Today, we debut our 4th BFBS uniform (we have one more in the vault before turning our attention to other color schemes) and 16th overall design this year. In our previous black concepts we tried Irish flag colors as well as a pair of schemes using green and gold.

This one attempts to mix black with Notre Dame’s traditional blue and gold.

I mentioned this in the very first BFBS post that it’s tricky using navy blue on black. The basketball team found out the hard way several years ago with THESE UNIFORMS which rendered everything on the uniform virtually blank even in most up-close camera TV shots.

Therefore, with this concept today we severely cranked up the brightness on the blue. Even when bordered with gold and white it’s still difficult to see the blue.

With this scheme there wasn’t much point in doing anything too crazy, unless you want to splash a lot more blue, gold, or white around to take away from the black. Down the road perhaps we’ll look into a design with black as a secondary trim color and see what comes from it.

Here’s all four black uniforms so far: