Mascot Name
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I have a Don Woods painting of Gusty golfing in my home. Oh, the days of Don Woods painting a new Gusty every night on Channel 8, and Lee Woodward's weather with King Lionel on Channel 6. Back when weather was fun.
As foretold by Don Woods…
So Gus and I would chat every now and then at TU. He was a good friend of my roommate our last year as undergrads at TU. My FIL, to this day, still reminds me of Gus running his head into the wall and taking himself out of the game. That game, BTW, ended in a tie, and the Redskins missed the playoffs that year because of that tie. Had they won, they would have been in.
A good friend of mine who was also at TU at the same time, absolutely loved it when the Vikings signed Gus to be Daunte Culpepper's backup and was secretly hoping Culpepper would get hurt so Gus would get in the game because he always felt Culpepper over thought things up in MN when the game plan should have been "Throw the ball to Randy Moss". Well, Gus threw the ball to Randy Moss...a lot. In his last season he was 8-3 as the Vikings starter, in his 15th freaking season in the NFL. And there were teams that came to ask him if he'd be willing to come out of retirement to be there back-up QB for the next 2-3 years afterwards.
And maybe TU can give Gus T a formal name like Gustave T Hurricane (BTW, Gus Frerotte's legal first name is Gustave...but I wouldn't call him that when he's drunk or if you're drunk)
Clearly we hired the wrong consultant.
TU’s track record on marketing consultations is downright putrid. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same person who sold us on captain underpants.
TU’s track record on marketing consultations is downright putrid. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same person who sold us on captain underpants.
It was designed by the same person/consultant who just did the Heisman Trophy. This wasn’t just some knee jerk reaction that 4 students came up with (like the lame ass super hero captain cane we dumbed ourselves down to).
You will be unhappy regardless. However, I realize there is no way everyone would be pleased in this situation. Too many people with opinions based on nothing outside of negativity for the sake of negativity.
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Correct. There were hiccups in the process, but in the end they hired the best in the business. Just about every major sports rebrand you can name in the last twenty years. And they focus on difficult to adapt traditions like a hurricane.
I think everyone will be pleased. Well, mostly everyone.
I think everyone will be pleased. Well, mostly everyone.
So that super hero captain cane was one of my former student's ideas. He is an incredibly talented sketch artist and he came up with it. It was way better than what the athletic dept. trotted out there. The athletic dept. continually tries to "kiddify" everything and make it super friendly to toddlers so the softer, rounder features, the awful little pussified smiles on the mascot costumes. It's OK for mascots to have a little edge to them and instill some fear into people...isn't that the point?
Yes you’ve facepalmed every tweet you’ve seen. I get it - not everyone will like it. It’s fine.
Sorry I’m going to disagree with you on the super hero captain cane - it was probably the worst direction we could have gone. That Surge thing would have been light years better than that the Jay Leno on crack they trotted out. It was instantly in the bottom 10 for mascots and the stupid ass story they put with it just made it that much worse. Truly the laughing stock of the college mascot world because we decided to be cheap and let some kid, talented or not, make a decision because the admin had more important things to worry about apparently.
I was hoping for Herc but when they talked about Gus T this morning and how it can be associated to several different things it made sense. The last one was awful and I actually preferred the one prior. I’m looking forward to seeing the new one tonight!
I wasn't disagreeing with you at all. I did facepalm the Gus T name and the rest of the names out there...they just don't really convey anything. Maybe when I see the full image I might change my mind.
Oh, they didn't commission him to do it. He did it on his own, got some student feedback on what they thought about the image...and he brought it to them. As far as I know, they told him they weren't changing the direction. Then they trotted out what they did on their own, no credit given. But it was different enough that it would have been hard to prove they stole the idea, but it was close enough in intent that anyone who saw his original sketch knew where they got the idea. The Spider Man like backstory they gave him was the most lame thing about the iteration.
My personal favorite is the one from Big Fan productions (Eskimo Joes) with the Captain Cane w/ no irises in the eyes, the little snarl, etc. Again, no one ever thought the name "Captain Cane" was lame but TU wussified the image and made him smile instead of the snarl, added soft irises, and basically turned him into a less frightening clown. Again, cartoonish mascots having an edge is not a bad thing. Hell, LSU and Baylor have mascots that would literally eat kids if they could ever get close enough to them.
I mean, even ORU went away from the cartoonish Eagle and went to a more serious mascot. Hopefully Gus T looks awesome.
The movie Green Goblin or Spidey and His Amazing Friends Green Goblin???? Lol
Like Norman Osborn in the 2002 Green Goblin vibe because he was pretty bad ass? Can we get him a hover sled to fly around the stadium too.
If it ends up the image I was shown, it’s a T-Shirt you will want to buy and that’s definitely the idea.
If that is true in the sense I'm thinking of then cool. That means it has an aggressive look going on, like the Nike version in renderings. That means we get a cool mascot again? And cool designs for shirts?
And there is the problem. The Heisman didn’t need any work.
Oh god, shut up. Can you be any more annoying.
Keep your 'expertise' in marketing to yourself/
I don’t care if it looks like Barney the dinosaur as long as we are kicking butt and taking names!
Gus is already more popular than the last version of Captain Cane. He’s still in the stands working the crowd and posing for pictures. Captain left at halftime and was restricted to on-field only.
