What the hell made St. John's think this was an inspirational banner to commemerate our send off and one and done tournament run (but two for the ladies, a bit more impressive than the men).
There are two reasons I mainly have why this banner sucks.
1) The Slogan Sucks
Not only is the slogan a complete rip off of another team, (Marshal University Football, the slogan was used to commemerate the football team that died in a tragic airplane crash that claimed the lives of the whole team. Almost the same situation with St. John's, but instead of an air plane it was the NCAA Men' Basketball Tournament).
Why couldn't we have come up with something better? Like....
"Steve Lavin is our Savior!" .....We are a Vincention you know, so we should live it up.
"To the Final Four".......Tacky, but still a lot fucking better.
"10 College Seniors With No Where To Go, but the Final Four!"......it is very true in two ways, there are 10 seniors on the team and they're more in a predicament about their futures after basketball....hope they learned a lot in school.
2) The Design is Made for Loosing
The design was a fucking waste of paper. I would love to slap the back of the head of the designer with my tablet who made this.
SOME PROBLEMS
* It mixes a lame serif and sans serif font to make a tacky message.
*Italicized and bold, that is no excus.
* Why the fuck have "..." are we all waiting together to say "St. John's!" in a 1,2,3 manner.
*They really didn't measure out the words too well compared too all the red space I see on the banner.
While I was sleep computing I made this design in a 3 minutes, Sal Chavez and can hold to that I did so.
Not Great, but a lot better than what our school made with a microsoft word document.
St. John's, realize you spend your money in a lot of the wrong places. From hiring a woman who embezzles student's scholarship money, to putting most of the money in to construction for two buildings while others around it decay and fall apart, and the overall design of websites, classrooms, and overall campus construction.
It doesn't take that much, but thinking of the right place to put money can help promote efficiency in the student body and help students take pride in their school, other than having a basketball team ignite it.
Give me how much ever that golden flame costs and I'll make sure their will never be another banner "We Are . . . ST JOHN'S" mistake and prevent many others.
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