FLOORED Now on to this week's pressing issue: Is it just The Minutes, or has an epidemic of horrific court designs swept America? Everywhere you look, normally inoffensive 94-foot-by-50-foot rectangles of hardwood has been overtaken by cheesy, gargantuan logos, profligate paint jobs and/or excessive signage? Sufficiently alarmed, The Minutes stepped in with the help of colleague Andy Glockner to identify the best and worst college basketball floors in America.
The offenders, grouped by category:
Animal Gigantism
SMU Pony (6). Nearly goes from 3-point line to 3-point line, nose to tail. Add in the fact that the two-point area is all painted red and you have an aesthetic disaster.
I agree with them. Our floor looks awful in my opinion. I am just a big fan of a classic, traditional look. A nice center court logo, a painted key with plain hardwood outside the key. Maybe we will take a cue from Coach's old school.
I agree. I've always thought our mustang was way too big. Of course, now everything looks so small with the huge scoreboard. I'd definitely like to see a few changes in design when renovations are going on.
I have to agree with the author after clicking on the links of the ones he likes. Our logo is waaay too big, and the red paint should be removed from the two point area.
While I don't particularly like the red two point area, I do like our gigantic Mustang, I think it needs to stay that big after any renovations. Although I do think we might want to change it to pink and green to appease the pom squad.
I think the general paint scheme could be redone, but I say the huge pony stays.
Although I'm not really qualified since I think I would be in favor of painting the entire floor blue with red accents to compliment the giant red pony.
couch 'em wrote:I think the general paint scheme could be redone, but I say the huge pony stays.
Although I'm not really qualified since I think I would be in favor of painting the entire floor blue with red accents to compliment the giant red pony.
you may have something there.....give Orsini a call!
The pony was a BIG improvement over the previous design of the wrong way facing University seal within the jump circle. One thing I do miss is the SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY in big block red letters that spanned the length of each sideline and MUSTANGS in the same font under the basket.
If we could keep the pony and re-add the sideline letters, that'd be great.
PS -- How can this guy slam the pony and give a pass to the ridiculous cartoon slobbering Arkansas Razorback in Fayetteville. His cred is shot in my opinion.
