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Didn't see this on here...Some of the football team had tweeted about this prior to the season, but the announcement was official today.

JMU will be wearing black jerseys for Homecoming and auctioning them off to raise money for the scholarship fund.

Here's the pic.


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Using black when it isn't part of your school colors is nothing more than a gimmick that has taken hold in the last 1/2 doz years or so that a lot of teams are doing. Of the other 9 Div I programs within the state of VA the the Chokies and ODU have already jumped on the bandwagon (don't know if any of the other 7 have) so its not like we're doing anything original here. At least this is a (hopefully) one time thing, and doesn't become a 1-2 games every season thing.

FWIW I don't like the JMU gold jerseys either, and I think the Twerps looked horrendous and most of Oregon's look ridiculous.

Maybe I'm getting old.

ODU revealed their black jerseys for the WM game. The team got to foreman field not knowing of the surprise and just went a long with the usually pre-game routine and were told they were gonna wear the regular blue pants and blue jerseys for the game and then when they went back into the locker room right before the game the black jerseys were placed in the lockers...in other words, the team and the crowd were pretty pumped when the team was introduced for that game.



We also revealed new helmets for the GSU game.

BDKJMU wrote:Of the other 9 Div I programs within the state of VA the the Chokies and ODU have already jumped on the bandwagon (don't know if any of the other 7 have) so its not like we're doing anything original here.

Liberty had black jerseys for the season finale vs. Stony Brook last year. That was also when they debuted the white helmets.



There's also a photo gallery link at the top right of this link: http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 9&TeamID=9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODUalum11 wrote:ODU revealed their black jerseys for the WM game. The team got to foreman field not knowing of the surprise and just went a long with the usually pre-game routine and were told they were gonna wear the regular blue pants and blue jerseys for the game and then when they went back into the locker room right before the game the black jerseys were placed in the lockers...in other words, the team and the crowd were pretty pumped when the team was introduced for that game.

BDKJMU wrote:Using black when it isn't part of your school colors is nothing more than a gimmick that has taken hold in the last 1/2 doz years or so that a lot of teams are doing. Of the other 9 Div I programs within the state of VA the the Chokies and ODU have already jumped on the bandwagon (don't know if any of the other 7 have) so its not like we're doing anything original here. At least this is a (hopefully) one time thing, and doesn't become a 1-2 games every season thing.

FWIW I don't like the JMU gold jerseys either, and I think the Twerps looked horrendous and most of Oregon's look ridiculous.

Maybe I'm getting old.

Maryland has 32 different new uniform combos, they had a fashion show and players walked out and showed them. Some of them look pretty good, and yeah, they also had some with black jerseys.

I am also not a fan of wearing black just for the sake of it, but if it's a one time deal at least the money from jersey sales is going to a good cause.

BDKJMU wrote:Using black when it isn't part of your school colors is nothing more than a gimmick that has taken hold in the last 1/2 doz years or so that a lot of teams are doing. Of the other 9 Div I programs within the state of VA the the Chokies and ODU have already jumped on the bandwagon (don't know if any of the other 7 have) so its not like we're doing anything original here. At least this is a (hopefully) one time thing, and doesn't become a 1-2 games every season thing.

FWIW I don't like the JMU gold jerseys either, and I think the Twerps looked horrendous and most of Oregon's look ridiculous.

Maybe I'm getting old.

Who cares. If it builds excitement and since it is going to toward a good cause it shouldn't be a "we aren't doing anything original," bashing. Not say you are bashing, just saying that for me, it's not that big of a deal and to be quite honest, it is different and cool!

BDKJMU wrote:Using black when it isn't part of your school colors is nothing more than a gimmick that has taken hold in the last 1/2 doz years or so that a lot of teams are doing.

Naw. It's a fad that App State started.

PenthouseClosedEnd wrote:

ODUalum11 wrote:ODU revealed their black jerseys for the WM game. The team got to foreman field not knowing of the surprise and just went a long with the usually pre-game routine and were told they were gonna wear the regular blue pants and blue jerseys for the game and then when they went back into the locker room right before the game the black jerseys were placed in the lockers...in other words, the team and the crowd were pretty pumped when the team was introduced for that game.

yes, Really.

Helmets debuted this past weekend for the GSU game...

