Media day today!!!! and the unveiling of new uni

[IrishGlory]

I think those uniforms are tight!!!

 

[pumpdog20]

They're growing on me now. The jerseys are badass though.

 

[Bluto]

These uniforms (the helmets specifically) look like they were "designed" by Liberace. Are we a football team or a cirque du soliel troop for crying out loud.

 

[tdbaum1]

Closer up so you can see detail better.

I hated the uniform as a whole when I first them on UND.com, but when I saw this picture of them on the players my mind has done a 180. I think they're awesome now.

 

[peoriairish]

I'll amend my statement to agree with whoever it was that was complaining about the asymmetry of the helmets. My OCD doesn't like it haha. Split half and half? Sure. 60/40? Not so much. But it's for the kids...

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[jason_h537]

They're OK but its just one game. Let them have some fun with the uniform every once in a while.

 

[jimmymac]

Miami game will be televised on NBC sports. Not nbc... That's what pisses me off, idc about the jerseys

 

[JughedJones]

I hated the uniform as a whole when I first them on UND.com, but when I saw this picture of them on the players my mind has done a 180. I think they're awesome now.

Exactly my thought.

I hated them at first, now that I see them on Manti? Kind of love them.

 

[DSully1995]

Exactly my thought.

I hated them at first, now that I see them on Manti? Kind of love them.

Well manti could make a pink cut off fun sun tee shirt look beastly

 

[irishtrain]

unis-not good, not good at all. Maybe it will make Navy laugh themselves to death. Who in the world would ok something that mixed and just plain bad. It would have been better to go with the Irish flag-that uni 'really' just looks bad.

 

[jmoodie]

Exactly my thought.

I hated them at first, now that I see them on Manti? Kind of love them.

I liked the jersey and pants when I first saw them, now I really love the jerseys. I especially like the numbers. The metalic finish and the fact that they have the numbers actually on the undershirt. I think that is a cool design choice.

But that helmet is ho-ho-rendous.

I really don't mind messing with the jerseys and the pants. For all our bluster about navy and gold, we actually change our uniforms constantly, anyway. So fiddle away with the uniforms - just not the helmet. Let that be. Last year's were borderline. These are, as Charles Barkley would say, turrable.

 

[Pachuco]

As long as we win, they can wear blue and gold tutus for all I care.

Does anyone know if und.com is going to upload videos of the coaches from today's media session?

 

[Cali_domer]

This is what I am listening too.

Oh, Hey There Notre Dame Media Day, I Didn't See You Come In | August

 

[frankygoes69]

Maybe people would be happy if they went back to this.

1890's-1900's Notre Dame Game Worn Full Football Uniform.... | Lot #19940 | Heritage Auctions

 

[frankygoes69]

I like the em. I like em a lot!

 

[Pachuco]

This is what I am listening too.

Oh, Hey There Notre Dame Media Day, I Didn't See You Come In | August

Thank you, good sir.

 

[NYMIKE6]

I don't mind the uni's the only change i'd make is put the blue with lep on both sides with a thick gold stripe down the middle....

 

[frankygoes69]

Agreed!

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

Und.com really dropped the ball on this. Where the hell is the presser? They had a full day of media day and I can't find it....

 

[Cali_domer]

Brian Kelly Media Day Press Conference - YouTube

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

Brian Kelly Media Day Press Conference - YouTube

Gentleman and scholar.... Is the rest of it found on that slop called und.com or is is elsewhere like this. I'm disappointed in their coverage to this point, but maybe aim low and hope for the best. Thanks, Brah.....

 

[Cali_domer]

Gentleman and scholar.... Is the rest of it found on that slop called und.com or is is elsewhere like this. I'm disappointed in their coverage to this point, but maybe aim low and hope for the best. Thanks, Brah.....

adidas Football: 2012 Notre Dame "Shamrock Series" TECHFIT Uniform - YouTube

Notre Dame Football Practice Update - Aug. 16, 2012 - YouTube

I gave up on und.com

 

[Irish#1]

I wanted to give myself some time to think about this and I can live with the uni, but the helmet is bad as in "not good". It's only for one game so we'll live thru it.

 

[jmoodie]

I wanted to give myself some time to think about this and I can live with the uni, but the helmet is bad as in "not good". It's only for one game so we'll live thru it.

Exactly. It's one game. The world won't end. And who knows, maybe when I see them in action, I'll find I like them more. Maybe.

 

[95NDAlumNM]

Player interviews from II:

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[Me2SouthBend]

Couple of classic lines.

Notre Dame announced a once-a-year change of pace uniform, not a contract with the devil. If you feel like this kills the soul of a program or means Kelly, Jack Swarbrick and equipment manager Ryan Grooms should be looking for new jobs that puts you dangerously close to the “angry man on the front porch” phase of your fandom, and you should quickly come back to the reality of college football in 2012 before you can never make it back. Notre Dame has switched uniforms before, and done so much more often than people probably realize.

Irish release Shamrock Series uniforms (Bedlam ensues) | Inside the Irish

 

[Sherm Sticky]

What a week for ESPN columnist:

Uni Watch: Notre Dame unveils weirdest uniforms ever (for now) - ESPN

 

[k1ssme1m1r1sh]

I like the uniforms. I don't like that the photos circulating the internet and FB are so photo shopped that the colors look Maize and Blue. The stock photos from Adidas make them look like jackass copycats. But to see them on the news or in regular snap shots are not so bad.

 

[PANDFAN]

The Shamrock Series will continue for at least the next four seasons. But that's the only absolute when it comes to the often-complicated future of Notre Dame football.

Although athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Thursday that the Irish have locations (but not opponents) nailed down for off-site home games through the 2016 season, he was noncommittal when it came to upgrades for campus home games -- namely, with FieldTurf and a Jumbotron.


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Matt Cashore/US Presswire
Coach Brian Kelly has said he'd like FieldTurf installed at Notre Dame Stadium."I haven't made a decision," Swarbrick said regarding the playing surface of Notre Dame Stadium, which will undergo its every-five-year removal following this season. "The reasons to do it relate to the use of the stadium. We do commencement in here. We'd like to do an alumni function in here during the summer. I'd love for our team to be able to practice in here on Fridays. So you balance those things against the environment of natural turf, which feels sort of central to this place. That's not an easy balance. We haven't made it yet, but those are factors we'll think about."

Swarbrick said that he hopes Notre Dame's home atmosphere can serve as the Augusta of college football, an aura that cannot be maintained with all of the same additions that most other major college stadiums have installed.

The balance, of course, comes with creating an intense enough home-field advantage. The Irish have won no more than four games inside Notre Dame Stadium in each of the last five years and are just 17-16 in front of their home crowd since 2007.

"We still want to be the most welcoming place in the country," Swarbrick said. "We want to still be the place where, when others schools come, they say, 'That was a marvelous experience for us.' But I don't want athletic directors telling me, 'We love playing here,' which is what they say to me with some frequency."

Swarbrick also said playing a regular-season finale against Stanford in China remains a high priority, but talks have slowed there since former Cardinal athletic director Bob Bowlsby became the Big 12 commissioner in May.