OT: Uniformz! (Row the Boat Edition)

Sink the boat.

If you ignore the oar (and that rhymes and oh man how do I use that to be understatedly ironic) the maroon and white unis look pretty conventional. The numbering is white now, instead of gold, but overall not a huge deal. The oars, of course, are silly, and while I suppose the chrome-plated helmet will be cool, as others have stated it doesn't match the gold they use on their uniforms. 

The "anthracite" look was a bad idea when they debuted it against us in 2015 and it's a bad idea now. It has never stopped striking me as dumb that teams with a perfectly good three-color palette would make black or dark grey a primary uniform color. I can understand it for schools that have one primary color and white (Duke, MSU, Stanford, Texas, Northwestern, etc). I don't always like the uniforms they produce, but an accent color can be good and some of the black options (mid-90s northwestern, mid-00s Duke) are actually really good.

But Minnesota has gold as an available third color and would look much better using it. The same goes for other schools (looking at you, Washington and YTM Miami and Florida and UCLA) that do the same thing. Idiocy.

I suspect 60% of Minnesota's uniform combinations will be fine. Ignore the Oar.

100 possible combinations?  Who cares?  They're not '05 Oregon.

on the helmet, I think for the most part they look pretty sharp.

What's Minnesota gonna do when Fleck leaves for another program and takes his "Row the boat" campaign with him? Will they have to change the uniforms back?

but this specific uniform is a crime against humanity.

I was really hoping they were going for a gopher-shark hybrid animal for night games.

who runs a satirical Minnesota Facebook fan page, I think they look absolutely spectacular.