Jersey Mockups

[css228]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I'd rather play a big time OOC foe at Schoellkopf. Go for as big a spectacle as possible to draw as many fans as possible. Something like Michigan or Wisconsin. If you want to make it so their fans could travel in as well BC might work nicely.

[Dafatone]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I really don't like this idea.  Outdoor hockey puts the fans really, really far from the action.  The fun of Lynah is that you're close to the ice.

[css228]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I really don't like this idea.  Outdoor hockey puts the fans really, really far from the action.  The fun of Lynah is that you're close to the ice.

Very true, I think I support it mainly because the players here want to do it, and therefore it could be a really great recruiting tool to do once every 5 years or so. But Lynah is a great recruiting tool in itself. Besides, at true spectacle of an event might almost fill Schoellkopf which would be pretty cool. Andy Iles Nick D'Agostino Gotta give the players what they want right?

[Ben]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I really don't like this idea.  Outdoor hockey puts the fans really, really far from the action.  The fun of Lynah is that you're close to the ice.

They should put the rink right next to the Crescent and add moveable bleachers rinkside on the west edge. I think that would work.

[Dafatone]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I really don't like this idea.  Outdoor hockey puts the fans really, really far from the action.  The fun of Lynah is that you're close to the ice.

Very true, I think I support it mainly because the players here want to do it, and therefore it could be a really great recruiting tool to do once every 5 years or so. But Lynah is a great recruiting tool in itself. Besides, at true spectacle of an event might almost fill Schoellkopf which would be pretty cool. Andy Iles Nick D'Agostino Gotta give the players what they want right?

It could be pretty cool.  I just wouldn't want to see it done for the Harvard game, given how big a tradition it is.  Maybe an out of conference matchup would work.

[Beeeej]

Smug bear is not coming back

Probably, but huggy bear is loathsome -- the graphic artist may have actually intended it as a bad joke.

And as I've said before, it doesn't even conjure up "huggy" for me - it screams "Help, I'm stuck in this vise!!"

Only one of many reasons why skeptical bear is still among my favorite Cornell lapel pins.

[sockralex]

At the risk of bringing this thread back on topic...

1. Though I don't love a few of the designs in this particularly jersey, it would be nice to do something like this and then auction off the jersey for charity - similar to the breast cancer pink jerseys. I think something a bit more "cartoonish" like this jersey would have some appeal and could raise cash for a good cause.  Hopefully that cause is hiring the RPI crew to do live streaming video for the games.

2. I always thought of "Huggy Bear" as "Bear Angry that he got stuck in a "C" trap"

[lhayes]

Anyone know the story of the carved wooden huggy bear now in the Lynah lobby, just past the ticket office?  Where'd it come from, and why?  It's competently done, but really makes you wonder how that dumb bear got trapped in that C.  

I do love Grumpy (skeptical) Bear.

[Towerroad]

If you want things that will never happen, why not an outdoor game?

We'll probably play an outdoor game eventually. An outdoor game on Beebe Lake will never happen again. Which is sad because it would be amazing.

How about Schoellkoph?

I believe I said in another thread that I'd like us to play Harvard (or both games of Harvard/Dartmouth weekend) at Schoellkopf eventually. But playing on Beebe Lake would far cooler.

I really don't like this idea.  Outdoor hockey puts the fans really, really far from the action.  The fun of Lynah is that you're close to the ice.

Very true, I think I support it mainly because the players here want to do it, and therefore it could be a really great recruiting tool to do once every 5 years or so. But Lynah is a great recruiting tool in itself. Besides, at true spectacle of an event might almost fill Schoellkopf which would be pretty cool. Andy Iles Nick D'Agostino Gotta give the players what they want right?

It could be pretty cool.  I just wouldn't want to see it done for the Harvard game, given how big a tradition it is.  Maybe an out of conference matchup would work.

Could be a lure for one of the Western schools. I agree that Sucks does not deserve the opportunity.

