Poll: Georgia’s Nike Pro Combat unis, love ‘em or hate ‘em?
I had to step away from work fairly quickly this past Saturday, not long after I posted my practice update. That update, of course, included a brief report on the new Nike Pro Combat uniforms Georgia is going to wear in the opener against Boise State.
Well, it wasn’t until late Sunday that I got to review what some of the reaction was to that piece. There seemed to be more than a few folks bothered by me using the phrase “generally negative” to describe fan reaction to the new uniforms. A few people, in comments on the blog, asked me to what poll was I referring and accused me of just trying to “stir up trouble” between UGA and its fans without having any real data to support it.
Loading ...So let’s clear this up. My determination was based on the reactions I was getting directly via email, Twitter and Facebook. In fact, those reactions were so decidedly negative that I actually tweeted to ask if there was anybody out there who actually liked the uniforms. Only then did I hear a couple of positive comments, and then they were still few.
But, of course, that is far from scientific. So short of hiring Gallup or some kind of market research company, I figured I’d just throw it out there to the masses this morning with a raw (but still unscientific) poll. So be sure to click one of the selections to the left and check back to see the results.
What do I think? I think I actually like them. I mean, it’s only for one game, right? And the players love them. I tend fall on Mark Richt’s side when it comes to this being something you do for the players and not so much the fans.
In the meantime, just so you have it to reference, following is most everything I got after practice Saturday from players and coaches talking about the uniforms. After this, I plan to retire from writing about uniforms (well at least for about 10 days or so).
LB CHRISTIAN ROBINSON:
“I like them. We’re going to look good!”
“About the third quarter it’s not going to matter because it’s going to wear off and it’s going to matter who’s playing the best. It’s exciting for us to put something new on, but it won’t matter come the third or fourth quarter.
“It really is for the team. I loved the black jerseys when we had them. That was one of the reasons I came here. That was probably the most excited I’ve ever been watching them run out [in 2007]. I was in the end zone right when they broke them out and it was awesome.
“New jerseys excite the team a little bit. It’s something new that you haven’t worn before. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing for some of these guys. I might never get to wear the black jerseys again, so it was a once-in-a-lifetime-thing. Again, halfway though the game it’s not going to matter.
“I do like tradition. But I think one game out of the year you can do something new. It’s not like we’re changing our whole style for the whole season. It’s one game. If it’s upsetting somebody that bad, I’m sorry.”
WR TAVARRES KING:
“I love them. I think they’re awesome. We’ve still got to play so it’s not a magic potion or anything. But I love what Nike has done for us. We’re blessed to have those uniforms. I’m excited about them.
“It’s 2011, you know. You’ve got to have a little swag!”
GEORGIA COACH MARK RICHT:
“Well, I think that Nike did a great job of trying to capture a lot of the tradition of Georgia football. Some things are very subtle that the fans may not be able to see but the players can see. . . . I don’t know if the story that’s behind it is going to be released but when it is you’ll be able to read what Nike was thinking when it produced everything.
“But when the players saw it, they liked it and that’s the big thing, that they like it. And it’s a special game. It’s not what we would call a traditional uniform but it’s not a traditional game either. That’s kind of why we did it.
“I think we’re due. We’re due.
“Yeah, I think there are a lot of people that just don’t want to get away from that and I don’t blame them. That’s the reason we’re sticking it out there two weeks in advance, so everybody can get over it. I doubt we’ll do any surprise uniforms anymore. At least everybody’s got time to digest it. If everybodk just thinks about what’s most important and that’s playing the game, I think we’ll all be fine.”
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Mobile Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:15 pm
You all battoning down the hatches down there yet? I will Google him.
Mobile Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:16 pm
Let me correct myself, over there, you guys are well North of us.
curdawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:23 pm
These uniforms are just plain UGLY!
Looks like cartoons! What’s next, dying the hedges blue with Nike swooshes on them? Yes, Nike greases the palms of athletic departments, but for Cripes sake, show a little pride and dignity!
Not to mention, but I will, calling them “combat” uniforms is an insult to and dimunition of anybody who served in our military. Despite the intensity of SEC football it is NOT combat.
curdawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:26 pm
Also, am I the only person who remembers how pitiful we looked the last time we let Nike dress us? (Black uniforms against Alabama)
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:30 pm
Naw, we never get hit in the cove here. Poor folks in the outer banks catch em all.
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:33 pm
Do you remember thow pitiful we looked the last time Nike did not dress us?
(pointing out that Nike makes all our our jerseys would have ruined the joke)
Pete
August 22nd, 2011
9:37 pm
They look like astronauts….
