Something to think about!!! (Staff - about team dress)

[SirCrimson]

I tell u something that bothers me. I went to the Alabama vs So Miss game. As i watched the So Miss players walk off the bus i saw them dressed in tshirts and shorts and sweatpants for crying out loud and wearing amfm radios and mp3s players. I watched the Mike Shula Show yesterday i think it was and i saw Brodie and Demeco Ryans dressed in tshirts blue jeans and tennis shoes.

Now listen folks im not trying to start a holy war here but, I remember Coach Bryant having his players dressed in coats and ties and dress slacks and at every game they would make a leisurely walk around the field before it started. Then Coach Bryant would always come out last and lean up against the goalpost and smoke a Chesterfield. Then when he got over in front of the student section he'd tip his hat to the students and it was just like seeing God. Then the roof came off the place. Im not trying to get off the subject here what im talking about is the way we are dressed and how we present ourselves in the public eye.

These young men that represent UA football every saturday not only represent The University of Alabama but they represent their parents and the community from which they live and the state of Alabama on and off the field.

The University of Alabama is the premier football program of the south i just think its high time we started dressing our young men in a more professional manner. Joe Paterno at Penn State dress's his young men in this manner and so does ND. Im not comparing ourselves to anyone im just giving two examples.

Im old school folks i cant help it. Flame me if you wish. This has been on my mind along time glad to get it off my chest.

 

[NYBamaFan]

I tell u something that bothers me. I went to the Alabama vs So Miss game. As i watched the So Miss players walk off the bus i saw them dressed in tshirts and shorts and sweatpants for crying out loud and wearing amfm radios and mp3s players. I watched the Mike Shula Show yesterday i think it was and i saw Brodie and Demeco Ryans dressed in tshirts blue jeans and tennis shoes.

Hard to get on USM, considering their circumstances leading up to the game...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I'm advanced enough...

in age that I was at UA when CPB returned, and yes I remember the blazers. However, the world has changed big time. Although I'm a lawyer in my sixties, I no longer wear a tie except on rare occasions. When I look out from the choir loft on Sunday AM's, I see 3-4 ties out of several hundred. Maybe you think it would be a big selling point to tell a kid that he'll have to wear a tie to games. I don't think so. Cripes, even the coaches don't wear ties.

 

[bamakeith]

Maybe I am making this up but...

if I remember correctly, DuBose made the guys dress up in suits. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[SirCrimson]

if I remember correctly, DuBose made the guys dress up in suits. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong.

IF he didnt he should have.

 

[RollTideNAlbertville]

TideHSV I never knew you was a lawyer, congrats, thats something to be proud of. As for the suits, does not bother me one bit if they wear jeans and a tee shirt, as long as they are good kids, and they are!

Roll Tide

 

[TrustMeIKnow.]

As long as we play like we did Saturday, who cares what we wear!

 

[blackumbrella]

Cripes, even the coaches don't wear ties.

exactly. i can't even think of one head coach who still wears a suit. stallings was the last one i remember. bill bellicek wears a hoody. even the classiest coach in the nfl, joe gibbs, just wears a polo. as you say, it's just a sea change in the culture. people wear shorts and t-shirts to broadway too.

 

[CrimsonMask]

I thought......

the Polo's they were wearing looked nice. As a matter of fact....I want one.

 

[i4bama2]

I was at the Alabama-South Carolina game early enough to see the team get to the stadium and walk around the field before going into the locker room. And do you know what they were wearing? SUITS!!!

 

[RedStar]

Things change, remember the Beatles and Elvis? Man people thought they were the antichrist when they first appeared on the scene. Now look at them, they seem as tame as a housecat!

SirCrimson, when was the last time you payed 15 cents for a soft drink?
In my lifetime I can't remember them ever being cheaper than 65 cents, and now they're 1.19!

There are so many other things worth worrying about in the world than whether these guys are wearing suits or not. Sometimes I think people say stuff just to start an argument.

BTW SirCrimson, I bet you don't stand at games do you?

 

[XXL TideFan]

I can remember getting warm Double Colas, RC, Coke, etc for as little as 7 cents when I was a kid. No jokes about age!

Earle may force me to rethink my opinion of lawyers.

 

[Bama323]

If this is all we have to complain about right now, I guess that's a good thing.

 

[IH8Orange]

Let's see...

<Thinking about it... Thinking about it... Thinking about it...>

No.

 

[rizolltizide]

BTW SirCrimson, I bet you don't stand at games do you?

:eek2: Ouch. :eek2:

 

[TommyMac]

I'm an old fart too and I'll admit that I liked the old ways better, but society has moved too far past those ways to ever turn back the clock. Heck, y'all mentionted the rising prices of soft drinks....How about the cost of WATER? Or even worse, AIR for the tires of your vehicles?

I'm pretty much OK with kids dressing more casually these days, but I'll never accept that thug regalia with more underwear showing than is covered up.

 

[TheCapstone]

Concerning Coach Bryant

I guess I'm what the younger Bama fans call an old fart. I'm one of the world's worst about remembering the tactics of Coach Bryant but I have tempered those thoughts out loud because some on here have reminded us old timers that Coach Bryant's era is in the past and we are in the here and now. I perfer to allow our current coach set policy about behavior and dress myself and I don't get caught up in things like the dress code before the game. I do appreciate that since Mike took over that we no longer are hearing much about problems with off the field behavior and for the most part our guys are pretty darn classy during the games, although they are very dangerous with their aggressive playing style, which I love. I have noticed that other teams are sort of looking around anticipating getting their clocks cleaned before the game has progressed too far because this group we have now will knock your socks off and that my friends is how Alabama should play football. I love the way these guys play football and I will say that the guy who used to prowl the sidelines in the hounds tooth hat would have a few expressions of "bingo" and "that's a goodie" to say about them on Sunday afternoons during playbacks of the game. Sorry about that, there I go remembering the man again.

 

[dayhiker]

Why does every trivial issue in the programs come down to WWBD?

 

[TerryP]

WWCB do? LOL.

Ironically, Brodie would have to cut his hair in the early days of The Coach.

I hate to bring church into this, but my first thought was recalling what happened over a decade ago when the prevailing thought was, "It isn't what's on the outside, but what's on the inside."

 

[dayhiker]

Yesterday I was listening to JOX and some caller was literally shouting at Dunaway. He kept on and on about the Prothro injury and how CPB wouldn't have had him in there, yada, yada, yada. I couldn't help but wonder why everything is a WWBD issue. Granted, the Pro issue is far from trivial, but it just never ends.