Yeah, yeah I know... "Just win the damn game!" but I can't help but wonder what VT will pull out for uniforms against Oregon (minus the points, offense, wins, etc.) East on Saturday.
Andy's tweet this week got me thinking...
A few players had Hokie Stone helmets on. Some guys like to wear the gameweek helmet in practice. #Hokies breaking them out again Saturday?— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) November 12, 2013
And allegedly we do have gray pants that we have yet worn this year. Curious what some thoughts are on this combo, or variations of it (try your best to put #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING aside and play along).
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If this happens we should start calling our O-line the stone wall.
I think our d-line has to already have dibs on that but I like it!
Eh. All gray doesn't really strike me as a good look.
I don't mind the gray, but I'm not a fan of that jersey design. It looks very WVU circa 2007.
Other than small details...it pretty much is.
I thought it looked pretty sweet against Bama. Only difference is the Hokie Stone helmets instead of maroon. I'm ok with it.
I would take Hokie stone helmet, maroon jersey, gray pants with double maroon stripes on the legs, and maroon shoes with gray accents.
I like the gray pants modification idea, and the maroon jerseys for that matter. You sir, should replace whoever throws together the ugly helmets and poor uniform combos that have scarred us all for life.
I would almost guarantee we wear Hokie Stone this week.
As for the grey pants, they just looked so bad and cheap in the picture of Gayle. I really hope that we do not wear those. I think we all agreed they were circa 1990 before we knew the picture was real.
I heard that when the VT Equipment Room or whoever posts what the team will wear, they photoshop the uniform onto that James Gayle model. So I really REALLY hope they only looked that bad due to being poor photoshopped. I'd be a little disappointed if our athletic department spent money on something actually that ugly.
But then again... there were Foghorn Leghorn helmets...
I own one! Haha
Yeah, the pants in that photo were actually silver, not gray. It didn't match and looked terrible.
I strongly dislike the gray tops and bottoms. I said this before the Bama game, but they give me the impression that Nike's design studio handed off the scheme to some summer intern.
Its Senior Day - let's give the seniors one #AllMaroonEverything, or at least maroon tops & bottoms with the Hokie Stone lids (GT combo).
I actually really liked the combo we used against GT. I thought it looked great.
I doubt we will go gray. Alabama wasn't allowed to wear white when we wore gray at the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff game and Maryland intends to wear this:
If we intended UMD to wear a color, we would have told them by now.
That's weird. I saw on twitter that they were wearing these:
I wish I had said that.
Looks like UMD is waving the white flag already.
I hope we go with the GT combo again. Those were really cool. The Hokie Stone helmets make sense for Senior Day, especially given the theme of the season and the mentality that Beamer has been instilling in the team.
Yes, Turkey Leg. Just as the orange unis will always have bad memories for me, that GT maroon with stone helmet combo will forever be one of my favorites. I was at that game. My son got to speak with the coaches some before kickoff. Then domination happened. I would love to see this combo coming out of the Miami win, setting up the finishing run to the ACCCG.
black with bright orange... some maroon stripes perhaps
kids loved it when we had those
not about what the old folks want it about what the youngins want
Nike screws us consistently with these ugly arse uniforms... kids hate them and alumni talk about it all the time... like we're a bunch of fashionistas.... we may be many things but we are not urban sophisticates and most of us should just allow our wives and daughters to dress us
give the kids what they want, mostly black, kickass orange, strategic maroon... or we should go to a new uniform supplier
JMHO
As long as it isn't the awful orange unis, I'm content. That being said, the more Maroon, the better!
I loved the Unis we wore for the Alabama Game! Does anybody Know what time Kick off will be for the UVA tech game?
I'm a lot bigger fan of grey than orange.
Can we get the Hokie Stone helmets in a matte finished instead of the sticker?
Probably, but since they already bought them, I doubt they will invest in changing them this season. With the budgets for athletic departments running close to the red every year its staggering how much they spend on different helmets.
Why are you telling me this? Pretty insulting actually
EDIT: I have probably taken my overall frustration with multiple members of this site out on a single person again, for that I apologize.
