New UCONN logo.

[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.

 

[jdb50]

Putting UCONN on the helmets is like going back in time to when they had GIANTS on the helmets instead of the ny. I know the block C is new to the Rent's era but it is much more distinctive than putting UCONN on them. Bad idea.

 

[SubbaBub]

Philosophical question for the FB board. Is the abandonment of the Block C a nod to satisfy BB interests? Or in other words, does some level of BB centric bias that killed the BE exist in Storrs?

 

[HuskyHawk]

The whining is just unreal. Considering we have no positive legacy in football, suggesting that one helmet or another is more "small time" is nuts. We haven't even seen the new one so can we at least save the complaints?

As for the Giants, yes the word Giants harkens back to the bad old days of Parcels and LT. Yeah they sucked then and it was all on the helmets.

Give me a helmet that looks decent and more importantly, lets try to build some positive history around it. I hate Ohio State's helmets, they look like crap. But the history makes the fans love them.

 

[whaler11]

The whining is just unreal. Considering we have no positive legacy in football, suggesting that one helmet or another is more "small time" is nuts. We haven't even seen the new one so can we at least save the complaints?

As for the Giants, yes the word Giants harkens back to the bad old days of Parcels and LT. Yeah they sucked then and it was all on the helmets.

Give me a helmet that looks decent and more importantly, lets try to build some positive history around it. I hate Ohio State's helmets, they look like crap. But the history makes the fans love them.

I don't actually care much about this stuff but nobody is really 'whining'. If they wear similar helmets to what they wore in FCS - it just reminds of when they weren't playing at the highest level.

Like I said even with that dynamic I'd prefer UConn on the helmets to any dog logo.

 

[jdb50]

The whining is just unreal. Considering we have no positive legacy in football, suggesting that one helmet or another is more "small time" is nuts. We haven't even seen the new one so can we at least save the complaints?

As for the Giants, yes the word Giants harkens back to the bad old days of Parcels and LT. Yeah they sucked then and it was all on the helmets.

Give me a helmet that looks decent and more importantly, lets try to build some positive history around it. I hate Ohio State's helmets, they look like crap. But the history makes the fans love them.

We have had positive history with the block C helmets since we've gone FBS the last two years notwithstanding.. I started watching the Giants full time in 1966 and the need to rearrange the furniture and come up with a new helmet never felt right even when we started to win again. Same thing for the Jets, god awful looking back at the green helmet. I was grateful that Wellington Mara went back to the uniform and logo from the 50's. I hope whoever is behind all this furniture rearranging now picks something that doesn't suck.

 

[Alum86]

We have had positive history with the block C helmets since we've gone FBS the last two years notwithstanding.. I started watching the Giants full time in 1966 and the need to rearrange the furniture and come up with a new helmet never felt right even when we started to win again. Same thing for the Jets, god awful looking back at the green helmet. I was grateful that Wellington Mara went back to the uniform and logo from the 50's. I hope whoever is behind all this furniture rearranging now picks something that doesn't suck.

As has been said previous: Do not challenge them.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

When it comes to football uniforms I've always had a 'less is more' mentality. As a kid (some 45 year ago) I felt the Baltimore Colts uniform was the best in pro football (hasn't really changed, even with the move halfway cross country) and I always preferred the uniforms of schools like Nebraska and Penn St.

If I were the one designing our uniforms (from any time in my lifetime) it would be basically a darker blue version of what the Colts wear, with some form of a C (our recent block C would be fine) instead of the horseshoe on our helmet.

 

[freescooter]

When it comes to football uniforms I've always had a 'less is more' mentality. As a kid (some 45 year ago) I felt the Baltimore Colts uniform was the best in pro football (hasn't really changed, even with the move halfway cross country) and I always preferred the uniforms of schools like Nebraska and Penn St.

If I were the one designing our uniforms (from any time in my lifetime) it would be basically a darker blue version of what the Colts wear, with some form of a C (our recent block C would be fine) instead of the horseshoe on our helmet.

I agree with you on the less is more concept. Only thing I differ on is I like blue helmets. I'd put a while stripe on them and a number on the side...basically the Alabama helmet in blue. Or see the 1963 season version here.http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

 

[CL82]

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

For what it is worth, I liked the helmets as an alternate, a lot. I am curious as to what we'll end up with as well. I am "cautiously optimistic."

 

[freescooter]

Philosophical question for the FB board. Is the abandonment of the Block C a nod to satisfy BB interests? Or in other words, does some level of BB centric bias that killed the BE exist in Storrs?

I don't actually think it is that. I think it is an effort to unify things, though I'm not a great fan of chaning your football helmets every few years, or every few games. I think you build tradition by keeping them pretty much the same over the long haul. Any modification is minor and you dont' make a big deal over it. The "C" gets a little bigger or a little smaller, you add numbers to the back or delete them, you make minor changes to the color...things like that. But I actually don't think this is being driven by a basketball-centric bias. If you look at say Texas over 25 years, you'll see changes, but year to year you won't really notice them. And they don't make a big deal over them. I actually think this is being driven more by our move to a new conference and an error in judgement that somehow we need to rebrand athletics in conjunction with that. I get the rebranding of the University as UConn. That makes a certain amount of sense and matches up with a number of other major universities. Penn, Penn State, Pitt, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Army, Navy are all examples. But the decisions to use red and blue,rather than white and blue, for example, or even white and blue with a red accent, as the UConn athletics is just foolish. Replacing the white husky of 50 years plus tradition, with Donald the Toupee Dog, for no apparent reason, is silly. Seems like one of those decisions to "modernize" things merely for the sake of change. Not for any real reason.

