Best helmet of the modern era?
Iowa State Uniform Discussions (update: new basketball unis)
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Think this must be them rolling out that Cyclones logo as an official word mark. I don’t mind it, and it looks great on the white helmet. Although I can already hear my dad complaining about how we were awful with this logo in the 80s and 90s.
Love this white helmet w/the Cyclones script. Goodness, that logo is meant for a helmet!
I really hope this Cyclones script becomes the standard logo on our helmets. It looks better than I-State, and also showcases we are the Cyclones. It's unique. Use the stencil I-State as an alternate, but use this as the primary.
Man I really love the script Cyclones but I really just wish we could incorporate the old retro tornado look sometime. We have one of the most unique names in college football, just would love to see an actual cyclone somewhere
Ha! I thought the same thing. The script is much better on this helmet, but it's not that big of a difference. I'd like to see a gold script on the cardinal helmet. I'll say it again, but our cardinal helmets are the best part of our uniform.
Iowa State can use any of their old logos right? Or did we sell the rights off? It just seems like the athletic department bought rights back to this script logo and is using it on everything now or something lol. Looks great.
To be fair, we’ve been awful at some point with all of our logos
You're not wrong. The crowd that doesn't want to use objectively good logos because of the era are ridiculous. Here's the Coach's & win percentage for each logo.To be fair, we’ve been awful at some point with all of our logos
Walking Cy - Duncan - 18-24 - .432
Iowa State Tornado - Criner - 16-24 - .405 & Walden - 28-57 - .335 (total .352)
Cynado w/ blue - McCarney - 56-85 - .397
I-State - Chizik - 5-19 - .208, Rhoads 32-55 - .368, & Campbell 57-48 - .543 (total .435)
Campbell really saves the I-State era which would be .333 without him.
But point being, none of our last 4 logos saw a lot of great success, so just go with what looks good. Frankly I like having a lot of variety of retro logos, just wished we'd use something with a tornado in it more frequently, but not the Bugle.
I appreciate the records research, and the general point.
But if we're focusing exclusively on helmet logo, Duncan didn't use Walking Cy (used only in 1967, to my knowledge). These were Duncan-era helmets:
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Cant explain it but I love the 81-82 ISU with the lines. It's so stupid but I've got one of the mini helmets with this logo at my house
The rights didn't change. Some of the decision makers did.
I never saw a game in person or on TV while they were wearing those helmets, I only ever saw highlights. But I agree with you, for whatever reason I love that helmet!
Very good point, I just pulled up the logo history and the wiki for ISU football.
Yeah, that one ALWAYS catches my eye when a bunch of old logos/helmets are shown.
As many others have shared, this one tomorrow is just great.
Tell him it's not on a gold (yellow) shell. Doesn't count.
If we're gonna bring back a gold (yellow) helmet, we should bring these babies back:
Those uniforms were associated with winning.
While this is spectacular, no way they break out a new helmet like that for an away game.
With the logo already being used I could see them using it though.
One of you needs to win the lottery and buy the team some deep gold mustard helmets for next season.
