For anyone looking for a chuckle and a break from the realignment wars between conferences.

https://csnbbs.com/thread-931969.html

Why are the Hilltoppers in the Insensitive Division? Someone in the know must tell me.

(10-18-2021 08:03 AM)goliath74 Wrote:  Why are the Hilltoppers in the Insensitive Division? Someone in the know must tell me.

I asked the same thing. I think the OP must think Hilltopper = Hillbilly? No idea.

(10-18-2021 08:46 AM)freshtop Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 08:03 AM)goliath74 Wrote:  Why are the Hilltoppers in the Insensitive Division? Someone in the know must tell me.

I asked the same thing. I think the OP must think Hilltopper = Hillbilly? No idea.

I questioned it as well and came to same conclusion. Few know that we are called Hilltoppers because the city residents of Bowling Green in the early 1900's referred to the students that resided on the one big hill in BG as hilltoppers (aka the people on the hill). It's a location reference. It really doesn't fit any other category...maybe the Cultural Appropriation category but that's a stretch. LOL

However, it's a cool thread.

(10-18-2021 09:01 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 08:46 AM)freshtop Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 08:03 AM)goliath74 Wrote:  Why are the Hilltoppers in the Insensitive Division? Someone in the know must tell me.

I asked the same thing. I think the OP must think Hilltopper = Hillbilly? No idea.

I questioned it as well and came to same conclusion. Few know that we are called Hilltoppers because the city residents of Bowling Green in the early 1900's referred to the students that resided on the one big hill in BG as hilltoppers (aka the people on the hill). It's a location reference. It really doesn't fit any other category...maybe the Cultural Appropriation category but that's a stretch. LOL

However, it's a cool thread.

Yea the thread is funny, we should have been in the strange mascot category vs. the insensitive one though.

While WKU's mascot, Big Red, is popular and iconic(ish), I can only imagine when someone first suggested going with a blob it was after a frustrating meeting where nobody had any ideas. I have always wondered why WKU didn't tie into the Mammoth Cave National Park nearby. While it is so named because of its size, a wooly mammoth mascot would be fairly unique, and pretty awesome.

(10-18-2021 12:46 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  While WKU's mascot, Big Red, is popular and iconic(ish), I can only imagine when someone first suggested going with a blob it was after a frustrating meeting where nobody had any ideas. I have always wondered why WKU didn't tie into the Mammoth Cave National Park nearby. While it is so named because of its size, a wooly mammoth mascot would be fairly unique, and pretty awesome.

Someone needed to think right outside the box: