The players like wearing the honeycomb helmets because they are sick and tired of wearing the same white jersey, gold pants, gold helmet every week when every other program is rotating combinations in and out and posting about it on twitter. What the fan base likes doesn't have to resonate with the players. They want to be like everyone else. Regarding the honeycomb being here to stay...have you seen literally EVERYTHING we've build/remodeled/added graphics to in the past 5 years? There's honeycomb everywhere. Every sports team has honeycomb on their apparel somewhere. The locker rooms have honeycomb. The lobbies have honeycomb. Do you think they're going to lower the scoreboard at McCamish and remove the honeycomb accents anytime soon? Me neither. Someone decided on that motif in 2012 and it's been pretty heavily embraced.