GriffinM6 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Personal dislikes: Oklahoma State, USF, UCF, Virginia.Really? I think all of those logos are good. UCF's especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hd1graphics Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 again i still think Columbia's logo is fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanMcD29 Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 I mean, I get where Buffalo's trying to go with this NEW YORK stuff given it's the only SUNY in FBS, but.. ya know.. it's a system with 64 campuses and 3 other D-1 programs that are all rivals with Buffalo sorta athletically and definitely academically (that being Albany, Binghamton, and Stony Brook).Is it any different than Cal? Other than that UB should have done this 50 years ago?Well, SUNY is headquartered in Albany...Nobody likes Albany.Other fun New York college fact: New York's Land-Grant?Cornell. Yes, this is because the SUNY system itself wasn't established until 100 years after land-grant schools became a thing. Twitter: @RyanMcD29 // College Crosse: Where I write, chat, and infograph lacrosse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WavePunter Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 They should have taken the gazillion dollars from Tom Golisano way back when to change the name of the whole university. I don't have any proof, but I feel like some of the branding mismatch might be because the athletics department went rogue and tried to change their name with zero corresponding support/action on the academic side. That's exactly the problem with my school. It's why the athletic department has been pushing "Milwaukee," yet our arena is known as the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena... which usually just gets shortened to UWM Arena, anyway.Personally, I think we should just bite the bullet and be known as "UWM." There's already a NBA team in town known as "Milwaukee," and it makes no sense to claim the entire city when there's a more established and entrenched college basketball team (Marquette) that plays across State Street. If UAB and UCF can be known nationally by their initials, why can't we?Personally, I have to respectfully disagree here.. I went to a D2 school and wrestled there, and we frequently competed against the "little brother" state schools (Nebraska-Kearney, Nebraska-Omaha, UNC-Pembroke, UW-Parkside, etc), and it always annoyed me that these teams straddled identities. Everyone simplifies the name when referencing them anyway (i.e. Kearney, Omaha, Parkside), and athletically, it sounds like you're trying to piggyback on the "name" of THE university (whichever one applies) that is the "big brother" to yours.. from an academic standpoint, they're technically all linked and it makes sense, but from an athletic standpoint, I personally prefer when they embrace their own individual identity wholeheartedly and try to strengthen that brand as much as possible.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSUcelticsWON95 Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 They should have taken the gazillion dollars from Tom Golisano way back when to change the name of the whole university. I don't have any proof, but I feel like some of the branding mismatch might be because the athletics department went rogue and tried to change their name with zero corresponding support/action on the academic side. That's exactly the problem with my school. It's why the athletic department has been pushing "Milwaukee," yet our arena is known as the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena... which usually just gets shortened to UWM Arena, anyway.Personally, I think we should just bite the bullet and be known as "UWM." There's already a NBA team in town known as "Milwaukee," and it makes no sense to claim the entire city when there's a more established and entrenched college basketball team (Marquette) that plays across State Street. If UAB and UCF can be known nationally by their initials, why can't we?Personally, I have to respectfully disagree here.. I went to a D2 school and wrestled there, and we frequently competed against the "little brother" state schools (Nebraska-Kearney, Nebraska-Omaha, UNC-Pembroke, UW-Parkside, etc), and it always annoyed me that these teams straddled identities. Everyone simplifies the name when referencing them anyway (i.e. Kearney, Omaha, Parkside), and athletically, it sounds like you're trying to piggyback on the "name" of THE university (whichever one applies) that is the "big brother" to yours.. from an academic standpoint, they're technically all linked and it makes sense, but from an athletic standpoint, I personally prefer when they embrace their own individual identity wholeheartedly and try to strengthen that brand as much as possible..I can agree. Generally people say "Kearney" around here, sometimes "UNK." With Nebraska-Omaha, people will generally say "UNO," but I have heard it just referred to as "Omaha." But I also do hear a lot of "UNL" as opposed to just "Nebraska." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 They should have taken the gazillion dollars from Tom Golisano way back when to change the name of the whole university. I don't have any proof, but I feel like some of the branding mismatch might be because the athletics department went rogue and tried to change their name with zero corresponding support/action on the academic side. That's exactly the problem with my school. It's why the athletic department has been pushing "Milwaukee," yet our arena is known as the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena... which usually just gets shortened to UWM Arena, anyway.Personally, I think we should just bite the bullet and be known as "UWM." There's already a NBA team in town known as "Milwaukee," and it makes no sense to claim the entire city when there's a more established and entrenched college basketball team (Marquette) that plays across State Street. If UAB and UCF can be known nationally by their initials, why can't we?Personally, I have to respectfully disagree here.. I went to a D2 school and wrestled there, and we frequently competed against the "little brother" state schools (Nebraska-Kearney, Nebraska-Omaha, UNC-Pembroke, UW-Parkside, etc), and it always annoyed me that these teams straddled identities. Everyone simplifies the name when referencing them anyway (i.e. Kearney, Omaha, Parkside), and athletically, it sounds like you're trying to