Go Asparagus!!

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<p>William and Mary contemplating Asparagus for team nickname. I have experience with silly nicknames as an alum of Marquette University. I guess you can’t offend anyone with Asparagus.</p>

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<p>I’m sorry…asparagus can be very offensive. Just ask any lab tech who is dealing with a uring sample post ingestion of asparagus. In fact in a murder mystery written by Groucho Marx’s son Arthur the killer is apprenhended because he had asparagus prior to killing someone. (Murder at the BH tennis club or something like that)</p>

<p>And beside that…imagine the opportunities for banter: Go Spears! Go Gus! Go ASS per GAS!</p>

<p>…perhaps broccoli would be a better choice.</p>

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<p>UC Santa Cruz has Banana Slugs; Evergreen State College has Goeducks.</p>

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<p>I still don’t understand why Marquette got rid of Warriors- all they needed to do was dissociate the name from native Americans in their logo, no need to go silly. I can’t see using plants for nicknames- no motion. It is amazing how animals can be utilized successfully when the actual critter’s nature is not what you would have originally thought of for a sport. I’m thinking of the Wisconsin Badgers- Bucky (Buckingham U. Badger, to be exact). The state mascot was chosen to be badgers as the SW part of the state’s miners burrowed into the hills for housing like badgers do, this then transferred to the flagship U and Bucky is an upright mascot with only a facial resemblence to his namesake. I just can’t see how asparagus can be translated into a mascot though.</p>

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<p>UC Irvine has the anteaters. That never made it for me.</p>

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<p>from the title I thought you were cheering your “recession garden” vegetable - was curious if cheering worked as our cilantro keeps disappearing out of the raised bed it is in.</p>

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<p>W&M should hurry up with their mascot selection, or it’ll be taken by Whitman - Walla Walla is the center of the asparagus universe. ;)</p>

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<p>I prefer “The Cilantros”. Spicy, ethnically inclusive, and yet non threatening. (Unless you’re from northern Jersey)</p>

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<p>Too easy to confuse with Apergers… I vote “no.”</p>

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<p>just to clarify… William and Mary will still be the “Tribe”</p>

<p>The NCAA declared our logo “hostile and abusive” to Native Americans. Here is the logo: <a href=“http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/41251/william_and_mary_logo.gif[/url]”>http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/41251/william_and_mary_logo.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>As a result, we now have a new logo, which is atrocious: <a href=“http://snappedshot.com/uploads/Virginia/WM-logo-ZZZZZZZZ.serendipityThumb.jpg[/url]”>http://snappedshot.com/uploads/Virginia/WM-logo-ZZZZZZZZ.serendipityThumb.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In our argument with the NCAA, they decided we could keep “Tribe” as it can refer to a group of people. But, our logo had to go. Our old mascot was this: <a href=“http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C6embK9EnaQ/SYClGWPEwbI/AAAAAAAAARQ/m9O4kiEjKq8/s400/Colonel_Ebirt.jpg[/url]”>http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C6embK9EnaQ/SYClGWPEwbI/AAAAAAAAARQ/m9O4kiEjKq8/s400/Colonel_Ebirt.jpg&lt;/a&gt; and we are looking for a replacement. The replacement can be related or unrelated to “Tribe”. Currently there are over 400 suggestions.</p>

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<p>I thought that was the name of Britney Spear’s son … Asparagus Spears.</p>

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<p>Very good! :)!</p>

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<p>There’s a college somewhere that’s the fighting scallions (yes, like the green onion). Maybe the two could get together. :)</p>

<p>Also…I don’t know how many of you are food-network addicts like me. But whenever Alton Brown from “Good Eats” does an asparagus show, he uses a mascot-like asparagus that has boxing gloves on. I always assumed it was from a college…I guess not.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I can see that. The new logo looks fine to me.</p>

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<p>Two feathers, hostile and abusive???
Please.<br>
When Marquette was the Warriors initially there was a caricature of an indian as the mascot. Our athletic director was ahead of his time and worked with Native American leaders in Wisconsin to come up with a new logo. Unfortunately they also decided to have an authentic Native American dressed in traditional clothing at the basketball games…not as a mascot but once a game would do a traditional dance. Now you can just imagine how that went over at a time out.
There was no outcry from Native Americans to change the name, in fact there were many NA who liked the idea of a Warrior as being a strong image of NA. We tried the mascot who had nothing to do with Warriors (why always a furry creature?) Ours looked like Grover.
THe president then decided unilaterally to change the name. There was a phony vote and the pre-chosen Golden Eagles came about. No meaning for the University. It won over the Jumping Jesuits my personal favorite.
Several years ago one of the Board of Trustees during his commencement speech offered to give money if they changed the name back to Warriors. “Studies” went on, some vocal in the minority NA voiced the opinion we couldn’t have Warriors even if we had a non NA image/mascot. So the Board decided to switch to Gold.
That was a huge PR disaster. One of the funniest reactions was Dwyane Wade’s on ESPN when asked what he thought of the nickname.
Another phony study, another polling of students and alumni who overwhelmingly wanted Warriors and we returned to the bland Golden Eagles.
PC run amok.</p>