New UCONN logo.

[Santini35]

Quick and dirty mockup

 

[sportsart]

Nine days from now quick and dirty mockup will have a whole new meaning for you.

I still can't believe you didn't do your research on when the spring game was going to be this year before you set "the date".

If you tell me you knew the game was on April 20th and you set the date anyways, well...don't even want to go there.

Quick and dirty mockup

 

[Santini35]

Hey rather miss the spring game than the Michigan game...

 

[whaler11]

Jesus I knew I had seen the new logo before. Commenter on Deadspin realized it's the AHL Nordiques logo.

 

[whaler11]

Quick and dirty mockup

Honestly that looks ridiculous. Just go back to the 90's and put UConn on the helmets rather than that.

 

[BugsyCT]

Honestly that looks ridiculous. Just go back to the 90's and put UConn on the helmets rather than that.

Word is they're ditching the block "C", so it's either that logo or the UCONN wordmark on the helmets.

 

[whaler11]

Word is they're ditching the block "C", so it's either that logo or the UCONN wordmark on the helmets.

I'm 40 so I know they don't care what I think but that 'dog' on the helmet would look ridiculous. UConn on the helmet looks like the A-10.

 

[weyuo]

Still liked that Husky dog helmet that circulated thru here a few months ago. That was classy.

 

[ktuck911]

Honestly that looks ridiculous. Just go back to the 90's and put UConn on the helmets rather than that.

Yeah, whoever put that helmet did a not so good job.. Just an awful concept (if it was you Santini, no disrespect bro, just my opinion on the helmet... You do a heckuva job providing all the cool youtube vids... much appreciated)... It wouldn't surprise me if we went back to 'UCONN' on the helmets or maybe a profile view of a husky ( with an attacking slanted look to it ) that hasn't been made public yet... Hopefully we will know all in a week....

 

[NHUConnfan]

Informal and formal brands??? That's making things way too confusing. People will still call us connecticut but our brand is UCONN. Perhaps Alabama doesn't use Bama but how about CAL, UCLA, USC, UMASS, UNC, LSU, PITT, Penn, SMU, VCU, etc? All solid recognizable brands.

How about MIT? Seriously, do they lose any prestige by not saying the full "Massachusetts Institute of Technology???"

duck no.

 

[Lawson56]

I love our current blue helmets and hope they don't change them. Which means they will. I agree that the UCONN wordmark is a step back toward the Yankee Conference, and our new Husky on a white helmet just sucks IMHO.

 

[CL82]

Still liked that Husky dog helmet that circulated thru here a few months ago. That was classy.

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Me too, but that ship has sailed with the redesign.

 

[HobokenHusky]

Yeah, whoever put that helmet did a not so good job.. Just an awful concept (if it was you Santini, no disrespect bro, just my opinion on the helmet... You do a heckuva job providing all the cool youtube vids... much appreciated)... It wouldn't surprise me if we went back to 'UCONN' on the helmets or maybe a profile view of a husky ( with an attacking slanted look to it ) that hasn't been made public yet... Hopefully we will know all in a week....

I am hoping they do a couple different helmets, one with UCONN on it in the new font, and then an alternate one with the Husky on it, and if one of them sucks they will just use the other one more. I think Oregon State got 3 helmets out of this deal. Cal and UGA have tradition-rich helmet logos so they stayed the same. I think/hope we will go the OSU route. If you don't have tradition, you should have variety. Kids like options.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Me too, but that ship has sailed with the redesign.

This is even more ridiculous in my opinion. Curious to see what they do

 

[SubbaBub]

I am hoping they do a couple different helmets, one with UCONN on it in the new font, and then an alternate one with the Husky on it, and if one of them sucks they will just use the other one more. I think Oregon State got 3 helmets out of this deal. Cal and UGA have tradition-rich helmet logos so they stayed the same. I think/hope we will go the OSU route. If you don't have tradition, you should have variety. Kids like options.

