The idiotic flying M-State white helmets were the worst aspect to me of the Croomiforms. From a distance, on TV, it looked like the Purina logo. Up close, that logo reminded me of a fat guy barely scraping himself through a finish line, much as you'd imagine Croom would look at the end of a 1K run. So they were at least symbolically significant.
I agree with Todd that this guy should view our current maroon helmets relative to those Croom ones. It's a vast improvement.
That said, if our helmets are going to "repurpose" another sport's logo--in this case basketball--I wish they would've just used a larger version of the stacked MS baseball logo, as in the picture below.
I emailed this picture to Byrne after Mullen was hired, and he responded and thanked me. At least they got the color scheme right. The maroon on maroon facemasks are pretty sweet.
The Vandy one is awesome.