Under Armour

These are exciting times for the STJ basketball program. With fox starting up their sports network and in need of programing, and now UA getting into the fray and in need of programs to sponsor, being in the largest media market, we are poised to becoming both companies flagship program to promote their brand. We're talking about highly capitalized companies who will be throwing plenty of it our way and no one better to take advantage of this opportunity than Coach Lavin. He said this was a sleeping giant, now I believe the whole basketball community will start to see it as well.

Seize the opportunity.

The move from STJ to SJU is official, love it.  Although now I have to change my username

Torch Newspaper ‏@STJTorch 48m
.@STJNow tweet confirms switch to SJU. The University's change from STJ back to SJU is part of the school's rebranding process - sources.

The move from STJ to SJU is official, love it.  Although now I have to change my username

Torch Newspaper ‏@STJTorch 48m
.@STJNow tweet confirms switch to SJU. The University's change from STJ back to SJU is part of the school's rebranding process - sources.

Finally.. always called it SJU

Now they HAVE to get rid of that stupid logo!

Is there any chance we change our name to the Red Men?  With no Indian logo or mascot or anything like that.  Just a team that wears red.  Make it two words to avoid any confusion regarding the Indians.  The rumors about the name change, getting rid of the Thunderbird, going back to SJU and the uni's looking like the 80's unis have me thinking this may be an actual possibility.

I'll probably sound like an idiot worrying about this, but what does this do for our twitter presence as well our #stjbb?

are we now #sjubb or does St. Joes have that?

Also, there has been a lot of confusion regarding St. Joseph's allegedly trademarking SJU and that being the reason we were not allowed to use it.  St. John's actually has the SJU trademark for merchandise.  St. Joe's registered the domain name SJU.edu and St. John's/Nike made the decision to switch to STJ to avoid the confusion of people searching for SJU then going to the St. Joe's website. 

This is an interesting article that the Torch had in 2006 regarding the issue . http://www.torchonline.com/uncategorized/2006/04/26/sju-vs-stj-new-logo-new-look-2/

Seize the opportunity.

Like I say.
More to come.

Also, there has been a lot of confusion regarding St. Joseph's allegedly trademarking SJU and that being the reason we were not allowed to use it.  St. John's actually has the SJU trademark for merchandise.  St. Joe's registered the domain name SJU.edu and St. John's/Nike made the decision to switch to STJ to avoid the confusion of people searching for SJU then going to the St. Joe's website. 

This is an interesting article that the Torch had in 2006 regarding the issue . http://www.torchonline.com/uncategorized/2006/04/26/sju-vs-stj-new-logo-new-look-2/

Interesting.  So this was Nike's big idea, the STJ thing?  Glad we switched to Under Armour.  Love that we are SJU again!!  Now if only we could bring back the Redmen, I'd be thrilled.  No need for Native mascots or anything.  Johnny Thunderbird is fine with me.  I won't get my hopes up, but would love to get back to our roots.

“@DalyDoseOfHoops: I address the whole St. John's rebranding scenario here...sorry for rambling on. http://dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-johns-to-revert-to-sju.html #stjbb #STJ #SJU”

More excellent news.  STJ was ridiculous from jump as everyone knows. 

SJU Johnnies

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

  I don't mind it..  Red Storm sucks.

Quote from: RedStormBasketball on June 25, 2013, 10:25:18 AM

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

  I don't mind it..  Red Storm sucks.

St. John's Johnnies just doesn't sound right.

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

It was said by others before as well.  Seems like all the recommendations that were given were accepted by admin.

 I refer to them as the "Johnnies" most of the time now anyway.  The " Johnnies of St. John's" sounds better than the other way around..

Quote from: boo3 on June 25, 2013, 10:49:15 AM

Quote from: RedStormBasketball on June 25, 2013, 10:25:18 AM

Hearing our nickname is changing to the Johnnies

St. John's Johnnies just doesn't sound right.

No but the Johnnies of St. John's is what we are, were, and always will be.



 

"Johnnies" works for me.