Maryland Terrapins Who?

You see that picture above? Yeah, that's the same uniform, crazy..I know.  Maryland is following the path Oregon has laid for them.  Last Monday against the Miami Hurricanes, the Maryland Terrapins debuted some of the most hideous football uniforms in the history of mankind.  Twitter blew up, and Maryland's Facebook page ignited!  The social media networks were hit like rocket fire, and every news site from fashion to football were talking about the uniforms.

Maryland showed up to game day warm ups in a pretty standard uniform and a colorful helmet.  Then they went back to the locker room, put on their NEW jerseys, and came out of the tunnel lighting the entertainment world on fire.

Maryland's Coach, Randy Edsall said, "We were on a smaller scale in the football world, and we wanted to bring our name into the discussion.  I think these uniforms did just that."

He went on to say how the uniforms helped his players play better, because of Under Armor's light weight material and breath-ability.   The school said its jerseys were to help recruit students.  The college even had a player fashion show, with a run way and everything.  The school confessed it has 32 different uniforms made by Under Armor.

Coach Edsall said, "I had a kid come up to me this morning, and said how great the uniforms were.  People are starting to get excited."

 He also noted that these jerseys are made to hit a certain demographic, and those are exactly the kids the schools trying to bring in.  Despite the inadvertent racism, he's making a good point.

I wrote an article on Oregon's uniforms last week, and how despite their loss to LSU, they more than likely recruited more kids with that game.  Since they shook hands with Nike in 96, their football program has improved by leaps and bounds.  Now Maryland's program will do the same thing, and it won't take that long either.  Oregon's been using uniforms to recruit for over a decade, they just aren't nearly as public about it.  I think the fact that Maryland's embracing it, and saying of course we did it to recruit more students, is going to help their national attention.  Eventually Maryland will sign their own deal, with Under Armor, and these jerseys will hit the market.  For now, they aren't for sale, but the school will be auctioning some off later this year for charity.

Whether you hate them or love them, those jerseys did exactly what Maryland set them out to do.

                                     It's almost as if he's giving a tribute to Oregon with the O.

Twitter Quotes:

-The two worst things to happen to University of Maryland were John Wilkes Booth, and those new uniforms.

-For the uniforms alone, Maryland should be charged with lack of institutional control.