Maroon Uni?s for Armed Forces Bowl

[speedy1972]

That gray stripe is so hideous

I agree with you! Gray and white are too much the same color. Either have two white stripes with maroon in the middle or do what BYU does and use three stripes that have a variance in the middle stripe width. Looks cool to me....

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[was21]

Looks great to me

[Jack Lambert]

White or Maroon trousers?

[Maroonthirteen]

Agree, the Flying M would be great identity in football.
Anything but the current Mstate.

A block generic M with an arrow is some how better than a bold M with a State banner?????

I don't get the hate that comes from a lot of State fans regarding the MState logo.

[RocketDawg]

I think we need to show our identity in the bowl games and I like the Maroon for that .... The black uni's and flying M are kinda cool but it's not our identity

The Flying M was our identity for a long time. Would've been good to have it for this game since it's sponsored by Lockheed-Martin.

[RocketDawg]

A block generic M with an arrow is some how better than a bold M with a State banner?????

I don't get the hate that comes from a lot of State fans regarding the MState logo.

I don't hate the MState logo. I wish we'd stick with maroon & white (the gray stripe is OK, as are the silver pants) - but I'll admit the black uniforms we had for our last game looked pretty good (much better than any of our alternate uniforms have looked since we started using them, IMO).

[Dogbone]

White or Maroon trousers?

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

[schddog72]

White or Maroon trousers?

ANYTHING but those horrible sno-cone helmets!!!

[Dogbone]

ANYTHING but those horrible sno-cone helmets!!!

I agree!!!!

[Dawgsfanalongtime77]

The black unis admittedly looked awesome. You can bring those out every blue moon but not something with regularity

[The Federalist Engineer]

That's not on the SEC - most of the smaller conferences have already decided to go conference games only and/or have limited their own OOC schedules.

I'm thinking Sun Belt and CUSA and SWAC. I'm sure the Northern small schools may have difficulties in Southern Swings for a month. Like Sacred Heart from Connecticut or Holy Cross from Massachusetts.

So, I'm talking Memphis, UAB, Alcorn, South Alabama, Jackson State, Southern Miss, Tulane, LA Monroe, etc.

Plus, these games are valuable for the pitching staff. You can afford to ease-in a Freshman that might get tagged a bit. Heck we lost to Texas Southern with KC Hunt getting shelled, but I bet it was valuable to KC Hunt.

Pie in the sky thinking - with huge rosters - you can almost create two bubbles - with bubble switch protocol. The Midweek team and the SEC Weekend Team. To the connoisseurs, those Midweek games would be bad-ass and valuable to the younger kids. They get to play and be the stars. English soccer teams are doing this with their U-23 teams, separate bubbles

[msbulldog]

It?s basically a club sport anyway.... it would be a blessing to 90% of the NCAA schools to drop it.

Yep a club sport we play in a 41 million dollar facility. Flank off.

[msbulldog]

I'm thinking Sun Belt and CUSA and SWAC. I'm sure the Northern small schools may have difficulties in Southern Swings for a month. Like Sacred Heart from Connecticut or Holy Cross from Massachusetts.

So, I'm talking Memphis, UAB, Alcorn, South Alabama, Jackson State, Southern Miss, Tulane, LA Monroe, etc.

Plus, these games are valuable for the pitching staff. You can afford to ease-in a Freshman that might get tagged a bit. Heck we lost to Texas Southern with KC Hunt getting shelled, but I bet it was valuable to KC Hunt.

Pie in the sky thinking - with huge rosters - you can almost create two bubbles - with bubble switch protocol. The Midweek team and the SEC Weekend Team. To the connoisseurs, those Midweek games would be bad-ass and valuable to the younger kids. They get to play and be the stars. English soccer teams are doing this with their U-23 teams, separate bubbles

We did that with our shop crew, made 2 crews working alternate weeks with no interaction. We did this for first 6 weeks of this crisis.

[Santiago]

A block generic M with an arrow is some how better than a bold M with a State banner?????

I don't get the hate that comes from a lot of State fans regarding the MState logo.

For me at least, the fact that we literally copied the graphic from Marshall ( I heard we even asked their SID for information on the graphic) and made the Mstate logo is a big reason to hate it. Then the university forcing the copied logo onto everything. Just a sign of laziness to copy from another school and then mass market it as your own. Every time I see the Mstate it reminds me of a reflection of laziness and lack of creativity at the time. Thank goodness Polk or whoever on the baseball side of things balked at allowing it on the baseball uniforms, even though there was a season or so where the university tried it.

The Flying M at least derived from the academic side of the university and has history and meaning. Allows the conversation of the logo to involve MSU academics and involvement in the space program.

The Flying M is unique as a logo, whereas the Mstate is a graphic type seen by a few other schools also. Iowa State, Marshall come to mind quickly.

[Santiago]

I don't hate the MState logo. I wish we'd stick with maroon & white (the gray stripe is OK, as are the silver pants) - but I'll admit the black uniforms we had for our last game looked pretty good (much better than any of our alternate uniforms have looked since we started using them, IMO).

The uniform of the Flying M, not even the helmet, looked good. Clean and simple. Seeing the All American and All SEC announcements of players and snapshots of them playing in that uniform look good.

[BrunswickDawg]

For me at least, the fact that we literally copied the graphic from Marshall ( I heard we even asked their SID for information on the graphic) and made the Mstate logo is a big reason to hate it. Then the university forcing the copied logo onto everything. Just a sign of laziness to copy from another school and then mass market it as your own. Every time I see the Mstate it reminds me of a reflection of laziness and lack of creativity at the time. Thank goodness Polk or whoever on the baseball side of things balked at allowing it on the baseball uniforms, even though there was a season or so where the university tried it.

The Flying M at least derived from the academic side of the university and has history and meaning. Allows the conversation of the logo to involve MSU academics and involvement in the space program.

The Flying M is unique as a logo, whereas the Mstate is a graphic type seen by a few other schools also. Iowa State, Marshall come to mind quickly.

No offense, but we started using the MState in basketball at least as early as '96, and started putting on the 50 yard line in 1997. Marshall didn't adopt a logo with the M and a bar with "The Herd" on it until 2001.

[Santiago]

No offense, but we started using the MState in basketball at least as early as '96, and started putting on the 50 yard line in 1997. Marshall didn't adopt a logo with the M and a bar with "The Herd" on it until 2001.

Marshall Track, not the Thundering Herd .
The idea came from it.
But it does lead into a good question of how did several universities start using the same clip art type graphic. Not that I researched all of them, but odd that others also have it as well.
It just is not very unique.
The last Saturday of games, Iowa State with their Banner Istate and black uniforms looked similar to our black uniforms being worn on same day. Just a couple of state schools wearing black and with the same Banner State over their letter.
That is my soap box I guess for logos, ha, so I appreciate the conversation about it actually.
Flying M seem to me more unique.

[Hambone]

[State82]

Yep a club sport we play in a 41 million dollar facility. Flank off.

Actually $68 million but I fully agree.

[msbulldog]

Actually $68 million but I fully agree.

My bad, coming off the top of my head (mistake), maybe that was the original figure???