EDIT: Forum topic taken down due to an excellent point from Joe. Tees and other merchandise are a method of revenue for the site and I do not want to take away from this great forum we all appreciate so much.
And, so the comments make sense, this was originally a thread about an #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING shirt.
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I'm sorry, my opinion might be in the minority here, but this whole hatred of Orange just kinda annoys the crap out of me. Our school colors are Maroon and Orange, not Maroon and White. We are not Texas A&M, we are not Mississippi State, so lets stop trying to look like them.
This shirt basically screams "Fuck the Orange Effect". I don't like that sentiment one bit. Seeing the entire stadium all decked out in the same color and the same shirt, regardless if its the Maroon Effect, Orange Effect, or White Out... Its a pretty badass look.
Take pride in the fact that we are Maroon and Orange. Its unique and we do it right. Stop trying to be something we're not.
I kinda agree with you. I like the orange effect games as much as the maroon effect.
My issue is mostly that we haven't seen all maroon in a while, but we've seen a lot more orange (just speaking in terms of uniforms, not effect shirts). The orange isn't even the correct color generally anyways. In a conference with Clemson, UVA, Miami, and now Syracuse... I'd rather see more focus on maroon anyways.
However my BIGGEST complaint is all the weird stuff we've been doing, like the orange camo or the hokiebird cartoon on the helmets.
Our looks over the last few years were because we decided to do everything in-house and what you ended up seeing is what you'd expect from a bunch of old white men who are trying too hard to appeal to the young hip crowd. The looks were forced, and they were bad.
The only one out of the entire bunch that looked semi-decent was the 2012 camo. The orange camo last year was a disaster, and it looked like they used painters tape for the VT logos. The Hokie Tracks and full on Hokiebird helmets were such a cluster that it still pains me they were ever green-lit. And the HokieStone helmets... So close to being good, but they put them out there allowing the seam right down the middle to show which created a mess when looked on from the front. A simple maroon stripe down the center would have made those look excellent. And then the grey jerseys. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to steal the 2005 West Virginia jerseys and just use our colors on them needs a slap upside the head. I still can't believe we ever consciously outright stole a look from a freakin rival.
We need to get back to allowing Nike to handle all our designs. All of them. We've proven we just don't have a clue anymore. Hell, even their 1-off Pro Combat unis are lightyears better than anything we put out recently. The black ones, are still talked about to this day as awesome, and the white ones are STILL being worn as Arizona's full time look. Nike knows what they're doing. We don't.
Point taken. This was just meant to be a goofy/fun shirt. I didn't realize that it gave off such an antagonizing vibe...
I didn't mean to go off on you in particular, just the mindset that I see repeated Ad Nauseum on here.
If its not ad naseim, it probably isn't here.
I like it. It'd be one thing if you had a Hokie Bird stomping on an Orange Effect shirt, but having a line through it and #AllMaroonEverything is playful enough and not offensive at all.
Doge, I know I am replying to your thread, but this is a message to everyone on the website with regards to shirts. (I think you're fucking hilarious, happy you're here, and have laughed at every comment you've made since joining.)
This website is free, and I'd like it to remain free. I believe the content we publish is second-to-none. Other Virginia Tech websites (which do good work too) charge between $55 - $100 annually per user for a subscription. I don't want to charge folks that. However, I want to be able to pay French, Mason, Brian, and Mark for the work they do. I'd also like the website to remain free to serve as an accessible platform for other contributors like TheFifthFuller, PhillyHokie007, joelestra, ltrepeter2000, etc... to share their work. I'd also like to remain free so it's the most accessible destination for intelligent Virginia Tech discussion.
It requires money to pay people. It requires money to run a website. This website makes money from donations, ads, and tee shirt sales (in order from least to most revenue). And, to be quite honest we run on a shoestring budget.
The "I have a Tee Shirt Idea..." threads hurt our bottom line, and more importantly the amount of articles that get published here. (An #ALLMAROONEVERYTHING shirt was something in the works.) I'd appreciate it if y'all stopped posting them. Thank you!
Very fair. Thank you for the information. I was unaware. If I have a shirt idea, would it be alright to send it to you where you could take idea/profits from the shirt and put it back into the site? I feel like there are some creative people on here that would enjoy to have some input on TKP merchandise (knowing full well that all finalized ideas/sales would go through you, and thus have profits put back into the site).
Email me thekeyplay@gmail.com anytime you'd like. And thank you for understanding!
Yeah, I mean my take from reading your original post was that you were simply spurring collaborative development of a design that would then be produced and sold by TKP for the benefit of the site & its contributors.
Such t-shirt. Very community. Many maroon.
Then joe boot-stomping the concept (in a very polite way to be fair) really surprised me. I don't see how people pitching in ideas is a problem.
i think he doesn't want this site to turn into a hey buy this look at this and check out my website. But if you inform him and he likes/thinks the idea will work/help then he would love to have it here. Again this is the best FREE site for hokie sports. What if this site went away, i would cry in my cubicle and have no idea what to do with my day.
I would come to your cubicle and cry with you. i would bring turkey legs for us to give each other and honor the memories.
I have one more office chair... anyone want to claim it? haha leg for you my friend
I'll bring the bourbon to drown our sorrows.
Same here man. I would lose my mind if I couldn't read TKP at work.
I can see why he did it, and I think he explained it well. Second-to-last point on the Community Guidelines. While our dear Doge may not have intended to cut into the TKP bottom line, there's always a chance for that to happen. There have been a couple such posts in recent days, so this is a good time to nip it in the bud. I don't want TKP to be a marketplace; I want Joe and the team to generate the revenue needed to keep this place going. I'll buy every T-shirt I can from TKP!