define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); court designs – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Fri, 31 May 2013 19:24:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Get Used To Souped-Up Court Designs http://rushthecourt.net/2013/05/31/get-used-to-souped-up-court-designs/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/05/31/get-used-to-souped-up-court-designs/#respond Fri, 31 May 2013 19:31:14 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=97385

College sports programs like to distinguish themselves in readily identifiable and often objectively hideous ways. Wacky uniforms are a micro-mechanism for audacious school-specific branding, and if we’re going to talk crazy uniforms….naturally, we’re going to talk Oregon, whose revolving door of Nike-conceived threads are as much a part of Ducks’ sports culture as athletic competition itself. OU expanded its reach into the aesthetic wilderness with its foliage-themed “Tall Firs” basketball court, which was unleashed to mixed (but mostly negative) appraisals from non-Oregon partisans nationwide. Innovative Nike architect Tinker Hatfield’s plan was ambitious, to apply the most minimal interpretation, and the real [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/05/31/get-used-to-souped-up-court-designs/feed/ 0