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Final decision--> No Mascot

BTID said:
I agree you don't need a mascot to associate with your team of choice. If the new prez is intent on Bradley getting a new logo or nickname, I still stand by "Bulldozers". Many BU students have interned at Caterpillar over the years, and the company is synonamous with Peoria. It's been very good to our alma mater. Instead of the Chief's Club, you could have the Earthmovers. The student section could call itself the Dirtbags, or something much more clever than that. My logo would have a red bulldozer with menacing eyes for headlights and "BU" on the scoop.

If we go with a tree-flower-plant concept, I opt for a gigantic venus flytrap! It would be cool to see it courtside with Dana Altman's or Chris Lowery's legs hanging from its jaws!
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Those are really good ideas and I think your suggestions hit the gist of what is most critical in choosing a new mascot. You can choose almost anything, within reason, and make it into a great mascot. What matters is how the new mascot behaves, interacts with crowd, and provides entertainment value in general. If the students embrace the mascot, the alumni and local community will follow.

The idea of the Bradley Bulldozer is pretty good in my opinion. It has all the connections to the BU and local area that you mention and the students could have a heck of a lot fun doing wacky off-takes of it. While I know the clock mascot was considered lame by many, I also thought it had merit. The clock has the "early history of BU" connection along with the more current "showcase building on campus" connection. There are lots of double meanings on the theme of clock and time around which the students could push the envelope of decency. What matters most is the manifestation that the mascot takes on as it becomes part of the milieu, not if it is a bulldozer, a clock, or a bobcat.

So, someone needs to select a mascot and then the school administration and local business community need to relax enough to allow the student body to morph it into something that succeeds.
 
squirrel said:
I know for a fact that at least 3 different people at ESPN took the survey and voted for the squirrel as even they saw endless potential with the mascot.

So for those who think it would be a joke or an embarassment. . .that's lost time on ESPN to me.
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Now, I don't know you - or what you do. But I'm sure there are thousands of people that work for ESPN...so three really doesn't mean that much to me.

And if we lost some airtime because we aren't the squirrells I say...OH WELL! I'd much rather pass on the air time than be the laughing stock of the NCAA.

"Oh, Bradley has lots of squirrels, its perfect. They aren't scared of nothin'."

No, every college that has a quad (like we do) in the middle of an urban area (like we are in) has squirrels. They may not be skiddish but they also get hit by an awful lot of trucks. C'mon now, we don't need a mascot to validate our program...just W's.

I for one know lots of people, right here in Peoria, that think not having a silly mascot is the best idea since this whole thing came up.
 
It seems like we had this argument when Bradley opened up the selection for a mascot, and now it's over. Yes, an animal like a squirrel would hav been unique and would have gotten media coverage initially. It would have even sold some merchandise. But it would not have made Bradley's athletic teams any better, or helped recruiting.
I can appreciate all the sides of this issue, but the decision has been made, and Bradley and fans need to support the decision.
Maybe the incoming president might reopen this issue, but I do not think that will happen anytime soon.
 
I was hoping for something like the "Chieftains", and we would have a Scottish warlord for our mascot. Bagpipers and students in kilts and war paint would be cool. The "Chiefs Club" wouldn't have to change their name!
Oh well, I have to agree, no name is better than what they offered us.
 
smurf said:
I was hoping for something like the "Chieftains", and we would have a Scottish warlord for our mascot. Bagpipers and students in kilts and war paint would be cool. The "Chiefs Club" wouldn't have to change their name!
Oh well, I have to agree, no name is better than what they offered us.
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That actually sounds pretty cool.
 
ser_solace said:
smurf said:
I was hoping for something like the "Chieftains", and we would have a Scottish warlord for our mascot. Bagpipers and students in kilts and war paint would be cool. The "Chiefs Club" wouldn't have to change their name!
Oh well, I have to agree, no name is better than what they offered us.
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That actually sounds pretty cool.
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That does sound great.

Plus, the band, The Chieftains, turns out some great music. Maybe the Student Association could line them up for homecoming and band could get all the alumni over 40 to loosen up their kilt a notch or two.
 
The ironic thing being that the woad painted Celt warrior ought to be every bit as offensive as a war painted Indian.

