Ole Miss releases mascot designs...
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The funniest thing about this whole thread, besides the whole YMCA thing which made me snot when I saw it and laughed, is that as much time as those a-holes spend on our board here replying to each and every thread that interests them in any way, we are 2 pages deep in this thread and they are too damn embarrassed to even surface and comment on this horrific ****. That in itself...the slience...is priceless.
I believe that I have the correct answer to that. If I'm not mistaken people that are abducted by aliens call the abductors "greys." Hoddy Toddy is obviously some sort of ultra hip, super athletic "grey" that has come from the planet Omicron Perci I-8 to rock out in the grove and at the games (until halftime) for the OM faithful.<div>
</div><div>My vote goes for Hoddy Toddy, but if I were an OM alumni/student I would vote for the Bear, I guess. The lesser of 3 evils</div>
</div><div>My vote goes for Hoddy Toddy, but if I were an OM alumni/student I would vote for the Bear, I guess. The lesser of 3 evils</div>
I found the fact that the Gay meeting/event took place yesterday at UM and the fact they released the mascots today a bit ironic and it has to be more than a bit coincidental. With that in mind, I fully expected Hotty Toddy to resemble this...
Lamar Lattrelle...Revenge of the Nerds
Lamar Lattrelle...Revenge of the Nerds
And the cases should be full of money as he stops by a judge's office. Then he throws the money all over the place when he gets there. Great halftime show.bulliegolfer said:
I'm assuming they went the cheap route with these design concepts. I figured we'd see a combination of what a suited mascot would look like in cartoon form, which we see, and a few possible logo ideas as well that would be associated with each.
As it stands, if you go with Hotty Toddy (which I think is a lot better of a concept than I thought it would be), then you basically have no change in marketing. I wouldn't put that on a shirt at all. It'd be like how often you see Smokey on a UT shirt or hat (very rarely). You'd still see most shirts either with the block M or the script Ole Miss and no mascot, which is fine. I tend to prefer those types of shirts anyway over the ones with the animals on them.
There is no good way to do a shark, and I have to think that's option No. 3 right now.
The bear concept to me doesn't make sense because it's a brown black bear. You would think a black bear would be...you know...black. I assume that with any of these concepts, a whole lot more serious development would take place before anything would be put into circulation. There is no way any of that is a finalized concept. For instance, I assume that the black bear would actually end up being black before it was put into development.
All that said, it's just a mascot. It's for the kids. My kids get excited about seeing the opposing team's mascot. I don't care one way or the other. Am I excited about any of the mascots? No, but I wasn't excited about Col. Reb either. It's just a figure. Will I be embarassed by any mascot? No, because it's for the kids, and I don't think my kids would have any reason to feel embarassed.
As it stands, if you go with Hotty Toddy (which I think is a lot better of a concept than I thought it would be), then you basically have no change in marketing. I wouldn't put that on a shirt at all. It'd be like how often you see Smokey on a UT shirt or hat (very rarely). You'd still see most shirts either with the block M or the script Ole Miss and no mascot, which is fine. I tend to prefer those types of shirts anyway over the ones with the animals on them.
There is no good way to do a shark, and I have to think that's option No. 3 right now.
The bear concept to me doesn't make sense because it's a brown black bear. You would think a black bear would be...you know...black. I assume that with any of these concepts, a whole lot more serious development would take place before anything would be put into circulation. There is no way any of that is a finalized concept. For instance, I assume that the black bear would actually end up being black before it was put into development.
All that said, it's just a mascot. It's for the kids. My kids get excited about seeing the opposing team's mascot. I don't care one way or the other. Am I excited about any of the mascots? No, but I wasn't excited about Col. Reb either. It's just a figure. Will I be embarassed by any mascot? No, because it's for the kids, and I don't think my kids would have any reason to feel embarassed.
