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SonsOfNutmeg said:
So I was poking around the UConn Shop online, looking for some new Football merchandise to waste my money on, and I came across this:

http://shop.uconnhuskies.com/COLLEG...hutt_UConn_Huskies_Full_Size_Authentic_Helmet

WTF- Please someone tell me this is just a screw-up, and not a real helmet for this year or something!?
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UConn wears Riddell helmets so it's just the case of Schutt making something weird and hoping people buy it. Like this orange Oregon helmet: http://www.schuttsports.com/aspx/sport/ProductCatalog.aspx?id=269

Anyways, carry on with the monthly helmet-bashing thread, always a fun read...
 
DW4UCONN said:
How about this Bugsy design? I also think this is a great look. A bit more exciting than the one originally posted here.

UConn_FB-helmet_concept2_zps113eb3ed.png
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Lose the ears and just show slightly above the eyes and I like it. Similar to the lacrosse helmets, I believe. Those looked pretty cool
 
The helmets we used last year were in many ways a perfect metaphor for last season...a disaster! I like the new one, assuming it is the new one. I'm not big on 2nd and 3rd helmets myself. You have one, its your identity. If you absolutley need one, go with a throwback of some kind. The white with the "C" shaped like a football maybe. As I've said before, I think this era in college football uniforms will be looked back on as the 1970s is in baseball uniforms. Just because new technology allowed teams to design mustard yellow uniforms with rainbow stripes didn't mean mustard yellow uniforms with rainbow stripes actually were a good idea. Same in college football today. Just because computer aided design allows helmets like Maryland's clown college design or our "call of the wild" catastrophe doesn't mean it was ever a good idea. This new one seems very clean, simple and straight forward. Very Bob Diaco. Best to be done with the last remnants of the Pasqualoni legacy.

Edit note:I don't know why the product produced by Grey Poupon, Guldens and a number of others and commonly used on hotdogs is getting edited down to "mus" but so goes the interweb I guess.
 
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UConn Insider said:
UConn wears Riddell helmets so it's just the case of Schutt making something weird and hoping people buy it.
Anyways, carry on with the monthly helmet-bashing thread, always a fun read...
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So UCONN is selling a helmet that isn't UCONN's helmet though its website? I'm skeptical. And given how hard Diaco is working to eliminate each and every vestige of the Pasqualoni era, in everything from the carpeting on the floors to the end of the stadium that the team warms up in, do you really think we won't see new uniforms this year, especially new helmets?
 
UConn Insider said:
UConn wears Riddell helmets so it's just the case of Schutt making something weird and hoping people buy it. Like this orange Oregon helmet: http://www.schuttsports.com/aspx/sport/ProductCatalog.aspx?id=269

Anyways, carry on with the monthly helmet-bashing thread, always a fun read...
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To confirm from the ultimate source...

Kyle Muncy ‏@UConnTrademark 3m
@Santini35 That is just for the store. Riddell has an exclusive on the current design right now, so Schutt did those.
 
We get it guys! Some of you don't like the helmets. I'm convinced that for a good number of posters, half of their total posts come from complaining about the helmets. Good thing we have yet another thread that has been turned into that.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Five of the twelve teams have a single letter on the helmet (six, if you count two letters). Man!....if only we had a single letter that WE could use on the helmet!....oh, wait... ;)
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Cheezus Dan are we the only one who see it, or are we the two loons...?
 
RioDog said:
Cheezus Dan are we the only one who see it, or are we the two loons...?
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Others see it, too. Problem is the school's leadership wants the school to be known as UConn, not Connecticut.
 
Butch said:
Others see it, too. Problem is the school's leadership wants the school to be known as UConn, not Connecticut.
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Well, I was speaking tongue-in-cheek. As I look at your post, I notice that 2 letters in UConn stand out- why not just use them?
 
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Can we stop with all this helmet squawking. You guys sound like if the B1G said "we'll take UConn as long as they keep their current helmets" you'd still be complaining. Give it a rest. I have great faith in Susan, Warde and Diaco to choose the right design. If this is it. Fine. If they change it, that's ok, too. Just win!
Lots of folks whined about the new husky dog logo. Remember? Anyone still hating on the new Husky logo?
 
I was talking to a friend of mine at the spring game about the helmets. He is a former player who still stays in touch with the program (he also gets 8 club seats a year for his business). He had a chance to talk with the rep who sells the helmets to UCONN. The rep told him 2 things:
1) The best way to do the current design is to paint it on. UCONN only has the budget for decals, so up close my friend says it looks like s*@t.
2) They don't have the budget for a 3rd uniform or another set of helmets right now.

