Georgia coach Mark Richt made a promise to his players before playing Boise State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game Sept. 3. If they made it back to the Georgia Dome as SEC East champions, he told them, they could wear their Nike Pro Combat uniforms in the SEC Championship game. Thankfully, he said Wednesday, the Bulldogs did not hold him to his promise. “A couple of them actually said, ‘don’t do it, Coach,” Richt said with a grin.
Georgia hasn’t performed well in recent years when it deviated from its traditional uniform of red helmets, red jerseys and silver pants. They lost to No. 5 Boise State 35-21 while wearing the all-red Pro Combat uniforms. They lost 41-17 wearing black helmets against Florida in 2009. They lost 41-30 wearing black jerseys against Alabama in 2008.
LSU is the home team in the SEC title game, but chose to wear its traditional home white jerseys. That allowed Georgia to don its home red. Richt did say one player asked about the possibility of wearing the black jerseys. But he quickly dismissed the notion.
“They think you can snap your finger and get a bunch of brand new jerseys,” Richt said. “That has to be planned out.”
by C. Towers
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