B10 Basketball Title Hat. Should or should not buy?
Torn between buying the hat and not buying it. I love the fact that Michigan earned a share of the B10 Title this past year but a part of me feels weird buying it because it's not the whole title and Michigan had to rely on Ohio St beating MSU for us to win it. That part of it makes me not want to have any interest in it. The other part is that Michigan has a B10 title in basketball for the first time since 1986. I don't know. I do like the hat just don't like the fact I'd be wearing something that wasn't won outright. This ever happen to anyone else before?
As the old adage goes, they don't put style points on the scoreboard. This also applies to standings. 20 years from now, all people will remember is "Big Ten Co-Champions."
I say buy it.
Seriously though, you can never win any title without depending on some team beating another. Our title is legit homie!
Granted, it was a completely different era/game, but Yost finished in first place ties for the Big Ten in 1901, 1903, 1904, 1918 and 1923, and Kipke tied for first in 1932 and 1933.
Despite a record of 103-0-2 from our eleven MNC years, only Yost's 1902, Crisler's 1947, Oosterbaan's 1948 and Carr's 1997 teams won an outright Big Ten championship.
Obviously these days you're correct, just thought it might be a good place to put this comment, between the OP talking about shared titles and whatnot about our 2011-2012 basketball season.
similar to the 2010 CCHA Championship hat (which I own) that Michigan received?
http://www.mden.com/shopping/product.cgi?TOC1202+1014
http://www.thecchashop.com/2010_CCHA_Champions_Locker_Room_Cap_p/ncaa-07confcap-cc03.htm
Ya, but we lost to Purdue at home. They lost to OSU, a final four team, who they beat two other times this year (one was AT OSU and the other was for the B10 Championship at a neutral site). I'd say those are different.
A lot of people on here seem to foget how we crapped all over MSU fans for celebrating their shared 2010 football title.
We shit on MSU's shared football title because they got to avoid OSU, a team that would have destroyed MSU. This year in basketball we played both co-champions, and split both series with them, with everybody winning on Home Court.
if you're not undefeated in the conference, you almost always have to rely on someone beating someone else to win a championship. thats RCMB reasoning. Buy it :)
You should not buy it. Not because you should feel "ashamed" about Michigan being co-champs, but because its ugly.
/that guy
I wish it was fitted to be honest but the overall style of it just doesn't look good.
I say don't buy it, but I have a bit of a bias. As a rule, I don't buy anything with a year on it. Flash forward 4 years. Is it still cool for you to be wearing a 2011-2012 B1G Champs hat? No, not really.
The Block M is timeless, and your hat will bite the dust before it goes out of style. Guaranteed.
On the other hand, I'm going to be like a kid in a candy store when I hand down my 1989 national champions t-shirts to my son in 10 years. He's either going to be the coolest kid in his class or a huge tool for wearing them . . .
At that point, it's vintage though, right?
I don't think you get the same kind of mileage with a hat.
You're now public enemy #1.
/joking
Till 2038, potentially. You never know. I'm sure in '86 no one was thinking it'd be another 26 years.
But it's silly; the only thing keeping you from getting the Cap is self-loathing. If you wouldn't have gotten any National Championship stuff in '97 because we didn't win the Coach's poll, you need help. It's a hat. And it will hopefully be one of many like it in the near future.
The three teams that shared the title were all 1-1 gainst the other two, so they all needed each others help in the end, the only difference was that Ohio's win at Sparty just happened to be on the last day of the season.
I'm assuming that with Burke back we'll do bigger and better things now. If you want the hat to wear between now and next March/April, go for it.
To me, it seems like buying a 1995 Western Conference Champions hat/t-shirt. Great and all, but pretty much irrelevant when compared to the Stanley Cup gear that they won a few years later.
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I bought the shirt and hat. Hat is great quality.
If anyone says "oh well it was shared". say "does it say Co on the shirt or banner? Does it say it on state's or ohio's? Nobody gives a shit if it's shared, stop being a grubby prick."
I say don't do it. Sure it's awesome that Michigan got a share of the title, but every time a B1G basketball fan see that hat they will bring up the fact that it's shared and its not worth it. Just wait until next year when they win it ourtight.
Buy it!!!....all three teams had 5 conference losses....we BEAT both of the other co champs!
why would their losses not be equal to our losses? WE EARNED IT just like they did...
I bought my B!0 conference champs T-shirt the minute they came out....its been a entire
lifetime since I was able to do it....BUY IT who knows when it will happen again...