Let's see what Diaco does with the helmet design...especially since they use decals which are easy to change. Maybe he takes the blue or white helmet and changes the decal...makes it the primary helmet, then makes the current decal design the alternate helmet.
 
FDNY99 said:
I was talking to a friend of mine at the spring game about the helmets. He is a former player who still stays in touch with the program (he also gets 8 club seats a year for his business). He had a chance to talk with the rep who sells the helmets to UCONN. The rep told him 2 things:
1) The best way to do the current design is to paint it on. UCONN only has the budget for decals, so up close my friend says it looks like s*@t.
2) They don't have the budget for a 3rd uniform or another set of helmets right now.

Let's see what Diaco does with the helmet design...especially since they use decals which are easy to change. Maybe he takes the blue or white helmet and changes the decal...makes it the primary helmet, then makes the current decal design the alternate helmet.
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I have news for you, FD. the current design looks like s**^ because its a s**^ design. You could paint it on, glue it on, solder it on, carve it into stone, it would still look like s**^. And on top of that it is the symbol of one of the worst seasons since we upgraded the program. Get rid of it.
 
freescooter said:
I have news for you, FD. the current design looks like s* ^ because its a s* ^ design. You could paint it on, glue it on, solder it on, carve it into stone, it would still look like s* ^. And on top of that it is the symbol of one of the worst seasons since we upgraded the program. Get rid of it.
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I never thought of it as the symbol you described above...good analogy. I want to see it go because It is another Pasqualoni tag to the program. They need a 3rd helmet/uniform design, for the regular every day helmet..they should have gone back to either UCONN on both sides or a logo on each side. As for the new logo..it has grown on me, and oh yeah I get a LOT compliments when I wear my new logo UCONN stuff in NYC.
 
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I love all of the people on the thread complaining about the people on the thread that are complaining. Which in itself should draw further complaints, so that we can have a death-spiral of complaining.

The bottom line is this: it's not like the people who are complaining about the design (myself included) are doing so without offering alternatives that they would love to see. That's called "marketing data." Some people pay good money for that. If the group that is vocal about disliking the helmets is large in number, the likelihood that the helmet gets changed is high. If not, the likelihood will be low. So if you're happy with the helmet, good for you. However, if you don't want to read people complaining about the helmet, perhaps you could skip to the next thread. We've got plenty of them...
 
WhereistheDove? said:
We get it guys! Some of you don't like the helmets. I'm convinced that for a good number of posters, half of their total posts come from complaining about the helmets. Good thing we have yet another thread that has been turned into that.
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Yet another thread? Yeah, all these helmet threads saturating the page every day must be an eyesore. It's too bad that just ignoring them isn't an option.
 
The current Helmet needs to go in the dumpster along with anything else related to the prior a$$clowns. The redesign was part of a gimmick to kindle interest when there was a full on dumpster fire. I can't imagine Diaco wanting any reminder of the past around. He also comes from a place of grand tradition. We are a proud state university, not a freakin carny side show act. Time to walk the walk and look the part.
 
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BugsyCT said:
Yet another thread? Yeah, all these helmet threads saturating the page every day must be an eyesore. It's too bad that just ignoring them isn't an option.
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You mean ignoring this thread that started out having absolutely nothing to do with the team helmets? Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Look, when literally the most positive, upbeat and best posters on the Boneyard, @UConnDan97 has an issue with, it's time for a change.

If Mr. 13-0, says it doesn't make the cut, 'nuff said.
 
check out Tulane's new helmet - I am too IT challenged to figure out to show here - but you can see who/what was their inspiration pretty quickly. I am not a fan of our current helmet and don't think it contributes to an outsider's (positive) view of our FB program. Any of the above would be a huge step forward towards demonstrating a big boy view of the sport that matters most.
 
Yes, a thread titled "Helmets" and the OP complaining that the pic of that helmet might be a prototype for the upcoming year has nothing to do with the team helmets. My bad.
 
BugsyCT said:
Yes, a thread titled "Helmets" and the OP complaining that the pic of that helmet might be a prototype for the upcoming year has nothing to do with the team helmets. My bad.
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I'm glad you can see how it has nothing to do with the current helmets. Any time there is any post half-way connected to uniforms or helmets, it inevitably ends in a circle jerk of whining and complaining. Maybe we should just merge them all into one pinned "Helmet B*tching" thread.
 
BlueDogs said:
The current Helmet needs to go in the dumpster along with anything else related to the prior a clowns. The redesign was part of a gimmick to kindle interest when there was a full on dumpster fire. I can't imagine Diaco wanting any reminder of the past around. He also comes from a place of grand tradition. We are a proud state university, not a freakin carny side show act. Time to walk the walk and look the part.
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If I could have given you 5 likes I would have!
 
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