New helmets for Georgia Tech?
Multiple Georgia Tech players posted Twitter pictures of a helmet that may see action on Monday night in the season opener against Virginia Tech.
“We do have a second helmet that we have to wear a few times in practice in case we want to wear it during the season,” Tech spokesman Dean Buchan said.
Quarterback/A-back Synjyn Days tweeted a photo of the helmet with the message “New helmets … Lets Get It 9/3.” (The photo below is from his account.)
The helmet is white with adjoining hexagons, creating a yellow jacket nest motif. It is a rather significant departure from Tech’s traditional gold helmet and is an answer to the cries of many fans and some players for a fresher look. Tech will wear its white road uniform with blue trim.
“I just feel like we need to come up with some Russell combat uniforms or something,” Days said last week.
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designers on drugs
August 30th, 2012
1:27 pm
Ground control to Major Tom…..that is out there.
designers on drugs
August 30th, 2012
1:27 pm
houston, we have a problem
hello maryland
August 30th, 2012
1:29 pm
acc aint that good on the football fields, nor in their uniforms.
James Rogers
August 30th, 2012
1:43 pm
It looks more like chicken wire than a bee hive…..but I’m over 35.
War Eagle
August 30th, 2012
1:50 pm
This has got to rank as one of the DUMBEST ideas ever. it’s up there with writing “Terps” or “Gators” on your helmet. Go back to the traditional helmet. This smells like those hip hop singers with the national anthem. STINKS!
Sissy Dawg
August 30th, 2012
1:52 pm
I think they look really cool, yalls is crazy if ya don’t like emm
ayauck
August 30th, 2012
2:19 pm
It looks like a soccer ball.
Jackets55
August 30th, 2012
2:40 pm
@GT Rich, you have a Run Time Logic Error. The changes to the phone system you talk about are functional changes for the system to operate more efficiently. The helmet issue is not about function but esthetics, which by the way is totally subjective.
Cosmo
August 30th, 2012
2:41 pm
Digging it (Almost 40 y.o. SHHH don’t tell)
sting_em
August 30th, 2012
2:44 pm
Its ok for 1 game like this a year, but go back to gold helmets. Got to have a GT on it.
Paddy
August 30th, 2012
3:14 pm
That stripe down the center sure is not team colors! My guess is that the guys at Russell Southern Co. have never done this before.
PonGT
August 30th, 2012
3:40 pm
These helmets are perfect for GT. They look like one’s brais fried on meth. Perfect for GT fans everywhere to show off how they are intellectually superior to the rest of the world. Great helmets for a TECH school.
yeller bug
August 30th, 2012
3:46 pm
If we’re scraping tradition, perhaps we could put an equation on the side of the helmet like E=mc2 (Bee a light to others) or the triple integral for solving the volume of a sphere—what a great message it would send to the kids: Bee Smart!!!
1 4 GT
August 30th, 2012
4:01 pm
OMG!! This helmet thing sure has gotten the yellow jackets stirred up!! Pun intended! 11 pages & 513 comments, and counting, on this subject. Methinks someone is going nuts waiting for the football season to start.
jimmyjack
August 30th, 2012
4:52 pm
awesome needs uniforms with it
jimmyjack
August 30th, 2012
4:53 pm
i guess haters gonna hate
Rex
August 30th, 2012
5:25 pm
Bitchin
GT-Jason
August 30th, 2012
5:26 pm
love it – can’t wait to see the rest. I’m sure the classic ‘GT’ will live on is some form or another.
33yrs old.
GT-Jason
August 30th, 2012
5:27 pm
Enter your comments here
GT-Jason
August 30th, 2012
5:29 pm
Love it – I’m sure the classic ‘GT’ will live on in some form or another.
34 years old – also liked the mustard unis we had back in PJ’s first season.
Curt Whitlock
August 30th, 2012
6:40 pm
Looks the linoleum floor in my first apartment in 1982.
Charleston Jacket
August 30th, 2012
7:27 pm
Thought yellow jackets built their nest primarily in the ground
todd
August 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
The “GT” logo will be added to the helmet when it will be prepared for game use.
Tech Guy
August 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
It looks like chicken wire. Does not anyone in GTAA have imagination to come up with an innovative design? If not, stay with the gold helmits. Notre Dame has used gold helmits to grow tradition. We should do likewise.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
August 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Wasn’t that PSU coach the last coach to Not wear a headset?
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
August 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
Have you people noticed that all water boys now have to have a pony tail! Sad.
Flabbergasted
August 31st, 2012
12:07 am
This is absolutely awful. “Trendy” uniforms as a recruiting tool is BS. The last I checked Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Texas, Flroida, Georgia, etc. don’t have to resort to such ugly stuff designed by someone on Fifth Ave. who knows nothing about football. (And when they have, i.e., UGA last year, they’ve quickly gone in the basement….). Tech HAS a rich tradition — great colors and great uniforms. The last I checked, the newfangled uniforms they’ve worn the past few years have done nothing for their recruiting. In fact, it’s apparently, gotten worse. Radokovich and Johnson need to wise up and not screw with the traditional uniforms that were unique and good-looking to satisfy the whim of some teenagers and athletic apparel company that don’t know what the hell their doing.
