Ragin Cajuns Equipment on Twitter - helmets for next season

[Cajun90]

You say we have a logo the FDL, for what 1 year now and before that the Cayenne pepper was our logo. .

The FDL has been used by the University since inception. I am positive it was used in sports as early as the late eighties. The administration was pushing the FDL as the primary logo at least five years ago when I was told that directly by someone in Martin Hall. Unfortunately there wasn't a big enough backbone to make the coaches all adhere.

Like I stated before I don't really see the issue. An FDL logo with a Ragin Cajuns moniker are not incompatible.

[Big Poppa]

Tell that to the baseball team.

Another good example of inconsistent branding and marketing. Got different sports doing their own thing. If you want to look at baseball then we should put interlocking UL on the football lids. Consistency is what we need.

[Million$Mullet]

Another good example of inconsistent branding and marketing. Got different sports doing their own thing. If you want to look at baseball then we should put interlocking UL on the football lids. Consistency is what we need.

Baseball switched their hats to the FDL this year with Louisiana on their jerseys. Granted the batting helmets still had interlocking UL

[Big Poppa]

The FDL has been used by the University since inception. I am positive it was used in sports as early as the late eighties. The administration was pushing the FDL as the primary logo at least five years ago when I was told that directly by someone in Martin Hall. Unfortunately there wasn't a big enough backbone to make the coaches all adhere.

Like I stated before I don't really see the issue. An FDL logo with a Ragin Cajuns moniker are not incompatible.

I was in school late 80s early 90s and never saw a FDL once. It was used back in the 50s or 60s I think, then went away until recently, had they been consistent, and kept it through out the years, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I like the FDL in some cases, however the most recognizable helemets in college football have been consistent for decades. I just don't think 15 years into the Ragin Cajun we should change now. I am one for consistency and traditional not something new every 10 years or so.

In a nut shell all for the FDL as a log just don't permanently change the recognizable helmet to something new. You can break it out for special occasions. If you don't believe me just ask Texas, Baylor, Oklahoma, OSU, Texas Tech, Kansas St...after all we want to be in the big 12 right.

[Duggie35]

Relevant topics are in short supply during these dog days of summer.

[CajunNation]

.... Ragin Cajun is the single most recognized name for this school across the country.

Ragin Cajuns is the most recognized thing we put out because for decades it has been the only thing we've put out. Now, ask those same people to tell you which school the Ragin Cajuns come from, and you'll get a lot of blank stares.

We've marketed the ever loving crap out of Ragin Cajuns for 50 years. It's time to move on and market the name we want to be called, LOUISIANA.

Every time we are on TV and we have uniforms or coaches splattered with Ragin Cajuns everywhere, that is a marketing fail of the highest order.

Honestly, if we are not going to put a UL, the state, or some kind of variation of a Tri-Fleur or FDL, we shouldn't have anything on the helmets besides the stripes and maybe some numbers.

[LifeTimeCajun]

The FDL is way too big for my liking. If it were smaller I think it would not look so busy. I’m a fan of the white lids tho....with the RC stack logo.

[Turbine]

To copyright something don't you have to invent it?

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[Cajunfanatico]

I don’t think you’d be erasing anything especially if you’re improving it. And I disagree about no one recognizing the FDL. When we debuted them against Kentucky they were some of the most well received and recognized uniforms in the country when combined with Louisiana on the jersey.

Just about everybody across the country loved our uniforms when we played Kentucky.

[Cajunfanatico]

Not sure why any Cajun fan would want to see us get rid of the name Cajuns, or Ragin' Cajuns. Is there another team anywhere in the world with that name? Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. Nuff said.

[Big Buds]

The uniforms we wore at aTm last year are easily the best we've ever had. In my opinion it's not even close.

[Ragin9221]

The FDL represents a lot of areas Quebec, Louisiana, French Giana etc. now if you live in the U.S. specially in the South people make the connection to Louisiana with the FDL. It’s kinda like the Star and Texas.

If we are branding Louisiana the FDL there is an instant connection to Louisiana. Everyone knows that we are the Ragin Cajuns, but what they do not know is that we are Louisiana, think the FDL would do that for us.

I personally like the small FDL that is on the baseball hat, not the big one that we used during Kentucky.

When it comes to helmets I am down with curve Ragin Cajuns, Cajuns, or FDL as long as it is the traditional helmets with either red or white, with the double strips on top.