Yuck. By all means let's resurrect the symbol of the darkest decades of Ohio football.

What a waste of money to paint those helmets with the most generic of all logos.  Except for the colors, it looks like the Trimbile High School helmet and about 1,000 other high schools in the country.  Well, at least Alan Swank will be happy.  Me not so much.  

I've been through enough homecoming let downs in Peden Stadium, I'll just take a W and move on. I don't care by how much. I view football games as an Ohio fan much the way people talk about NCAA basketball tourney games: survive and advance.

I had this comment last year. The paw corresponds almost exactly to the era between Hess and Grobe. Other sports had some success with it. Football? Not so much. But, I'm the rational sort. I'm not superstitious at all. I'm not worried about anything like that. I actually wondered if this is why they had never used it as a throwback until last year. More likely, those of us that went to Ohio in the 80's and early 90's didn't count as much part of the old fart crowd that they were trying to appeal to with homecoming throwbacks until recently.

I think that they are just the normal green helmets with a different decal. At least that's my guess. Still some effort from the equipment staff but I doubt that the cost is staggering.

I was in school when we switched from the paw to the attack cat and as with any change some people complained. Some of my professors said that when they came to Athens from some other school one of their first thoughts was how generic and unintimidating the logo was. My guess is that a lot of people outside OU saw it that way. One Toledo fan made this reply to that homecoming helmet post on twitter.

https://twitter.com/DanSavage_live/status/170921590623506...

You realize that is not paint right? They make these things called decals, it's really cool, it's got sticky stuff on the back and you can just apply them.

Well, somebody has to make those decals, right? And, they aren't free, right? Any money spent on these helmets is too much in my book, unless Alan Swank paid for it out of his own pocket.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The cost of 200 paw decals was probably literally less than $1000. I don't know the details but they probably need to replace a dozen or two decals every week anyway. If it sells a dozen more tickets and tee-shirts and sweaters than they otherwise would have then they are probably at least breaking even on that. Relative to the cost of the rest of the player equipment and the upkeep of the football facilities this is almost negligible.

Decals more like $2 a pair, so they have less than 500 in this endeavor for homecoming and something many alumni actually like.

 

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Ouch! When they do this it usually means the player is out for the year. Harris was removed for the BG notes. I haven't heard if that is the case with Williams.

This makes it more important to have a big day rushing. Would really like to see a couple hundred yds from the running game.

I think you are being way too conservative. That's my prediction for halftime!