What was/is your university's mascot?

UW Marinette (A.A forthcoming) The Buccaneers

UW Stevens Point (Where I will be transferring) The Pointers.

Yes folks, you heard me right. Bucky the ferocious Beaver was my college mascot. (See Avatar image) DEAL WITH IT! :)

Lovya!

There'll always be a fun time when the Trojans face the Beavers!

(Obligatory immature comment! :P)

"Goldie" When I was at the University of Minnesota (many years ago) it was decided that Goldie had to be redesigned to look tougher... How do you make a gopher look tough? I thought they might have him foam at the mouth - give him that rabid look. Instead, he looks like he's on sterioids.

sorry... UND fan ;)

Our mascot, who until 2000 was someone dressed like *an actual rocket* got a lot of jokes about being a phallic symbol.

In 2000, the mascot morphed into more of a spaceman. Still pretty goofy.

Now I'm at UMass; we're the Minutemen.

Don't broadcast that around you will never get a date.

Go Eers!!!

How 'bout them 'Eers!

Orange.....



blue!

taking two Summer C classes right now.... soooo boring :)

Albert

:)

It's harder to push them over the lines than pass the Dardanelles.

PA State System college.

But my high school mascot was a canary. William Allen Canaries. The female sports teams were the Chicks (ugh!). The other high schools in the city were the Huskies and the Vikings.

for the McMaster Marauders. I think it was supposed to be an eagle, looked more like a pidgeon. Tasted like chicken.

A little more dignified than my high school mascot, the Fighting Quakers

n/t

Which made all the more embarrassing.
It was bad enough our mascot was the quaker oats guy (as well as the old Patriots logo).

an smsu bear. then a goshen college maple leaf (we're gramatically incorrect...the maple leafs, except that it should be leaves, no?)...now a buckeye. no reference needed on that one...:-)

Yup, I started out a Texas Tech Red Raider.

Then I was an East Texas State University Lion.

Then a Texas Longhorn for grad school.

Carolina Gamecocks. USC.

Yup, like in Ichibod Crane.

KU...

I did not know you graced 17th street!

ya baby.

v.o.r.

Let's get it right. ;)

Cornell - no mascot whatsoever
UC Santa Barbara - a "Goucho" (wtf??)
Stanford (didn't attend, but lived nearby for a while) - A friggin tree!

I feel so deprived...

seeing as my college's basketball team was the ramblers.

guess where i went to school.

nt

sorry.

but, yeah, loyola is correct. they went to the tournament one year when i was there and got beat by georgetown.

by other Jesuit minions (I went to a Jesuit high school meself)

yeah, ewing had a bad first half and i think we were a point up at the half. ewing was tough in the second half.

Then Wichita State Wheatshockers (commonly known as "Shockers")

Now I'm a Pitt Panther!

No, really.

High School was the Caviliers.

Jr. High was 49rs.

Catholic School was the Vikings.

Pfeiffer University (was Pfeiffer College when I was there)
Misenheimer, NC

go terps

of Western Illinois University

Boiler UP!

I'm surprised there are actually 3 people who are Democrats that responded. I surmise that we comprise the entirety of the Democratic Party alumni from that university...:)

of the most famous liberal (radical?) university in the country.

In my '80s era at USC he had room to roll, a full lap around the Coliseum and its historic Olympic track. Now they have shamelessly eliminated the track, chopped the seating capacity by a third and poor Traveler is allowed about 50 yards before turning around.

The USC band director, Dr. Arthur Bartner, must think he gets paid by the number of times we play Conquest. In the last two years, at least it's once again appropriate.

"Yes, this is the only song we know
So we play it loud and slow
Very loud and slow"



Former Bruin, then a Trojan, now a Cougar

Odd choice of names for a state that was only peripherially involved in the war.

Southern Illinois University

http://sports.tamu.edu/index_full.php?pageID=229&CAT=TRD



I'm a graduate of Texas A&M - The Fightin' Texas Aggies! :P

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

Sam Maverick. go UTA

Edit on Missed used words. SHEEESH you could never tell I went to college or even less Gradiated from HI SkUL.

University of Michigan

btw, there are no wolverines in MI. but Hugh Jackman is sexy.

"Fighting Sioux."

:grr::grr::grr:

current logo:


old logo:


couldn't find a picture of the logo before that, but he's Ed Belfour wearing it:

(almost?) the same as the chicago blackhawks



information about the stuggle to get it changed:
http://www.und.edu/org/bridges/main.html

And he still lives near Freeland, about 10 miles from here.
John
Darren Pang started here, too -- but I don't know what college he went to.

the University of Arizona kind....

...of good ol' UCLA.