Jerry Kendall
August 31st, 2012
12:27 am
This has to be a joke – right? God that is ugly. Why on earth would anyone want to use this design. I would not even give that to UGA to use – well, maybe I would do that.
GT Fan
August 31st, 2012
6:48 am
Yes I am over 35 (actually 45) – I think if the players like it, that is what matters. For all of those that are hard core Old Gold and White – Get over it. I like tradition as much as the next person, but the players of today have to have some part of this that they feel is their own. Let then wear the new styles and have a little SWAGGER!
THWG
August 31st, 2012
10:59 am
If they’d just use the navy uniform which is the best looking. I don’t have a problem with the helmet. The white baseball batting helmets were a total dud – at least this one looks better. Not sure they will save Johnson’s job.
TONY HOLDEN
August 31st, 2012
4:32 pm
THE HELMENT SUCK
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
1:42 am
if these changes go thru I’ll be sending my tickets back, speaking of tradition, we wore plain gold hats longer than hats with GT, plain gold is the tradition but I obviously live with the GT.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
1:45 am
new helmet may look better than MD or Ore or God-ND but so does a turd, please don’t embarrass us like this for a little advertising.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
1:48 am
I know money is behind this change. If I donate the money will you leave the uni’s alone.? Some of us treasure and respect tradition….and so should anyone who comes here. By damn.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
1:52 am
Well, the players like the change, what happens next year when the “kids” want a new look and 2 years later. Who knows what we’ll look like then, right.? Taking care of the players.? Better take care of those who pay the bills.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:03 am
Rem. Dodd retired in ‘66, new coach wanted to make his egotistical “mark” with uni changes and a white helmet to freshen things up. Promptly went 27-27 next 5 years and out the door. That’s where D Rad needs to go.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:06 am
Isn’t this sort of like the players judging and picking the coaches.? Players come and go, tradition and good coaches and good fans are here for the painful long haul.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:23 am
GT FAN—I love ya but you’re so wrong. I’m hard core White and Old Gold. Straight up front, I saw my first Tech game well b/4 you were born, b/4 most of you were born and have no idea how much I’ve spent here, in $ and tears and that has to count for something. New fans are good but why does one feel like he must change things. People are born with SWAGGER, it’s not something you wear. I doubt any of the fine kids we have now were told, “if you’ll sign with us we’ll change the uniforms.” Do we really want players who come to us because of some freakish looking uni, not me, not this “hard core old schooler alum.” You young whippersnappers should have some respect for history and tradition, along with the disrepectful athletic administration. I hear TCU callin…..
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:29 am
FLABBERGASTED———-Damnit buddy, you are perfectly right dead on the money, wish I had said it, say it again.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who remembers the coach that made the last helmet change to white.?
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:36 am
I’ll bet no one at Aub or Ala has the nads to offer up this type of *hit change. He’d be gone quicker than you can say Bill Curry.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:40 am
hey, good idea, let the golf team wear’em.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
2:47 am
Carlton—you are a damn fool but love the Jackets.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
3:06 am
Tony the 2nd——with ya bud. TCU still has an opening. Almost used to the uni’s of last 3 or 4 years and now this *hit. What is drads problem, ego? I’m a gold hat, white shirt and gold pants with black and white stripes on ‘em or same pants, navy shirts and gold hat kind of guy. I like the use of Old Gold even tho it is not a beautiful gold it is our gold. Do you think there is kick back goin on here with Russell.? I know I’ll never buy a piece of Russell again and told them so. Doubt if it broke their heart. Voiced anger at drad 3 yrs ago about uni change and he actually said he didn’t care. I wish GT fans had pull with their school like fans at other schools. I’ll be ashamed of this crap if they put it on Grant Field.
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
3:16 am
GTAA——-if you rem Grant Field and Coach Dodd and Coach Alex and Coach Heisman and YOUR FANS leave the unis alone.
GOLD HELMETS forever
TECHIE
September 1st, 2012
3:17 am
GOLD HELMETS, WHITE SHIRTS, GOLD PANTS forever
JK
September 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Stay with the Old Gold.
Techfan85
September 1st, 2012
1:45 pm
One positive – if we happen to lose the game, no one will recognize that its GT in post game highlights.
CPBEE
September 2nd, 2012
11:08 am
Changing uniforms every year does not help us at all.The really good teams keep with tradition and just play football.Please stop this nonsense.
87techgrad
September 2nd, 2012
6:47 pm
Yellow Jackets don’t even make a hive. They live in the ground. We are not the Honey Bees!
Janice Camp
September 2nd, 2012
10:36 pm
IT’S NOT GOLD!!!