ODUalum11 wrote:

PenthouseClosedEnd wrote:

yes, Really.

Helmets debuted this past weekend for the GSU game...

Can you go into any greater detail about how pumped up the team and fans were about the jerseys?

Were the players like really, really super surprised?

PenthouseClosedEnd wrote:

ODUalum11 wrote:
yes, Really.

Helmets debuted this past weekend for the GSU game...

Can you go into any greater detail about how pumped up the team and fans were about the jerseys?

Were the players like really, really super surprised?

It was WM...thats all you need to know. Easily the biggest game we've had so far in our program history.

jmufan wrote:

BDKJMU wrote:Using black when it isn't part of your school colors is nothing more than a gimmick that has taken hold in the last 1/2 doz years or so that a lot of teams are doing. Of the other 9 Div I programs within the state of VA the the Chokies and ODU have already jumped on the bandwagon (don't know if any of the other 7 have) so its not like we're doing anything original here. At least this is a (hopefully) one time thing, and doesn't become a 1-2 games every season thing.

FWIW I don't like the JMU gold jerseys either, and I think the Twerps looked horrendous and most of Oregon's look ridiculous.

Maybe I'm getting old.

Who cares. If it builds excitement and since it is going to toward a good cause it shouldn't be a "we aren't doing anything original," bashing. Not say you are bashing, just saying that for me, it's not that big of a deal and to be quite honest, it is different and cool!

Its not different if at least 3 of the other 9 Div I in the state have already done it (VT, ODU, and Liberty). You might say its cool. Others say its a bandwagon gimmick. JMU isn't being a leader here, but rather a follower.

If If you're gonna do the black uni gimmick, should do it to promote a night game that doesn't have something else to promote it.

Homecoming is a daytime game that already has its own promotion- Homecoming, and should be left for your school colors.

It's a gimmick for a sport that need's no gimmicks. Soccer? Maybe. Football? No.
I'm a hater of Old Dominion's black jerseys. It's not our school color.
That and the fact that they decided on blue numbers on a black jersey.
CONTRAST DAMNIT!!!!!

So let it be written: 9/16/2011 - the day I agreed wholeheartedly with BDKJMU on an issue


Those uniforms are ghey. Not quite as ghey as the purple ones, but still ghey.

I like the black jerseys for JMU. They look much better than their regular unis.

CAA Flagship wrote:It's a gimmick for a sport that need's no gimmicks. Soccer? Maybe. Football? No.
I'm a hater of Old Dominion's black jerseys. It's not our school color.
That and the fact that they decided on blue numbers on a black jersey.
CONTRAST DAMNIT!!!!!

Black jerseys for a school that wears dark blue isn't really much of a stretch.

PenthouseClosedEnd wrote:

ODUalum11 wrote:
yes, Really.

Helmets debuted this past weekend for the GSU game...

Can you go into any greater detail about how pumped up the team and fans were about the jerseys?

Were the players like really, really super surprised?

Nothing like staying focused on the task at hand than springing new clothes to weear just before kick off!

Thugs. The U. Miami of FCS.

Ivytalk wrote:Thugs. The U. Miami of FCS.

You're not really fishing or fueling when you make a statement of fact.

93henfan wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Thugs. The U. Miami of FCS.

You're not really fishing or fueling when you make a statement of fact.

Who can forget the thugliness at the end of last year's Delaware game in Harrisonburg?

Black is not a JMU color. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ivytalk wrote:

93henfan wrote:
You're not really fishing or fueling when you make a statement of fact.

Who can forget the thugliness at the end of last year's Delaware game in Harrisonburg?

what happened?

andy7171 wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:
Who can forget the thugliness at the end of last year's Delaware game in Harrisonburg?

what happened?

Players stripped down to jock straps and had a pillow fight. Purple cladded fans loved it.

89Hen wrote: Black is not a JMU color. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Can we have a rule that fans of the same team can't have the same avatar? I'm so confused...

mcveyrl wrote:

89Hen wrote: Black is not a JMU color. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Can we have a rule that fans of the same team can't have the same avatar? I'm so confused...

That's easy for schools with small fanbases, but you really start to hamstring posters from the larger fanbases being restricted in their choices just because they have a lot of company in rooting for their school of choice. Shame on you for restricting other people's freedoms.