Possible B10 logo with 16 teams
SIAP, I looked all over and could not find this referenced...
Someone came up with a possible Big Ten logo incorporating (http://b16ten.org/) the 16 teams reference... it actually works pretty well
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Great logo but I'm wondering if they'll change the name to simply "Big 16".
No. Big Ten is a brand just like Nike or Coca-Cola. If they cared about accurate conference names it would've been the Big 11 years ago.
Edit: For the record I didn't neg you.
"Big Ten" is a brand and it wouldn't make sense to change the name now if they didn't change it when Penn State was added in the early 90s.
Edit: Damn, MGoDC beat to it.
I'm not sure the precedent of keeping the name is that convincing. There was probably a fairly broad understanding within the conference that we were unlikely to stay at 11 for a long time, especially with the conference championship benefit of going to 12 teams. It wouldn't have been a huge surprise for ND to have joined a few years later (as they almost did), so being the Big 11 for a couple of years wouldn't have made much sense.
The Big 8 going to Big 12 didn't seem to hurt the brand, I don't think a slight rename for the Big Ten would hurt either.
Using the Big 12 as an example of a well-run conference isn't a good idea.
I'm not arguing that it's well run, just that they didn't seem to feel any harm from the rebranding.
The Big 8 didn't really have a media presence prior to the re-branding... The Big Ten has the strongest media presence as a conference by far, and probably will for a long time.
Plus, what would the letter code for the TV network become? BSXTN? That's too long.
I would be shocked if the conference's name is ever changed, no matter the number of schools. There are plenty of examples from the corporate world of companies keeping well-established and valuable brand names even after they no longer "fit." I already used this example on another thread, but 7-11 has kept its name despite the expansion in the hours that its stores are open.
Also, the Big Ten name has been in at least unofficial use for nearly a century (since 1917), though there was a gap of a few years as the Big Nine after Chicago left and before MSU came in. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference)
The Big 8 name didn't come into use until 1958 (earlier names included the Big 6 and Big 7), so it wasn't nearly as well-established. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eight_Conference)
Good point. I figured with Penn State being added "Big Eleven" wouldn't make sense however since it may be 16 I thought maybe a name change would occur. But it makes sense to remain Big Ten in terms of branding/identity.
Regardless of what it should be named, I believe the name "Big 16" is already copyrighted. I believe that was mentioned on the front page by Brian, or by Adam Rittenberg, or both. Some Canadians named their bread the Big 16 or something.
It's already been verified that the B10 name will not be changing.
That seriously might be a logo we will have to get use to seeing.
October trip to Austin to see us hook the horns
For your sake hopefully they treat any future UM-Texas rivalry with more respect than Oklahoma fans treat the current Texas-Oklahoma rivalry.
Link for what I'm talking about: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296466,00.html
that Oklahoma fans were so "testie".....
He should have just bought a sack.
They go balls to the walls down there man.
They are nuts.
Some serious brass.
If I'm not mistaken, 16 in hexadecimal is 10, so the Big 10 can keep the logo (sans the '11' silhouette) and claim it's hex.
edit: err, they'd have to change Ten to 10.
That would work great for the UofM crowd, but I think it would just anger everyone from OSU that didn't know what it meant.
+1 for the awesome application of math/CS skills. One correction, though, you really should indicate that it's hex though: Big 0x10
BigTenh
or
0xBigTen
thats just a touch disturbing
copywrite that PRONTO.
but that same idea (the B16 depiction) has been floated around for some time.
but MaizeandBlue14 suggested B16 Ten as a possible logo on this very site a couple months ago.
See: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/report-big-10-expanding-3-5-teams#comment-461319
Kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I was definitely a bit bummed about the loss of the hidden 11 logo. All better now.
Dude, you weren't alone. It remains perhaps my biggest objection to expanding the conference.
Sadly, I never even saw the "11" until someone pointed it out to me a coupla years back. I'm not the most observant of people, but from that moment I loved it with a fervor that suggested I'd drawn the thing myself.
If Nebraska coming to the big 10 holds true and then the Big 10 adds ND and 3 other teams to make 16 but out of those 3 teams they only add one state not already in the footprint the Big 10 name would be acurate because we would be a conference made up of 10 states.
Although that would prove to be very difficult, as it severely limits the teams that could be added. You would have to include ND and Pitt. Still two teams to go, all which have been mentioned (as far as I know) currently being outside the footprint - Rutgers, UVA, Maryland, Syracuse, Mizzou, Kansas, Texas. Of course, then we could always keep the current logo with the hidden "11" to indicate that the Big Ten actually covers 11 states. =P
That logo is alright, but it strikes me as being too obvious, too "leet-speaky" for me. I like the current logo, as the 11 is subtle , sort of clever even.
Instead, I think we take a different tack. 16 teams isn't merely a "Big" conference, but more of a "Mega" conference. So they might as well go the high school naming route and just make it the Mega-16.
Lets do the metric system here and go for Giga16
Does this mean we can call our new conference championship game the Megabowl? If Michigan is playing in it, I say we play it in Flint (assuming it needs to be a neutral site).
What about having a straight up "Big Ten" with the "i" and "g" casting shadows that are "1" and "6"
But still hate the idea of going to 16 teams. The max I want to move to would be 14. I'm hoping someone more clever than me can make a 12 or 14 logo just as appealing. And, I think we gotta stick with the Big Ten name.
All your teams are belong to us.
Whatever, I've been doing that with my mgoname way before you! :-)
Big 0x10
(Hint google "0x10 to decimal")
when it will be Coca Cola's Big Ten Conference (or you can substitute your favorite big corporation for Coca Cola. [I'm not saying it will make me happy, but the way sponsorships are going, it almost seems inevitable to me.]