If we weren't the Wildcats...

[FurdTerguson]

...what would you choose for our name? I mean, Wildcats is pretty unoriginal, stacked up next to Jayhawks, Tarheels, Blue Devils, Fighting Irish, Crimson Tide, etc.

I say Colonels. I could live with: Horses, Longshots, Bourbons, and Reign.

 

[kybloo92]

Thoroughbreds, Bobcats, Stallions or Mustangs.

 

[JLoad22]

Race Horses, Ballers, Colonel's.

 

[BBUK]

Rock Chalk.... yeah, that's to aspire too... (Just tell me what it is...)


Couldn't even google a picture other than a picture of Kansas in some form or another...


(Did see one picture of a dude kicking a car and another of a dude hitting a woman..)

 

[YardCat]

Hillbillies- hope that doesn’t offend anyone! We need to continue to cherish our heritage, people know those hill people are cray cray!

 

[BBUK]

Hillbillies- hope that doesn’t offend anyone! We need to continue to cherish our heritage, people know those hill people are cray cray!

Madea??? You incognito?

 

[TOMCATS1990]

BLUE BLOODS!!!!!

 

[FurdTerguson]

Splendid Spelunkers (Mammoth Cave)

 

[catlogic15]

The Gold Standards.

 

[drcats2013]

The University of Kentucky Fried Chicken

 

[HerrosHeroes]

The Kentucky Dirt Clods

 

[Berea68]

Kentucky Frontier , have a Daniel Boone type mascot. I think it would be awesome for a future NBA team

 

[BBNinSC]

The Tigers or Bulldogs

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Kentucky Waspers (Pikeville knows)
Kentucky Moonshiners
Kentucky Copperheads
Kentucky Meth Heads
Kentucky Toothers
Kentucky TPB (Trailer Park Boys)

 

[Wildcats1st]

The high colonics of Kentucky

 

[JonathanW]

Thoroughbreds, Bobcats, Stallions or Mustangs.

Yeah, I’d go with Thoroughbreds.
Or Spelunkers.

 

[bbncal02]

Colonels would be cool as both a nod to the former ABA team and our Commonwealth‘s high honor award.

Thoroughbreds would be cool, but Murray is already the Racers.

Distillers could be cool as well, but the alcohol theme might be a little much for a college squad.

 

[bbncal02]

Kentucky Frontier , have a Daniel Boone type mascot. I think it would be awesome for a future NBA team

Not bad. Kinda different. Definitely sounds like a pro squad name though.

 

[CatPhight]

Bourbon Buzzards

 

[*CatinIL*]

The Kentucky Squatch Monsters

Or, the Kentucky Aliens...

 

[RunninRichie]

...what would you choose for our name? I mean, Wildcats is pretty unoriginal, stacked up next to Jayhawks, Tarheels, Blue Devils, Fighting Irish, Crimson Tide, etc.

I say Colonels. I could live with: Horses, Longshots, Bourbons, and Reign.

Thoroughbreds.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Bourbon Buzzards

You might be on to something. They could have a buzzard holding a bottle of bourbon in it's talons.

 

[crawfords corner]

Kentucky Brachiopods

 

[BBBLazing]

I get that basketball and football aren't playing now, but you guys are some bored mfers.

 

[STL_Cat]

Kentucky Colonels

 

[Fox2monk]

Kentucky medicinal fried chicken.

 

[Skyguyb27]

Checkerboards……. Mic drop

 

[EliteBlue]

Thoroughbreds, Bobcats, Stallions or Mustangs.

End thread.

Thoroughbreds/stallions or Bobcats has always been the 2 I’ve felt it should have been. Bobcats is still a “wildcat” but it’s less generic

 

[TNCatfanforever]

Hillbillies- hope that doesn’t offend anyone! We need to continue to cherish our heritage, people know those hill people are cray cray!

Coal miners

 

[RunninRichie]

We got wildcats in the late 1910s when the team clawed back into the game. Some guy said we ''fought like wildcats'' and the name stuck. Pretty cool imo.

 

[jeffries123]

Bushy Beavers

 

[Louis_Skunt]

Race Horses, Ballers, Colonel's.

Ballers?? We selling weed at games?

 

[FurdTerguson]

We got wildcats in the late 1910s when the team clawed back into the game. Some guy said we ''fought like wildcats'' and the name stuck. Pretty cool imo.

 

[FurdTerguson]

Yes, but....Villanova, Arizona, Kansas State, probably others

 

[FurdTerguson]

The Kentucky Perfectas

 

[know1]

Kentucky Old Fashioneds

 

[Lukeslaw]

Jodie Meeks. The University of Kentucky Jodie Meeks.

 

[BradleyCrawford08]

Jodie Meeks. The University of Kentucky Jodie Meeks.

 

[HagginHall1999]

Unique:
Hollas as a play off hollers (hollows)....

Reality:
Bobcats, Thoroughbreds or Cardinals (if that wasn't Louisville's name)....Brown Bats don't have the same ring.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

We got wildcats in the late 1910s when the team clawed back into the game. Some guy said we ''fought like wildcats'' and the name stuck. Pretty cool imo.

I’ll add some fabric to this story…

A few years after UK became known as The Wildcats, they were playing a football game at the University of Cincinnati. One of UC’s best players had the last name Baehr (pronounced like Bear). During the game a chant broke out and was something like, “they are the wildcats, but we have the Baehr cat”. Later that week the student newspaper had a cartoon depicting a Bearcat chasing a Wildcat. The name stuck. So they got their name based on our name.