New Uniforms Revealed

Taking this from uniform idea I posted sometime last year, even if there was something like this on the white pants, it'd add an element of cardinal/gold to tie it together.

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another option to mitigate unadorned white pants would be uniform socks, but that is a NFL thing and is basically asking for the moon in ncaa...
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Mrs. Gaggi and I liked the white pants. The overall look seemed clean and not overdone. We don't care for the all red combination, as it appears to be too bloody.
 
That "mustard yellow" happens to be one of our school colors.

Apparently the goal in the new design was to use gold mainly as an accent, not "equal" to the cardinal. OK, fine. But white pants "fit" in only two combinations in the new design.
1. All white
2. White-cardinal-white.
Which is great, because these are not good looks

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Sure, yellow pants or helmets would be fine. But as a primary jersey color it is awful.
 
That "mustard yellow" happens to be one of our school colors.

Apparently the goal in the new design was to use gold mainly as an accent, not "equal" to the cardinal. OK, fine. But white pants "fit" in only two combinations in the new design.
1. All white
2. White-cardinal-white.

White pants fit ONLY with white jerseys from the looks of it. It doesn't appear that there's enough white in the black jerseys that it'll look good with those either. The only way white pants work in any combo is if the other coordinating pieces have some sort of white detail.

Black pants will work great with the Cardinal jerseys. And I look forward to seeing those.
 
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I sense some hate/vitriol in the Force lately!

Yeah it is a little bewildering. But remember when I was coming up w/ all these crazy uniform ideas and combos? I got slammed and rightfully so, they were largely horrible and I didn't know any better. Now we have a coach who has chosen this current scheme, and we are slamming him and it pretty bad at times. Is that what we really want to do, this soon? Sure I like everyone's opinion and think that is great and OK, but...

Remember this, The players love the uniforms so far, atleast that's what we've been told, so there's that. The c/c/w, while not the greatest look, wasn't THAT bad. White pants will go w/ anything (just as the black ones will, or should, w/in reason, but we don't know, haven't seen yet). It could have been much better w/ black or red shoes/cardinal/or gold accents below the knees, but that didn't happen. Even switching to white facemask for the Akron game (like the KC Chiefs) would have made a nice difference, and tied the pants to the helmet. Easy things to change/add in future, no big deal. (Still c/c/w not the best combo, but we don't have gold, YET).
 
why can't ISU figure out a uniform? Some type of red or gold stripe (or both) down the leg would've done wonders. Heck, gold pants would've looked fine. And no, they wouldn't look like USC. And if they did, who cares?
The combos, w/ a little tweaking the right way, should largely fit together. But we haven't seen too many combos yet. Interesting we would get the c/c/w combo, not tweaked the right way, so soon.

About adding stripes to the pants, jerseys to tie different combos together? Maybe, I'm not sure. I've come to realize that SIMPLER and more CLASSIC might be best/better. That's what we have now for sure. YMMV.

And the gold pants would've looked great, much better than the white.
 
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If the new design had this combo option, it'd be an obvious choice for this game. (*sigh*)

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I have three complaints about this set...

(1.) They are just rather plain. I thought I would complain for them being too busy or gimmicky, but these are just plain boring and not uniquely Iowa State.

I love our current basketball uniforms -- they have a funnel cloud on them!

How much more Cyclone does it get than that...?

(2.) The black collar on the cardinal jerseys, which could work as a way to tie the cardinal jersey to the black elements, is trying to "have it both ways" in not including black on anything else and not including any cardinal or gold on the black set anywhere.

One way or the other -- either the blacks are standalone, or you need to include color elements between your different main colors so you can mix-and-match them.

The white pants with the cardinal/gold jersey is going to be a great example of that.

Either design them and wear them separate or design them to link together with shared features and colors. Say what you will about our old set plus the gray jerseys, but they worked for doing that rather well the past two years. This set is not nearly as good for that.

(3.) The lack of gold elements is inexcusable. I think this current set would look great, maybe one of our best of all time, with G-C-G or C-C-G.
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If they added a gold option we would be set. We have suited up for 4 games and haven't seen the black set yet. I know some dislike it that we have them, but so far it seems to be a special day/uniform. We aren't mixing it in on a regular basis. I hope they add the gold set next year or maybe its hidden away and meant to be a surprise. The GCG is a great look for us IMO
I agree, and w/ this current set, I think it maybe does look the 'best ever' g/c/g we've had (or could have). Match the black collar w/ some black shoes/socks, your set, classic, simple.

Was just coming to post that Arizona State's gold has looked fantastic the last couple of weeks. I've never been a big fan of C/C/G, but there are ways to incorporate the gold, and that should've been a higher priority than black. I agree with those saying that these unis look worse the more I look at them.
When I think of Arizona State, this is the combo I think about the most. Would love to see us do this once before I go to the big house!Cy Uniforms 2018  c3ya - y r r OrrCyclone Red face CYCLONES.jpg
 
Crap, who stole our pants? Somebody run to Scheels and buy 100 pairs of high-school practice pants!

That's what that combo looked like on Saturday. Like several have said already, no white in the helmet and jerseys mean you should not have white in the pants. It's really pretty easy.
 

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