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I did some investigating..

In case you didn't know..

Our official school font is "AMERICAN CAPTAIN"

Now that we know our font; it is time to get this across all team uniforms.
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URI women's softball has "bought in" to the official font

time to get the rest of our sports teams to have the same font

and to use that font across all sports related websites/media

WAKE UP URI..

this isn't rocket science


http://www.gorhody.com/sports/w-softbl/index
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Very, very, very, very, very, very..........

http://www.ffonts.net/Captain-America.font.download
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here's a better look

it's not my favorite..
but if that is the official font of the school (which it is, got this 1st hand)..
then time to embrace it

it needs to be everywhere tho for it to "stick"

http://www.dafont.com/american-captain.font
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at first glance, not a fan. No wonder no one uses it.

what font was used in 1998? That I think fits this New England school.
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I think the official font should be wing dings
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Yuk
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Must be the salvageable piece from "Not-So-Cooler-and-Warmer"........
Maybe, well, just maybe, go with the blank uniforms and have the players put anything on them they want.
Yeah, that way there'll be a lot of fonts....
And no tag-line.
Yeah.
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I don't get why we need an "official" font. As long as athletics, and specifically the men's basketball program, is consistent year-to-year I don't think it matters what the school says is the official font. There's obviously no reason for some random font being the "official" font.
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TruePoint wrote:I don't get why we need an "official" font. As long as athletics, and specifically the men's basketball program, is consistent year-to-year I don't think it matters what the school says is the official font. There's obviously no reason for some random font being the "official" font.
There's an officially random official out there who should font-off! Keep messing around with this nonsense and you'll see where it gets you -- an official state logo that looks like the Budget Rent-a-Truck logo!!!!!

http://tiac.travel/_Library/images/NEW_ ... _HiRes.jpg
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http://www.basketinside.com/wp-content/ ... -james.jpg

I liked these jerseys/font, colors weren't bad. Last seasons colors were great.
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To me, a unified font gives the school an identity and should be marketed

Look at Uconn, Miami, etc

At the end of the day, this post I started is not about debating fonts

Now I got official word on our font, it should be implemented correctly

All our merchandise and websites and marketing materials should be unified for it to work
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Is there anything that the school coulda spent money on that would make anyone say, "Y'know...we shoulda spent that money on a new font instead" ? No...probably not....?
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to me its about branding ourselves since we are going to dominate hoops in the upcoming years :o
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this is what i am talking about

it's so easy - people need to wake up at URI instead of sleep walking

http://www.theuconnblog.com/2013/4/4/41 ... rebranding
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This might be of some help......

http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/51032.aspx
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Very simple...home white, away Keaney blue. Both uniforms should have the gold/yellow trim and piping.
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Here is the official URI style guide, in case anyone is interested:

http://advance.uri.edu/visualstandardsg ... ide-sm.pdf

While the gold/yellow is a part of the "new" branding effort, traditionally the gold/yellow colors were not part of the school's color palate. I would prefer that our sports teams stick to white/navy/keaney. We have not had the gold/yellow on the basketball uniforms in over two decades IIRC.
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We are all over the map here

No wonder why we don't have an identity

You need something official from the top ala UConn and their announcement

Everywhere I go I see the same font that is Uconn

Uri has no such identity

Needs fixing

This is so simple but we somehow cannot do

Put me in charge and I'll get it done

Along w the sports pub at Ryan and revamped press row

Where's the leadership ?
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ECR is hired. We'll use funds from Gov Raimondo's campaign account to pay for ECR. We'll even throw in a trip to Davos for him. :D
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Ha - pay me back with the NCAAs...
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I bet 99.7% of college basketball fans would never know that UConn has an official font. They have a strong brand because they win national championships, not because they have an official font.
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TruePoint wrote:Here is the official URI style guide, in case anyone is interested:

http://advance.uri.edu/visualstandardsg ... ide-sm.pdf

While the gold/yellow is a part of the "new" branding effort, traditionally the gold/yellow colors were not part of the school's color palate. I would prefer that our sports teams stick to white/navy/keaney. We have not had the gold/yellow on the basketball uniforms in over two decades IIRC.
Agree with that, the blue and gold looks like my high school...the "Yachtsmen".
Put ECR in charge of efforts to:

-improve the pub
-fix press row
-be Chief of the Font Squad

but, must complete tasks in that order.
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adam914 wrote:I bet 99.7% of college basketball fans would never know that UConn has an official font. They have a strong brand because they win national championships, not because they have an official font.
We'll agree to disagree here about branding - and of course putting national championships aside - of course that is ultimately the main reason

But I think you are missing my point

In an ever changing landscape of different uniforms - you must keep the identity of URI consistent

Look at Miami - they change basketball, football, cross country, baseball, etc uniforms all the time.. But there is no denying their unique font that is across the board on all their team uniforms and public apparel

The font squad - I like that
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Baseball rocking Rams in rising script.

Grand Font that.

