Comments on: Nike’s Football Department is Lazy

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:21:12 +0000

So one of the schools is guilty of copying.

By: J.R. R

J.R. R — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:29 +0000

You do realize that the schools help design the jersies don’t you?

By: Rochelle Poe

Rochelle Poe — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:52:30 +0000

I don’t usually comment, but great post

By: BlueWorkhorse

BlueWorkhorse — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:24:29 +0000

Hell, at least Nike did away with those dreaded one shoulder uniforms that Florida, Va Tech, and I think Miami wore in the early 00s. Those were terrible, but they met your unique category…so which would you rather have: generic or atrocious?

http://www.fanhouse.com/2007/0.....egon-edit/

By: College Hyperdunks Mean One Thing

College Hyperdunks Mean One Thing — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:31:59 +0000

[...] to the Hyperdunks, I’ve questioned Nike’s designs before, but I must say, I do like the looks of these shoes. Currently, there are Hyperdunk images for [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:16:25 +0000

I understand UK and Buffalo designed their logo and now that Mitch explained some things, it’s understandable why the designs are so similar. The front part of each jersey, to me, looks awfully, awfully alike, font and all. But if Buffalo is ordering theirs from a preexisting design, that makes sense.

Same with the helmets.

Although, if I was Buffalo, I’d put my new mascot on my helmet to avoid any similarities. Plus, it looks better than the block letters.

By: ham

ham — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:09:41 +0000

kentucky has white on their ribs and chris nike doesnt come up with teams logos that is the schools doing

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:05:39 +0000

Thanks for the info Mitch. That makes a lot more sense.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:58:41 +0000

Many schools, especially smaller ones such as Buffalo do not have contracts with Nike regarding sponsorship and therefore do not have the ability to receive unique apparrell. While Duke and North Carolina might not have the most prestiguous football programs, their basketball programs desirability benefits the rest of their sports programs. As someone who played in a program with only a small sponsorship (albeit in a different sport) we were given a catalog and told to pick what we wanted (with options for different base uniforms and then screen print design). So while Nike is not producing unique uniforms for each program, more likely it is the school who chose to model their uniform after another school.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:44:01 +0000

So this font: is different from this one: ??? Hell, even their helmets are similar: Far be it from me to ask for a little bit of effort on Nike's part.