Football '08 Jerseys

Personally, I like the baby blue and pink stuff I've seen in the book store.

I was hoping PJ would change our home and away uniforms to those colors.
 
Our colors have been Old old and white for longer than any of us have lived. I can't believe anyone wants to try and change our Yellow Jacket Trademark. I guess the visiting team will be the only team at Grant Field that has the school colors showing. Same old Tech lack of colors and spirit. Now we will have Navy, Yellow, Gold, Old Gold, White, Grey , Camo and whatever else the bookstore comes up with. I think they had pink and baby blue too. You will see Clemson in Orange/Purple. Georgia in red/black, Alabama in white/crimson, etc. but Tech in 'anything goes'.
This is wrong.
 
Alan, in general, I agree with you. However Tech athletics needs some adjusting.

If you watch orange, purple, red... the colors stand out on their own. Reds are readily available so it's easy to match the color - every red program has a fan base that easily stands out.

Unfortunately white and gold do not. Either will navy blue unless it's in the summer wear.

One thing I think we need to move on is the "old gold". If you look at every major program in the country they have adjusted their colors with the times. We're still trying to use "old gold" (a died cotton color when originally chosen) on nylon and it just doesn't work. I personally think we should drop the "old" and just find present day "golds" to work with to become a hip stand alone color.

Look at Tennessee for example and see how the orange has really changed over the years. It is no where near the same color that I saw in the 1970's. The same can be said of the reds of UGA and the oranges of Clemson.

We need to be more progressive with our gold AND/OR any other color we want to move to to help modernize our program.

When I was a kid, we were "The Ramblin Wreck" or "The Engineers" (Maxie Baughn was a coach and we wore engineer hats). Today we are "The Yellow Jackets". Things change and that's okay with me. Let's change a little with our colors.
 
I reject the "let's move to a new shade of gold" argument, as the piss-yellow, "game day gold" of the Chan Gailey era offended my eyes. We have a top notch textiles engineering school. Why are they not currently coming up with solutions to the "old gold" problem.
 
WaCoJacket said:
I'm one of the few people that want yellow/gold with black & white.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets wearing blue is like the Syracuse Orange wearing green or pink.
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You must be oblivious to the school colors of White and Gold with Navy Blue being the trim. Yes, Navy Blue has been a part of GT color schemes since day one.
 
alan71 said:
Our colors have been Old old and white for longer than any of us have lived. I can't believe anyone wants to try and change our Yellow Jacket Trademark. I guess the visiting team will be the only team at Grant Field that has the school colors showing. Same old Tech lack of colors and spirit. Now we will have Navy, Yellow, Gold, Old Gold, White, Grey , Camo and whatever else the bookstore comes up with. I think they had pink and baby blue too. You will see Clemson in Orange/Purple. Georgia in red/black, Alabama in white/crimson, etc. but Tech in 'anything goes'.
This is wrong.
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Are you proposing we keep that current shiny gold? By the way, I've yet to see GT in an OLD GOLD uniform.
 
midatlantech said:
Alan, in general, I agree with you. However Tech athletics needs some adjusting.

If you watch orange, purple, red... the colors stand out on their own. Reds are readily available so it's easy to match the color - every red program has a fan base that easily stands out.

Unfortunately white and gold do not. Either will navy blue unless it's in the summer wear.

One thing I think we need to move on is the "old gold". If you look at every major program in the country they have adjusted their colors with the times. We're still trying to use "old gold" (a died cotton color when originally chosen) on nylon and it just doesn't work. I personally think we should drop the "old" and just find present day "golds" to work with to become a hip stand alone color.

Look at Tennessee for example and see how the orange has really changed over the years. It is no where near the same color that I saw in the 1970's. The same can be said of the reds of UGA and the oranges of Clemson.

We need to be more progressive with our gold AND/OR any other color we want to move to to help modernize our program.

When I was a kid, we were "The Ramblin Wreck" or "The Engineers" (Maxie Baughn was a coach and we wore engineer hats). Today we are "The Yellow Jackets". Things change and that's okay with me. Let's change a little with our colors.
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The throwback uni's are the only ones that I could see us developing as 'our' gold and the fans wearing. Doing so requires us to change our much loved helmets to white though.

Fans (and certainly not kids) will wear a lot of GT material is we insist on it being a shiny gold because it looks horrible. It is one reason we still sell so much blue - it looks much better as normal clothes.

The only other option is to wear blue tops when we are forced to wear the darker color.
 
Dude,

I was a Textiles major from 91 to 95. We wore navy then, so it wasn't a big problem. We also royally sucked during much of that time period, so I had rather spent my free time watching the christian wackos call folks sluts and fornicators outside the Student Center than figuring out the uniform color problems of the day.
 
I could be wrong and Mr. Sinlindin would be the best source for the facts on this, but I don't think Tech has a true textiles school anymore. They have something close but not the same.
 
The reason we ended up with the bland cheddar cheese color is because Tech was trying to find an "Old Gold" color. The coach's shirts, etc. were all what looked like a washed out tan/gold.

We are constantly spending a crazy amount of time on this issue. Maybe we need to invest the money in multiple helmets. I don't have that answer, but I do know that we worry so much about an old color that nothing matches today while our competition just gracefully moves forward.
 
Ty Statham said:
I could be wrong and Mr. Sinlindin would be the best source for the facts on this, but I don't think Tech has a true textiles school anymore. They have something close but not the same.
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It's now PTFE (Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering).
 
Mr. Sinlindin said:
Dude,

I was a Textiles major from 91 to 95. We wore navy then, so it wasn't a big problem. We also royally sucked during much of that time period, so I had rather spent my free time watching the christian wackos call folks sluts and fornicators outside the Student Center than figuring out the uniform color problems of the day.
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Dude, that was the best thing to do ever. I would grab a pizza from the Sudent Center and a coke and watch them for hours. If the reason that our textile engineers haven't solved this incredibly important and vital-to-humanity quandary, then I whole-heartedly understand. The things those preachers told me were pure comedic gold, although none of the good ones are suitable to quote here. Seriously.
 
I feel like I'm watching "What Not to Wear".

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So I guess fans wearing logoed White shirts would be out of the question?
 
Boston said:
But white and gold make sense?
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"...dress her in white and gold..."

A lot of teams stick with their basic uniforms and have been doing so for decades: Penn State, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio State, Texas, USC, etc.

As a 38-year fan, my opinions is that the best look has been white tops and gold jerseys...simple and traditional.

Save the gimmick uniforms for Oregon.
 
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