Today marks the 13th Notre Dame uniform concept we’ve created this off-season. When coming up with ideas we’ll sometimes look across many different sports or simply try to create something as original as possible. Other times, we’ll take a glance at the other Irish sports to see if there’s something that catches our eye.

Some of you may pay attention to the fact that most Notre Dame athletic teams stay in a pretty traditional look with their uniforms. Hardly surprising, I know. This is not the case for the baseball, and especially, softball teams though. A quick search has the Irish softball team sporting 6 different jerseys this year alone. Plus, when you look back to the late Adidas era until today there have been a ton of really bold and different uniforms worn by the women.

The softball team occasionally wears a blue dominant set that inspired today’s football concept:

The green inside gold on top of blue color scheme is pretty interesting.

It’s very much a modern creation for the university that’s come on strong over the last 10 years (even more so for the blue inside gold on top of green color scheme) but really in a wider capacity in uniforms and apparel over the last 5 years. When I was a kid in the 80’s you would see plenty of blue-yellow-green color schemes (these concept schemes are coming from us in the future, don’t worry) but the colors were typically separate from each other and in that era gold wasn’t as prevalent.

Notre Dame has done a good job making today’s concept color scheme look normal for some sports. I can remember when they first started working with the green/gold on top of the blue and how jarring it was at first. Now, it feels normal.

One change we made from the softball was blue socks. Even though the leotard effect is real we fell back on the traditional pant and sock stripes to add some relief, plus the green stirrups/white sanitaries don’t work as well transitioning to a football uniform.

UNIFORM CONCEPT ARCHIVE CLICK HERE