George Washington to stop using the name Colonials by the 23/24 season.....

[Billiken Rich]

Always thought the "colonials" was a stupid name.  George Washington fought a damned war to no longer be a colony.  Revolutionaries is so much more accurate.  Go with that BUT ban anything with Che Guevara on it from campus......please......

 

[slu72]

After the Hippo story, I like it. Good story behind it. But I also think Foggy Bottoms would be good. 

[CenHudDude]

11 hours ago, slu72 said:

After the Hippo story, I like it. Good story behind it. But I also think Foggy Bottoms would be good. 

I doubt that the women’s basketball team would like to be known as that.

[Lord Elrond]

Especially because a female hippopotamus is called a cow…

 

[ARon]

On 6/15/2022 at 2:10 PM, SluSignGuy said:

I just hope the new mascot is something Founding/American Revolution related.

I admit, I may buy up a fair bit of colonials swag in the next year.

For all the grief teams and programs get for re-branding, I bet they feel a lot better about it when they see the bump in merch sales that comes with it. 

[JMM28]

1 hour ago, ARon said:

For all the grief teams and programs get for re-branding, I bet they feel a lot better about it when they see the bump in merch sales that comes with it. 

At the professional level, possibly-probably. But at the GW Dumpster Fires basketball program, I doubt they sell enough merchandise to make up for the cost of the hourly intern that drafts the press release...

[Old guy]

As a company employee that lived through about 3 major status changes and rebrandings, I want you all to know that this is not a cheap or  quick process to engage in. Whenever the company rebranded they had all kinds of consultants measuring public liking and acceptance of the new logo or colors, using large numbers of colors and graphics for the company brand. There were multiple meetings with the executives in charge and with the board. This took time and a lot of work and research before there was general agreement upon a particular logo, graphics, fonts, and colors. I am very sure GW will be aware that the women athletes will not care for any name having to do with hippos, elephants, or cows. Sorry, I should have also included whales. This is not something that is decided overnight. They will sweat this decision and after all is done, they will face a lot of criticism for their decision, and proceed to alter the logo's details. This happened at SLU when they redesigned the Billiken. It is not an easy process.

They might be better off if they had the President's grandson as a consultant for the process, whatever it would become it would be original, be sure of it.

[CenHudDude]

8 hours ago, Lord Elrond said:

Especially because a female hippopotamus is called a cow…

 

I was thinking more of them not wanting to be called “Foggy Bottoms”.

[SluSignGuy]

Go Colonials Revolutionaries!

https://twitter.com/GWtweets/status/1661429915164499975

[Lord Elrond]

Hippos would have been better.

 

oh well, Che Guevara would be proud….

[JMM28]

Living in a world where Revolutionaries isn't offensive but Colonials is....

[billikenfan05]

17 minutes ago, JMM28 said:

Living in a world where Revolutionaries isn't offensive but Colonials is....

Colonials is the most lukewarm of "offensive nicknames"....Insane that they were pressured to change.

[BilliesBy40]

Their mascot should literally be George Washington

[WVBilliken]

More silliness and caving in to the few and telling the many ..... to take a hike.  Colonials is an honorable name.  There were 13 American colonies that revolted against the British Empire and created a country unique in its time and still a shining beacon of freedom for much of the world.  The people who created this wonderful country were called ...... Colonials.

[Bay Area Billiken]

2 hours ago, SluSignGuy said:

Go Colonials Revolutionaries!

https://twitter.com/GWtweets/status/1661429915164499975

Let's Go Revs!

[Bay Area Billiken]

1 hour ago, BilliesBy40 said:

Their mascot should literally be George Washington

He is ... or at least has been.

[BilliesBy40]

16 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:

He is ... or at least has been.

I mean without a name after GWU

[Lord Elrond]

And introducing the new Revolutionary themed court for the GWU Revolutionairies!

[Billiken Rich]

Jonathan Turley and Steve Rogers are the only good things to come out of GWU.....

 

[Billiken Rich]

42 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:

And introducing the new Revolutionary themed court for the GWU Revolutionairies!

We laugh but the GWU Poly-Sci dept is wondering why you are such a racist since you left out Che.......

[Lord Elrond]

1 hour ago, Billiken Rich said:

We laugh but the GWU Poly-Sci dept is wondering why you are such a racist since you left out Che.......

not sure where to put him without messing up the rest, but it would add to the overall effect!

[Billiken Rich]

2 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:

not sure where to put him without messing up the rest, but it would add to the overall effect!

Based on the tenets of intersectionality it he should be right above Lenin and all of those other cis white men......

 

[brianstl]

6 hours ago, Billiken Rich said:

Based on the tenets of intersectionality it he should be right above Lenin and all of those other cis white men......

 

Che was a rich white kid from Argentina.  He was Irish and Basque.

[Billiken Rich]

28 minutes ago, brianstl said:

Che was a rich white kid from Argentina.  He was Irish and Basque.

Basque is more than brown enough.  You could put Castro high on that list too.......

 

[thetorch]

Che can't make this list.  He had a few thousand people killed maybe.  Stalin and Mao laugh at that.  If you aren't above a million plus you shouldn't get your picture on the floor.  Mao and Stalin with estimates of 50+ million can get the court named after them.