I think you can all but guarantee multiple helmet looks.


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[HobokenHusky]

Anyone else catch this from the press release? "The two major changes will be the use of “UCONN” across the front of every uniform worn by each team, and a new look for the Jonathan Husky logo. "

If true, provides some insight on what the new football uniforms will look like.

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/04/a-new-husky-for-a-new-era/

 

[freescooter]

Well, this is disappointing. Nothing like ignoring 75 years of tradition in order not to offend the catoon characters at Nike. Jeesh, did anyone bother to look at every previous version of the Husky? Every previous Jonathan since 1935? All this advertizing babble about branding and they replace the one factor that has been consistent for 75 years and has differntiated the UConn Husky from Northeastern and Washington and St Cloud State and Southern Maine and, every other husky mascot in the country. They decided that they would not use a white husky, but rather a more typical one. Geniuses. So now we can be utterly indistinguishable from every other one out there. Brilliant! Yet another contribution to my theory that UConn's leadership doesn't give a damn about athletics. if they could play D3 and get away with it, they'd be perfectly happy to do so.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Well, this is disappointing. Nothing like ignoring 75 years of tradition in order not to offend the catoon characters at Nike. Jeesh, did anyone bother to look at every previous version of the Husky? Every previous Jonathan since 1935? All this advertizing babble about branding and they replace the one factor that has been consistent for 75 years and has differntiated the UConn Husky from Northeastern and Washington and St Cloud State and Southern Maine and, every other husky mascot in the country. They decided that they would not use a white husky, but rather a more typical one. Geniuses. So now we can be utterly indistinguishable from every other one out there. Brilliant! Yet another contribution to my theory that UConn's leadership doesn't give a damn about athletics. if they could play D3 and get away with it, they'd be perfectly happy to do so.

So basically you are claiming that in re-branding, to use a basketball analogy we ignored what was an absolute part of the UConn family with considerable potential and a track record that gave valid reason to believe it would succeed in favor of a hot young outsider who has had some recent success but nobody will know until many years down the road if it is actually better than what we had.

 

[ScottVib]

Honestly that looks ridiculous. Just go back to the 90's and put UConn on the helmets rather than that.

+1000000

Santini did good work with it... but it looks just as bad as a helmet logo as I thought it would.

Keep the block C it works as a part of the font in the word-mark, spelling UConn will look silly and very (as noted) A-10-ish. Spell UCONN on the front of the jersey put the dog on the shoulders and the hip of the pants, just not on the helmets (or the caps of the baseball team for that matter).

 

[CAHUSKY]

+1000000

Santini did good work with it... but it looks just as bad as a helmet logo as I thought it would.

Keep the block C it works as a part of the font in the word-mark, spelling UConn will look silly and very (as noted) A-10-ish.

LSU, UNC, UCLA, CAL dont look "A-10ish"

 

[whaler11]

LSU, UNC, UCLA, CAL dont look "A-10ish"

Which helmets did UCLA wear when they were in the A-10? I forget...

 

[CAHUSKY]

Which helmets did UCLA wear when they were in the A-10? I forget...

Huh? He said having script on the helmet looked A-10. Thats what i was responding to. Not sure what you're saying.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Huh? He said having script on the helmet looked A-10. Thats what i was responding to. Not sure what you're saying.

Isn't that what we wore in the A10?

I don't think it was an observation but more that, that is actually what we wore as an A10 team.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Isn't that what we wore in the A10?

I don't think it was an observation but more that, that is actually what we wore as an A10 team.

Could be but my point still stands. You can be big time and use the script helmet as evidenced by the schools I mentioned.

 

[whaler11]

Huh? He said having script on the helmet looked A-10. Thats what i was responding to. Not sure what you're saying.

I'm saying that putting UCONN on the helmets would look like the A-10 because that is exactly what was on the helmets when they were in the Yankee Conf and A-10.