Originally Posted by jaretac 
I was a little
skeptical, but after hearing
JP explain why this is necessary, I'm fine with it now. I still have some concern that we will get confused with Illinois St., Indiana St., and Idaho St., but if we can make a name for ourselves, it won't be a problem. Look at Nebraska's N, it's theoretically possible to have it confused with Nevada, yet no one does because everone know's it's Nebraska.
I do have to say I hate the new logo on cyclones.com. It's too big.
I actually had the opportunity to chat with the graphic designer at
ISU that did the new logo. He talked about how I-State had to claimed by
ISU. No one else has claimed it. He gave examples of Michigan State just using "State" on some of their stuff and how people can still identify that it is MSU because they "claimed" that identity.
ISU needs to claim I-State and I don't believe there will be confusion with the other I state institutions. He also pointed out that when it comes to football, most of the other I State schools aren't even 1A schools. There were some other interesting discussions about what Chizik wanted, etc but I don't feel like typing more.
