Agree. For home games, switch back to yellow helmets w/cardinal stripe(s). The I-State logo is solid too. Living in KC and being around many of our Big 12 brethren, they feel it is the BEST logo ISU has ever had. (They all thought the McCarney "bird-in-a-blender" logo was garbage/too busy. And again, the cardinal is just confusing to most outsiders.) They think I-State falls in line with the logos that most of our conference/former conference has: (i.e. Tech, OSU, aTm, OU, BU, Neb, etc...)
And for people clamoring for Cy to be featured, that is just a mistake. Nobody outside of the state of Iowa knows who Cy is. In fact, it's confusing as our nickname is the "Cyclones" and then we have a walking bird on our helmet? That doesn't work. Nationally, the I-State logo is VERY recognizable. It just looks so traditional and clean, really, it is great that ISU finally has a solid logo. It needs to be the main mark for the university as well as our Athletics Department forever.
Miami has a bird for their mascot too, but you don't see their main mark as that bird, they have their "U" logo featured. I mean, people in our own conference don't know the backstory of us becoming the Cyclones, so you have to see that it can be confusing to them when we had a cardinal-bird featured.
Hey, I love Walking Cy and the 80's Tornado too, but they should only be used as secondary logos. I could get behind the Tornado being used for some sort of special occasion though.
