Archive for June, 2009
Inflatable Images back from Orlando
Last week the company Inflatable Images was down in Florida for the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) National Convention last week to show off their wares. The company is a partner with NACDA and is currently an official supplier of NFL and collegiate air inflated mascots, logos, and character shapes.
Looks like a cool site… Here’s the Link to the Collegiate Inflatable Lawn Collection!
William and Mary Stalks?
8 days left – we need more (edible and not) mascot ideas in the queue–so says the Twitter feed. The internet is a buzz with only a few days left to suggest a school mascot, Asparagus seems to have been a recent suggestion. We’re still waiting to the end of the month for the official announcement!
Not so endangered?
The red wolf is protected and one of the most endangered animals in the world. What once was a top predator that roamed the southeast, looked to diminished population numbers believed to be around 100 in 1970, in the small area of coastal Texas and Lousiana but in the last two years two colleges have adopted the animal as their mascot, Arkansas State and Indiana University East in Richmond, Ind. So are the fans known as the pack?
New Duties for a Mascot
Times Leader article Wilkes University has a new tradition to show students that they will get one on one attention at school- a visit from he Colonel mascot. Three mascots are traveling the country “punk-ing” incoming students with announcements and scholarship checks. What will they do to top that for those graduating?
The Mighty Oaks
SUNY ESFs Robin Hood Oak
After a surge in athletics at the college, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has chosen a mascot to represent. An online poll of over 800 students had a choice of 6 mascots inclucding Rangers, Lumberjacks, Coyotes, Black Bears, and Night Owls and fittingly the unique name of Oak won to represent the large study of forestry at the school as well as a famous oak on campus–the robin hood oak. Legend has it that a teacher brought back an acorn from Sherwood Forest.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has a long tradition of a woodsman’s team, competing since 1912 in timber sports but now has golf, club soccer, and cross-country this fall.
GO OAKS! We can hardly wait to see the mascot costume and this may take the heat off the Stanford Tree on the worst mascot lists!
GO Jesters? William and Mary’s search continues….
Deadline is less than a month away. At the end of this month, the open search commences. A squirrel? A bear? a King? A phoenix? Colonel Ebirt? Get to the sites to see what the alumni and students have drummed up. Hit the sites and take a look Facebook page , Twitter, Updated Post from the school
