Forgot all about him! He needs to stay retired though, there's just something oddly cool about a big giant orange running around.Originally Posted by Unassisted
Bring back the Saltine Warrior?
Forgot all about him! He needs to stay retired though, there's just something oddly cool about a big giant orange running around.Bring back the Saltine Warrior?
Not so fast ...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2058085
MILWAUKEE -- Amid heavy criticism over its new nickname, the Marquette board of trustees decided Wednesday to abandoned the name Gold and let students, alumni and faculty vote for a new moniker.
The decision came a week after trustees voted to switch the school's nickname to Gold from the Golden Eagles, which the school took in 1994.
In the last week, people upset about the new name flooded the school with angry phone calls, letters and e-mails.
"No one ever thought there would be as much reaction as we got," board chairman John Bergstrom said.
The school will hold a vote via the Internet and allow people to pick from 10 names, university president Robert Wild said.
Wild said the 10 names won't include the Warriors, the university's nickname during a run that saw it win the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1977 under coach Al McGuire.
The outcry over the university's nickname started about a year ago at graduation when two trustees offered the school $1 million each to go back to Warriors, which it dropped in favor of the Golden Eagles because the name and logo offended some American Indian groups.
Some alumni and students of the Jesuit university couldn't accept the Golden Eagles nickname.
The school hasn't scheduled the Internet vote yet, though Wild said it would take place soon.
Wild said trustees decided to let people vote because they felt much of the negative reaction over the Gold nickname arose because they didn't included others in the decision.
The Marquette Giant ******s!!
No, wait, The Marquette Turd Sandwiches!!
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
Maybe they could change the nickname to "Worriers?" Although that might offend the fearful. Here's a mascot idea...
Last edited by Unassisted; 05-11-2005 at 06:51 PM.
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How could they possibly leave out the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs?
Maybe they could change the nickname to "Worriers?" Although that might offend the fearful. Here's a mascot idea...
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Good one.
The Marquette Marxists? Catchy anyway.
Marky Marquette?
Makes all the routine posts.
Just when you thought politicians couldn't make any stupider laws, they outdo themselves. What would happen if a Wisconsin school got paired up with a school with an Indian nickname in the NCAA's? Would they have to forfeit?
I believe there is an exemption for postseason tournaments, too.
/r/reds
Nevermind Wisconsin is in the same conference as the Fighting Illini.
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
Rose-Hulman's mascot is the Fighting Engineers.
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
I hear those Fighting Engineers are a rowdy bunch.
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