GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin had an extended media appearance two weeks ago when he went onto the Sportscene with Steve Russell show on local radio, giving his thoughts on a number of topics brought up by fans.

Among them was a question about whether the Gators might wear alternate uniforms in the near future and how those decisions get made.

Stricklin had an interesting response, essentially noting that he thinks the team has probably strayed too much from tradition when it comes to uniform selection for football games in recent years.

"It's my opinion that we have some of the more iconic-looking traditional uniforms in college football," Stricklin said. "The blue jersey, orange helmet, white pants, that's a pretty clean look. So we want to be careful to not lose that brand identity by constantly changing things up. I think there may have been a time where we maybe fell victim to that."

First-year Florida coach Dan Mullen made it a point to bring back some of that tradition when he arrived in town. He was pointed about wanting to lead the Gators out of the tunnel for his first game in charge with a team donning the traditional blue home jerseys, white pants and orange helmets.

It's hard to argue, really. As much as Mullen has talked about bringing back the Gator standard, bringing back the power of the brand is something that is needed, too.

Most current recruits were barely old enough to remember Mullen's glory days in his tenure as UF's offensive coordinator from 2005-08, when Tim Tebow was running wild and the Gators were winning SEC and national championships. Re-establishing that brand identity is important.

"Going forward we want that to be our primary look, but occasionally we'll tweak things," Stricklin said. "There's a long lead time for that (alternate jersey) kind of stuff. You have to be more than a year out to plan something different from a production standpoint, a new jersey. Helmet doesn't take quite as long, but you want to be thoughtful."

Last year, Florida rolled out some hotly debated alligator skin jerseys. The olive green, scaly look was adored by some and absolutely hated by others.

While the Gators aren't opposed to mixing things up, it'll be a joint conversation in the future if alternates are proposed. Mullen hinted this spring that a black jersey combination would likely be in the works in the future.

"Coach Mullen and the equipment staff and maybe our marketing staff gets together, and I may weigh in a little bit," Stricklin said. "It's kind of a joint effort to have those conversations."

In any case, wearing anything other than the traditional jersey combos isn't going to be a common thing going forward. Stricklin and Mullen want to make sure everyone can readily identify the Gators when they're playing.

"Right now we've got an orange helmet, we've got a white helmet," Stricklin said. "We obviously have three different colored jerseys: blue, orange and white. And we have three different colored pants. We kind of let the equipment staff make suggestions and we go from there."