Let's hope we were unable to procure the appropriate SEC patches before Saturday
- Thread starter Faustdog
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I agree.
If we wear them, hopefully we at least wait until game 2 or beyond. We will have a large TV audience for game 1 and I would love to come out in our pinstripes or classic maroons. Preferably pinstripes if at all possible
Our contract isn't 100% fulfillment I don't think. We pay out of pocket for a small amount of our gear, and I don't think Adidas dictates what jerseys we wear each game. If we wanted to wear pinstripes or anything else, that's up to the equipment manager people. What I imagine happened was Adidas approached our AD and said "Hey, we want to advertise our CLIMALITE series so we're willing to give you $X towards your next purchase order if you wear these on national television and agree to allow us to advertise MSU wearing them." Stricklin being all about social media and advertising and less about integrity of appearance and tradition probably blew his load at the thought of Adidas advertising our jerseys and happily accepted.
I hope we have a large TV audience but I don't think we will at 2 in the afternoon. I hope I'm wrong. I know there isn't much competition between national soccer (especially non-US) and baseball but the Confederation Cup is at the same time also on ESPN, the US Open in golf is going on, MLB games are going on, and then there are the people who would watch it for the hell of watching it just because it's on TV at night but those people probably won't tune in during the day.
I hope we just abandon the jerseys all together. One part of me thinks there's no way they wear them after the outcry of fans and media types about how horrible they look but the other part of me remembers how I saw tweets from our athletic department about how much they love them. The @mstatebb account was legitimately trying to make people believe the players loved them and how fans were telling them they liked them too until the SEC told them they couldn't wear them... so they pulled a "jk they're ugly, we were just messing with you" move. Surely they were going to wear them in a SR game and not on the biggest stage of amateur baseball.
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Just saw a post on another board saying that the team only took 3 jerseys bc the NCAA only provides patches for 3 jerseys per team....and the New Jersey is NOT one of the 3 with a patch on it. So it doesn't look like we will be wearing them, thank goodness.
If Stricklin has any nuts they should be cut off if that`s the case. I am so sick of his gimmick happy ***.
Didn't Wes Rea refuse to wear it? It's gonna look funny with him in the pin stripes and everybody else in an Astors uniform. I think just about everybody would back the team and Cohen if they refuse to wear them ... kind look like a tie-died tee shirt.