Mobile Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
10:04 pm
That’s what those poor folks thought when Katrina brought in a 30′ storm surge, Good luck, maybe it will continue moving to the East and be a non event for the US. Street signs in downtown Mobile were under water.
mike
August 22nd, 2011
10:08 pm
Hideous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YoungMonty
August 22nd, 2011
10:57 pm
I hear they are going to paint the field red…
Bama Fan#2
August 22nd, 2011
11:13 pm
I like the uniforms and the big G!!
Ron Jeremy
August 22nd, 2011
11:24 pm
Alabama…Auburn…LSU…Penn State…USC…Notre Dame…Oklahoma…Texas.
These eight schools are rich in tradition and uphold their honor by not allowing those “commoners”
from Nike to push them around. Phil Knight is a nouveau riche ego maniac and schools like Georgia
continue to enable this guy. Mark Richt and the players have been told what to say and are scared
of upsetting Nike.
What would Richt say if Phil Knight wanted to spray paint the hedges a different color?
anthony
August 22nd, 2011
11:32 pm
first! ?
Chip Towers
August 22nd, 2011
11:43 pm
bwkdawg: No more uniform talk . . . until the Boise game!
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beachwriter
August 22nd, 2011
11:56 pm
How ironic that a school whose mascot is a bulldog chooses to work with a company that hires a convicted dog murderer/felon as a spokesperson and pays him millions of dollars. To hell with Michael Vick, and I hope UGA loses every game for working with Nike. What a bunch of losers you are.
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James K Polk
August 23rd, 2011
1:13 am
Here’s the deal. I’m 35 years old, so I grew up during our heyday. I’ve been through Dooley’s lethargic latter years, through Goff’s incompetent years, through Donnan’s wasted talent years, and now through Richt’s apathetic years. I’ve seen Herschel, Worley, Hampton, Hearst, and Moreno all leave early. I’ve seen top 5 recruiting classes decimated by arrests and injury. I’ve seen an AD caught being stupid. I saw a preseason #1 team with first round NFL talent all over the field not even win a division title. I’ve seen us lose 15 of 18 to our biggest rival, and I’ve seen every SEC team worth mentioning win a title while we have yet to even be in a title game. BUT…when we run out of the Georgia Dome locker room sporting these things, it will be the first time in my entire life that I will be ashamed to be a Dawg. There are just some things in life that are too sacred to totally scrap…even if it is for just one game. In the truest sense of the word…it is sad. We have become the very thing we profess not to be.
RealTime DawG
August 23rd, 2011
6:22 am
I like tradtion. But for ONE game?? Sure why not. I dont care if they wear tu-tus as long as they kill BS, SC and FL and go to SEC champ. Then theyll b wearing the ole red jerseys w white numbers, silver britches in the sUGAr bowl!!!
AltamahaDawg
August 23rd, 2011
7:11 am
I’m guesing that you wishing UGA would lose every game was not a very far stretch to begin with. So who makes your schools uniforms?
AltamahaDawg
August 23rd, 2011
7:29 am
Ron, Do you think the United States Military Academies have ever been introduces to the concepts of tradition and honor?
(and half those schools you mentioned already have or will this year worn these)
cola dawg
August 23rd, 2011
8:35 am
The uniform looks weak sitting on a skinny mannequin. While I am not blown away by them – I am sure they will look good on the players….
unoriginal
August 23rd, 2011
9:38 am
these are perfect for UGA because they are UGA-ly. HAHA. I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself. ok, carry on with your banter about clothes. It’s cute.
Ugg the Repug
August 23rd, 2011
9:59 am
Helmet OK. Jersey OK. Pants, not so much. Silver britches would look better.
Bodda Getta
August 23rd, 2011
10:10 am
While Georgia is playing dress-up, the rest of us are playing football.
Bud
August 23rd, 2011
10:37 am
Just way to much hype all the way around. “The dream team”,the uniforms, etc. Be low key and do what you gotta do on the field.
Bud
August 23rd, 2011
10:41 am
What’s next red and black astro turf. It’s the Georgia Bulldogs not the swinging bulldogs.
Dylan
August 23rd, 2011
11:44 am
Altamaha Dawg,
You bring up a GREAT point about the service academies! I actually think Navy is wearing their Pro Combat uniforms against Army this year.
Dylan
August 23rd, 2011
11:45 am
And Army will also be wearing their new uniforms also for that game.
Jonkdawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:48 am
C’mon folks it’s a new Era…like modern technology things, don’t just stuck with the prehistoric all the time…add a new look don’t mean you are not gonna give up the old look, switch’ em here and there every time yeah?
AltamahaDawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:54 pm
Army already did last year. They were camo, which was pretty cool , but that’s not tradition, that is nothing more than style. So if its a matter of just not dealing with Phil…….well, I guess we should have more “honor” that the United States Military Academy?
I don’t think a big ol’ hountstooth stripe on the helmet was exactly the tradition at Alabama last year either was it? Nor do I think there are two different companies named Nike, are there?
DaWg 4 Life
August 23rd, 2011
1:25 pm
As some or most of you Georgia people must be unaware of is that UGA use to wear a silver helmet back in the day. Also in 79 they wore red pants. Its just one game get over it and get with the players!!! (Everyone has to be on the bus!)
GO DAWGS!
matt
August 23rd, 2011
1:57 pm
RED RED RED I like it. all you people who are talking trash need to shut up. I don’t like the White uniforms but i’m not going to get all upset about it.
First Street Lenny
August 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
Its almost “Bulldog Sat” i smell it. It doesnt matter about the uniforms its about whats in them. If your not with us You are against us.I speak for the track people nation! Do Damn Thang Mark Richt and Carpe Diem !
Get'em all SCOOTERS
August 23rd, 2011
2:38 pm
Larry Munson likes the new uniforms, he just wonders WHY the GIRLS TENNIS TEAM is getting new FOOTBALL uniforms. Larry is having a hard time focusing these days.
The football GUY, from Metter (thats in Georgia)
August 23rd, 2011
2:43 pm
Sounds like “James K Polk” has a very good grasp of the UGA gridiron situation. He MUST be a Ga Tech grad, notice I did not say Ga Tech football fan.
If it smells like....
August 23rd, 2011
2:50 pm
“First Street Lenny”, that ain’t football you smell. Check the bottom of your shoe, thats what comes out of the south end of a north bound bull pup.
papadawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:19 pm
I don’t care if they’re playing in only a jockstrap and a helmet as long as they are winning
Bodda Getta
August 23rd, 2011
3:28 pm
If the United States Military Academy had Nike add pro combat camo to honor Army’s tradition, then the University Of Georgia had Nike add shoulder-to-foot “bright embarrassment red” to honor UGA’s tradition.
Return to Glory
August 23rd, 2011
4:34 pm
It is like putting spinners and curb finders on a F-150 4X4 pickup truck, we are GEORGIA, not Oregon..go West if you want fruity uniforms ! Glad it os for only one game, hope we play better than we will look.
NIKE: DON’T DO IT !
kevin
August 23rd, 2011
4:48 pm
Looks like a blind pimp tried to design a transformer. Absolutely terrible!
UGA 2011 Swag
August 23rd, 2011
6:36 pm
For all the people that only like the traditional uniforms, chill it’s just for one game. Personally I love the new ones, they look ballin. Nike did a great job on these uni’s and I’m looking forward to watching the Dawgs run out on the 3rd ready for (pro)Combat.
Old Dawg Fan
August 23rd, 2011
6:43 pm
I don’t particularly care for the new “uniform” especially the Helmet. I am curious how much money UGA received to wear these on the 3rd???
I guess when you go 6 and 7 the previous year it really doesn’t matter what the uniform looks like the next year.
We shall see!
Bobby G
August 23rd, 2011
7:44 pm
Arkansas fan here. Sick helmets but horrible jerseys. If the jerseys were as nice as the helmets these unis could be the best of all time.
James K Polk
August 23rd, 2011
8:57 pm
It’s a new era. That damned 1776 American flag is out of date. We need to put lime green stars on an alternating pink and yellow stripe pattern. A real American would like the new flag, and if you don’t, you can just move to Canada. Just get over it.
FootVol423
August 23rd, 2011
10:26 pm
I hope Georgia represents for the sec and smacks down Boise State… But the bulldogs best get ready for the beat down the Vols will be giving them when they come to Knoxville,Tn.
GO VOLS!!!!
dawgfan0617
August 24th, 2011
1:41 am
i dont like the uniforms but who cares. its for the players. these guys dont get paid and they deserve something. wearing these unis is like christmas for those kids so show a little support for our guys regardless. all i care about is gettin the W against boise. besides the unis will probably help with recruiting. we all like the red with silver britches and im sure our guys do too but the “clown suits” are what kids like these days and there is nothing wrong with keeping your players happy.
dawgfan0617
August 24th, 2011
1:48 am
beachwriter we were under contract with nike before vick ever signed with them you idiot!
DAWGMAN
August 24th, 2011
10:26 am
Saturday week. Get you some! Go DAWGS!
Gator Fan
August 24th, 2011
10:44 am
I have really bad breath and I fart a lot.