All I know is, if that stupid paw print shoes up on any of our gear, I am out of here!
Going to school during the paw print years, I love the PAW. I would rather have a paw ripped off and changed slightly from another school by a local artist, then the clip art attack cat we had to buy and every high school whos mascot is bobcat or wildcat also uses. most schools have several logos for their sports teams and it gets boring to see the attack cat on everything put out for OHIO
Maybe I've missed it but I haven't seen any other school on any level that uses the attack logo that Ohio uses. I tried to do a google search to find one and all of the bobat logos I found were quite different.
Now I'm not saying I dislike it, but the paw print, on the other hand, can be seen on college and high school helmets all over the place. Clemsen's logo is the most well known. But just in my area, the Kenton Wildcats, Ada Bulldogs, Seneca East Tigers, Gibsonburg Golden Bears, Ottawa Hills Green Bears and Galion Tigers all use paw print logos at least some of the time. There probably are many other schools in the area with animal names that do, but those are the ones I know for sure do. The pawprint, while its simplicity is cool, most certainly is generic.
And for what it's worth, you can still buy officially-licensed items with the pawprint logo, so it's not completely phased out. Here's one example:
https://cbsohiou.3dcartstores.com/Oxford-Rayon-Tee-Block-Ohio-over-Paw-14121_p_74-1956.html