Ragin Cajuns Equipment on Twitter - helmets for next season

[cajunhawk]

Agree 1000%.

My main goal here is to get the Ragin Cajuns off the helmets. It's a terrible LOGO.

Script Cajuns is timeless. I get that our main goal is to push Ragin Cajuns as a brand, but no one is calling themselves Cajuns either. It's shorter, and more to the point of who we are.

[CharlieK]

Agree 1000%.

My main goal here is to get the Ragin Cajuns off the helmets. It's a terrible LOGO.

It is a terrible logo, far to busy especially from far. It's more proof of how great last years uniforms were that they even made that logo look better.

Script Cajuns would be a far better option.

[CharlieK]

Just a great college football uniform.

[MetryCajun]

Some people want the fleur dis lis, some Ragin Cajuns on the helmet. Is this a good compromise?

[Big Poppa]

Agree 1000%.

My main goal here is to get the Ragin Cajuns off the helmets. It's a terrible LOGO.

I am glad Maggards goals and yours aren't the same. Stick with the little tradition we have going for us. If we do ever switch to a FDL I hope it is not the hideous one on your avatar. That is way to big for a helmet. Unless it is one that fits the old Mr Cajun mascots head.

[HoustonCajun]

The FDL is on our official university (1898) seal (see below). It is a perfect symbol for the university and one that needs to be marketed. But, it has to be associated with Louisiana and Ragin Cajuns. UL has failed to market Louisiana and Ragin Cajuns together for some time and only now is starting to do that. It was mentioned that the FDL is in the center of the Quadrangle on campus (see below). I suggest that when we remove the Cox Building and put up a Square, in the middle of the Square put a smaller version of the FDL and fountain to further connect the main campus with the athletic campus.

Many of our recruits refer to us as UL Lafayette or Louisiana Lafayette. Surely, that does not come from anything athletic as athletically we are Louisiana. It comes from the academic information they receive which uses our official name and surely confuses them.

Here is a solution that should help to coordinate use of Louisiana both athletically and academically.

Change our academic logo to one similar to Texas and Wisconsin, just substitute Louisiana for Texas or Wisconsin with our FDL logo (see below). This serves two purposes:

1. It provides our legal name, but also refers to us as Louisiana, and
2. It ties the Louisiana name to both athletics and academics

Use of Louisiana alone is not prohibited by the law as "University of" is not included. If it works athletically, it should work academically. But, just to be safe, we still keep the official name underneath LOUISIANA.

So, when recruits see the new logo, or anyone for that matter, they see Louisiana, not Louisiana Lafayette. Now, we need to use this athletically as well, only replace "University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette" with "Ragin Cajuns". And, use this new logo athletically instead of the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns logo we now use (see below which doesn't even have the FDL). Now the university logos mirror each other. Can someone create an athletic logo to mirror the new academic one and paste here? UL's e-News now uses such a logo and it looks great (see below).
This should be the official university academic and athletic logos. I submitted this suggestion to Dr. S and to Dr. Maggard, but did not receive a response from either. Hopefully, it is being looked at and was used as the basis for the new e-News logo.

This is a perfect time for the university to revisit marketing and logos, both academically and athletically.

Can anyone make a academic logo and an athletic logo the same using the below logo? Just change the "University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette" to "Ragin Cajuns".

[CajunNation]

I am glad Maggards goals and yours aren't the same. Stick with the little tradition we have going for us. If we do ever switch to a FDL I hope it is not the hideous one on your avatar. That is way to big for a helmet. Unless it is one that fits the old Mr Cajun mascots head.

Tradition?

You mean like the script Cajuns we had on the helmets for the most of the 80's and 90's ?

You know why we changed from USL to Cajuns logo? It's because we hated our name. We don't have that problem anymore, but we don't have a logo to go with our new name, Louisiana.....except for the FDL.

Or, we could keep tradition and put the script Cajuns on the helmets as primary logo.

[LaCajunsFan]

Can anyone make a academic logo and an athletic logo the same using the below logo? Just change the "University of Louisiana ... at Lafayette" to "Ragin Cajuns".

Yes...I have said this too. Get some consistency with our different brands....and this is a great logo. Especially when you add Ragin Cajuns to the bottom. Has everything we want (and doesnt have what we don't want) yet is still very clean, easy to look at and just real nice.

[Big Poppa]

Tradition?

You mean like the script Cajuns we had on the helmets for the most of the 80's and 90's ?

You know why we changed from USL to Cajuns logo? It's because we hated our name. We don't have that problem anymore, but we don't have a logo to go with our new name, Louisiana.....except for the FDL.

Or, we could keep tradition and put the script Cajuns on the helmets as primary logo.

So are you saying we need to change Ragin Cajuns on the helmet because we now hate the name? Thats the best name in college sports IMO.

[cajunhawk]

Just a great college football uniform.

Sweet Jesus...there is our uniform foundation for the rest of eternity.

[CajunNation]

....Thats the best name in college sports IMO.

I've seen a poll where Banana Slugs was voted best nickname. Ragin Cajuns has won a poll as well. Most of these polls are filled with directional schools with funky nicknames. I can tell you that is how most in America view Ragin Cajuns, that they are from some little podunk school in BFE. They have never associated that nickname with Louisiana, and they never will as long as we put it as the top branding choice of the university.

[Turbine]

The FDL is on our official university (1898) seal ....

It was 1921, graphics donated by Tulane.

They got the year wrong with "1900"