Just because I make a suggestion to improve site should not lead you to ----> I do not appreciate Joe's work
Just because I would prefer a change uniform does not mean:
1) I am unaware of the costs to field a team of 100-125
2) I am unaware of the overall university's budget constraints along with the athletic department
3) I expect a change in the helmet during the current season
I don't like when people do this to me in real life and I expect I am not alone. So you guys are okay with me posting something similar every time there is talk about altering the uniform? I would be happy to do that for you. Otherwise, I am happy to end this here.
I'm a fan of the helmet rotation, just saying that it makes sense to get some more run out of the Hokie Stone ones we have. I'm in if we got matte. Not trying to insult.
Then don't talk to me like I am 5. I criticized Virginia tech so I must be uniformed. I know about the cost of the helmets and athletic department budget constraints. That information had little to do with my comment.
I'd rather have a few good helmets rather than ones that have left over car decals on them. Next time they do this hokie stone in matte please.
holy cow you're getting defensive over nothing...I don't find anything insulting about what he said...you're off your rocker man
This information has everything to do with your comment. How is anyone supposed to know it was rhetorical?
I'm confused:
You are doing the same thing. :)Yes I can read.
If that's all he said we have no problem
Take a minute to walk away and breath. We are all Hokies here.
All we need to focus on is making Turtle Soup tomorrow.
i think what jsketch is trying to say is
Welp...
You asked a question, you got an answer. If you meant it rhetorically, well, the Internet is not very good at that. There's nothing that I see that's condescending about the reply you got (simply a statement of fact), so please don't try to start a flame war.
I don't think he was doing anything wrong, plus his comment explained why, in his opinion, the Hokie Stone Helmets weren't changed so let's relax and re-enjoy Sam Roger's pancake from the Miami game.
Every once in a while, I wonder how a toddler can be screaming and crying one minute, but put him in front of a TV screen with the right show on, and just shut up and sit there, perfectly content.
I now know what this feels like.
i watched that like 15 times
See what I mean?!
I do not think that he intended to be insulting. I think he drew your question as one in which you wanted and answer, not rhetorical.
He sounded rather matter of fact to me, unless I've missed something.
Herma's Readers buys our helmets which usually cost around $300 each when it's all said & done. This is where the auction price will start after we wear these again, so any bid is all profit for the charity.
I fully expect Hokie Stone on Maroon on Maroon. While I would love to wear that against UVA, I think it's the closest we will get to #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING and it's our last home game. Gotta go out with a bang.
Fuck all this non sense. Since we can't send the seniors off with at least a 3:30 game, let's send them off in #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING!
I just got off the phone with Bud Foster reading your message to him verbatim. He just growled back at me, which in his language I interpretted to mean "I'm taking care of this"
After your phone call to him he actually called me. I didn't answer though, I hit him with that nifty reply with text and simply, but to the point told him "I'm busy, hit me up later." No bigs, happens at least twice a week during the season.
I want to tell you the story of the time I said one of the DBs didn't fully play all of their nuts off during a game.
I heard a knock at the door. I wasn't expecting anyone, and I was busy doing homework. I decided to ignore it. The knock came again. It was followed by the words, "Public Safety," public safety being our version of campus police. I walked to the door, sensing a strange heat emanating from the door. As I reached for the knob it became more and more intense. I became a little nervous at this point. I wondered what this strange sensation was.
In this moment of indecision the knock came again, "Public Safety." Finally, I clasped the doorknob. The intense heat ran up my arm. The sensation was one of the most painful experiences I have gone through. I dropped to the floor, screaming in agony. I try desperately to unfurl my fingers from the knob, but it was as if my muscles were possessed by the pain, unable to do anything other than hold onto the knob.
The weight of my own body on the knob turned it. Unlatched, the door began to swing slowly open. Finally I wrested control of my hand an unclenched it, and ran to the other side of the room. Visits from public safety are rarely good signs, but this, this was no visit from public safety. I saw through the ever widening gap in the door a light that I had never seen before. It was an eerie glow that emanated with rage and hatred. For the first time in my life, I truly knew what hell was like. Hell is fear. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was frozen in place now. Unable to make a sound or move a muscle. That's when I saw it. That's when I saw what had knocked on my door. This was no public safety officer. This was something different entirely. This being, from what I can only assume is one of the most dangerous planes of existence, wasn't clad in the blue and white that a public safety officer would wear. Upon his feet he wore a pair of nike trainers, colored in maroon with orange swooshes. Adorning his legs were athletic pants, colored maroon. Covering his torso was a jacket which may have once been white. I'm not sure. The blood of his enemies had long since turned it to a frightful shade of maroon. Placed upon his head was a maroon baseball cap that obscured his eyes.
