If we weren't the Wildcats...
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Most of the Kentucky themed ones would be good. Blue Devils is one of the stupidest names I've ever heard for a supposedly institution of higher learning. A little league team with that name would be a better fit.
Here recently the only thing I can come up with is the possums…… “we play dead at home, and get killed on the road” could be our motto.
WildcatfaninOhio
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Origin of Blue Devils mascot
Named after WWI French soldiers that wore “flowing capes and jaunty berets”.
Cracks me up every time I read it.
The Crimson Tide. WTF is that.
The Orangemen.
Big Red
Big Green
Purple Aces
And who is the school that they need an “s” at the end of their name for it to make sense?
The Tar Heels I used to think bad, but now that I know the origin it not horrible. But that doesn’t explain how their mascot relates.
We’ve lived in their heads so much. They really can’t stand us. The created a mascot in a game they barely won. 14-7. I dislike that whole university.
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I know that it would never happen but I've always wished we would change our mascot and name. There are far too many wildcats and the only good thing about it was the C-A-T-S cheer but that's been ruined over the past 20 years as the cheerleaders don't know how to do it properly. Nowadays it's much too fast with the "Ohhhhh C-A-T-S CATS CATS CATS". Originally the spelling was much more drawn out and had a haunting cadence to it.
EKU has Colonels
Murray has Racers
K State has Thoroughbreds.
I do think that something horse related would be more fitting. It's just a matter of finding the right one.
EKU has Colonels
Murray has Racers
K State has Thoroughbreds.
I do think that something horse related would be more fitting. It's just a matter of finding the right one.
Ironically, the old location of Wake Forest Univ "Demon Deacons", which is in Wake Forest NC, holds a Baptist seminary (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary).
(Wake Forest the town is just north of Raleigh, both are in Wake County, but over an hour away from present WF Univ in Winston-Salem),
I agree completely about the C-A-T-S cheer!!!
The old C (pause) A (pause) T (pause) S with each letter coming from a different quarter of the arena was quite (as you put it) "haunting" and much LOUDER. I even remember hearing it (in addition to "Go Big Blue" chants) in the Dean Dome when we played UNC there.
I just watched a comedian on Reels make fun of our chant (he was in Lexington at the time). He was saying we were just proving that we know how to spell cats despite our state's academic reputation. Then he said "Don't feel bad I'm from Missouri, where our chant is M-I-Z,Z-O-U....see? We can't even spell."
Admittedly, it "CATS" is not very original or creative. But you can say that equally so about either method (fast or slow) of chanting it. The fast one (to me) is just 'blah' almost like something every school does. While the slow one, dividing it by sides of the arena or stadium was pretty loud and intimidating, not to mention easier to continue for longer period of time.
I like Wildcats but another could be Long Rifles, a nod to the famous frontier gun of early Kentucky settlers. On a side note, Somerset has the best mascot name: Briar Jumpers. Another name for a rabbit.
