New logo

[Da Coach]

As we wait for Bradley to soon unveil the design of their new Gargoyle logo, here is another Division I school that just hired a consulting firm to help them update their logo (which has only been in use since 1999), and the new logo was just released.
They previously had a logo of a rugged mountain man and changed to a new logo that is a cartoonish hillbilly character smoking a corn cob pipe.

Here are the old and new logos for the Appalachian State Mountaineers-



The reception I have read on their message boards so far is mixed. Some expected a new logo that would be more friendly for the Appalachian State women's teams to adopt, others were expecting a fiercer looking logo and don't like the cartoonish look. Some have referred to it as looking like a character out of The Simpsons.

[Buesch N Chips]

I prefer the first one, by a mile.

[tornado]

me too by 100 miles - and wasn't there some ruckus raised over the smoking issue
when Evansville's old gambler logo had a cigar?
More and more campuses are going smoke-free and yet their mascot & logo are smokers?

[Canton BU fan]

If it ain't broke don't fix it.