Aesthetics has become a factor in landing recruits which is why so many teams have numerous uniforms. Getting solid recruits is imperative in the quest to win a national championship. Our traditional blue and gold will always be my preference, but I'm not opposed to alternate uniforms if if helps us get stud players in the door. These particular alternate uniforms aren't my cup of tea though, I would have preferred them to lean into a gold theme if they wanted something different.

^ this this and this. We need alts and they need to be cool. These are alright but cool alternates are a recruiting tool.

All the major schools do it.

We already have alternates

I wasn’t saying we don’t have alts. The more alts the merrier.

So when do we see a gold cleat, a Tahoe cleat, and the mirror helmut - at the same time?

So I will tell you the tale of a one man uniform change, maybe the only one in Aggie history. And what it accomplished. The player was Khary Jones an Aggie player in the early 2000s. Early in the season (i dont remember which) Khary was our quarterback. Khary had painted his shoes gold. We were playing st Mary’s in one of the last games before they quit football. When he took the field the st Mary’s players were all over him with insults and taunts about his golden shoes. He was not at all distracted or visibly annoyed. He shredded the st. Marys defense with his passing and running. St Marys lost big that day and I don’t believe that it had nothing to do with their decision to eliminate football from their ICA program. Khary has gone onto a great football career up in Canada as a player and a coach.
I believe he was 17-4 winner for the Aggies. Not bad at all.
So lastly a comment about mobile quarterbacks. No one has mentioned Khary. He was extremely mobile and very successful. So was Chris Peterson and I don’t have to remind anyone that he was a great player. The addition of Pinnick as the Aggie quarterback is a huge plus for Aggie football next season IMHO.

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Yolo got to give you credit for the amazing in depth Google research you did into Khary jones 3 decade old history with his time with Aggie football. Should have got those stats down better. Shame on me. The point of the post was 1) his special uniform kit and 2) his abilities as a very mobile player. Both are the current subjects of this ongoing thread.

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If Santa Clara kept football, SMC might have stayed around longer. UOP as well.

https://x.com/NevadaSportsNet/status/1932860382739140957UNR fans mad they didn't do Tahoe theme first:

We didn't do a great job advertising the UCD / Tahoe research connection. People aren't getting it.....lots of "Davis is 3 hours away" comments. People also don't read, so.....

I disagree. they included a huge amount of lake tahoe lab boat, facility and info on every post. I think most people have been positive about it from social media. I like ruffling the feathers of our renewed rivals at Nevada.

I also said people don't read......which looks like the case (myself included...I didn't read all of it. :lol: )

I see they stopped harvesting the 300 million Tahoe crawdads, even though they hurt lake clarity.