From a basketball and university standpoint, yes 100% people know UConn more than Connecticut.
This is how it was for me going to UConn from out of state, nobody recognized University of Connecticut but knew once I said UConn. Except for my grandmother who thought I was going to college in Alaska for the first year and a half.
Yeah, feels like an uncontroversial stance but this is the Boneyard...
Spring break people thought we'd driven down from Alaska when we said we were from UConn. Of course they were pretty drunk at time.
My apologies to you... I thought you were a "whatever the new kids want" guy. We have traditions, and championship banners, and school colors, and a mascot. I get the idea that some people want to keep changing things (Nike), but I hate being one of their sheep.
Yep although maybe reverse it with Connecticut on the road unis.
But the difference is that the university as a whole had never adopted UConn as a brand at that time when Connecticut was on the jerseys. That was a recent change in 2013 along with the new logo
Sort of my point...
I think the idea of having a unified and readily identifiable look across all teams was a good one. There were some questionable implementations of that good idea though. And as with many "plans" much of it's underpinnings were abandoned.
Haha I remember that. I thought that was the woman's championship trophy presentation, though.
LOL! I agree that the concept was a sound one. Of course it was abandoned almost immediately when they decided that baseball would keep its traditional C. Then Nike undermined it because they wanted to gin up some weird uniform for all the national champs ( well all the ones who wore Nike) in grey and orangey pink of all things. Now hockey has this tie dyed look in blue red and grey too. And the block C for football.
I like the script thing however we still should have our mascot somewhere on the uniform.