(08-13-2018 08:10 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  Plan B.

How about a mosquito? What more terrifying creature is there in the South?

Mosquitoes are too violent. The lowly Mosquito has been responsible for more deaths in human history than any other critter.

Having attended a handful of schools with bulldog or avian mascots, allow me to say this about Mississippi State's mascot. I'd rather MSU change the mascot to STOCK DOGS (herding dogs or a breed of a herding dog). This ties into their agricultural and beef/dairy mantra. The cow bells become even more pertinent.

This is not a deference to the Georgia bulldogs, but giving MSU a unique, simple, and closer identifying mascot.

As to Ole Miss, they need to stop goofy student body polls about mascot names. Find a name that can be associated with Mississippi. Frankly, Mudcats does sound better than Landsharks.

(08-15-2018 01:32 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Having attended a handful of schools with bulldog or avian mascots, allow me to say this about Mississippi State's mascot. I'd rather MSU change the mascot to STOCK DOGS (herding dogs or a breed of a herding dog). This ties into their agricultural and beef/dairy mantra. The cow bells become even more pertinent.

This is not a deference to the Georgia bulldogs, but giving MSU a unique, simple, and closer identifying mascot.

As to Ole Miss, they need to stop goofy student body polls about mascot names. Find a name that can be associated with Mississippi. Frankly, Mudcats does sound better than Landsharks.

What in the Southeast is more frightening and aggressive than a Water Moccasin?

Why not Mississippi Moccasins and they could use the opened cotton mouth with fangs as their logo. It's alliterative, threatening, identifiable to all who traverse the Mississippi River or other Southern waterways, and would be unique to the P5. Chattanooga uses the term but I'm not sure if it is in the same context.

The only thing that it doesn't lend itself too is having a live one on a leash on the sideline.

Yeah, UT Chattanooga came to mind when you mentioned moccasins. I believe Florida A&M are Rattlers.

(08-15-2018 02:13 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Yeah, UT Chattanooga came to mind when you mentioned moccasins. I believe Florida A&M are Rattlers.

Chattanooga has called themselves the 'movin Mocs and it was unclear whether their reference was to native American footwear or to the snake.

And FAMU are the Rattlers.

By the way if the new Ole Miss mascot gets hit by a tornado does he become a "shark'nado", or a "landshark'nado"? I sense a new genre of low budget movies coming on here!

(08-15-2018 02:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-15-2018 02:13 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Yeah, UT Chattanooga came to mind when you mentioned moccasins. I believe Florida A&M are Rattlers.

Chattanooga has called themselves the 'movin Mocs and it was unclear whether their reference was to native American footwear or to the snake.

And FAMU are the Rattlers.

By the way if the new Ole Miss mascot gets hit by a tornado does he become a "shark'nado", or a "landshark'nado"? I sense a new genre of low budget movies coming on here!

For Ole Miss, I like the Wood Ducks.

(Not the exact same as Oregon)

https://statesymbolsusa.org/states/unite...ississippi

(08-12-2018 07:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  http://www.clarionledger.com/story/sport...966506002/


Good Lord! WTH were they thinking!

Sounds and smells fishy to me. Why don't they call themselves the Mississippi Chickens or something like that since they play in the Egg Bowl. They might get money from Perdue or Tyson for naming rights. Personally I liked the Colonel myself like another poster mentioned.

(08-15-2018 01:23 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  I attended a handful of schools with bulldog or avian mascots.

Allow me to say this about Mississippi State's mascot. I'd rather MSU change the mascot to STOCK DOGS (herding dogs or a breed of a herding dog). This ties into their agricultural and beef/dairy mantra. The cow bells become even more pertinent.

This is not a deference to the Georgia bulldogs, but giving MSU a unique, simple, and closer identifying mascot.

As to Ole Miss, they need to stop goofy student body polls about mascot names. Find a name that can be associated with Mississippi. Frankly, Mudcats does sound better than Landsharks.

+1

(08-15-2018 02:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  [quote='OdinFrigg' pid='15433240' dateline='1534360396']
Yeah, UT Chattanooga came to mind when you mentioned moccasins. I believe Florida A&M are Rattlers.

Chattanooga has called themselves the 'movin Mocs and it was unclear whether their reference was to native American footwear or to the snake.


The school's athletic teams are called the Mocs. The teams were nicknamed Moccasins until 1996. (The origin of the name is uncertain; however, Moccasin Bend is a large horseshoe-shaped bend in the Tennessee River directly below Lookout Mountain.)

The mascot has taken on four distinct forms. A water moccasin was the mascot in the 1920s, and then a moccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was used as the school's mascot at times in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1970s until 1996, the mascot was Chief Moccanooga, an exaggerated Cherokee tribesman.

In 1996, the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and an anthropomorphized northern mockingbird, in accordance with the state bird, named "Scrappy" dressed as a railroad engineer. The school's main athletic logo features Scrappy riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a major railroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from former football coach A. C. "Scrappy" Moore.

(08-15-2018 01:38 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-15-2018 01:32 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Having attended a handful of schools with bulldog or avian mascots, allow me to say this about Mississippi State's mascot. I'd rather MSU change the mascot to STOCK DOGS (herding dogs or a breed of a herding dog). This ties into their agricultural and beef/dairy mantra. The cow bells become even more pertinent.

This is not a deference to the Georgia bulldogs, but giving MSU a unique, simple, and closer identifying mascot.

As to Ole Miss, they need to stop goofy student body polls about mascot names. Find a name that can be associated with Mississippi. Frankly, Mudcats does sound better than Landsharks.

What in the Southeast is more frightening and aggressive than a Water Moccasin?

Why not Mississippi Moccasins and they could use the opened cotton mouth with fangs as their logo. It's alliterative, threatening, identifiable to all who traverse the Mississippi River or other Southern waterways, and would be unique to the P5. Chattanooga uses the term but I'm not sure if it is in the same context.

The only thing that it doesn't lend itself too is having a live one on a leash on the sideline.

Cottonmouths are pretty prevalent on my property. lol I have seen my chocolate labs fighting with four already, and found a huge one in my shed. Definitely a good mascot as far as fierce goes. Darn things are everywhere down here.