The 2005-ish Mac unis we’re great. Very little yellow, most was red and I feel like they used white or red pants most of the time. These were the least mcdonalds-y we’ve been in my life outside of Campbell days
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I need one of those Ames helmet polos the players are wearing today.
Seems like players and coaches more often than not wear ISU branded clothing that doesn't use the "I State" logo...
Can't say I blame them, we have better logos imo.
Hypothetical for the group: Pollard comes to you and says we have to modernize the I-State logo, without fundamentally changing it how would you modify it?
Get rid of the beveling and make the logo two colors.
Remove the bevels!!! Make the two-color version the primary. Its easy, and already one of the variations that we regularly use.
Tell him to go with the bugle and watch the world burn
I’m sorry but you have to be blind. The Mac jerseys literally (and factually) were off the rack generic red. We literally told Nike “take your base cheapest materials and base red color and your base yellow color”. During the “Mac Nike era” - Iowa State football had the cheapest jerseys in all of college football. Let that sink in. Off the rack, high school level quality uniforms. With generic-ass colors and screenprinted numbers. Beyond embarrassing. They made have even included the 90’s “shimmer sheen” or durasheen material! Thank GOD we finally got the “Nike elite” jerseys when we Chizik came. The cardinal was (and still is) the shade we requested. We choose the shade of “yellow” too (and no, it was never a consideration to go back to using and ‘old gold’ or ‘shiny’ gold for the pants - the intention across all sports was adopt a consistent tone of yellow across the board. And they did.). Were these uniforms perfect? No, but they were classic looking, clean, and very high quality. Nike still is the only brand that I will buy ISU polos, shirts, etc. from, as they are the only ones that get the colors (and the logo/patch) correct.
Walking Cy. Or the Kagavi new Orr-nado creation.
For the record, I kinda like I-state too.
I never liked the McCarney Era "ketchup bottle" red/red/red combo --
I have a philosophical objection to monochrome uniforms save white/white.
They just always look bad. You're not going to convince me otherwise.
Some of the other combos from that era are actually pretty nice --
Red/White/White
Red/Red/Gold
Red/White/Gold
Red/White/Red
Heck, even the rarely-used red/red/white is okay --
I'd totally be down for an update of this that...
-- generally improves the uniform quality and materials
-- uses the more recent colors (mostly the darker red into a cardinal shade)
-- uses the more recent font for any text (though not the uniform numbers, varsity block is fine)
-- updates the logo from the bird in the blender to the I-State (unfortunate necessity)
-- sticks to C/C/G at home and rotates C/W/C, C/W/G, and C/W/W on the road
-- mix in a white helmet if you must
Too bad Campbell hates the gold and loves a non-school color.
I have a philosophical objection to monochrome uniforms save white/white.
They just always look bad. You're not going to convince me otherwise.
Some of the other combos from that era are actually pretty nice --
Red/White/White
Red/Red/Gold
Red/White/Gold
Red/White/Red
Heck, even the rarely-used red/red/white is okay --
I'd totally be down for an update of this that...
-- generally improves the uniform quality and materials
-- uses the more recent colors (mostly the darker red into a cardinal shade)
-- uses the more recent font for any text (though not the uniform numbers, varsity block is fine)
-- updates the logo from the bird in the blender to the I-State (unfortunate necessity)
-- sticks to C/C/G at home and rotates C/W/C, C/W/G, and C/W/W on the road
-- mix in a white helmet if you must
Too bad Campbell hates the gold and loves a non-school color.
As evidenced by mid-major bowl opponents Miami (OH) and TCU having the same template (the number font is a dead giveaway), but with different trim pattern.
This for sure - in fact, JP literally said he wanted to get back to (or perhaps create for the first time) a cohesive visual identity with actual school colors for the AD - you may not like where they landed, but the overall quality of the whole package was far better than where the AD went in the '90s & early '00s - I grew up with those Mac teams & although I don't hate the Blythe/Meyer/etc. uniforms for sentimental reasons, they really are pretty terrible
The "shiny" gold pants with Cardinal striping used in the 2007 throwbacks would help enable the comeback of gold pants on new FB unis and would certainly enhance the usage of gold on other unis as well for BB, softball, VB, etc. If the existing gold shade on current unis is kept, you will never see gold pants again, especially as long as CMC is HC.
The only one of these I still like is the that Red/Red/White Stevie Hicks is rocking. I don't know why they ditched that. Much better than the ketchup bottle.
Fix the dated font - look at the A and E in particular - and yeet the bevels. Like what I showed here from one of my old stories:
Orr-nado isn't my creation. As my stories said, it was from the mind of @amestoplease - but all I did was try to bring more attention to it. For the record, I've also seen other tornado concepts that are cool and I've suggested the AD keep iterating and trying out different tornado logos for different use cases. The bugle logo could be used as an emoji, etc. Eventually one would rise to the top IMO.
Speaking of him, I just saw this post of his:
New Walking Cy Logo Concept
Even more amazing stuff. There's something to be said for giving a talented artist (with a full understanding of ISU's cultural history) free reign over branding - rather than focus grouping it to death.
Haha! I like ANY KU uniform better than these! Get real!
NOT! Good job Cd! Way to get things back on track. Not that I mind seeing new KU unis, but comparing them to us doesn't really make sense. They are not so great.
What's it worth to ya?
Well it can be done, relatively easily, but then I'd have to..... No, wait, that's the wrong expression.
I can do it. But I will need some fun money!
Ahem, most of that was my doing. I'll take the blame there. Just playing with eventual gold options. No worries.