I had an idea along similar lines that I thought would be sweet: The team could be called The Bradley Legion. It would be legion in the Roman sense, so it works with our red and white colors. The mascot would be a Roman legionary... I was thinking it would be coolest if he was more realistic than cartoony (or maybe that would be the less kid friendly student section mascot)... so armor, shield, spear.

I think you could steal a lot from some popular sources and come up with some unique cheers and the like. The one my buddies and I talked about was "STRENGTH AND HONOR" from Gladiator. An even more off the wall idea was to put SPQR on the home jersey... hehhe. Anyway, it was another idea that I thought would be a cool and unique candidate.
 
You all have some interesting ideas. However, I can promise you that 80% of the public will blast them! A small (very small) percentage will be open minded and accepting of your ideas, but the remainder will see them as "lame."

This is behind us for the time being...let's move on :?
 
BU Firsty said:
This is behind us for the time being...let's move on :?
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Your suggestion to "move on" reminds of a famous cross-roads scene from my college days. It went something like this:

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the f**k happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my a$$ from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT
 
Dubl R 1 said:
How about being the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, with our mascot as General Brad E Lee. :lol:
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Thats exactly what I'm talking about. Students arise from your play stations. Come together to change the face of Bradley. The adminstration has served up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on a silver platter. WAKE UP!!!!

Did the Stanford band accept their school adminstration's decision when Stanford University decided to not have a mascot after their administration got rid of the Indians team name? HECK NO!!! They came up with "The Tree" and Stanford has not been the same since.

Read this and open your eyes to the opportunity knockling on your door:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree

This mascot thing ain't over until the students say its over. Don't let fuddy duddies like a school president, community leaders, and alumni stand between you and having a proper college experience. Demand your right to have a mascot!!! Now get out there and make me proud!!!
 
DB, did you read in your link what choices Stanford had considered?

Robber Barons, Huns, Griffins, the Steaming Manhole, the French Fry, and of course, the Tree.

Can you imagine how upset the descendants of the Huns would have been?
And I couldn't even begin to imagine the ridicule that would have come from selecting "the Steaming Manhole"! :roll:

And would the womens' teams be the "Steaming Womanhole"?
 
tornado said:
DB, did you read in your link what choices Stanford had considered?

Robber Barons, Huns, Griffins, the Steaming Manhole, the French Fry, and of course, the Tree.

Can you imagine how upset the descendants of the Huns would have been?
And I couldn't even begin to imagine the ridicule that would have come from selecting "the Steaming Manhole"! :roll:

And would the womens' teams be the "Steaming Womanhole"?
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HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAH Steaming man/womanhole. That's amazing. :lol:
 
tornado said:
DB, did you read in your link what choices Stanford had considered?

Robber Barons, Huns, Griffins, the Steaming Manhole, the French Fry, and of course, the Tree.

Can you imagine how upset the descendants of the Huns would have been?
And I couldn't even begin to imagine the ridicule that would have come from selecting "the Steaming Manhole"! :roll:

And would the womens' teams be the "Steaming Womanhole"?
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Yes I did read it. But my farm boy naivity prevented from grasping its meaning :-o
 
Why did dozens of schools like Stanford, Bradley, etc. choose Indians as their name or select Native American imagery?
-----Answer: Because they held the Native Americans in high regard and saw their bravery, strength, and dignity as admirable.


Why did virtually all schools recently abandon all the imagery and references to Native Americans and what will be future generations' view of the Native Americans?
-----Answer: Because of endless whining and political pressure from a small number of people who want their way and who feel nobody should use such images without consent and without giving them a portion of the revenue from memorabilia. As in the Florida Seminoles who use the tomahawk chop and have a student in Indian regalia riding a horse, they do allow what the schools want if they are willing to cough up big bucks.
The lasting image in the minds of our future generations will be that the Native Americans are crybabies who are willing to sell out if they just get enough money.

So I ask, has their effort to wipe out all reference to Native Americans in colleges and sports been worth it?
 
This is a little off the subject of Bradley, but I didn't realize that Brimfield High School is still called the Indians. Are they under any pressure to change that? I don't care either way, was just wondering if anyone knew.
 
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