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uconnbill

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The problem with Delaware is that the colors are almost exactly the same.

I don't want any black helmets or black jerseys. It's a tacky play to gangbangers.

Like white and I could go for the metallic helmets as well, if blue or white. UConn - Huskies works because of Yukon - Huskies. We need to play up the white. Snow, winter...create a "Blizzard Zone" at the Rent. Mount snow machines and have the players emerge in a mini blizzard. We have probably the cleverest combination of school nickname and mascot in all of sports, it's time to leverage it. That includes a more fierce Husky mascot.

Looking forward to seeing what UConn and Nike can come up with.


That is to forward thinking for Connecticut. I expect a leather helmet with grey and white uniforms.
 

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Pepband: what a contrast in the photo. Lame-0 Northwestern uney with stripes like junior high tube socks from the '70s, and an awesome Husky helmet.
Good work though
 
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I actually like the basketball logo but I'm guessing they're fading it out

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This is a general Question - Why the heck are some of you guys so hung up on keeping the C? It's boring and screams tradition, and we we have NO D1 tradition. You are basically saying you want us to fake being something that we are not.

We, of all programs, should be the ones running out there with the crazy a** uniforms, assuming they are of the Oregon variety and not the Maryland variety (They look like someone threw up a McDonald's logo). We are brand new to D1, we have no design that people identify with. NO ONE OUTSIDE OF CT identifies UConn with the block C. There is no brand equity built up. One could actually debate we have negative equity due to the bad press we got from the Fiesta Bowl.

Putting the pieces together with various comments on this board and the comments from Lagow, the uniform change is part of a larger re-branding that the University is doing, including updating the Husky and all Logos. The logos, whatever ones are chosen, will be used across ALL sports, with the exception of the Baseball team keeping the old English C. It is quite possible that the Block C gets thrown out all together, or that the block C gets used for everything. This has been in the works for 4 or 5+ years, so they have done their due diligence and gathered market data on the various logos and what resonates (I know I personally took at least 1 survey via Email). THIS IS GREAT NEWS. It is another step towards catching up with the big boys.

The change is coming, so hopefully it's tasteful and represents the university well. No point in fighting it.
 

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while thats a great insider idea cap, i struggle to believe they would ever have the leadership/creativeness/balls/fanvision to think of something like that. if we did do that, then its a huge sign that someone in there has woken up and gets it...

Disagree. Don't double dip on promotional opportunities. Have a second, stand-alone event to unveil the new uniforms, and yet another for the logo/branding. We need to increase, not consolidate, good promotions.

I get that "CONNECTICUT" over "UConn" is a lost cause, but please no red trim, and please retain Block C as primary logo.

Bring on chrome, black, frosted white, alternative uniforms and whatever else Nike can dream up...

Oh, I'm well over 30 and support all that, so go l-uck yourself, HFD....
 

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I love the idea of a faux-carbon fiber weave pattern in the helmets.

The greatest looking piece of sporting equipment I have ever owned is a naked carbon-fiber road bike.

My second choice is copper because, well, what the hell. It'd be horrific, but by God, we'd be noticed.

Carbon Fiber - I really liked that part of Cinci's bowl helmets. The chrome claw marks, not so much.
 

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Maybe we can bring Hyper Elite Platinum to football.
 

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I actually like the basketball logo but I'm guessing they're fading it out

UCLogoInterlock.jpg
The interlocking UC actually goes back to the 60s,maybe early 70s, I think.

On edit: I checked it's '67.
 

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Disagree. Don't double dip on promotional opportunities. Have a second, stand-alone event to unveil the new uniforms, and yet another for the logo/branding. We need to increase, not consolidate, good promotions.

I get that "CONNECTICUT" over "UConn" is a lost cause, but please no red trim, and please retain Block C as primary logo.

Bring on chrome, black, frosted white, alternative uniforms and whatever else Nike can dream up...

Oh, I'm well over 30 and support all that, so go l-uck yourself, HFD....

I gotta say I like red trim, even though it isn't one of our colors.
 
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Yeah. Adidas get some low marks from me for the Wisconsin and Nebraska unis.

Wow. I was thinking the exact opposite.
I would love a Huge "C" on the front of ours.

I suppose no matter what they look like...some will hate them ,and some will love them.
 
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Wow. I was thinking the exact opposite.
I would love a Huge "C" on the front of ours.

I suppose no matter what they look like...some will hate them ,and some will love them.
Yeah, you can't please everyone. But a change shows that someone is awake in the AD. :)
 

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Pepband: what a contrast in the photo. Lame-0 Northwestern uney with stripes like junior high tube socks from the '70s, and an awesome Husky helmet.
Good work though
I would have hated the tube sock stripes in the '90's, but now I love that look. These things go in cycles. When I was a kid it was lame to wear a backpack with both straps on your shoulders, you had to sling your backpack over one shoulder to look cool. But by the the time I got to college, putting your backpack on both shoulders was fine again.
 

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Put me down as the first vote for tacky uniforms. Let's wake this state up from the coma its been in for the last 100 years.
 

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Make it National Flag Blue, change the orange to red and put a Husky instead of Gator (or a block C for you faux traditionalists) and sign me up. Oh and you'd have to change the SEC symbol to a B1G....
 

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I could live with this too:


See now with the center one (w/darker blue) and the white helmet I'm 100% good with the block C on the helmet. Please just not the platinum elite puke gray uni. I hated that when BB did it and it looks just as bad as a FB uni. Link to more unis.
 
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