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What about football helmets? Keeping the Block C?
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I hope not. I hope the uniforms have red in them, and the new helmets have whatever the new husky is.
What about football helmets? Keeping the Block C?
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Sick in a good way, or sick as in, an old sickly dog
As long as they avoid something like the hugely unpopular new U. California logo (old on the left, new one on the right):
this is why u can't brand he block c then "uconn" it needs to be connecticut and we needd to make "uconn" our cool nickname and 3rd uni name. thats how we should be doing ****. rep the state and the nickname is fun stuff.
I think we have a winner.
Nobody goes full UCONN!!!Personally, I am fine with going full UCONN. Connecticut is a long and awkward word for outsiders.
If they get rid of the Block C and put the Husky on the helmet, this is the same mistake Pitt made many years ago.
Pitt should have stuck with the paw.
Looks like something Kristin Stewart would date. Maybe we can crash in on the Twighlight craze.I think we have a winner.
Let's go back to this Husky, he was the top dog. I'm tired of all these so called marketing experts coming up with new ideas that don't work. We have a tradition here that we should continue to foster instead of alienating alumni and fans with idiotic changes. It reminds me about 10 years ago when The Hartfords ad agency decided it needed a sleeker corporate symbol. So what did they do, they air-brushed the penus off of the Stag. How can a Stag be a Stag without it's businees attached?1) Ditch the red
2) Ditch all the 'UC' logos
3) Goes with 2, but the men's and women's basketball logos are different. Use the football block C on their uniforms
4) I think a 'mean' looking Husky would be tacky. I would like a modernized version of this - not the cartoonish looking one we have now.
For what it's worth:
Ole Miss, Penn State, Penn, UMass and Cal usually shorten their long names - all of which have one word of 10+ letters and 4+ syllables, like Connecticut.
Penn also will rarely, but sometimes, go by UPenn. In some cases, they'll just say 'Wharton' and figure that if you don't know what that means, you don't belong in their company anyway.
Louisiana has 9 letters and 5 syllables, but there is no UL (just LSU and Louisiana-Lafayette). ULL keeps trying to change to just Louisiana, but nobody will let them - the theory being you can't expect to go from Southwestern Louisiana State to the entire state university in just a 10-year span. You have to finish off the first batch of letterhead and business cards from the initial name change before doing it again.
Washington has 10 letters and 3 syllables and doesn't formally shorten at all (very, very informally called U-Dub). Tennessee takes up a lot of space with its three syllables, but doesn't shorten at all, either. They do shorten their nickname to Vols, instead, which you can clearly understand - Tennessee Vols sounds better than Tenn Volunteers.
Arizona (Zona), Alabama (Bama) informally shorten their names which are only seven letters long and don't take up much space, but they do chop off two syllables with those three letters, which is a very efficient letter-to-syllable ratio. Oklahoma and Indiana leave their short four-syllable names alone, other than to call themselves OU and IU. Oklahoma actually doesn't even do it right - they are called the University of Oklahoma and should really be UO (Kansas is also guilty of this, but they have the excuse that they would have to change their rock chalk chant, and they'd be confused with Kentucky, which nobody wants).
Missouri shortens to Mizzou sometimes, for really no good reason. They chop off two whole letters, one of which takes up less space than any other letter in our language so it is really more like a small punctuation mark. But they do pick up 16 points in Scrabble -- if they were to allow both proper names and a second Z when they play Scrabble in Missouri.
Meanwhile, Virginia calls itself Virginia, UVA, the Cavaliers, the Cavs and the Wahoos. Their plan is to convince the B1G that they can bring them to 18 teams all by themselves.
Delaware doesn't shorten anything and is basically irrelevant here, except as an important trivia question - they have the only female mascot in Division I. And the state charges $4 for 20 miles of I-95, making that stretch of road practically as expensive as the Golden Gate Bridge, which at least allows you to drive on an historical landmark, whereas all Delaware gives you is four exits, which all unfortunately take you into Delaware. And a Sbarros (actually they renovated their rest stop recently and it is quite nice - it's probably the Burton Complex of I-95 rest stops these days).
I hope this should clear everything up.