Those eyes. My god. Those eyes. Finally the spell was broken as I looked into those eyes. They spoke of years of hatred for all things festooned in blue and orange. They spoke of years of hatred for all things festooned in blue and gold. I looked down at myself and saw the blue jacket that I was wearing, the interlocking B & C of our colleges generic logo mocking me as I felt a strange warm fluid run through my pants.
I had seen this man before. I had seen him standing on the sidelines of every single football game played by the university's football team in my hometown. I didn't want to die standing there in a blue jacket with an interlocking BC logo. I bolted as fast as I could for the bathroom that connected my room to my suitemates'. He stood there, and watched me run. I'm not sure, but I suspect there may have been a brief glimmer of giddiness across his face as he watched the torment that he was putting me through.
I slammed both of the doors to the bathroom shut. I locked the door to my own room first, and then the room to my suitemates' side. I leaned my head against the all next to the sink, slowly sinking down, assuming that the pain was over. I looked down at my feet and I started to cry. Never before had I ever been so scared in my life. The fright of it all left me feeling fatigued and drained. I was glad that it was over though.
I wish I would have paid more attention. I wish I would have kept my head up. Maybe if I had, I would have known what was coming for me. On the other hand, maybe I was better off not knowing. I'm not sure if there was anything I could have done to stop it. In fact, I'm sure there was nothing that I could have done. Knowing would have just got me more fear.
The shower curtain bolted open. The all maroon demon had somehow phased through the walls of the bathroom. From whence did this trans-dimensional horror come? For the second time in such a short time I screamed out in terror. This time the smile of his goateed face made itself very present. This monster was enjoying my fear, and he was feeding of off it. Truly, this "man" if he could be called such fed on fear.
I tried to run out through the room of my suitemates'. My only hope was to run as fast as I could for as long as I could. Running fast for a long time is not something which I am unfamiliar with. My hope was that I might be able to keep away from this terror for long enough for him to grow tired. I assumed that if I could put all of the speed that it took to carry me through a mile I might have a chance.
Unfortunately for me, as soon as I threw the door to my companions' room open and turned the corner to start running for the building's door I heard the footsteps coming out of my own room. Before I knew it a great darkness was surrounding me. A strange orange light started emanating from behind me, casting a shadow across the hallway. I knew there was nothing I could do to escape.
I turned to meet my fate. Before I could finish turning around, I saw out of my peripheries motion. I was hit with the force of a thousand jackhammers as I was slammed to the ground. This terrifying beast snarled at me, "I thought the kid right there youre talking to right there played his nuts off. You can quote me on that shit too."
TLDR: Bud Foster ain't nothing to fuck with.
Simply incredible.
+1
Just sayin'.
If you want to avoid the wrath of Bud, use the peephole.
Dude, you know that doesn't help avoid the wrath!
Pfft.
I thought he needed to be invited in or something.
Alas, none of the rooms here have peepholes. Just grab the handle and pray.
Rather than the peephole, use the window....it will probably be less painful
I'm afraid the only door to my room has no windows into the hall. Other than one that is covered with cardboard so that I can sleep at night.
Looking directly at him can cause temporary blindness and paralysis
All our peep holes were reversed as a joke. So bud would have been looking in the room.
Fantastic!
He used 'festooned.'
I want to live in your world, if just for a day.
Funk power!
Being awarded the the "Funk power" achievement is worth all of the turkey legs in the world.
Thankfully the funk was unharmed as an enraged Bud Foster shredded the very fabric of reality apart in my dorm. He lived on to make more funk shakes.
Only in a perfect world...:\
any body have any idea of the game time for the UVa-VT game?
They will officially say on Monday, unless it gets flexed to the six day option. I'm guessing it's a nooner.
