It just keeps getting WORSE!

factman · Post by **factman** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:06 am

http://utnews.utoledo.edu/index.php/06_ ... -takes-off

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:53 am

The first products featuring the Rocky logo are custom ties created by Vineyard Vines, a clothing company based on Martha’s Vineyard. The pink or blue ties can be found in the bookstores on Main and Health Science campuses and in the UTMC gift shop.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:52 pm

Ew. I can't say that I'm a fan of that logo [much like I wasn't a fan of our new logo - although peek-a-boo is growing on me.]

They have a solid logo with the drawn rocket through Toledo. Why mess it up with what looks to be a pokeman character?

VDub26Falcon · Post by **VDub26Falcon** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:33 pm

That looks like the gay cousin of a pokemon.

Ydfalcon · Post by **Ydfalcon** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:44 pm

That has got to be one of the strangest and dumbest logos I've ever seen. If they were a low level minor league baseball team, or a minor league hockey team... maybe. But it looks so silly it's hard to take it seriously.

I won't argue with the fact that a logo change can be cool every now and then, but as a sports team, you generally want people to take you seriously, and that logo just looks way too cartoonish for me to take it seriously.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:53 pm

Can't wait to see the logo on Beckman's sweatshirt this fall.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:57 pm

The tertiary mark, that was supposed to be delayed by a year, has been leaked to bloggers:

Who in the heck is in charge at that school?

From a purely semiotic point a view, the logo does nothing to promote UT. Think about it this way - if you were to put that on a hat, how clear do you think the 'traditional' mark would be? If you didn't know anything about UT, there would be nothing to indicate that it is a university that associates themselves with gay astronauts.

Of course, anyone who has seen that thing roller-shoeing around at basketball games associate anything looking like a gay astronaut with UT.

goofyeuph · Post by **goofyeuph** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:48 pm

rood · Post by **rood** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:51 am

Quote from the article:

"The logo features a flying Rocky with flames trailing behind, giving the impression of action."

Really? I thought they were icicles hanging off his stomach.

Freakling1 · Post by **Freakling1** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:54 am

That logo just sucks.

Freakling2 · Post by **Freakling2** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:28 am

WHAT THE HECK IS THAT CRAP?

Toledo has changed their logo so many flipp'n times! this one sucks!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:37 pm

I am stunned by the sillines and eternally grateful for the ammo...

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:23 pm

rood wrote:Quote from the article:

"The logo features a flying Rocky with flames trailing behind, giving the impression of action."

Really? I thought they were icicles hanging off his stomach.

That is EXACTLY what I thought. It looks like they used cryogenics to create a new logo.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:54 pm

Just because it's more fun if you can see what you're laughing at...

VDub26Falcon · Post by **VDub26Falcon** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:55 am

It must be cold flying through outer-space.

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