<blockquote><div class="name-said">calbear75;623995 said:</div><hr>looked at the pics as well...oregon wore molded cleats while stanford wore detachable cleats. molded usually are for momentum turf fields and have shorter but more "cleats", while detachables have longer but much fewer for natural grass. i've had both before, and the problem wearing the detachable is that when they get mud clung into the spikes, there is absolutely no traction whatsoever. very easy to slip up if you dont clean them off often. <br /><br />Brent and Kirk said only 2 stanford players changed to longer spikes, so it was the coach's and staff's call not to have them change spikes during halftime to adjust. <br /><br />other than that, oregon just had the regular alpha talons and vapor carbon shoes that all other Nike schools wear. I have the vapors, myself, and they cut like crazy!:p<hr></blockquote><br /><br />The old football shoes with replaceable cleats mounted the cleats with a screw post into the sole of the shoe. Replacing the cleats meant unscrewing each cleat and screwing in a new cleat. Unless you have a large manager and equipment staff, you can't do the entire team in a half time break. Now if you have plenty of equipment money you can just buy and transport several different shoes for each player so that switching shoes is easy. Back when I was a manager, each player only had one set of game shoes; so we had to change cleats one at a time. Big budget opponents back then brought more equipment with them than Cal had for home games.<br /><br />If the new detachable cleats change quicker than the old shoes maybe you could do a cleat change at halftime. The "old" wisdom was that longer cleats contributed to knee injuries; it had to be really muddy before they were used.