The old saying that the rich get richer is true for the Maryville Rebels football program.The 2007 Tennessee Football magazine Team of the Year will change its look for the upcoming football season.
The same old uniforms that the Rebels just kept on winning and winning in will be updated with new gridiron threads compliments of Nike.
For the first time since 1996, the Rebels will be stepping out in new duds.
Nike sought out Maryville in the continued effort to sign the top athletic programs in the nation.
The Rebels were offered a three-year deal to have the football team wear the famous swoosh, which has been approved by the Maryville City Schools Board.
Coach George Quarles record-breaking team enters the 2008 season on a 60-game win streak and four consecutive 4A state championships. The Rebels will be the first team in Tennessee and one of only 40 prep football squads nationwide who will be wearing Nike this year.
He said other major athletic manufactures had offered deals to get Maryville to change from the DeLong uniforms that they wore in 2007.
However, he said his team voted to go with Nike.
Quarles said the Rebels could play some of the other elite Nike teams across the nation as early as 2009.
The award-winning coach said Maryville has already had offers to go to Florida to play Miami-Northwestern, which was ranked No. 1 nationwide following the 2007 campaign.
However, that's not a game that the Rebels are expected to consider playing.
Quarles said the school will have to pay for the uniforms, but practice wear, shoes and other items would be available to the players.
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