No way, it's an away game. 3:30 at the earliest.
well...it may TECHNICALLY be an away game, but it might as well be a home game. Charlottesville is probably about 60-40 split between Hokies and Wahoos. On top of that, VT fans ALWAYS show up in full force for this game and every VT-LOLUVA game I've been to in C'ville has featured far louder Tech fans...it just doesn't feel like a road game
VT fans mistake it for a Spring game and show up in hordes.
Apparently I am on the limb here, but I dig these uniforms. I like the change up, and I'm willing to bet the seniors had some say in this - and if they want to wear chicago maroon and burnt orange thongs then they can do whatever the f*** they want. Thanks Seniors!
I know everybody hates the orange because of the duke game but i think Hokiestone helmet, maroon jersey, orange pants would look really sharp.
That image looked a lot better in my head but when I put it into the builder, I cringed a bit.
At least we can say that no other team in the nation would rock something like this. Giving it time to marinate, it looks distinctly Hokie to me; I could dig it.
/vomits on keyboard
Great Movie? Or Greatest Movie Ever?
I've never seen acting that good. He's amazing.
We done combos like this before. I don't remember them ever going well. I think they look okay, but our team just gets distracted by bright orange butts.
It's like it reminds them of bad spray on tans and prison.
Did anyone see the helmet mockup that BillDozerVT did yesterday with the maroon old gobbler on a matte maroon vt helmet? THAT would be awesome.
Here's Dozer's pic if y'all missed it:
These looked all black to me, but are they really maroon? Because that'd be awesome! (help me, I'm seriously colorblind)
For my money, I'd like the Gobbler to pop a bit more, maybe a stronger all-white outline to make it stand out from the helmet
That helmet is wicked awesome. Nice Billdozer. I love the matte look on any helmet.
yes, matte maroon helmet, with an almost embossed like maroon gobbler
Ah thanks. A turkey leg for your help! The matte is very cool, but the recruits these days really seem to dig hydrochrome. Anyone think we'll have anything along those lines in the near future?
This picture made me think of this btw.
Did someone say 'hydro'?
Damn, talking bout hydro helmets, my bad. Not gonna need one of those.
- Cody Journell
"Maybe I shouldn't have been a total douchenozzle"
- Cody Journell pondering to self
The chrome helmets cost 3x more than the others. To outfit a team you're looking at around $100,000 as opposed to the $30,000-40,000 range for regular or matte.
Weaver has left the building
I would like to see our new AD use that stockpile of checks, and put her fashion foot forward!
ESPN has a uniform consultant- perhaps VT could have BillDozerVT or cruhland be the ad hoc VT uniform combo designer. I'd VT for either or both.
Really though what I would like to see is at the beginning of the season handing out a batch of crisp fresh maroon helmets. The coaches could say "This is your helmet. Other programs give stickers to players who make outstanding plays. We feel that encourages a me first mentality. This team is a hardworking, hardnosed team. We don't give out helmet stickers. You go out there and acquire helmet gashes."
The trouble is this kinda sounds like it's encouraging leading with the head and other such things you really don't want to encourage a kid to do. But dammit I just love the looks of a beat up helmet.
I'm for ALLMAROONEVERYTHING!
Please, God. No more orange jerseys or pants in any combination. Also, don't much care for the all maroon either. Any other combinations of maroon and white would please me. Really can't say I'm enamored with the 'hokie stone' helmet either, but please don't ever use the one with 'hokie bird' feet ever again.
Blasphemy.....#AllMaroonEverything
Your opinion though so I can respect it at least
I was totally going to upvote until I saw this line...
Sorry, didn't mean to downvote. Someone help out, please?
Ayyep.
Way to speak your mind, but I gotta disagree. #AllMaroonEverything
You got the right idea with the turkey feet helmets though.
I think the fact that as of now, this post has zero downvotes shows just how mature and levelheaded the TKP-reading fanbase is. I'm so proud of you guys.
/spit take
Wha?
That's like saying you don't like grandma's pies.
Or her cakes.
Or grandma.
What. How can you not like our all maroon everything. Don't say that too loud, you might see #45 and his Corey Moore eyes.
I can only assume that this is a uniform that Oregon is going to be wearing soon.
Ah yeah, I think it's the "Christmas Lights" special uniform for their bowl game
I can deal.
Nice, looking forward to seeing this combo. I wonder if MD will have trouble finding the Hokies through the fog today.