and mediocre. Those are my opinions about the logo, informed by the fact that the design is strikingly similar to those of dozens of other logos of othe schools. Your expertise is irrelevant to those opinions.
You are pointing out differences that are actually just as obvious to me as they are to you, but that are irrelevant to my opinion of the logo. I already conceded that it might be the best of its kind, I just don't care. Because it's a meh logo.
And no, BYU's stretch Y logo and WSU's cougar spelled with the letters WSU aren't thematically identical. They're barely even thematically similar, apart from containing letters.