Let me guess, you have little understanding of how sports marketing works, and WHY teams tend to stick with a look once it becomes iconic. Guess what, the Raiders aren't going to move away from the silver and black, just because they moved to Vegas. When you have a distinctive look, you stay with it. Miami, up until the "Retro" template bounced from look to look, mostly because the program itself didn't have an identity. Once Miami hit on a look that was recognizable as uniquely Miami, the school tried to stick with it. That is until Nike started trying to make Miami their laboratory for crap.
When you see that so called retro template run out of the smoke, you know that's MIAMI. It can be no one else. When Miami ran out of the tunnel in those other looks, you could debate whether it was Miami, FAMU or anyone else. With the retro template, you know it's Miami, like you know blue pinstripes on a baseball uniform, it's the Yankees. Silver helmets with a navy blue star is the Cowboys. That's why that retro template resonates with people, it's something that no one can really fully copy, it's like the smoke, it's a Miami phenomenon. There's a reason why people flip out when the mere mention of changing the helmet comes up. It's a look that screams Miami football. That's the point of a uniform, you want to be recognizable. Oregon suffers from that, because their identity is that they don't have one. They are the "Trendy school that you never know what the **** they are going to wear", and that's not something that screams "Built to last".
