Umm...

Feb 26, 2014
4:04:48pm

davvas22

Umm...

The Yale logo looks just like the Y on Y Mountain. Easy to get confused. I remember seeing the Yale Club flag in NYC and I thought, "Cool, BYU!"

I've had people ask about my Yahoo! apparel when wearing the Oval Y.

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davvas22

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Messages

Author

Time

I love this logo

chazen

2/26/14 1:20pm

It's embarassing that BYU ever moved away from it

uberslacker

2/26/14 1:20pm

What's sad is that there is still a ton of the tan crap with the

LiveCoug

2/26/14 1:23pm

I strongly dislike the blue and tan flying cougar head

In Reverie

2/26/14 1:24pm

It was made to specifically be a helmet logo. It didn't catch on as an apparel

Mantis Mutu

2/26/14 5:17pm

Not True...BYU's logo has wide appeal...

jazzycougar

2/26/14 6:21pm

I remember reading that. One sports writer's opinion. Would

Mantis Mutu

2/26/14 7:36pm

There you go...

jazzycougar

2/26/14 10:31pm

We can't rule out your biased opinion either, afterall, it is only one poster.

Real G Man

3/31/16 10:01pm

aesthtetic failings? really? i'm a designer and i design or oversee the design

chazen

2/26/14 11:46pm

I stated below that I thought it was okay as an apparel logo

Mantis Mutu

2/27/14 11:37am

Agreed.

Cougar Insider

2/26/14 1:21pm

I move that BYU change the Y on the mountain to an oval stretch Y

deek1906

2/26/14 1:26pm

seconded.

JackStack

2/26/14 1:45pm

let it be done

yfootball

2/26/14 2:43pm

Which one of you brethren will say unto the Y mountain, "be thou stretched"?

ByuMba90

2/26/14 3:17pm

Amen!

idacoug

2/26/14 1:28pm

Meh. To me it's always looked like one arm has elephantiasis.

Florwood

2/26/14 1:29pm

I'm sorry that you have such bad opinions. That would be hard. Good luck.

riboflavin

2/26/14 1:31pm

Fortunately, God does have mercy on my soul.

Florwood

2/26/14 1:43pm

'Does' he...

knight

2/26/14 7:32pm

Good sense of design.

Monomachos

2/26/14 3:12pm

It's great, but on the East Coast it still gets confused with Yale, so I have to

Iman23

2/26/14 1:32pm

Then they don't watch sports and aren't much good to us anyway.

chazen

2/26/14 1:44pm

I was asked in the Phoenix airport if it

BYUHgrad

2/26/14 3:33pm

My relatives from back east thought it was the Yahoo logo on the back of my car

cougar_chick1

2/26/14 3:33pm

Anyone that thinks it is Yale, doesn't know Yale at all.

zuldiras

2/26/14 5:01pm

Anyone that says this is a Ute fan trying to get you worked up.

science pete

2/26/14 5:41pm

It gets confused with Yale and Yahoo anywhere in the country outside of Utah.

Kerbouchard

3/31/16 9:52pm

That and the cougar crawling over the "BYU" from the 80's are logos we should

CougDogg-e-Dogg

2/26/14 1:33pm

I can't stand that one. I won't buy anything with that on it.

Blue for Life

2/26/14 2:48pm

Really? You are the small minority on that opinion.

CougDogg-e-Dogg

2/26/14 2:54pm

I love that logo, much better than the tan cougar that we used afterwards

AFcoug7

2/26/14 3:26pm

I agree. I don't like it at all.

cougar_chick1

2/26/14 3:34pm

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the Cougar crawling over the mountain?

CougDogg-e-Dogg

2/26/14 3:38pm

Yes actually I was thinking of this:

cougar_chick1

2/26/14 4:07pm

about eating the U: We used to do that very well every year

BlueK

2/26/14 4:17pm

sigh...Those were the good ole days.....

cougar_chick1

2/26/14 4:26pm

Did you know that coach Edwards designed the "Stretch" Y

Cougarpride

2/26/14 1:46pm

Athlon Sports agrees. Remember this article that ranked our logo?

BringBackRoyalBlue

2/26/14 1:51pm

What about the Down Arrow in the logo?

JayOwen

2/26/14 2:05pm

It stands for "You are here", or "This is the (right) place".

maizecoug

2/26/14 2:29pm

An IT guy in my office was working on my computer and my wallpaper is a picture

erodcoug

2/26/14 2:41pm

It's much less likely to get confused with Yale than the 1999 redesigned Y logo

cougarmeister

2/26/14 3:21pm

Umm...

davvas22

2/26/14 4:04pm

If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?

notoriousnicholas

2/26/14 4:04pm

I was wearing a jacket with this Logo on it when I checked into a Hotel in Hong

Blue Heart

2/26/14 4:30pm

I like that one and the Cougar in the Sailor hat.

Coug98

2/26/14 4:46pm

Except that it still gets mistaken for Yale and Yahoo

run26

2/26/14 4:48pm

Marshmello sapling.

Mantis Mutu

2/26/14 4:52pm

Yeah, so you like the non-unique, standard college lettering Y. Figures.

chazen

2/26/14 11:51pm

But do they know how hard some of us pushed for BYU to expand it's use

Downtown

2/26/14 7:52pm

It's the only true BYU logo to me. It's the logo I grew up with as the symbol

chazen

2/26/14 11:52pm

it's become the "unofficial" international symbol for "mormon"...

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