piggyback on the "name" of THE university (whichever one applies) that is the "big brother" to yours.. from an academic standpoint, they're technically all linked and it makes sense, but from an athletic standpoint, I personally prefer when they embrace their own individual identity wholeheartedly and try to strengthen that brand as much as possible..For a long time, I was a huge advocate of the team being known as Milwaukee and nothing else. I think part of the problem is we have a generic nickname like Panthers. No unique mascot like Gophers or Hurricanes to separate us from the other sports teams known as Milwaukee the way Minnesota and Miami do. In fact, if you refer to "the Panthers game," most people would think of a NFL game involving Carolina. Thus, most people end up referring to us as UWM or UW-Milwaukee anyway.I'd still get behind branding as Milwaukee if it could be done correctly, but I think even as UWM, our colors are enough to distinguish us from UW-Madison (especially when they're referred to as UW, with no qualifier). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WavePunter Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Like I said before, I'd just let Madison be "Wisconsin" and carry all the "UW" weight, while Milwaukee embraces "MILWAUKEE", but that's just all part of branding and culture. To me, being just another one of the UW-Something's is not only weaker within the city, but weaker and confusing throughout the state.. having the Panthers moniker to differentiate yourself from other entities within the city fixes that problem while the "Milwaukee" distinction clarifies any "UW-xxxx" confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damnyoutuesday Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 University of Arizona. It FEELS like something an airline would use in the early 90's Sorry, I'm on an iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Like I said before, I'd just let Madison be "Wisconsin" and carry all the "UW" weight, while Milwaukee embraces "MILWAUKEE", but that's just all part of branding and culture. To me, being just another one of the UW-Something's is not only weaker within the city, but weaker and confusing throughout the state.. having the Panthers moniker to differentiate yourself from other entities within the city fixes that problem while the "Milwaukee" distinction clarifies any "UW-xxxx" confusion.In my perfect world, we'd be the University of Milwaukee and we'd be known as the Gulls again. I'd love it if we could actually pull off being known strictly as "Milwaukee," but the academic side of the university is run by clueless boomers who actually think the "UW-" part of our name is an asset and not a burden. This is how we have a basketball team trying to brand itself as "Milwaukee" playing at the "UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3uge Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Aside from the UW-Milwaukee logo, the rest of the Horizon League is pretty bad as well:Bird shot in neck:Peeping Tom:----And then escaping the Horizon to the Summit:Bad wordmark alert: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpygremlin Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 IUPUI has the same design that almost all the other IU's have. Bad wordmark alert:Bad wordmark and generic bulldog alert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpygremlin Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 SIUE's Division II logo was miles better than their D-1 logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawk36 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I always cringe when these guys are doing well in football. Seems so Division III or Rookie League baseball. Need a more refined look to match the recent success of the program in football. Too cartoony. Design Hovie Studios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Aside from the UW-Milwaukee logo, the rest of the Horizon League is pretty bad as well:It's true... the Horizon may be the ugliest conference in Division 1.It almost makes me want to cry when I see how nice a mid-major like the WCC looks by comparison. Even their worst logos would be amongst our better ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSUcelticsWON95 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Aside from the UW-Milwaukee logo, the rest of the Horizon League is pretty bad as well:It's true... the Horizon may be the two ugliest conference in Division 1.It almost makes me want to cry when I see how nice a mid-major like the WCC looks by comparison. Even their worst logos would be amongst our better ones.I feel like Detroit and Oakland have nice brands. I've always liked YSU's penguine, and I think Wright State doesn't look bad either. Milwaukee isn't one of the worst by all means, but the others bring it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewp80 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 IUPUI has the same design that almost all the other IU's have. Wow. The Titan and Grenadier even have the same face! I'm speechless at how lazy that is. Cardinals -- Rams -- Blues -- Tigers -- Liverpool Check out my music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawk36 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 And they are all poor designs. If you're going to copy, copy something good. Design Hovie Studios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ren69 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 A few more nominees, although I may offend many loyalties (Part 1):LSU dropped Toonces this year, and it slowly integrating the new Tiger logo into things. It's currently on the football helmets.Why does the new tiger have antlers?Not sure if any of you have seen this one before, it's a conceptdone by Torch Creative which IMO looks really good. https://www.behance.net/Ren1969 https://twitter.com/Ren1969_Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 IUPUI has the same design that almost all the other IU's have. Wow. The Titan and Grenadier even have the same face! I'm speechless at how lazy that is.I didn't notice that, good eye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkell007 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 FBS: 1. Northwestern 2. Memphis 3. Tulsa 4. Minnesota 5. Georgia TechFCS(and the rest): 1. Butler 2. Stephen F. Austin 3. Charleston Southern 4. Hartford 5. Fairleigh Dickinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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