season

2) If the home team is going to wear their "dark" jerseys then the visiting team may also wear their "dark" jerseys if both:

a) they receive written permission prior to the game from the home team to do so

AND

b) the conference of the home team agrees that the jerseys are of contrasting enough colors

3) there's a 15 yard dead ball penalty assessed to the away team on the first play after the KO of each half during which they wear their "dark" jerseys if they have no satisfied both condition "a" and "b"

So if anyone was wondering how much pull USC has in the NCAA, apparently they have enough to get a rule changed because they want to wear particular uniforms.
 
gsu_paintballer said:
Before, you weren't allowed to wear colors on the road.

Now you can, with agreement

That's the difference.
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That wasn't true for all the years we preferred white at home. Every time we wore white at home the opposing team (on the road) had be be wearing colors.

We didn't wear white at home only when the opposition insisted on wearing white themselves. It was the same for us and LSU.

The point is that even as the rules have changed you were always "allowed" to wear colors on the road if the opposition agreed.
 
lonestarjacket said:
The point is that even as the rules have changed you were always "allowed" to wear colors on the road if the opposition agreed.
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If you'd like to overanalyze, yea. I would assume that everyone on a Georgia Tech forum would know about the old rule.

New rule allows you to wear colors on the road against anyone. That's what I was attempting to say.
 
I remember Buffalo (blue hats, shirts and pants) and Miami Ohio (red hats, shirts, and pants) playing and wearing contrasting colors on election night last year.

Gotta love Tuesday MAC games!

Also, I think the road team in the past could choose to wear white, forcing the home team to wear the colored unis. I believe that's the terminology I was officially told in 2000 and 2002 at BDS. Wake "had the first option to choose to wear white."
 
gtfan1147 said:
Also, I think the road team in the past could choose to wear white, forcing the home team to wear the colored unis. I believe that's the terminology I was officially told in 2000 and 2002 at BDS. Wake "had the first option to choose to wear white."
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Correct.
 
So you are saying that if we are at home, a random team can just decide what we are going to wear? So clempson could have nixed our white out, and UGA could make us wear blue this year?
 
JoltinJacket said:
It was a special occasion so they could do a true whiteout... I think it was the first time F$U wore white at home. Mississippi State also did it yesterday, forcing LSU to wear their purple tops.
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I imagine Mississippi State wore white just to spite LSU. I wonder if they'll do the same to us.
 
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