Dark uniforms at home

[Keith K \'93]

The CCHA has decided to switch to wearing dark uniforms at home: http://ccha.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=439
They will continue to follow the usual home white/road dark procedure for non-conf games except for home games when they get approval of the visiting team.  Since we don't have any road games at CCHA rinks this year, the change won't affect us at all.  But I'm all for the change and would love to see the ECAC follow suit.

(Just thought I'd pass on some news and deflect a little bit of the ticket wars flame towards me :-D )

[Section A]

I dunno; I kinda like the white jerseys more than the red ones for us.

[Greg Berge]

I like the red unis better and would enjoy seeing them as the home seed unis at Albany.  Doesn't matter to ordinarily crumudgeonly me.

[jtwcornell91]

I think it's silly to require the home team to wear one or the other.  Let them decide individually what they want to do, like in the NFL.

[Will]

I like the white uniforms better.  I just think they look better than the red ones.  Maybe because I've seen some 50 or so games in white and 3 games in red, so I've gotten used to the white ones.  Although, when I finally save up enough to purchase a jersey for myself, it'll likely be the red one.

[Ben Rocky \'04]

CCHA has run itself into a troublesome spot.  The point of having light at home and dark while away uniforms is that there is fast and easy identification for all players durring the game to tell which team is which and insure that there are no fights over who gets to wear what color (for example, RPI v. Cornell, or St. L-U v. Cornell. BU v. Cornell would all be very annoying if there was disagreement over who got to be red).  Also, the team with the light uniform (for example, Cornell in the post season) is the home team, even if not technically at home: the team with the last line change rights, first on the ice, last of the ice, etc. rights for the home team which are all carefully laid out in NCAA rules.  It is easy to remember these things as it becomes second nature for players, coaches and the crowd to figure it out.
Anyway, almost every team in the ECAC has the same lack of their primary color at home.  At Lynah, the crowd wearing red and the players wearing mostly white doesnt matter, they know which rink they are in and who their supporters are.  But when we are away, our players wear red and so do are fans.  It becomes a powerful showing of the Lynah Faithful to our team and our oposition.
That said, I do eventually wanna buy a red jersey. Where does one get those offical uniforms?

[Al DeFlorio]

Ben Rocky '04 wrote:

CCHA has run itself into a troublesome spot.  The point of having light at home and dark while away uniforms is that there is fast and easy identification for all players durring the game to tell which team is which and insure that there are no fights over who gets to wear what color...

Huh?

For years college (and pro) hockey teams wore their "color" at home and white on the road.  It truly was not "troublesome" in the slightest.  There were no "fights over who got to wear what color."  The Cornell football team has worn red at home for a zillion years, and I don't recall any confusion (at least not over color; over other things, confusion aplenty) as a result. ::help::

IIRC, Cornell won two NCAA hockey championships wearing their "home" reds.

[Keith K \'93]

I also think college educated players and fans are capable of figuring out which team they are playing with/rooting for whether the team is in dark or light colors.  The coaches and, more importantly, the refs should be able to figure out who to give last change to, regardless of color.

The only way there would be the kind of confusion/fights that Ben suggests would be if they allowed both team to wear whatever color they want.  Now that would be interesting...

Ben should definitely not go to Michigan games, just in case they decide to wear their Maize jerseys (which they would sometimes wear regardless of home/away technicalities).  Or were those outlawed?

[Al DeFlorio]

Keith K '93 wrote:

Ben should definitely not go to Michigan games, just in case they decide to wear their Maize jerseys (which they would sometimes wear regardless of home/away technicalities).  Or were those outlawed?

By the fashion police, one would hope. ::yark::

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Al and Keith should just not sit near ben.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Sorry, I'm a traditionalist.

White=home
Red=Away

Full stop.

JH

[Will]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:

Sorry, I'm a traditionalist.

White=home
Red=Away

Full stop.

JH

Well, 'traditionalist' is a bit of a misnomer here, since it sounds like red=home preceded white=home for a good number of years (at least as late as 1970 it seems, according to Al).  So, there are two traditions, I guess, the 'original' one and the one that's been in effect for, what, twenty years or so?  I don't know, someone please clarify for me.  In any case, I agree with you, Jeff, though for a different reason.

[Al DeFlorio]

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:

Sorry, I'm a traditionalist.

White=home
Red=Away

Full stop.

JH

Well, 'traditionalist' is a bit of a misnomer here, since it sounds like red=home preceded white=home for a good number of years (at least as late as 1970 it seems, according to Al).

I understand where Jeff's coming from, because I felt the same way when the shift from "traditional" red to white was made for the home unis.  You're comfortable with what you were weaned on, be it linguine or corned-beef-and-cabbage.

So--for me, the ultimate "traditionalist"--a change back would be welcome.  Also, it just makes little sense to me for the other guy to wear "his" colors in 'your" rink.  But again, that's how I was brought up in my formative college hockey years.

Certainly Cornell wore red at home in 69-70 (see any picture of the NCAA championship game win to see what the "home" team wore).  I'm pretty sure they wore red winning the ECACs as top-seed in 1973, but I could be mistaken.  In Bob Kane's Good Sports, there's a picture of a 1975 game at Lynah with Cornell in white, so the change was made sometime in the early 70's.

[Adam \'01]

Oh gosh...what next....will the ECAC elect to go shirts and skins?

[gtsully]

Adam '01 wrote:

Oh gosh...what next....will the ECAC elect to go shirts and skins?

Well, it would get more people to show up for the women's games... :-P