What makes a great/bad college hockey jersey?

[Josh '99]

You know what makes a bad college hockey jersey?  Sparkle cloth.



Also: mustard yellow.  I'm trying to find a picture of those awful alternates that Clarkson had a few years back but I keep getting pictures of that prick David Clarkson instead.

[Trotsky]

WHY DO I READ THESE THREADS!?

And post to them...

[HeafDog]

And if you create a new logo just to sell merchandise, that's a non-starter.

*ahem*

[HeafDog]

Most of our league has pretty classy jerseys, especially some of the non-Ivy's like SLU, RPI and Clarkson's away greens.

Clarkson?? Green and yellow?!? MY EYES!

To make things worse, they had a third jersey a couple of years ago (not sure if it's the same one Josh was referring to) that attempted to ameliorate things by adding black to the picture. Sorry, green-and-yellow color schemes, but not even black can help you.

[HeafDog]

If you're going to put words there it needs to be traditional block fonts.  Like Cornell.  No cursive writing.  I've always liked the Rangers traditional sweater with the word Rangers running diagonally, but I hate the shield and the statue of liberty logos.  But I detest single letters like Minnesota or Michigan, though that might just be because I dislike those teams.

I disagree (as long as you have a decent-looking single letter -- Minnesota's M is sort of strange). Your brand is your brand. You go to Ann Arbor, and you see that maize-colored M everywhere you look -- on No Parking signs, buses (and the buses even occasionally display "Hail To The Victors" on their electronic destination signs -- I think that's freaking SWEET), etc. Actually, largely from having been there a few times, I kinda wish CU had its act together more and did pretty much the same thing, by going with a consistent typeface and branding throughout everything (both on athletic uniforms and otherwise), and sticking with it. If I remember correctly, the football, baseball, and lacrosse teams have different typefaces than, say, hockey and hoops. What's up with that? All the teams represent the same university, don't they?

I know everyone is totally married to the traditional CU jerseys that we've always had, so I know I'm risking getting kicked off the forum and out of Lynah for saying this, but I certainly wouldn't mind going with just the big, college block, single letter C on the front of our sweaters. Why should anyone have to spell out what the C is for? People should see the C and instantly know that it's for dear old Cornell. And that we're gonna kick your asses.

[css228]

Most of our league has pretty classy jerseys, especially some of the non-Ivy's like SLU, RPI and Clarkson's away greens.

Clarkson?? Green and yellow?!? MY EYES!

To make things worse, they had a third jersey a couple of years ago (not sure if it's the same one Josh was referring to) that attempted to ameliorate things by adding black to the picture. Sorry, green-and-yellow color schemes, but not even black can help you.

Green and gold fits the character of the nickname.

[Trotsky]

Clarkson's traditional sweaters are fantastic.  The little Knight Plume thing is awful.  And the notorious mustard throw-up third jersey of a few years ago had a level of hideous only Western Michigan has approached.

"What makes a great/bad hockey jersey?" is fairly straightforward:

great: simple / bad: busy

[Ben]

The gold WMU jerseys are somewhere between hideous and bizarre.

[Josh '99]

Most of our league has pretty classy jerseys, especially some of the non-Ivy's like SLU, RPI and Clarkson's away greens.

Clarkson?? Green and yellow?!? MY EYES!

To make things worse, they had a third jersey a couple of years ago (not sure if it's the same one Josh was referring to) that attempted to ameliorate things by adding black to the picture. Sorry, green-and-yellow color schemes, but not even black can help you.

Nah, I'm fine with green and gold as a general color scheme so long as green is the dominant color and the gold (which as you point out is really yellow when you make clothing out of it) is restricted to being an accent color.  It's using the gold as the primary color that's the problem.

[judy]

(I know I'm late to the party)

Mustard yellow: you mean like Nashville and Boston's third jerseys at some point in time? Cuz those are damn ugly and regardless of who they're playing in those jerseys, I have no idea what happens in those games because all I can think is "Damn, that's an ugly shade of yellow!"

[billhoward]

... But I detest single letters like Minnesota or Michigan, though that might just be because I dislike those teams.

A good hip check on the Gopher and as he sails end over end, it looks like he's skating for Wisconsin.

[George64]

We can only hope that Nike doesn't opt to redesign hockey jerseys. (Nike unveils 'platinum' hoops uniforms)  Even if they do, we may be safe as the Nike brand didn't exist the last time we won a national championship. (The teams selected have won NCAA titles wearing Nike gear: the Arizona, UConn, Duke, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina and Syracuse men and the Baylor and UConn women.)

[RichH]

We can only hope that Nike doesn't opt to redesign hockey jerseys. (Nike unveils 'platinum' hoops uniforms)  Even if they do, we may be safe as the Nike brand didn't exist the last time we won a national championship. (The teams selected have won NCAA titles wearing Nike gear: the Arizona, UConn, Duke, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina and Syracuse men and the Baylor and UConn women.)

Ah. Too late. Two words: "Nike Swift." Perhaps you weren't around for the 2006 Everblades Tournament and the related pulling of hair & gnashing of teeth, as the new design gave all the test schools (which included Cornell) vertical striping, to match the Swift's rollout in international play.    Check out this thread for all the details and photos:

http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,105511,105511

FWIW, Over at least the past 20 years, the CU team has switched between Bauer & CCM jerseys. Nike bought Bauer, and began to brand their jerseys with the swoosh about a decade ago.  Nike sold off Bauer in 2008.  CCM was bought by Reebok/Adidas. NHL jerseys were rebranded with Reebok logos, and the RBK EDGE jersey was introduced (similar to the Nike Swift).

[Aaron M. Griffin]

I figured that considering we are more than a month away from the first regular-season game of the season I would resurrect this thread. Penn State released its jerseys for its first NCAA Division I season today and I think they present ample fodder for conversation on this thread's topic. Here they are. Thoughts? I enjoy how the whites are blue versions of Cornell's home whites with the Nittany Lion logo in place of the Cornell block lettering.

[TimV]

Like it.  Move the numbers down to the upper arm just above the stripe and add the same logo, smaller, on the shoulder.  Helmet should be the same as football's white with a navy equatorial stripe.  No logo.

And nameplates are OK on the jersies at Penn State now.