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re: Spurrier used to force LSU to wear purple
Posted on 8/9/21 at 6:51 am to AlwysATgr
Posted on 8/9/21 at 6:51 am to AlwysATgr
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Regarding other seasons, rules were changed after '82 so that the home team had to wear dark. Dinardo lobbied the NCAA to allow us to wear white in '95.
Bring the magic back.
Home team had to have approval from visiting team to wear white. That’s why Vandy made LSU wear purple after they hired Dinardo away. Now I think it’s just an agreement because they so many uni combos.
I always thought LSU elected to wear purple for one game each year and that’s why they wore against State at an away game.
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Posted on 8/9/21 at 7:51 am to Ted2010
quote:maybe if FSU had to run the gauntlet of AU/UGa/LSU/Tennessee every single season, then face off against Bama in the SECCG most years, instead of joining a weak af conference like the ACC, Bowden wouldnt have won any NCs
Maybe had he spent less time trolling he could have won as many national championships as Bobby Bowden
Posted on 8/9/21 at 8:03 am to SM1010
I've never fully understood LSU's aversion to wearing the purple jerseys. I think they look great.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:26 am to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
Ok, works fir me. I read a synopsis of where Spurrier played the 2nd half with game on the line.
And Lane Fenner was in-bounds in the 1966 game. Doug Mosley royally screwed FSU.
5-8-1
And Lane Fenner was in-bounds in the 1966 game. Doug Mosley royally screwed FSU.
5-8-1
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 11:32 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:34 am to Cdawg
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I always thought LSU elected to wear purple for one game each year and that’s why they wore against State at an away game.
LSU has worn purple in non-conference home games since Saban took over. The away team doesn't get to choose what jerseys they wear. State chose to wear white at home in 2007 and 2009 so we had to wear purple.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:35 am to SM1010
Really beat up on Ray Goff, really showed us.....
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:37 am to DawgsLife
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I've never fully understood LSU's aversion to wearing the purple jerseys.
It's not an aversion so much as a tradition that dates back to the 1958 national championship season. Paul Deitzel decided to wear white at home that season, and LSU went on to an undefeated national title season, so the tradition stuck
We're also not the only team to have a tradition like that. GA Tech likes to wear white at home, which is why we ended up having to wear purple in the Peach Bowls in 2000 and in 2008 because they were the home team in those games.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 10:39 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:42 am to SM1010
I would have done the same thing. But I'm big on rules. The rules say the home team wears dark jerseys and visitors wear white. I don't know why LSU thinks they are so special.
From the 2020 NCAA Rule book
From the 2020 NCAA Rule book
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Jersey Design, Color and Numerals
ARTICLE 5.b.2
2. The visiting team shall wear white jerseys
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:43 am to 4Ghost
The LSU politics have F up LSU football for a long time.
Back in the 80`s the BOS AH`s Cusimano, S.Jacobs etc.
single handidly screwed LSU football.They aught to be hung
in effigy.Power corrupts and that is what happened these
AHs put their power ahead of LSU.Thats a fact
Skip Bertman put his CAMP MONEY ahead of LSU and hired
Smoke Laval because he was the only one willing to do it.
Then he hired LM because he was a yes man and was sick of
taking shite from Saban. Money and power corrupt and LSU
athletics has been supressed because of it.
Back in the 80`s the BOS AH`s Cusimano, S.Jacobs etc.
single handidly screwed LSU football.They aught to be hung
in effigy.Power corrupts and that is what happened these
AHs put their power ahead of LSU.Thats a fact
Skip Bertman put his CAMP MONEY ahead of LSU and hired
Smoke Laval because he was the only one willing to do it.
Then he hired LM because he was a yes man and was sick of
taking shite from Saban. Money and power corrupt and LSU
athletics has been supressed because of it.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:51 am to Lonnie Utah
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2. The visiting team shall wear white jerseys; however, the home team may wear white jerseys if the teams have agreed in writing before the season.
