SEC, Baseball (logo could be ditched by Nike) 
SEC, Women's Basketball These logos are used only for their respective sport. It's similar to what Notre Dame is now doing. Making the logo just for the sport helps NBC.
Posted on 08/22/2025 7:11:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are one of the most iconic and legendary teams in the history of college football. However, it looks like one of the team's iconic logos will look a little bit different this season.
Notre Dame has two primary logos. The primary logo is its "ND" wordmark, which features an "N" layered on top of a "D," which obviously stands for Notre Dame. The secondary logo has long been a cartoon Leprechaun with its fist up, appearing ready for a fight.
Ahead of the 2025 college football season, Notre Dame is making a significant change to one of those logos.
Notre Dame Changes Leprechaun Logo On Thursday afternoon, Notre Dame officially announced that it would be changing its iconic Leprechaun logo for the upcoming football season.
The new logo features a more modern illustration of the Leprechaun holding a football with a serious look on his face while appearing to march across a football field. This is in contrast to the previous logo, which showed the Leprechaun in a fighting stance.
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I thought when you make a change like this, it's supposed to be put a chick in it. Make her lame and gay.
Looks like he’s done fightin’, and done took his ball up goin’ back to the house. What a good sport!
The South Bendovers.
Is this new logo only for the football team?
What about the other sports?
Will the leprechaun be carrying a basketball, volleyball, soccer ball, hockey puck?
And here I thought ND stood for Needle D**ks.
They didn’t cover the crosses when Obama came there that was a different university.
Are they going to have a different logo for every sport? I always thought the old logo looked like a little drunken guy.
Notre Dame - it ain’t what it used to be!
Notre Dame is more than an under-talented, overrated football team?
Seriously, put the leprechaun in a pink tutu and a pearl choker necklace and be done with it.
Clear ripoff of the Celtics leprechaun logo and what could be less original than one initial imposed over the other?
But from CB to ND, old-fashioned logos are getting swept away. Not a good sign for the Celtics leprechaun or Pat Patriot.
I give him less than 10 years.
That SAYS it all!!!!
all they need to do is add a bottle of beer or whisky to the Leprechaun and they’ve got a breakfast place where drunk college students can go. A more upscale Waffle House so to speak.
Nope.
The irish stopped fighting ANYTHING AND ANYONE, except preborn babies and free speech, si sure, put a fruity lucky charms character in place. Hopefully fruity with a rainbow misding the true color of green. Don’t want that.
Another Edith Bunker finds job at Notre Dame for design change.
Not a logo change but a sport-specific logo. Under Armour has lost its No. 2 school as part of the SEC’s Nike push, and now Notre Dame must go up against Big Swoosh.
Sport-specific logos are tertiary logos as part of teams’ primary and secondary logos (which will not change). The tertiary sport-specific logo is for recruiting and to sell extra merchandise.
SEC, Baseball (logo could be ditched by Nike) SEC, Women's Basketball These logos are used only for their respective sport. It's similar to what Notre Dame is now doing. Making the logo just for the sport helps NBC.
So the ‘fighting’ part of logo was deemed “problematic”, but the leprechaun imagery to represent the Irish is not an issue. I only mention this because there doesn’t seem to be any point in changing the logo at all. Were there Irish groups complaining to the NCAA about the ‘negative imagery’? I doubt it. In fact, there are probably quite a few dudes with surnames such as O’Reilly, Kelly, Sullivan, and McGregor up in the Boston area who are quite upset by this change and will need to get new tattoos with the ‘updated’ mascot pose.
Notre Dame was my dad’s alma mater. He’d be disappointed by this unnecessary change.
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