Some refer to this school as Jack-O-Lantern U. Others call it Pumpkin State. I simply call them the Aggies. The Oklahoma Aggies, that is.
OSU wears this hideously electric shade of orange. For basketball, they normally wear black uniforms. Those do not look quite so bad. However, they sometimes wear orange on the road. Such was the case when they went down to Waco Saturday to take on Baylor.
These uniforms would glow in the dark if the lights went out. Not really, but almost. A few years ago, the OSU athletic marketing department rolled out this ugly new font, which is shown on these uniforms. There is also a matching OSU logo, on the black uniform. The slanted number is not good. Their football team got the hint this season and switched back to a normal-looking number. The basketball team needs to do the same.
Finally, there are some ugly-looking horizontal stripes going down the side of the uniform. The whole thing just screams: "Unstable!"
But, as long as their mega-donor T. Boone Pickens likes them, then they'll wear them. Pickens has given $165,000,000 to their athletic department thus far, and the school is in the process of seizing property adjacent to campus via eminent domain, to build new athletic facilities. That has nothing to do with uniforms, but T. Boone now owns a collegiate athletic franchise in Stillwater.
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HATER!!!!!! (pronounced HAIT-AH!!!!!!!!)
Just because these guys want to go hunting after the game doesn't mean you should throw them under the bus about their unis!
Hunting?!? More like picking up trash with their fellow residents of the state pen.
HATER!!!!!!!!!!!
You go to lengths to defend a school you didn't attend. You and The Snake baffle me in that regard.
My choice of this jersey for UUOTD has nothing to do with my like or dislike of Payne County Tractor College. I would have chosen it anyway.
OSU chose the colors orange and black to model themselves after Princeton. I actually have a gray and orange Princeton sweatshirt in the closet, that I break out for cold weather.
OSU and Stillwater actually have some redeeming qualities. Stillwater is a real-life college town. I like Eskimo Joe's. But, I am by no means a fan.
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