FIFY since you cut off the second part of that rule
The SEC has its own agreement that says the home team has sole descretion of what jersey color they want to wear for home games, not requiring permission from the away team.
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In accordance with NCAA football rules, the home team shall wear dark jerseys and the visiting team
shall wear white jerseys. White jerseys may be worn by the home team when the teams have agreed before the
season. The Athletics Directors have agreed to always grant a home team’s request to wear white jerseys, in which case the visiting team shall wear dark jerseys.
LINK
WHy do you hate traditions in the SEC?
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 10:52 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:54 am to lsufball19
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FIFY since you cut off the second part of that rule
Because for me, it stops right there. I would not have agreed to part two. Sorry.
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2. The visiting team shall wear white jerseys; however, the home team may wear white jerseys if the teams have agreed in writing before the season.
Why should the league keep kissing LSU's @$$ with regard to this one? Suck it up and wear your purple at home. Rules are rules.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 10:58 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:05 am to Lonnie Utah
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Because for me, it stops right there
why? It's part of the rule
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I would not have agreed to part two.
That's nice, but you presented your post as if LSU isn't following the rules
The rules allow for them to wear white at home if the other team agrees to it. quote:
Why should the league keep kissing LSU's @$$ with regard to this one?
Alabama can wear white at home too if they want to
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Suck it up and wear your purple at home. Rules are rules.
What rules are being broken? The rules provide for schools to ask permission to wear white at home. LSU asks for permission and said permission is granted. This isn't a difficult concept.
This must have really burned you up. TWO HOME JERSEYS IN THE SAME GAME!!
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 11:13 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:12 am to lsufball19
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That's nice, but you presented your post as if LSU isn't following the rules
I said the rule, and that was poor working on my part. To me dark at home, white on the road is a convention/standard for college football. That would have stated my position better than the word rule. But, my position is based off the NCAA rulebook.
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The rules allow for them to wear white at home if the other team agrees to it.
And I said I would not agree to it if I were the coach. But I'm not a coach so it's just my opinion. You're free to yours, I'm free to mine.
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Alabama can wear white at home too if they want to
Why would I care what Alabama does?
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This must have really burned you up. TWO HOME JERSEYS IN THE SAME GAME!!
And since you added that part after I responded, I don't like that either.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, there's a reason I went to Military school.....
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 11:17 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:17 am to Lonnie Utah
Didn't he also do this to the Dallas cowboys?
Dude was the troll Daddy of football for like 30 years
Dude was the troll Daddy of football for like 30 years
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 11:18 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:34 am to Lonnie Utah
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I said the rule, and that was poor working on my part. To me dark at home, white on the road is a convention/standard for college football. That would have stated my position better than the word rule. But, my position is based off the NCAA rulebook.
You realize the NCAA didn't start delegating what jersey colors teams wore until the 1980s right? And this "tradition" didn't come to be until more games were televised and they were televised in black and white and teams needed to wear white/colored jerseys because it was hard to tell the difference otherwise in B&W? There was only a "rule" delegating what color jerseys the home and away teams had to wear from 1983 until 1994. That's a pretty small window of time in the annals of college football. The tradition for a lot of games used to be for both schools to wear colored jerseys for games
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In case you haven't figured it out yet, there's a reason I went to Military school.....
Not sure what that has to do with anything. Your school, the Citadel, has far more uniform combinations than LSU does. There's nothing "traditional" about that. The military schools wear far more one-off alternate uniforms than LSU ever has. For the longest time, LSU wore one uniform the entire season in every single game. That's about as traditional as it gets.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 11:38 am
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:15 pm to lsufball19
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You realize the NCAA didn't start delegating what jersey colors teams wore until the 1980s right? And this "tradition" didn't come to be until more games were televised and they were televised in black and white and teams needed to wear white/colored jerseys because it was hard to tell the difference otherwise in B&W? There was only a "rule" delegating what color jerseys the home and away teams had to wear from 1983 until 1994. That's a pretty small window of time in the annals of college football. The tradition for a lot of games used to be for both schools to wear colored jerseys for games
Good for your, but to me, Rules > Tradition. Sorry.