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

Donald the Toupee Dog

I'm sorry you don't like the way Huskies evolved through a process known as natural selection, but please...

 

[freescooter]

oops, guess you missed this one...which looks kind of like the traditional Jonathan actually

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[EdgewoodNHV]

oops, guess you missed this one...which looks kind of like the traditional Jonathan actually

Type "husky" into Google Images. Go ahead. Do it.

95% of the results are the dogs with the "toupee" you so lovingly despise. I'm sorry nature didn't work out the way you wanted it. But by and large, that's what Huskies look like.

 

[HuskyHawk]

oops, guess you missed this one...which looks kind of like the traditional Jonathan actually

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That is a Samoyed. You can tell by the long coat. Huskies have shorter coats.

I don't understand this "uniquness" test. The logo looks like no other, not even close. Nobody elese ever noticed the old one was "all white". It isn't a relevant aspect of the logo. Georgia is the Bulldogs because Yale folks founded the school. They have another Bulldogs (Miss State in the SEC). How many Tigers are there...just in the SEC alone (3)? Then Clemson, Memphis... Baylor and Cal coexist. Wyoming and OK State. Duke Blue Devils and DePaul Blue Demons (why blue?) survive. Villanova, K-State and even UNH.

UConn is now and will always be the primary Husky brand (beyond Washington and certainly beyond the 40 or so people outside of New England that even know the mascot at NorthEastern). The reason is the nickname of the school. UConn=Yukon, the land of Huskies. It is the greatest nickname and mascot combination in college sports. "UConn Huskies" just works splendidly as a phrase. That the husky logo now actually looks like a husky can only help, as will our new emphasis on "UCONN". There's a reason Washington uses the block W as primary (nick name is UDub by the way), the huskies mascot/logo is irrelevant to their image. There is no liklihood of confusion. Our logo will soon be instantly recognizable as UConn.

 

[BugsyCT]

Just FYI - here's a list of other colleges in North America that use a Husky mascot:

Washington
Northeastern
Northern Illinois
Bloomsburg
St. Cloud State
Southern Maine
Houston Baptist
Michigan Tech
Wisconsin-Marathon County

(Canada)
Saint Mary's University (Halifax)
George Brown College (Toronto)
University of Saskatchewan

You be the judge of whether or not we need an all-white husky to make UConn unique from these schools.

 

[SubbaBub]

Then why are we stealing one of those schools logos?

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[HuskyHawk]

Just FYI - here's a list of other colleges in North America that use a Husky mascot:

Washington
Northeastern
Northern Illinois
Bloomsburg
St. Cloud State
Southern Maine
Houston Baptist
Michigan Tech
Wisconsin-Marathon County

(Canada)
Saint Mary's University (Halifax)
George Brown College (Toronto)
University of Saskatchewan

You be the judge of whether or not we need an all-white husky to make UConn unique from these schools.

I judge that it is obvious that we do not need an all-white husky to stand out, since all of those schools except Washington are completely irrelevant in the college sports marketing world, and Washington has continued to de-emphasize the Husky, probably because they know that "Huskies" is so closely associated with UConn.

If you asked random people across the country to play word association and said the word "Huskies" I have no doubt that the number one association would be "UConn". Ttry that with bears and you will not get Cal, you will get Chicago. Tigers could be LSU, Detroit or several others. Cowboys will be Dallas, not OK state. Therefore, in my opinion anything that looks more obviously like a husky will be more closely associated with UConn, especially if it is in our colors.

 

[Bootsthemonkey]

Personally I liked the script "UConn" on the helmets, only I'd rather it be a blue helmet with white script. If a logo was on the helmet I'd prefer any Husky logo be a profile view, example:
http://vecto.rs/design/vector-of-a-grinning-cartoon-husky-dog-growling-by-chromaco-1998

A paw print wouldn't be bad either as long as it's distinctive from other print helmets such as Clemson. Cal did a good job with the bear print years ago.

 

[freescooter]

Type "husky" into Google Images. Go ahead. Do it.

95% of the results are the dogs with the "toupee" you so lovingly despise. I'm sorry nature didn't work out the way you wanted it. But by and large, that's what Huskies look like.

All I can tell you is that came from the very page YOU linked as showing what Huskies look like. Fact of the matter is that huskies come in a fairly wide variety of looks if you will. there are several varieties that are black and white, black and brown, brown and white, red and white, all white, and I believe there are also all black or brown, though those are fairly rare. Donald the Toupee dog both violates the tradition of an all white husky, of which there are many per the site you linked, and it is crappy clip art that looks like someone drew a toupee on it. And look at the real life Jonathan next time you are at a game. He's white.as have been his predecessors since 1935. He's a Husky. He doesn't wear an ill-fitting toupee. Hence, the new logo can't be a representation of Jonathan. Since the new logo is clearly not Jonathan, I've chosen to re-name him Donald. He represents corporate greed, and has bad hair. Jonathan was named for a Revolutionary War governor and hero. Donald is named for...well you can guess. But if you're wrong, you're fired!

 

[huskymedic]

All this logo pissing and moaning is driving me to drink...