Some kinda wonderful!
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Are we still talking about FONT? Man this is goin to a be a long off-season...
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Rhody15 wrote:Are we still talking about FONT? Man this is goin to a be a long off-season...
Grand Font Railroad
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Rhody15 wrote:Are we still talking about FONT? Man this is goin to a be a long off-season...
TRUE THAT !
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I'm totally with you on font ECR! We've had so many different fonts in the last 20 years its YUCK.
I'd like the softball font. Something that's not slanted like the one now. Most schools do have a standard font. I can't think of one state school that doesn't have an official font other than us.
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I can't think of one state school, where, if they changed their font, many people would even notice... :roll: :lol:
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I'll take a guess off the bat at Michigan. If the font changed at Michigan, people would notice.
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Indiana would notice.
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At this point, who gives a font.
The lettering the last few seasons has been ugly to my eyes.
Go with something that exudes class, constancy, like the banner-font for the Keaney Board.
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Win games and no one will give a font?
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the keaney blue font is unique and beautiful

yet... we don't have this font on our white or navy blue unis

why is that ?

we should have this 1 font for all of our font teams

get rid of crappy ADIDAS, give me NIKe.. and give me the keaney blue font for all sports teams unis and also all rhody gear
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NY GFan had it right. Dn’t care if the wear phys ed issue gray tees, or shirts and skins, just win some games!
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Winning is priority but branding matters. There’s plenty of schools that get it right.
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exactly.. and the branding is already done for us - it is a slam dunk - yet the idiots in charge have no clue


why arent we keeping the keaney font ?

lamar odom wore it

tyson wheeler wore it


its a no brainer and a great font

totally dropping the ball here
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TruePoint wrote: 8 years ago I think the official font should be wing dings
Wing dings. 😆😆😆

Maybe a Stussy symbol for RamS
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section(105) wrote: 1 month ago NY GFan had it right. Dn’t care if the wear phys ed issue gray tees, or shirts and skins, just win some games!
Blah blah blah

How about we just let uniform talk happen without someone always saying something like this? Every single uniform discussion ever has someone saying bs like this. An obnoxiously predictable cliche take.

GOOD FOR YOU that you don't care about uniforms and NO SHIT winning is all that matters!

But sorry, uniforms do matter and branding does matter and we have problems with it that need to be fixed.
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We get so many things wrong it's baffling

Like replays

We are the only program in America that uses ill prepared students to call the games and we are the only school that can't even figure out what our own damn colors are. Don't have a font. The list goes on

The Colombia blue pull overs for the keaney uniforms is so trash and embarrassing. We also had a polo out during the Cox years which was Kentucky blue with stripes! Our home unis from 16-19 had three different blues on it. The cumberhorns were somewhere between keaney and navy. It didn't match the keaney in the two toned logo on the shorts.

We have keaney and Navy and then we use Colombia and regular duke/Kentucky blue on accident. How I tf do we mess thus up?
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honestly.. it is sooooo easily fixed

we have a great uni and font that has history and we currently are using

all you need to do is take the keaney blue unis an mirror it for the white and navy

i would even use the keaney blue unis as the permanent home jersey...

then navy for the road

then white as an alternate

if that is to drastic then i'd go back to using navy as the alternate

also.. and just as important.. use the keaney font across all sports

think about the pride in having your own unique font

its a no brainer

i have no idea why someone would make the decision of changing fonts from our keaney to our white and blue unis

makes zero sense

out PETERRAMTIMe and myself on this and we wil have this al cleaned up by next year

oh.. and CUT ADIDAS BAIT
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PeterRamTime wrote: 1 month ago
section(105) wrote: 1 month ago NY GFan had it right. Dn’t care if the wear phys ed issue gray tees, or shirts and skins, just win some games!
Blah blah blah

How about we just let uniform talk happen without someone always saying something like this? Every single uniform discussion ever has someone saying bs like this. An obnoxiously predictable cliche take.

GOOD FOR YOU that you don't care about uniforms and NO SHIT winning is all that matters!

But sorry, uniforms do matter and branding does matter and we have problems with it that need to be fixed.
I, um, kind of agree with 105 on this one...
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I was never going to say anything until I saw this thread but...I was watching the last game thinking, why don't we have blue uniforms that match a blue anywhere else on the court etc. Those jerseys had a strange color. If we were 1st in the A10, I wouldn't care much.
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NYGFan_Section208 wrote: 1 month ago
PeterRamTime wrote: 1 month ago
section(105) wrote: 1 month ago NY GFan had it right. Dn’t care if the wear phys ed issue gray tees, or shirts and skins, just win some games!
Blah blah blah

How about we just let uniform talk happen without someone always saying something like this? Every single uniform discussion ever has someone saying bs like this. An obnoxiously predictable cliche take.

GOOD FOR YOU that you don't care about uniforms and NO SHIT winning is all that matters!

But sorry, uniforms do matter and branding does matter and we have problems with it that need to be fixed.
I, um, kind of agree with 105 on this one...
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Rhody_NYCT wrote: 1 month ago I was never going to say anything until I saw this thread but...I was watching the last game thinking, why don't we have blue uniforms that match a blue anywhere else on the court etc. Those jerseys had a strange color. If we were 1st in the A10, I wouldn't care much.

Bottom line is that we all should agree on the rhody font should be universal and be the one we always had - and it’s the one on the keaney jersey

And it’s a beautiful font that means something to
Our school and has decades of history to it

And it should be worn by all teams

Anything else is Cracker Jack
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Rhody_NYCT wrote: 1 month ago I was never going to say anything until I saw this thread but...I was watching the last game thinking, why don't we have blue uniforms that match a blue anywhere else on the court etc. Those jerseys had a strange color. If we were 1st in the A10, I wouldn't care much.
Those jerseys were keaney...
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PeterRamTIme and I got this..

honestly we can do a better job than anyone else

Where is Sonny Vaccaro's phone number ?
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When you add up all the little things they become big things...yes in isolation it's a so what let's win first. But what makes you think when we win those things will get fixed...they won't. The uniforms, in arena experience, broadcast, public marketing, etc. If all those things were firing in a top notch way trust me all ships would rise. When they aren't the sum of them all are a program run a bit like a Cracker Jack operation.

Dress for the job you want not the one you have.
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Haven’t heard his name in a long time, ECR. I wonder what Sonny Vaccaro is doing these days ?

He was such a major shaker and mover in the sport. He has to be pretty old and retired by now, I would think ?
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