Woody1968;2247916; said:
That is more than either Minnesota, Illinois or Wisconsin, and one less bowl than Iowa. It's also more than Stanford. I would say that all of those teams can be considered to have some bit of tradition, depending on how one defines the term.
Granted, most of Oregon's success was post 1990, but they were in the Rose Bowl a mere 4 years before they started going crazy with the uniform changes.
I understand what you are saying. I'm sure Oregon thinks they have a long and storied football tradition. Considering they played a bowl game in 1917 it's hard to argue that they don't. However, once NIKE came to town things certainly changed in Eugene. I'm sure some people knew who they were nationally. They might have even had some kids East of the Mississippi that wanted to go there before NIKE adopted them.
What I don't understand is how someone considers NEW uniforms every other game(it seems) to go against Oregon tradition, let alone blames NIKE for it. If you told me a kid from Cincinnati would rather go to Oregon than tOSU back in the 80's or even the 90's I would have kindly said GTFO. Same if you told be their Duck would appear in more commercials than Brutus. Whatever they are doing seems to be working though.
Conference titles 10 (1919, 1933, 1948, 1957, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Say what you want about their uniforms. Call them ugly, horrendous or any other adjective you can think of. IMHO Nike and Oregon are building traditions. It would also seem to me that they are doing a pretty good job of including winning in doing it.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade our guys lids for anything I've ever seen Oregon wear, or anyone else for that matter. That's just a matter of personal taste I guess. If however we should wear something NEW once a season to stay with the times..I'm all for it. As long as Adidas doesn't make it that is.
