A lot of people who want the old logo...

[NHUConnfan]

...think that the kinder husky represents all that's good about the logo--all that's good about UConn.

It's tough to argue that position at UConn. The university has generated a ton of bad press over the past 6-7 years despite a few national championships and a BCS bowl mixed in there. Not to dig up skeletons, but we just had a post-season ban for APR, we had sanctions put on our program due to illegal recruiting violations, we had several prominent arrests of athletes including some really heinous felonies (i.e. CP), we saw the murder of one of our own outside the Student Union in addition to several other murders on campus...one ending Spring Weekend as we know it.

This all happened in just a short amount of time. Very few schools could talk about that much bad press in such a short time (maybe except for PSU and SU). The rebrand comes at a perfect time when UConn has a new president, a new men's basketball coach (the old one made the old logo his own!), and an athletics program needing to update itself in efforts of getting to a better conference.

Let the old Jonathan go...there are a lot of good memories with him, but there are also some things that should be left with the old logo.

 

[Hoophound]

This post sucks. It just rehashes old issues and summarizes them for haters. On top of that, it is rather dramatic. Our issues are nothing compared to Miami, Auburn, PSU, UNC etc. They just get a lot off press because UConn has sucked with damage control.

 

[NHUConnfan]

This post sucks. It just rehashes old issues and summarizes them for haters. On top of that, it is rather dramatic. Our issues are nothing compared to Miami, Auburn, PSU, UNC etc. They just get a lot off press because UConn has sucked with damage control.

...my point exactly.

 

[upstater]

...think that the kinder husky represents all that's good about the logo--all that's good about UConn.

It's tough to argue that position at UConn. The university has generated a ton of bad press over the past 6-7 years despite a few national championships and a BCS bowl mixed in there. Not to dig up skeletons, but we just had a post-season ban for APR, we had sanctions put on our program due to illegal recruiting violations, we had several prominent arrests of athletes including some really heinous felonies (i.e. CP), we saw the murder of one of our own outside the Student Union in addition to several other murders on campus...one ending Spring Weekend as we know it.

This all happened in just a short amount of time. Very few schools could talk about that much bad press in such a short time (maybe except for PSU and SU). The rebrand comes at a perfect time when UConn has a new president, a new men's basketball coach (the old one made the old logo his own!), and an athletics program needing to update itself in efforts of getting to a better conference.

Let the old Jonathan go...there are a lot of good memories with him, but there are also some things that should be left with the old logo.

UConn's bad press was run of the mill. Every year you see about 10 of the 100 D1 schools getting bad press. Eventually, your turn comes round. In fact, we saw the article right before the Miles thing went down stating UConn was one of three schools (Stanford and PSU) that had never been on probation. UConn did not have money trading hands, was over phone calls, and people have forgotten about it. Arrests happen on every campus--most people's attitudes toward APR are that it's a joke (if you read the national blogs).

At this rate, every school in America (but Stanford) will be changing logos every 5 to 10 years.

 

[upstater]

...my point exactly.

So, the logo change helps UConn with damage control of the press?

 

[CTMike]

It symbolizes a fresh start. To whatever extent you buy in to that theory.