Mid-field logo annouced
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They(Nike) do pay UK a lot of money to jump. They just signed a $30.6 million extension to that contract.
So why do we have to share a generic logo with freaking Houston and Buffalo?
Do you see any of the following Nike schools whose branding mark is identical to some low-major?
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Clemson
Duke
Florida
FSU
Georgia
LSU
Michigan State
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Penn State
Stanford
Syracuse
Texas
UConn
I'll save you the time and answer "no."
Do you see any of the following Nike schools whose branding mark is identical to some low-major?
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Clemson
Duke
Florida
FSU
Georgia
LSU
Michigan State
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Penn State
Stanford
Syracuse
Texas
UConn
I'll save you the time and answer "no."
And most of those you list have changed their logo's very little since Nike's existance. UK has been changing since long before Nike came on the scene.
And when you change it again and then some "low-major" copies it...do you change again because they did so?
How is UH or UB any more like UK than T is like K? UT uses the power T...some folks want the power K. People don't like the checkerboard but I don't see any checkerboard with Houston or Buffalo.
As I said earlier...you can NEVER make everyone happy unless you win every game...but then we won't have won by enough or somebody should have played more/less. I think that was proven this past basketball season when people bitched because insert name here didn't play enough/played too much.
Agree 100%. The new logo is terrible and looks like it was copied from Houston and Buffalo.
Well that will look hideous. It's like the people in charge said "I have an idea, lets take our cool newly remodeled stadium and put the ugliest logo ever in the center of it. I'm sure the fans will love it!" The people who run our athletic department are so out of touch, it's not even funny anymore.
Pass on all 3 of those!! The FB ones are tolerable....but the basketball on looks pathetic...
But hey while we are at it since everyone wants to mimic UT with the power T....why done we mimic UL and use the Old English lettering as well!!
Don't you people realize the university now goes by UK more than Kentucky. We Are UK...not We are K... or We are Kentucky.....its We are UK!!!
The checkerboard has been around for a few years with UK. It started in 2008 when Nike brought back the "tradition of horse racing in this state with the Secretariat pattern"
Since then, the football team has it embedded in the jersey as do the women's basketball team as does the men's basketball team. It may be used in other sports as well.
Which makes it just 44 years after Tennessee. It's a Tennessee thing we co-opted anyways because Nike wanted us to, the same reason we used to wear terrible basketball jerseys on the football field, Nike thought it would be funny I assume.
Had to hop back on this thread and see how y'all can possibly still be talking about this. My goodness, it's not that big of deal. I showed it around the office and nobody even noticed a difference in the logos at first.
^at some point we had diamonds in the end zone too. i just can't find a pic on the web. but i have seen it.
Mizzou has diamonds currently, so it would look silly for us to use them just because we had in the past, right? Tennessee has been using the checkerboard since 64. Our checkerboard is reminiscent of Tennessee's, which is famous, not us having a checkerboard pattern we went away from long ago. Checkerboard is a bad look for us and a lazy move from Nike. Once something is synonymous to one school, it looks bad when another school tries to use it. Checkerboard is Tennessee like slashes are Notre Dame. Some others use slashes too, but they look terrible, just like we look terrible with our Houston logo and Tennessee shoulders.
A checkerboard thing is from a checkerboard - like the board on which you play checkers. Now if we used a white and orange checkerboard in our end zones then that would, in fact, be copying tennessee but I can't see how they have the the market cornered on all checkerboard designs. You know, which would exclude a two-toned blue which is used in UK related stuff.
The ut checkerboard just makes me think of dog food.
From a designers stand point I feel like this is weak. If you wanna change the logo change it but don't do dumb stuff like this. Great we are getting major updates to Commonwealth Stadium but other schools are doing massive improvements as well. You can have a smaller stadium and make it awesome but hope they don't go screwing up the field turf and overall look inside. Just feel like the football stuff is way behind the times.
Seriously, this the current bitch? Ranchers branded their steers with a "logo" to distinguish their herd from the others. This is the UK brand....get used to it. The game is about the team and players, not the frigging field. If the new CWS doesn't wow you, stay home. Besides, in a few years Buffalo and Houston will wish they sold enough "branded" gear between the two of them to match what the UK fan base demands in one fall football season.
I gather your saying what you posted that's on the basketball court will also be the mid-field logo at CW. I like it myself, but then I'm old school.
I'm with ya Brock! I just opened this thread (uniform and logo discussions don't do much for me). I was stunned at the passion in this logo discussion. Hell, I have no idea what the Houston and Buffalo logos look like and I could not care less.
This year I had the opportunity to visit Notre Dame Stadium, one of the most iconic stadiums in college football. It will be undergoing a $400 renovation which will actually integrate 3 new academic building into the exterior facade of the stadium (Touchdown Jesus side will remain open). It will continue to have a solid green field (no mid field logo) with 9 diagonal stripes in each end zone at a 42 degree angle (signifying 1842, the year the University was founded).
Sure some fields look pretty cool (I hate to say it but I love the UT field with the checkerboard EZs). But it's not about the field; it's about what happens on the field.
Peace
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