Mascots - oy
So, back to the Marquette Gold rant I had a couple days ago, and yeah, I'm definitely glad that Ripon decided not to stay with the Ripon Red because that just sounds L-A-M-E...in the meantime, I stumbled across a list of college nicknames.
Now, I don't know about you, but at 1:45am when I'm sick and have no competant medication, I have nothing better to do than read said lists and decide which mascots I would rather have been than a Redhawk (or a Greyhound...yawn), so here goes....

Mascots that are either cooler than a Redhawk or I just find amusing:

Armadillos - Our Lady of the Lake University (who WOULDN'T want to be an armadillo?)
Banana Slugs! - UC- Santa Cruz (that is a sweet mascot)
Diplomats - Franklin & Marshall College (somehow, I think that sounds like they negotiate scores to games...)
Dustdevils - Texas A&M (sounds more like a vacuum cleaner)
Evangels - Johnson Bible College (women's teams) (fitting)
Firebirds - University of D.C. (ah! Stravinsky! wait...)
Flying Dutchmen!! - Hofstra University, Hope College, and Lebanon Valley College (clearly I did not do my mascot research thoroughly enough...how could would it have been to be a Flying Dutchman!?!?!?!?!?!)
Gothic Knights - New Jersey City University (now that is a mascot name)
Greyhounds - Assumption College, Eastern New Mexico University, Loyola College, Moravian College, University of Indianapolis (okay, I really don't like the name Greyhound as a mascot, but it's nice to know that it belongs to other schools aside from good old Shorewood High)
Lumberjacks and Lumberjills - Ashland College (northern Wisconsin at it's finest...*smacks forehead*...are you kidding me???)
Muleriders - Southern Arkansas University (the location says most)
Preachers - Johnson Bible College (men's teams), Lincoln Christian College (unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnreal)
Squirrels - Mary Baldwin College, Union Theological Seminary (would be better if they were flying squirrels, like the flying dutchmen that i am still amused by)
Super Bees - University of Baltimore (as opposed to regular bees)
Wasps - Emory and Henry College (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?)
Wonder Boys - Arkansas Tech University, men's teams (ohhh...the jokes!)

And just for some useless trivia...

Dear Marquette,
There are currently 27 other colleges that appear to have no problem using "Warriors" as their mascot, including Wisconsin Lutheran which is also in Milwaukee. Re-think Marquette Gold. Please.

For the record, the Ripon Red Hawks share their mascot with LaRoche College of Pittsburgh, PA; and Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ. The mascot Redhawk is, as well, used by another four schools: Indiana University-Northwest, Gary, IN; Miami University, Oxford, OH; Seattle University, Seattle, WA; and Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO.
And you can still find Redmen at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI; Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK; and University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, OH.

Yes, this will probably be very un-entertaining to you, and to me tomorrow, but for now, that's all I've got. Damn thee, spring cold!!
- posted by L. @ 1:42 AM