[Trotsky]

2. I always thought of "Huggy Bear" as "Bear Angry that he got stuck in a "C" trap"

My wife calls it "Reach Around Bear."

[ugarte]

2. I always thought of "Huggy Bear" as "Bear Angry that he got stuck in a "C" trap"

My wife calls it "Reach Around Bear."

That's more than Disinterested Bear ever did. Selfish.

[Ben]

Could be a lure for one of the Western schools. I agree that Sucks does not deserve the opportunity.

If we can get a weekend of Wisconsin and Michigan, that would be awesome. But we know that we'll play Harvard and Dartmouth every year, and that is usually the most hyped weekend of the season (and would be the most likely pairing to fill the Crescent).

And if we lose to Wisconsin, I would have to hide from the rest of my family.

[RichH]

They're too bland for my taste, personally, and to be honest, the tradition doesn't really mean anything to me. As my friend said the other day... "It's not like there's anything wrong with them, it's just that I always like the other team's jerseys better."

You're not going to get far in a presentation proposing a major change to this program by saying "tradition doesn't really mean anything to me." ;-)

Personally, I love our current jerseys (except I think the white stripe on the roads shouldn't be at the bottom hem like they are this season) and think they're about as classic a look as you can get.  But I'll humor Greg M, since he spent his procrastination-for-Finals time on a hockey-specific project.  Otherwise, I echo French Rage's statement.

First off a little history: if you go look at the team photos in the concourse of Lynah, it's interesting to see the major changes that did happen between ~1977 and 1987.  There's that really weird quasi-futuristic font where the bottom of the C underlines the "ornell," and then they went to that heavy double-twill lettering with the exaggerated word-arch in the mid-80s.  I'll always give credit to Brian McCutcheon for returning to the classic design when he took over in 1987-88.  For jersey collectors like me, it's been fun, even with the constant design to notice subtle changes as the vendors change.  The 2003 version's fonts are much taller than the 1994 version, for example...I like to think for psychological reasons to make our huge team look even bigger.  

Coach Schafer himself never wore the current design.  This is what the 1985-86 era teams wore.  Notice the "skeptic bear"(round "C" version) on the shoulders.

We have had one-weekend "alternate" jerseys over the past 10 years that were auctioned off for charity.  I can't find pictures of that first one with the block "C" and the wide white stipe at the middle, but that was acceptable for a one-time charity thing.  I know Jim Hyla wears his to games most of the time.  We also had black and pink versions for the "Pink The Rink" promotion the entire league did for breast cancer.  Most recently, we did 1967 replicas with tie-downs and the sans-serif font that looked really nice.

I take one look at Greg M's design and think it screams "RPI."  Replace that cartoony logo with Puckman, and there you go.  I'm not surprised current students don't have a problem with "Huggy Reach-around Bear," since it's all they've ever known, but I think that overall, alumni older than Class of '04 (or whenever those logo sets came out) dislike it. (Why not go with "Block C" without the bear muddling it up?).  The red version of Greg M's design also reminds me a lot of the Blackhawks, obviouisly due to the sleeve striping.  I like the school crest on the shoulders, but not the bear logo (why asymmetric patches?) These would be OK "3rd jerseys" for the (wait for it...) College Hockey video game.

[RichH]

But I've seen what happens when teams start messing with their traditional colors and design. Jersey designers will eventually have us wearing crimson.

Yes, indeed.  File under "Things that exist."  BTW, they have this style for many hockey-deprived jock-factories.

[RichH]

BTW, in my googling, I stumbled across another mock-up from September in this post:
http://hockeyjerseyconcepts.blogspot.com/2011/09/big-boned-thursday-post.html

FWIW, I hate stylized numbers, although I kind of like the look of the white yokes (with the Block C!) on the Alt 1 version. Also, this guy really seems to want us to look more like BU with the numbers on the front.  (Credit to someone named Arthur Denny).