But we were the old-school, laid-back, friendly, '70s Bruins:

Not the new, edgy, in-your-face Bruins:

Now really, be honest. Isn't the 70s vintage much better?

I was there from 78-82, then again from 84-87. I remember the cuddly "Joe and Josephine" Bruins too.

I think the newest incarnation is even meaner looking than the one you have there. No smile.

Hey, maybe you got my room! Fourth floor? Hedrick Hall? :)

I was halfway up, in "Reiber"--yes, the one the Sproulers yelled "Reeeee---brrrr" at all night long.

Poor lowly Sproulistas... :D

Ah, you gave me a good laugh. Thanks :thumbsup:

nyu

:hi:

The Maryland was really Maryland-Europe (Army)

ON EDIT-CNU is Christopher Newport University it was still a College (offshoot of Wm.&Mary) when I went there, they have dorms and a football team now.

"Crimson Tide" for them which I think is much cooler.

see post #26 above

Univ of Texas San Antonio

named since round about 1923, the last time Colby had a decent football team, they kept upsetting people, so they couldn't be the dark horses any more. really.

now I'm a Blue Jay.

of course, in high school I was a Garroulous Pine, so what're you going to do?

When I was there they were the Redmen and afterwards they changed to the Storm and no I am not talking about St. John's. I don't remember a mascot. Maybe an Iowa DUer could help me out with what it is now?

For my graduate degree it was a commodore. Anyone care to guess where that was?

:shrug:

...asking about Vandy was sort of a rhetorical question, I mean who else is a commodore? Am I right about Simpson, they don't have a mascot, do they.

http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/#S

Which I must say is better than the Rosemont College "Rosemonsters"

http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/#R
• Rosemonsters ---
o Rosemont College (Rosemont, Pennsylania)

nc state

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! I'm a large hulking, stampeding animal? :shrug:

Allegheny Gators!

University of Delaware.

I spent one year at Delaware before I was asked if I may want to pursue my academic studies elsewhere.

Which was a derogatory term applied to native americans (bastardized french sauvage). There was no mascot, no symbol apart from the bell tower of our "Old Main" building. Now, Knox College sports teams are referred to as "Prarie Fire" I suppose owing to our biology department's having a huge burn every spring.

The school teams are called the Chippewas, thus we obviously wouldn't use a mascot.
John
Famous CMUers include Dick Enberg, Tom Tresh, Dan Roundfield and Thunder Dan Majerle.

Used to be in the NAIA (I think) Lone Star Conference. Have no idea now. I don't keep up with them much.

Then the KNIGHTS OF PEGASUS (now known just as the knights) Of University of Central Florida.

I don't think my older son did either.

My younger son's is some sort of clam called -- I'll come up with it any minute now -- aha, a Geoduck.

And here's a highly informative Geoduck FAQ page I just found:

Q: How do you pronounce 'geoduck'?

A: OK, so maybe people haven't been asking this, but they're almost certainly getting it all wrong, so you have to read this one anyway, and read it first.

The proper way to pronounce the word is "gooey-duck", not "gee-oh-duck". Unlike learning the proper way to pronounce words such as "Cthulhu" and "YHWH", this admittedly does not entail risk to your mortal soul. Nevertheless, if you one day happen to fall into a conversation with a group of geoduck aficionados, you don't want to instantly reveal yourself to be a clueless newbie outsider, now do you?

The word is also sometimes spelled 'goeduck', but only by people who don't know any better.

http://www.olywa.net/cook/faq.htm

yup ... a big old orange ...

talk about instilling fear in the hearts of opposing teams ...

No lie.

Presbyterian College Blue Hose. Goooooo Hose!

The mascot was a Scottish dude in a kilt with blue socks.


It was always comical when we would play basketball against one of our rivals, the Wofford Terriers. Which mascot was the dorkiest?

We also played sports against the Erskine Flying Fleet. I never really understood that one.

On edit...I had to give you the fight song (cue music):

On, on PC!
To vic-to-ry!
Garnet and Blue,
Oh we love you in everything you do..PRESBYTERIAN!

Spirts are high!
Never say die!
For if we win or if we lose
We'll still love you PC Blue
Go Hose, Go Blue!

Why in god's name do I still have that in my head? It's sitting there with the theme song to The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Why do we keep these things in our heads?

of THE Ohio State University

For the Morris Cougars.

We don't have a Mascot. Mainly because there are no college sports like in the US.

The closest thing we have is Marvin, a flying robot; it won several important awards before European universities got excluded from US competitions.




(Main Campus with Marvin and Tubsat)

As you can guess, it wasn't a school that emphasized the sports program.

The pic says it all. :thumbsup:

Here's "Thundar"

We had a horse at all the football games.

Our colors were brown and yellow, or as my brother always said "poop and pee".

Go Green!