The Monogram: 3 years later

The Monogram: 3 years later#280194

By LUconn - October 21st, 2009, 3:22 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 3:22 pm #280194

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtop ... =13&t=1989

That was kind of a fun read.

So here we are, 3 years later, most of us don't give it a second thought. It's had time to "grow in" and we've seen it in all seasons. What's everybody's opinion on it?

I love the concept. It was just a great idea all around. However, I don't think it was executed all that well. The letters themselves look great. The bushes look out of place in every season if you squint hard enough to see them. The surrounding white oval, is definitely not an oval I don't care how many lasers they used. It's got one pointy end and the road underneath it makes the bottom flat. Then outside of that it's just barren dirt. It'd be nice to see some grass or something around it but then I'd guess you'd have to mow it.

I think it's funny how 100% certain we were that somebody was going to alter it. I remember probably within the 1st week it was there somebody tried, but it was a failure.

So overall, good idea, but not as pleasant to look at as it could be.

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Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280199

By PAmedic - October 21st, 2009, 3:42 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 3:42 pm #280199

so.... nothing going on for you "work-wise" today?

JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.

ASOR Technical Advisor and Graphics Consultant

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280206

By Sly Fox - October 21st, 2009, 3:48 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 3:48 pm #280206

Still love it. Now that it will be more accessible thanks to Snowflex it becomes an even better investment.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280210

By blwall1416 - October 21st, 2009, 3:55 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 3:55 pm #280210

3 mins of your life you can never get back...

Liberty University and Local Witches Have “Brew” ha-ha on the Mountain

http://spelledwithaw.blogspot.com/2009/ ... tches.html

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280211

By flamesfan30 - October 21st, 2009, 4:02 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 4:02 pm #280211

me and two of my friends took some rocks from it and made a (very) miniature model next to it in September...

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280212

By PAmedic - October 21st, 2009, 4:03 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 4:03 pm #280212

THIEF

(nice job tho)

JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.

ASOR Technical Advisor and Graphics Consultant

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280213

By Sly Fox - October 21st, 2009, 4:08 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 4:08 pm #280213

I need one of those in my backyard.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280221

By JK37 - October 21st, 2009, 4:48 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 4:48 pm #280221

Sly Fox wrote:I need one of those in my backyard.

You just gave the alumni dept. another fundraising idea for another mailing. Gee, thanks.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280226

By LUconn - October 21st, 2009, 5:13 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 5:13 pm #280226

flamesfan30 wrote:me and two of my friends took some rocks from it and made a (very) miniature model next to it in September...

that is pretty sweet.

*please disregard this post if dated before 2017 and accept my apologies*

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280229

By dcbailey - October 21st, 2009, 6:08 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 6:08 pm #280229

I think I'm going to Lowes or Home Depot tonight...

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280233

By Hold My Own - October 21st, 2009, 7:30 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 7:30 pm #280233

I still stand by the idea to light the Monogram red on Gameday. Days where we win it stays lit through the night. Important events at LU and other important games. Cant do it all the time so it loses the "Oh its red, what's going on up at LU" feel but enough to make people who arent following us wonder.

Here is what UT does on game day

Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280239

By LUconn - October 21st, 2009, 8:15 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 8:15 pm #280239

That looks red.

What is burnt orange anyway? Is it the orange on the helmet or the orange on the jersey? Because it's 2 completely different colors.

*please disregard this post if dated before 2017 and accept my apologies*

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280244

By Hold My Own - October 21st, 2009, 8:30 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 8:30 pm #280244

Stop staring at the sun and enjoy the sky....your missing my point here loukon

Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280260

By Cider Jim - October 21st, 2009, 9:35 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 9:35 pm #280260

I personally like the LU monogram, but don't the non-LU/TRBC locals still hate & curse it? (There was a nasty editorial about it in the local paper just last week).

"If Cider hit the books any harder, they'd press charges"--Lefty
"When you’re right you’re right"--Purple
"I shall not participate in many discussions..."

--Fumble (1961-2009), RIP

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280263

By BJWilliams - October 21st, 2009, 9:42 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 9:42 pm #280263

anytime LU or TRBC is mentioned in connection with anything the locals criticize it...their lives dont have any meaning otherwise

Liberty Class of 2009
2007 AND 2008 Big South Football Champions
2014 FCS Playoff Qualifier

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280265

By Sly Fox - October 21st, 2009, 10:10 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 10:10 pm #280265

Wow, a reference to the UT Tower. Have to admit I didn't see that coming earlier in this thread. But I like it.

