FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[NCF]

Since MIAA discussions sometimes roam far-and-wide ... on the Puke Meter, the recently unvieled Notre Dame new football helmet models have scored an 11+!

As a ND fan I am pretty put off by it.  I understand that in a competitive recruiting market there is a lot stacked against ND.  Academic standards, location, tradition of uniforms and other things (when how an athlete looks on the field is so important).  But if all these things really do stack up against a team and how they recruit then how is OSU (and it pains me to say this) able to sustain it year in and year out?! 

Going to be dissapointed not to see the golden domes out on the field on saturdays.

I disagree with all of you.  I LOVE those helmets.  My second favorite all time, only short of the Maryland State flag ones last year.

I always thought that was the worst of all time-but to each their own.

Can you imagine tradition-rich programs such as USC, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Ohio State, Penn State (gulp), and Oklahoma (and others) going for the glitzy helmet look.  I don't think so.

DBQ1965,

I am with you! +k. Although IMHO, the new ND helmet is over the top. I always thought Penn State's was too plain. Maybe that will change with a new coach!

Hope you are doing well! What is the outlook for your team this fall?

You might get your wish with Penn State.

[formerd3db]

Raider68 and cave2:
Hope you guys are doing well.  Hard to believe summer is essentially gone.

sflzman:
If you did mention it, I must have missed it.  Quite surprising that John Lewis would leave, not only right before camp, yet also giving up a full-time job.  His having been there for the past several years and in a full-time position, I know he was not being paid peanuts.  He must have had (at least I hope so) another good paying job lined up (whether in coaching or not) or, if not, he'd better have had some $ in reserve to survive for awhile (he has a wife and a young child as you know).  Regardless, that is too bad about his leaving, IMO, and if he was being changed to a position coach (i.e. WR coach), I hope that Psconda discussed that in detail with him regarding his role long before camp (if he didn't, that is Coach P's "bad").  Not that Lewis would not be a good position coach because he was Running Backs coach for several years, although we all know that is essentially the entry level position for new young coaches and Lewis was well beyond that.  At the same time, I also can't imagine that Lewis just all of a sudden decided that he didn't want to do that role - there must have been something else underlying the situation.  I realize that you can't discuss that here for obvious reasons, however, as you know, I can find out (if I want to)!

[Ralph Turner]

But everyone knows what the Penn State helmet looks like!

Alabama is just as plain!

[Raider 68]

formerd3db,

You are now in even more elite company! Congrats on achieving +1000K!

[formerd3db]

Raider68:

Hey, thanks my friend!  Although that probably just means that I have been here alot longer than some of our colleagues!  BTW, I forgot/missed congratulating you on reaching your own milestone of 700+k, so my apologies.  That, too, is a great accomplishment -well done, sir!

Talk to you later.

[NCF]

Raider68:

Hey, thanks my friend!  Although that probably just means that I have been here alot longer than some of our colleagues!  BTW, I forgot/missed congratulating you on reaching your own milestone of 700+k, so my apologies.  That, too, is a great accomplishment -well done, sir!

Talk to you later.

Congrats to both of you!

[formerd3db]

Raider68:

Hey, thanks my friend!  Although that probably just means that I have been here alot longer than some of our colleagues!  BTW, I forgot/missed congratulating you on reaching your own milestone of 700+k, so my apologies.  That, too, is a great accomplishment -well done, sir!

Talk to you later.

Congrats to both of you!

Thanks! You are making the climb yourself.  Keep up the good work/good discussion/commentary and thanks for contributing over here on our board as well.  Best wishes to your son for this season as well as yourself in yours.  Keep us posted.

[sflzman]

But everyone knows what the Penn State helmet looks like!

Alabama is just as plain!

Alabama is a classic! As with Michigan I hope those two never change!

[NCF]

But everyone knows what the Penn State helmet looks like!

Alabama is just as plain!

Alabama is a classic! As with Michigan I hope those two never change!

I don't see those two teams messing with tradition anytime soon.

[Raider 68]

As the fall season begins with all the MIAA teams, Just about all the schools now have updgraded
facilities, so here is a question:

If I am attending an MIAA game this fall, which School should I attend based upon the following
criteria:

1. Best overall competitiveness
2. Beat overall facilities
3. Best fan support
4. Best football atmosphere

[sac]

But everyone knows what the Penn State helmet looks like!

Alabama is just as plain!

Alabama is a classic! As with Michigan I hope those two never change!

Yeah Michigan would never get caught up in that marketing stuff.....






This is their road jersey for this year, which isn't half bad actually other than having hardly any historical relevance and 3 different shades of maize(none of them actually being maize)



I'm willing to bet money there is a home version of those that will be trotted out the day Michigan State comes to Ann Arbor with their away version of their Baylor uniforms they wore last year.





Nebraska and Wisconsin will be fighting the alphabet war this year
  Wittenberg?  Wabash?



wonder where they got that idea?

[sflzman]

Raider 68: Alma or Albion!!!!

[AndOne]

But everyone knows what the Penn State helmet looks like!

Alabama is just as plain!

Alabama is a classic! As with Michigan I hope those two never change!

Yeah Michigan would never get caught up in that marketing stuff.....






This is their road jersey for this year, which isn't half bad actually other than having hardly any historical relevance and 3 different shades of maize(none of them actually being maize)



I'm willing to bet money there is a home version of those that will be trotted out the day Michigan State comes to Ann Arbor with their away version of their Baylor uniforms they wore last year.





Nebraska and Wisconsin will be fighting the alphabet war this year
  Wittenberg?  Wabash?



wonder where they got that idea?

Nebraska replacing numbers on the front of the jersey with a giant N emphasizing, once again, that at good 'ol Nebraska U, nowlege is king!                  

[formerd3db]

sac:
Actually, there is some "semi"-historical relevance to those jerseys.  Michigan's 1901 and 1902 teams had some jerseys with top shoulder pad coverage of a different shade than the body, although, admittedly, they actually had a combination of such (which, of course, was allowed back then), including the canvas vests and the block "M" turtle neck (ref: Univ. of Michigan Football Scrapbook, Cohen, Deutsch and NEft, BOBBS-MERRILL, Indianapolis/New York, 1978, pp. 22, 26).

Also, the special striped sleeve jerseys that they wore last year that you show in the other phots (again, along with the block "M" jersey they unveiled last year) for special games, have historical relevance.  The Michigan teams of 1884, 1889 and 1891 wore striped sleeves (although had some on the body portion of the jersey as well), while the 1897 team had the block "M" jerseys (U of Mich Football Scrapbook, Ibid, pp. 11-13 and 17).

Again, while not exact, these do have some "semi" historical relevance/basis.

Nonetheless, I do not like the new road jersey this year.  I like the striped sleeve one better. And, of course, the helmet is my favorite and always will be.  As you and others have said, think the chance of Michigan ever changing or doing away with that is like a "snowball's chance in H***! - they had better not ever, ever do that! 

Anyway, as always, thanks for sharing with us this info - you always have some great contributions here!

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