?By Doug DoughtyIn 1984 Chris Craft and fellow Virginia Tech architecture student Lisa Eichler shared first prize in a competition to design a new logo for the Hokies. The 2009 season will represent the 25th anniversary of the "streamlined" VT logo.
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Less recognizable to Virginia Tech supporters is William Christopher "Chris" Craft, a former Roanoker and 1983 graduate of Patrick Henry High School.
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"I wish I had a penny just a penny for every piece of apparel sold with that logo," Craft said. "Maybe I signed something that gave Tech the rights to it. I can’t remember. I didn’t think there was too much to it at the time."
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Remarkably, the logos were commissioned by a couple of football coaches, Welsh and Bill Dooley, who won a lot of games and helped change the football culture of their respective programs, although neither was known for a sense of fashion.
"I don’t think my dad was naturally inclined that way," Matt Welsh said.
However, his father had never been wild about some of UVa’s traditions. He didn’t like the nickname "Cavaliers" and was turned off by the extensive use of orange in athletics gear.
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Merchandising wasn’t the multimillion dollar industry in 1994 that it is now. Virginia Tech now has an office of licensing and trademarks,
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All they knew was, they wanted to get rid of the design that had a small "T" inside a larger "V." To this day, it’s known as the "TV" logo.
"We weren’t on television very much in those days," Tech sports information director Dave Smith said. "A [television] producer came in here once and said, ‘Look,
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Dooley, also the athletic director, had hired Jeff Charles as the Hokies radio voice and added "promotions director" to his job responsibilities. With Dooley’s support, Charles staged a promotion to come up with a new logo.
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