Burnt orange is burnt orange. It is the same color in the logo on the helmets as it is on the jerseys. Its just a slightly darker tint.

For the record, the top of the tower gets lit up for football victories. Only major victories get the top to bottom treatment in orange. The #1 in lights is reserved for national championships.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280271

By Hold My Own - October 21st, 2009, 10:29 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 10:29 pm #280271

I didnt know all the details of that Sly....that's some pretty cool tradition.

Arent their more that do this? Does TT light some bell or something?

Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280273

By LUconn - October 21st, 2009, 10:36 pm

- October 21st, 2009, 10:36 pm #280273

Because of the Hellboy thread and it's tragic direction, I will refrain from posting the TT bell ringer video.

*please disregard this post if dated before 2017 and accept my apologies*

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280284

By pbow - October 22nd, 2009, 1:46 am

- October 22nd, 2009, 1:46 am #280284

LUconn wrote:Because of the Hellboy thread and it's tragic direction, I will refrain from posting the TT bell ringer video.

Best video ever

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#280323

By NG33 - October 22nd, 2009, 10:50 am

- October 22nd, 2009, 10:50 am #280323

LUconn wrote:Because of the Hellboy thread and it's tragic direction, I will refrain from posting the TT bell ringer video.

hahaha that video is hilarious

BJWilliams wrote:No we arent talking about keeping it on the "down low", we are moving now to the boys who simply are tasked with stopping the OTHER team from scoring,

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#321595

By Cider Jim - September 27th, 2010, 12:23 am

- September 27th, 2010, 12:23 am #321595

BUMP

Local N&A columnist Darrell Laurant takes his mom to visit our monogram.

A message from the mountaintop
By Darrell Laurant
Published: September 26, 2010

My Mom started asking the question back in January, soon after she came down from the Adirondacks to spend what she thought would be a milder winter in Virginia. That winter gave way to spring, which then was driven from the stage by the heat of summer, and Mom was still with us, still asking.

“When are you going to take me up on that mountain?”

http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2010/s ... ar-524477/

"If Cider hit the books any harder, they'd press charges"--Lefty
"When you’re right you’re right"--Purple
"I shall not participate in many discussions..."

--Fumble (1961-2009), RIP

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#321600

By WinterIsComing - September 27th, 2010, 8:01 am

- September 27th, 2010, 8:01 am #321600

Personally, instead of the monogram, I would have prefered putting a garden/park up there, or maybe some trees, or maybe an observatory or academic building.

The monogram and snowflex are just eyesores in my opinion. I like the fact that we are "growing the brand", but honestly that's all it feels like, just two big tramp stamps that say LU instead of the beautiful trees that changed color in the fall and helped announce spring. They proclaimed God's beauty to me, not a big self-promotion. LU really has little taste for architecture or well maintained green open areas with trees and flowers. I envy most other college campuses based on that one reason alone.

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#321604

By ATrain - September 27th, 2010, 9:02 am

- September 27th, 2010, 9:02 am #321604

WinterIsComing wrote:Personally, instead of the monogram, I would have prefered putting a garden/park up there, or maybe some trees, or maybe an observatory or academic building.

The monogram and snowflex are just eyesores in my opinion. I like the fact that we are "growing the brand", but honestly that's all it feels like, just two big tramp stamps that say LU instead of the beautiful trees that changed color in the fall and helped announce spring. They proclaimed God's beauty to me, not a big self-promotion. LU really has little taste for architecture or well maintained green open areas with trees and flowers. I envy most other college campuses based on that one reason alone.

They're working on it. Most other colleges were founded before the car was the primary mode of transportation, so having built-in green spaces was easy. Now those colleges have parking problems far beyond the ones current and past LU students whine about.

As for the observatory, there is still plenty of mountaintop left...LU just doesn't have an astronomy program...yet.

4:28:2009-RIP Jeff Taylor

PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right

Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#321605

By LUconn - September 27th, 2010, 9:13 am

- September 27th, 2010, 9:13 am #321605

yeah, I'm always whining about the lack of turf on campus but I understand why it is. And architecture? Come on, schools with nice architectural buildings are normally 100 years old minimum. They're like that because that's how buildings were built at the time. Not because they were trying to look fancy. We may use a lot of styrofoam and stucco but that's just how things are built in 2010. I think you'd have a difficult time finding a 30-40 year old school with nicer buildings.

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Re: The Monogram: 3 years later#321613

By Sly Fox - September 27th, 2010, 10:06 am

- September 27th, 2010, 10:06 am #321613

I wouldn't count on an astronomy program anytime soon. There's not a great deal of earning potential from those types of programs these days.