New helmets?

[Eagle-96]

I am illiterate, esecially when it comes to things like photshop. Can someone please put together some helmet possibilities based on the new logos and wordmarks? Deepgreen, AustinTalon, anyone?

[ipEAGLE]

I have a feeling we will the see the eagle head on our helmets next yr... like the one in my signature below.

[Keith Fever]

RV told me the eagle will NOT be on the helmets, but it will be a version of "North Texas" or "Mean Green." He also said that the eagle could be incorporated into the stadium somehow though.

[ipEAGLE]

Oh ok... thats cool, just thought the eagle head would be on it because its simple and would look good on tv.

[Gakusei]

Instead of going with a recognizeable logo on our helmets, we're going to go with indiscriminate text again? Wow.

[NT91]

I always thought we should be called the North Texas Talons. The 2nd logo with the "North Texas" in the grip of the talon would look good on a helmet.

[Eagle-96]

The eagle, as it looks in ipEAGLE's sig line, looks pretty decent. It looked horrible on the hat. I think the stiching makes it look pretty bad. It will pretty good on screen printed shirts etc...

Edited April 27, 2005 by Eagle-96

[greenjoe]

rick told me that the helmet color would probably stay the same. The script would be gone and would be replaced with one of the new wordmarks.

He didn't seem giddy, but somewhat resigned to accept what was given us.

I told him we were glad he was here.

GO MEAN GREEN

[NT80]

I expect we'll see a version of the "stacked" North Texas on the helmet, with no eagle. They are still concerned nobody knows who they are playing or watching. <_

[ntsumck]

The helmet I saw some months back had the North Texas side by side with the new font. It did not look that great.

(Let me state, I saw this helmet by accident)

[Gakusei]

These are just very quick, and I'm not very good at trying to put these things on helmets.

[Gakusei]

And the other...

[Stan R]

no eagles on the helmet. we're the mean green. or north texas.

[Gakusei]

We're the Mean Green and the Eagles. I don't see why that is so hard to grasp.

[Cerebus]

We're the Mean Green and the Eagles.  I don't see why that is so hard to grasp.

The current AD only wants to push Mean Green because of it's uniqueness. I don't see why that is so hard to grasp.

An eagle will not be on our helmet.

[Gakusei]

The nickname "Mean Green" is unique, but going from now to eternity with no recognizeable logo isn't. Writing "North Texas" or "Mean Green" on the helmet, field, court, etc is so bland and uninteresting...I don't see why anyone would be in favor of that. Anyone with even the most basic understanding of marketing knows that people will identify with a graphic much faster than they identify with text.

Edited April 27, 2005 by Gakusei

[UNT_92_Fan]

Gak (sorry) is right... Three years of crap marketing classes..... Pictures are accepted and remembered before words....

[greensteve]

i know we are the mean green, and i am on board with that...but those black helmets with the green eagle are very cool. Would be nice to see them once or twice a year.

I'm just picturing that with a black and green uni, what an intimidating look.

[Harry]

Gak is right. As big a fan of the script as I have been, the new eagle head would be better in my book. It's really growing on me.

Excuse me, I have to run to make a pistol duel scheduled with Cerebus over this issue...

[Cerebus]

I don't see why anyone would be in favor of that.

My name is Lorenzo, and I love the Script.

Anyone with even the most basic understanding of marketing knows that people will identify with a picture much faster than they identify with text.

Exactly, which is why no one knows who these teams are:

[Cerebus]

Excuse me, I have to run to make a pistol duel scheduled with Cerebus over this issue...

At dawn, you may bring a second.

[Zeke]

I am gonna side with Cerebus on this one. OU and TT are my two examples - graphic representations of text. However......................I haven't seen us come up with one of these great 2 letter marks so I suppose just North Texas in Times New Roman will have to do.

[MootPoint]

I am gonna side with Cerebus on this one.  OU and TT are my two examples - graphic representations of text.  However......................I haven't seen us come up with one of these great 2 letter marks so I suppose just North Texas in Times New Roman will have to do.

Tsk Tsk now. It's Michaelangelo

[eagle37]

i have to agree with (gak) on this one too. I have never cared for the North Texas script on the helments. I think we need a logo instead script. We got away with it (logos) for years and it appears that the flying worm is a classic logo. I would like to see the eagle logo on the helments. It just looks more like a football helment.

Whatever we do I would like to see us go with a logo and make it permenant instead of changing it every five or six years. I think this is a big reason why people don't recognize us when they see us on tv. Because, we have continuously changed our logos and have not stuck with a steady logo.

[Gakusei]

I can't believe I'm going to this much effort to prove my point, but here goes...

How many of these can you instantly recognize? And more importantly, what do you think of when you see them? Having a graphic is more than just trying to be recognizeable, it also gives an identity to a school, a company, or whatever. When I see a yellow price tag, I think of Best Buy and then electronics. When I see a helmet with yellow lines running from front to back, I think Michigan, and I think Big Ten football and even Ohio State. When I see a kid fishing from a moon, I think movies, and then I'm about to see something good.

Believe me, companies invest millions of dollars into branding. They want you to feel an emotional connection with their company and their product, and logos are the primary focus in developing that. As far as your example, the only well known school that you listed that spells their name out is Illinois. The rest are using abbreviations, or aren't as popular as you seem to think they are (seriously...louisiana-lafayette, Idaho and ohio?? ).

Edited April 27, 2005 by Gakusei