New Indiana football helmet
This recent tweet by Land-Grant Holy Land purports to show a new IU football helmet. Could this be real? If so, wow.
As helmets go, those are outrageous. As candycanes go, those look delicious.
you've been paying too much attention to BTN polls
No doubt, look at that avatar; gotta be Ricky "America, love it or leave it!" Stanzi.
I always remember the disaster that was Cam Cameron....
What was he thinking?
will appear again in 15 years with the picture of the new helmets.
I always remember the disaster that was the glitter explosion helmets
What were they thinking?
...but they did come on in the era where EVERYONE was changing their jerseys. Especially in pro sports.
Needs more chrome.
a players lies on the floor in disguest. lol
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/6/3/4392186/new-indiana-football-he…
In the video other players seemed pretty excited. It seems like players always like new uniforms even if they look terrible.
IU clearly wanted to make this a PR event. Whether they're actually excited or not, I would bet that they were instructed to react that way.
Threw-up in my mouth.
Where else would you throw up?
Don't wanna know.
These are obviously special edition helmets to be worn during their much anticipated Prime Time Nationally Televised game, at 9:30pm, on Thursday, at UTEP.
Definitely a made for TV event, right up there with "Who Shot JR" and the MASH finale.
It's a new thing they're trying
candy canes.....
In the increasing world of uniformz armz races, Indiana has leapt into the lead group...for whatever that's worth
If by jumping into the lead group of an arms race, you mean putting forth an effort like so
then yes, I agree. Completely.
For the non airplane dorks:
This is the Iranian Qaher 313: Iran's "stealth" fighter.
Apparently, per weapons engineers, the flight controls displayed are similar to that of old prop planes, the air intakes are too small for the engines, and the designs are ripped off from older, unsuccesful US stealth designs. And there are no pictures of this thing landing and taking off, thus calling into question it's viability as a fighter.
An 'advance' for a rogue country that isn't up to par with the latest (F22) or near-latest (F15E/SE, Eurofighter, F18 Superhornet) and greatest.
appears to be Ayatollah-powered, judging by where the extension cord is leading to.
Good luck cramming your Ayatollah mullah beard into the helmet.
Looks like an ornament from the tree.
All I really have to say to that helmet is "Yikes!", but on a possibly related note, it does raise the possibility of Indiana changing its fight song to something along the lines of this old favorite:
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with chocolate, and a miracle or two
The Hoosier man, oh the Hoosier man can....
Haha... holy mother of pearl. I think that this is the B1G trying to create an artificial rivalry between IU and Maryland, via poor helmet choices.
Put it this way. Indiana is expanding the basketball candy-striped warmup pants to sports other than men's basketball. This is a fun way to do it for football without actually putting the team in candy-striped pants. Which would be dreadful.
I dont hate the helmet, I hate the chrome. If they were white stripes (OMG think of the marketing!!!), then I dont think I would mind one bit.
This is actually a great attempt to recognize a design element (the candy-cane stripes) that is a long-standing tradition, sort of like Northwestern did with their jersey stripes. But silver isn't a school color, and seeing a silver lid over a red uniform makes them look too much like Ohio.
What is the point of making a bunch of different helmets? Fans don't buy helmets.
it's Indiana's last-ditch effort for a middling-B1G team to retain any midwest talent outside of Michigan and OSU. If someone doesn't step up, soon it won't be the Big 2 and the Little 10/12. It'll be the Big 2 and the MAC
You may or may not buy into this conclusion the MGoBoard seems to have adopted, but I'm going to use this point to launch this off: I think we've really overrated the whole "uniforms gets the recruits" meme here. Really the only place that has seen correlation between having better teams and having a ton of alternate uniforms is Oregon. But, as it turns out, that also correlates with gobs of Nike money going to facilities, including a player's lounge with 50 some odd TV's and games to boot among many other things.
The only reason Michigan and Adidas pump out a bunch of alternate uniforms is because people buy these alternate uniforms. I seem to run into more UTL jerseys than standard jerseys at Michigan Stadium ever since that game took place.
I don't think that there are many here that would seriously argue that uniformz really help our recruiting (or anyone elses). Four star guys aren't tripping over themselves to play in blackout uniforms at USF nor do Alabama or USC need to do a thing to get recruits
I think most of us begrudingly tolerate them because players seem to think they're cool
I'm not buying it. Until I actually see one on the field, I am firmly believing that this is just the latest mockup from BHGP. Because seriously, who would come up with something like that and be serious about it?
The OSU camo helmet? Never underestimate the bad taste of the people who design these things.
Two words: Pontiac Aztec
I like it
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Let's summarize:
(1) The football team has no tradition to speak of (sorry, Anthony Thompson).
(2) The basketball team is a blue-blood, Mount Rushmore-caliber program.
(3) One of the basketball team's most conspicuous traditions is their candy-striped warmup pants.
Why not leverage the basketball tradition on the football side? I think the candy-striped chrome helmets are cool, and it's not like they're bastardizing any major football traditions by doing it.
Heck, I'd go further and use the candy-stripe feature more widely, perhaps with UTL-style jerseys. Do something creative like Northwestern did with their jerseys (leveraging the "Northwestern stripe").
Hmm:
Although I must admit that an IU alum already made your pitch a year and half ago:
Although the jersey can only have stripes on the sleeve, I can't find any mention in the NCAA rules book that the players even have to wear pants, let alone what colors or patterns they can or can't be.
Might as well try to do something, anything really, that will get your fan base excited about something other than basketball. Alternate helmets and uni's seem to work pretty well at other campuses, and it excites recruits. Might work at Indiana.
mmmmMMM Christmas time candy cane MMmmm....
the players "loved" the candy-cane chrome striped monstrosity. "Oh my goodness" is not usually a positive reaction. In the video it looked like they were stunned, like "are we being punked?" "Is Aston Kutcher going to pop out now?'
IMO Indiana has jumped into the lead for "stupidest looking helmet in football". I'm sure they won't hold the title for long, as that seems to be a title eveyrone is desperate to hold.
At least they now have a helmet that matches the inepitude of their product on the field.
...about the likelihood of Michigan adopting a chrome helmet version?
David Brandon is on the phone with the chrome-plating factory as we speak. Nobody is going to get ahead of Michigan in this shiny department.
Looking at the helmets they showed in that video the first and last one are horenduous, spelled wrong, and the rest i think look pretty good. The chrome and the one with diffrent logos on each side are so ugly, it doesnt even make sense.
the "candy stripe" is something of an Indiana thing
Time to shake things up, if you ask me.