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A couple of quick questions please:

1) I would like to buy the baseball cap that Coach Jones wore to his hiring press conference. Does anyone know where I can buy that? Does anyone know if the coaches will be wearing an "assigned" cap on the sidelines next fall as part of the coaches' uniform?

2) Who is SMU's sponsor for jerseys and athletic gear? Is it Adidas or am I wrong?

Thanks very much.
GO PONIES!

SMU is now an adidas school - that hat was a Nike hat that was left over from this past season, and therefore won't be sold again.

However, there is a dazzling array of hats here:
http://www.ponyfans.com/catalog/

Be sure and buy products that have the right Mustang - the one that's on the football helmet.

The pony with the exaggerated curl in the tail and larger hindquarters is not the real thing, but somehow it has creeped into our products and logos.

But at least it's better than the Kick'Em Stangs! logo or, even worse, the cartoon horse flexing his bicep.

I kinda liked the kick 'em stangs logo on the LIDS hats.

Longtime wrote:the cartoon horse flexing his bicep.

Nothing wrong with this logo in the proper context.

OK, I'll agree that "Kick'em Stangs" is acceptable as an alternate logo.

It's just that "Kick'em Stangs" has never been, to my knowledge, a phrase traditionally associated with SMU. Then again, neither has "Pony Up." I've always viewed "Kick'em Stangs" as someone's attempt to copy UT's "Hook'em Horns." We don't have to do everything UT does.

The horse flexing his bicep (or rolling up his sleeve?) is just plain horrendous. Sorry, I will never bend on this one.

Fortunately, it looks like both logos have gone the way of the "Superman" script SMU (Arched script with the S bigger than the M which was bigger than the U) that took hold a couple of years ago.

Give me the classic running horse logo. (the RIGHT horse, that is). I'm open to alternative logos, but they better be good. I'd rather see them bring back some of the logos of the long-ago past than most of the new stuff I've seen. Even a somewhat lame logo looks better once it's been deemed retro-cool.

Soooo...shouldn't your avatar sport a proper Mustang?

Good one, PK.

PK wrote:Soooo...shouldn't your avatar sport a proper Mustang?

Hoof 'em 'stangs! Hoof 'em!!!!!

Augh! Ya got me!

I'm speaking of official SMU merchandise, of course. The stuff marketed to the masses. (if you can call the scarcity of SMU merchandise "marketing").

For a personal avatar, I like to be a little different. If everyone here used the official logo in their avatar, all the avatars would look alike, no?

Tap-tap. Hello? Is this thing on?

I prefer this hat:



The bold Mustangs across the front plus the cool little mustangs across the bill makes this the best SMU hat I have owned.

I am guessing that since you left the "tag" on your cap that you wear it sideways. (?)

Saw this hat at Lids yesterday: http://www.lids.com/pid/20107097

I will be picking one up.

I believe the kick 'em stangs logo goes back to the 40's.