New Official SSUR Contest

[TruColor]

I have been contacted by a sports television producer in Knoxville, Tennessee, and he has proposed that I host a contest to come up with some designs for new men?s basketball uniforms for the University of Tennessee.

Apparently, he has been getting a few callers suggesting that the team take advantage of the unexpectedly good season they?ve been having and come up with some new uniforms.

UT is an adidas school and won?t accept unsolicited designs, but this producer wants to have fun with this and have some of you play around with some new ideas.

Here are some of the ground rules:

• This contest is only connected to ?The Sports Source? TV show in Knoxville, and NOT the University of Tennessee.
  
• There is NO monetary prize from the show (or from anyone else for that matter!).
  
• If one of these designs that is submitted, and somehow UT and adidas decides to go in the direction of the design, the designer cannot turn around and sue the school.
  
• Please create both ?home? and ?road? uniforms.
  

Other items:

• Contest ends on March 31, 2006. The show will be broadcast on April 9.
  
• Preferably, all entries should be in vector format; the producer would prefer to have the ability to show them in a large format for television. So, make sure that whatever the format you submit them in can be scaled to at least 72 dpi, 400 x 300.
  
• All entries should be submitted to me at this email address: UTContest AT ssur.org (replacing ?AT? with the ?@? symbol).
  
• I will provide the official colors and official vector logos to anyone who needs them?provided that they are used solely for the purpose of this contest. (You know what I mean!)
  
• Logos that will be provided will include the ?Power T? logo, the secondary logo dog-head logo, and the checkerboard logo. It?s up to you whether or not to include one of them, all of them, or none of them.
  
• It would help to keep the traditional Tennessee Orange and White color scheme as a base. Black can certainly be used as an accent/trim color, but it?s a good idea not to use the Light Blue that the women?s teams use.
  
• The U. of Tennessee boasts an unusual color scheme that should lend itself to some striking home and away basketball uniforms. The program ? now a factor on a national scale ? should feature uniforms that will draw the attention of ESPN cameras and high school recruits alike. The uniforms can say ?class? or ?flash?, but they need to be ?unique?.
  
• The best designs will be shown on the television show?with viewer phone calls and comments. The producers will try to get either the University?s Athletic Director or Head Coach Bruce Pearl on-hand to get their reaction to the contest and designs. They might also try to get the winning designer on the telephone for a live phone interview.
  
• Winner will receive a ?The Sports Source? cap, and all of the adulation that one would expect from winning such a contest. Who knows ? it could be decent publicity for the winning designer!
  
• The entries will remain hidden from public view until after the show. Afterwards, they will all be posted on my site (www.ssur.org).
  

I will be putting up a contest page that will also include some pictures of past UT players in uniform for reference.

I will also be posting this contest announcement on both the SSUR forum and Chris Creamer?s Sports Logos forum. These are only two official sites/forums that will be participating in this contest.

[TruColor]

Bumpin'...

No one has anything to say about this????

[VitaminD]

I'd love to get in on this, but I am not a member of the vectored set. I can offer up something (I actually have an idea I am liking more and more) but it'd be done MSPaint style. I could make it painfully oversized if that'd help...

[TruColor]

You can certainly submit designs in any format; sorry if that wasn't clear.

Re-reading my post, it looks like I made it seem like vector was the ONLY format that designs would be accepted...

[gordie_delini]

i'm in, and i'll take those vector logos from ya, if you don't mind. would you also be willing to provide a standard basketball template for us to use?

[kc51design]

Pantone, I'm interested unless the contest is limited to US citizens only.

[Braden]

Count me in Pantone. I wouldn't mind the vector logos myself.

[paynomind]

Pantone, I'd like to get the logo set so I can work something up for the contest.

Thanks.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Just a question.. I looked at the main site to see the dog logo, but this logo plus the football helmet is all that was up:

Were is this dog logo? And isn't the Vol's logo now just the big T?

Just curious.

[TruColor]

Pantone, I'm interested unless the contest is limited to US citizens only.

Oh heck no...everyone's invited.

I'm guessing that the producers would LOVE input from Croatia. (I would!)

Everyone just PM me with their email addresses and I'll send you the "toolkit" of graphics...I will also make large raster graphics available for those wanting to use Paint (and other non vector-based programs).

As far as templates go...I think the one everyone here uses would be more than adequate, but I'll look into including something in the kit as well.

The logos I have compiled is the "Power T" logo, one of the dog-head secondary logos, the Checkerboard logo (seen on the football field endzones), and two of the newer wordmarks. I'll post them here later.

[HatCityEnforcer]

ah what the heck..I'll give this a shot.

I'll have to wait for the raster stuff though...

[Sec19Row53]

Bumpin'...

No one has anything to say about this????

I've got no talent.

That didn't stop me from saying something elsewhere, though! Good luck, and make Coach Pearl proud.

[andrewharrington]

I'll do it if I get time. Can I request color information and 'Power T' artwork? [andrewcharlesharrington@gmail.com]

[TruColor]

Here are raster versions of the logos I've mentioned:

Power "T" Logo:

Secondary Logo:

"Checkerboard" Logo:

[TruColor]

Here are the wordmarks:

[pooter]

Pantone:

What is the "official" Tennessee orange color in R: B: G:?

Can you also include the HTML # for it?

[TruColor]

Pantone:

What is the "official" Tennessee orange color in R: B: G:?

Can you also include the HTML # for it?

I've got all of that in the PDF I include in the "toolkit".

PM me your email address, and I'll send it to you.

[TruColor]

Oh what the heck...colleges don't seem to care if their Pantone colors are public knowledge or not:

Men's Athletic Colors:

And for comparison, here's the women's colors -

Women's Athletic Colors:

And, you'll see that the university itself uses a different Orange -

Institutional Colors:

[shiznit1083]

I am absolutely in this.

[BRice16]

Don't know if this should effect the concepts or not, but I work in the AD at UT as a grad asst, and I can tell you that the policy that was made when we introduced the secondary marks (dog, "Vols," etc.) are not to be used on uniforms or warmups.