@riflearm2 yore the only one who's coached college football. Why do coaches wear sweater vests, long sleeves, etc, in 90° heat? Just trying to look professional?
A lot of it depends on the head coach. Sometimes, the head coach wants all coaches in the same exact thing: either a short sleeve polo shirt or a pullover. Other staffs I have been on have absolutely no rule - the head coach just wants his staff to be comfortable. Some guys would be in a team t-shirt, others would be in hoodies, others would be in polos.
If it is really hot out, I prefer a long sleeve t-shirt. Why long sleeve? First, my enormously large, extremely attractive and muscular arms are hard to hide in short sleeves. The attraction is on the field, not in my shirt and pants, so I try not to take away from what the main entertainment is supposed to be. Also, if it's really hot, that means I am going to sweat. Long sleeves actually keep me cooler by not having the sun directly on my body, and if I am sweating, the sleeves soak it up and hide it.
I have noticed that coaches who were raised in the south tend to wear sleeves more often even when it is hot out. I think they probably do it for the same reasons that I do.
My biggest pet peeve of coaching attire is dress pants/slacks and sneakers. It's an awful look. Who the fvck came up with it, and why would every staff continue it? Khakis, a polo or pullover, and then sneakers? That's absolutely awful. Dress pants/khakis/slacks should never, under any circumstance, be paired with normal sneakers (Nikes, etc. that coaches wear). And I have been forced into that look at times. For recruiting purposes alone, let alone helping to get you laid, coaches should dress better.
Here is a pictorial of some of my coaching attire for your viewing pleasure:
Khakis, polo, and sneakers. Awful. But short sleeves, so it was probably only in the 70s on this day. I probably didn't mind showing off my physique, because I was trying to hide my play of my QB. It was my first game with him, so I didn't have much time to work with him yet, so he wasn't a finished product. He ended up having a career season that year before signing with the Denver Broncos:
But yet here I am with appropriate weather gear on a chilly and rainy day. The look is consistent in color and attire - not dress pants with sneakers:
This was clearly another warm but not hot day. The look is consistent and clean but not obnoxious. The sunglasses are sporty but not those hideous wraparound or reflective glasses that some coaches wear. Even though the ref is in the foreground my physique is still dominating his. This was also my first year at Cookman, so I also didn't have much time to work with my QBs, so I wanted to take some of the focus off of them and put it on me, since the chocolate sisters in the crowd appreciated a sexy cracker:
Now, this was a rainy day against the eventual national champion Florida State Seminoles. Again, I wanted some of the focus off of the QBs since it was year 1 and to put some of it on me:
And here I am wearing short sleeves again while leading a chant of "John Holliday must resign." The guy to my left in the long sleeves is a Florida guy. It fits my theory that the guys from the south tend to dress for colder weather than it really is. He went on to become the RB coach at South Florida and Notre Dame and is now an FCS head coach. The guy to his left is the receivers coach at FAU:
I went with the white sleeves look here to match the white jerseys of the team. This was year two at Cookman, so I had time to work and improve the QBs, so I didn't have to showoff my arms to distract fans from the product on the field. This was after winning the conference again. The QB closest to me went on to be the conference player of the year and play in the CFL, the QB in the middle was my starting QB the next year and went on to play in the CFL, and the QB on the far right of the picture is now on staff with the Dallas Cowboys:
And here is a year 1 pic, shown by me having to wear short sleeves to get the crowd focused on my incredible physique instead of the product on the field. These were our Malcolm X jerseys, so I opted to go with the murdered-out, all-black attire. This was also the game where we clinched the conference championship:
