Our natural exposure is far less than many other teams. We are trying to market our university to prospective students, recruits, and anyone else who will listen. If a random person in Montana tunes in to a football game and sees one logo on our helmets, happens to surf over to the university website and sees another, and sees a sticker on someone else's car with yet another, to him it's three different schools. If he sees the same logo all three times, he might start to connect the dots of who Mississippi State is and what it's all about.
That is a stupid example, but it is valid. If we have a limited number of chances to put "Mississippi State" in front of the world, doesn't it make sense to put it in front of the world in the same way every time? M-State is not perfect, but it's ours. It's more identifiable than MSU. For 12 years now, the M with the "STATE" banner has increasingly been a part of what represents our university to the outside world. We have invested significantly in M-State. Why would we throw that away?
As I have pointed out before, interlocking MSU looks pretty good on one side of the helmet, but it looks stupid on the other side. All of the renderings that y'all are doing are only showing one side.
M-State is symmetrical and looks the same on each side of the helmet. The maroon outlined M-State on maroon helmets gets a B+ in my book, and that's good enough for me, especially considering the need to maintain continuity in our university's marketing.
Drop it, please. For the love of God, drop it.</p>
