🏈 I'm guessing we'll be in crimson when we head to Happy Valley...

[TerryP]

...because if we aren't, their "Whitehouse" is going to be a little odd, wouldn't you say?

 

[jdpas29]

i hope so. love the matchup and the colors.

 

[Crimson14Tide]

Wear crimson as they wear their blue or as they wear their away unis?

I REALLY want tot see the Iron Bowl played in crimson vs. blue.

 

[TerryP]

It's an antiquated rule in football, IMO. I'm assuming it was instituted back in the early days of televised broadcasts for people with black and white sets.

I've never done the research to find out when they established that rule.

i hope so. love the matchup and the colors.

I'd think it would be one of the biggest "fails" in history if they are wearing blue, having a "Whitehouse" with everyone wearing white, and we are in our away uni's.

 

[BamaCore]

It's an antiquated rule in football, IMO. I'm assuming it was instituted back in the early days of televised broadcasts for people with black and white sets.

I've never done the research to find out when they established that rule.

Almost kind of makes me hope it happens just so I can get a good laugh.

I'd think it would be one of the biggest "fails" in history if they are wearing blue, having a "Whitehouse" with everyone wearing white, and we are in our away uni's.

Almost makes me hope it happens just so I can get a good laugh.

 

[Crimson14Tide]

It's an antiquated rule in football, IMO. I'm assuming it was instituted back in the early days of televised broadcasts for people with black and white sets.

I've never done the research to find out when they established that rule.



I'd think it would be one of the biggest "fails" in history if they are wearing blue, having a "Whitehouse" with everyone wearing white, and we are in our away uni's.

If I'm not mistaken they did away with that rule a couple years ago. Teams can both now wear home colors as long as they contrast. For example, you'd never see Aubarn vs. Florida with both teams wearing blue, but they could play each other with Florida wearing orange jerseys.

 

[TerryP]

If I'm not mistaken they did away with that rule a couple years ago. Teams can both now wear home colors as long as they contrast. For example, you'd never see Aubarn vs. Florida with both teams wearing blue, but they could play each other with Florida wearing orange jerseys.

Unless I'm mistaken, the rule change had to do with home teams being able to wear what's considered their away jersey's: IE: light colored ones. LSU does this frequently.

I'm sure it's written in the rulebook found at NCAA.org. But, going through that? I'll leave that to someone else.

Volunteers?

 

[BamaCore]

Unless I'm mistaken, the rule change had to do with home teams being able to wear what's considered their away jersey's: IE: light colored ones. LSU does this frequently.

I'm sure it's written in the rulebook found at NCAA.org. But, going through that? I'll leave that to someone else.

Volunteers?

From what I understand the home team gets first pick at what they wear: white "away" jerseys or their "home" jersey. The visiting team wears the opposite. Both teams can wear their "home" type jerseys as long as both teams agree to it prior to the game. I remember back in '09 Kiffin proposed that both Bama and Tennessee wear their home jerseys in Bryant-Denny but Mal declined.

 

[LBS]

Joe Pa is as old-school, tradition-loving as it gets. I just don't see him thinking that white vs. blue will mean a hill of beans. The last one that they held was played in blue, for what that is worth.

Regarding the home vs home jersey discussion, my understanding is that the road team must get the permission of the home team, and then once granted the NCAA gets a quick yes/no say. Beyond home team permission, the call is subjective in that the colors can't be "too similar".

 

[Crimson14Tide]

Joe Pa is as old-school, tradition-loving as it gets. I just don't see him thinking that white vs. blue will mean a hill of beans. The last one that they held was played in blue, for what that is worth.

Regarding the home vs home jersey discussion, my understanding is that the road team must get the permission of the home team, and then once granted the NCAA gets a quick yes/no say. Beyond home team permission, the call is subjective in that the colors can't be "too similar".

This. AND if the home team says, 'no' to the away team wearing their 'home' jerseys the away team can choose to go ahead & wear them anyway with the only penalty being a 15-yard penalty on each opening kickoff.

If I recall correctly this happened just one or two years ago with Southern Cal & UCLA.

 

[Crimson14Tide]

...back in '09 Kiffin proposed that both Bama and Tennessee wear their home jerseys in Bryant-Denny but Mal declined.

A rare good decision by Lame & a bad one by Mal.

 

[TerryP]

A rare good decision by Lame & a bad one by Mal.

I disagree with you on that, wholeheartedly.

As much crap as Lane had pulled he didn't deserve to get one of his wishes granted. Heck, they should have made him walk from their hotel.

 

[Crimson14Tide]

I disagree with you on that, wholeheartedly.

As much crap as Lane had pulled he didn't deserve to get one of his wishes granted. Heck, they should have made him walk from their hotel.

While I agree on not getting what he wants I still say his idea was a good one as someone who wants to see Crimson vs. Prison Orange, Crimson vs. Whatever Auburn's Blue Is Navy I Guess, etc., etc.

 

[LBS]

This. AND if the home team says, 'no' to the away team wearing their 'home' jerseys the away team can choose to go ahead & wear them anyway with the only penalty being a 15-yard penalty on each opening kickoff.

If I recall correctly this happened just one or two years ago with Southern Cal & UCLA.

That right. As I recall they had a gentlemen's agreement that the home team would delay the game on purpose until the visitor had reclaimed the yardage that was lost due to wearing the "wrong" jersey was regained/neutralized.
I loved that.

 

[TerryP]

This is from Wiki...

For a number of years, the schools shared the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as their home stadium until UCLA moved to the Rose Bowl for the 1982 season. Each school alternated as the "home" team for the game, with home fans on North side of the Coliseum and visitor fans on the South (press box) side. Until 1983, players on both teams wore their home football jerseys for the game. Since the 1984 season, when the game was played at the Rose Bowl for the second time, the visiting fans sit in the visitor section of each respective stadium, and the visiting team wears their white jerseys. Because UCLA called the Coliseum home and USC won a number of Rose Bowl games, each school has a lifetime winning record in the others' current home stadium.


Starting in 2006, the coaches at the time, USC coach Pete Carroll and UCLA coach Karl Dorrell expressed an interest in restarting the tradition of both teams wearing home jerseys. At the time, the NCAA football rules ARTICLE 3. a. stated, "Players of opposing teams shall wear jerseys of contrasting colors, and the visiting team shall wear white jerseys."[SUP][17][/SUP] USC coach Pete Carroll said he would be willing to lose two timeouts during the game so that the USC team could wear their red jerseys for the UCLA-USC football game on December 6, 2008.[SUP][18][/SUP] It was determined before the 2008 game that the visiting school would only lose one timeout for incorrect equipment. Coach Carroll agreed to forfeit a timeout to satisfy the ruling and Coach Rick Neuheisel agreed to forfeit one, in return (even though, as the coach of the home team, he was not required to do so by the ruling) to get back this tradition, and it was renewed in the 2008 game.[SUP][19][/SUP] In the wake of the coaches' decisions, the NCAA decided to amend their rules regarding away teams' uniforms (which were originally put into place to provide more contrast for Black & White photography and television broadcasts), changing the rule to state that the teams must agree on the decision for both teams to wear their colored jerseys before the game and that the uniforms must be of easily contrasted colors.[SUP][20][/SUP] Since the home team is already required to wear its colored home jerseys and would not be in violation of any equipment rules, this essentially leaves the decision up to them as to whether or not to allow the visiting team is to wear their home uniforms.