And that's EXACTLY what I was referring to with regards to Military school. Rules > Tradition. If we allow folks to do something just because it's a "tradition", then you might as well not have rules at all.
We've got rules. Follow them. Dark at home, white on the road. Just like everybody else.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:21 pm to SM1010
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Arkansas state got a 15 yard penalty to start the game because they didn’t wear a contrasting color 
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:44 pm to SM1010
that's not a real accurate header at all. LSU did wear purple in Gainesville in 2000 as well as gold in 1998. From 1983 through 1994 the SEC mandated home teams wear dark and road teams where white,period. Why of all the things in the world that was implemented is anyone's guess. In addition to LSU, from time to time Georgia Tech and worn white at home, Vanderbilt did in the 1970s and others. It also wasn't THAT uncommon for both teams to wear 'dark.' Other than the 1969 Cotton Bowl when Tennessee played Texas, the Vols rarely EVER wore white on the road or neutral site until 1971.
In the spring of 1995 the NCAA relented its white home jersey rule provided the road team agreed. All Tiger Stadium opponents in 1995,which included Florida complied. Vanderbilt did NOT in 1996,but all other opponents did as well as everyone in 1997,including Florida.
LSU did wear gold to Gainesville in 1998 and in 1999 Spurrier and Florida denied LSU wearing white in Baton Rouge. However, then commissioner Roy Kramer stepped in an implemented an immediate rule that when an SEC team plays another SEC team at one of the SEC team's home field,the HOME team determines the who may wear white. LSU did wear white. If anything Kramer called out what a whiny bitch Spurrier could be. Since that episode the only OOC team to deny LSU wearing white at home has been Oregon State in 2004.
LSU wore purple to Gainesville in 1972 as well as Jackson to play Miss State in 1978 and Lexington to play Kentucky in 1978,1980 and 1982.
LSU did wear purple in 2015 in Tiger Stadium as the South Carolina was moved to Baton Rouge. LSU smoked South Carolina and made Spurrier quit coaching the next day.
In the spring of 1995 the NCAA relented its white home jersey rule provided the road team agreed. All Tiger Stadium opponents in 1995,which included Florida complied. Vanderbilt did NOT in 1996,but all other opponents did as well as everyone in 1997,including Florida.
LSU did wear gold to Gainesville in 1998 and in 1999 Spurrier and Florida denied LSU wearing white in Baton Rouge. However, then commissioner Roy Kramer stepped in an implemented an immediate rule that when an SEC team plays another SEC team at one of the SEC team's home field,the HOME team determines the who may wear white. LSU did wear white. If anything Kramer called out what a whiny bitch Spurrier could be. Since that episode the only OOC team to deny LSU wearing white at home has been Oregon State in 2004.
LSU wore purple to Gainesville in 1972 as well as Jackson to play Miss State in 1978 and Lexington to play Kentucky in 1978,1980 and 1982.
LSU did wear purple in 2015 in Tiger Stadium as the South Carolina was moved to Baton Rouge. LSU smoked South Carolina and made Spurrier quit coaching the next day.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:45 pm to Lonnie Utah
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We've got rules. Follow them
They are being followed. LSU wore purple at home from 1983-1994 because the rules said they had to. The rules were changed in 1995, and now they follow those rules. It seems to me that you just don't like the rules
I mean first you said follow the rules. Then you realized the rules were bing followed and posted about the tradition of wearing colored jerseys at home. Then, when you realized that that hasn't always been a tradition either, you reverted back to following rules, rules that are being followed. 
Maybe just say you don't like the rules and call it a day
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:51 pm to SM1010
Spurrier was the master troll before trolling was a thing. All these new bloods like Kiffin should take note.
Damn I miss Spurrier as a coach — even though he kicked LSU’s arse while at UF more than I’d like to remember, you just have to love him.
Damn I miss Spurrier as a coach — even though he kicked LSU’s arse while at UF more than I’d like to remember, you just have to love him.
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