The way I have always thought of the Blackshirt tradition is that you put out a body of work as a player. That body of work leads you to be the top player at your position. And, as a result, you get a Blackshirt. Some times there might be a tie atop a depth chart at say... Mike LB. Then you might award two for that position. Once you had top players at their positions, the only way they lose a blackshirt is if the guy beneeth them on the depth chart beats them out. In this way of thinking, even if we lose and play poorly, the top players at each position remain blackshirts and are not stripped of the title because of that performance. I just think it creates way to much drama to have the shirts getting pulled. When Banker said... you have to play to a standard, it opens up the idea of pulling the shirts after a bad performance.
I don't like that aspect of it at all.