Ya think? They look like a combination of microsoft clip art and ms paint drawings. If they paid a dollar for those, they got ripped off for all one hundred cents. A simple photoshop thread on Nafoom could have done better. I would say we could have done better on Sixpack, but knowing the direction we'd take it, I honestly don't think we could have come up with anything more golden than Hotty Toddy.RebelBruiser said:
"As it stands, if you go with Hotty Toddy (which I think is a lot better of a concept than I thought it would be), then you basically have no change in marketing. I wouldn't put that on a shirt at all. It'd be like how often you see Smokey on a UT shirt or hat (very rarely). You'd still see most shirts either with the block M or the script Ole Miss and no mascot, which is fine. I tend to prefer those types of shirts anyway over the ones with the animals on them."
"Oh it's for the kids!"
well why not let the kids vote on it? And there has been a lot of UM children walking around with "Colonel Reb is my mascot!" shirts, stickers, and pins on. And I didn't know there was so many alumni that were children crying on message boards and writing in to the papers when the demise of colonel reb was announced.
Sorry but the "It's for the kids" brushoff to this embarrasment doesn't fly.
well why not let the kids vote on it? And there has been a lot of UM children walking around with "Colonel Reb is my mascot!" shirts, stickers, and pins on. And I didn't know there was so many alumni that were children crying on message boards and writing in to the papers when the demise of colonel reb was announced.
Sorry but the "It's for the kids" brushoff to this embarrasment doesn't fly.
The mascot will be the Bear. I have said it from the beginning. The other two choices are so terrible people will have to vote for the Bear. One of their most important points was 'appeal to children', the Teddy Bear has been the #1 selling plush toy for forever now. There will be racks of Teddy Bears clad in suits and straw hats hanging by every entrance to the stadium. Little kids will cry their eyes out until Momma or Daddy will pay the extorted 20$ to shut up Junior. Of course the University will be getting said bear dolls straight form China for about a buck each.
Why a bear? The bears in MS are called Louisiana Black Bears which are a threatened species and at the moment the only ones even close to Oxford have been transients. So since LSU is their real rival, they're going to name their mascot after them? Is everyone in Oxford so stupid that they can't do a little research? Geez!
I don't know that you could get a list of kids who are Ole Miss fans and let them vote, but if it was possible, the best way to do it would've been to have the Under 12 crowd make all the decisions.
I think all the people who are wailing and gnashing their teeth over this are pretty pathetic. It's just the typical Southern reaction to change, but it's still pathetic to get so up in arms about it. Since it's going on, I will offer my opinion on the process, but ultimately, I will let my kids tell me what they like, and that's how I will vote. You may think it's a life and death affair that should define my being as a fan, but it's just not that at all. As to your comments about the kids with the Col. Reb is my mascot stickers. If they are of the requisite age to really be into mascots, then they are too young to know what those stickers mean, and their parents are the ones giving them the stickers and shirts to wear. My kids liked Col. Reb, or at least the phony one that comes around. They are the right age to care. I've told them we're getting a new mascot, and they're just as excited about that as the old one.
We have a ton of people making way too big of a deal about this. Your mascot is an animal that would die if it spent an entire summer day in the South outside. Somehow I doubt that defines your gameday or your general feeling about your school or how cool you think you are on football Saturdays. If it does mean that much to you, you're a douchebag. And yes, we have a lot of douchebags in our fanbase that care way too much about that kind of stuff and not enough about what really matters.
Our previous mascot was an embarassment because it was divisive. Any change is going to be divisive initially, but at least by making this change, it will be one less image associated with our university that will alienate a group of people. That's all I care about personally. Everyone else that doesn't like it will get over it, but any "embarassment" related to this change pales in comparison to the previous embarassment of having a mascot that alienates 1/3 of the state. Other than that, once we have a new mascot, the only reason I will care at all about it is that my kids will want to see it on gamedays, shake its hand, all that good stuff. They'll grow out of it eventually and one day become students who care more about how much they are going to drink at the game and where the party is after the game than a foam headed character on the sidelines.
I think all the people who are wailing and gnashing their teeth over this are pretty pathetic. It's just the typical Southern reaction to change, but it's still pathetic to get so up in arms about it. Since it's going on, I will offer my opinion on the process, but ultimately, I will let my kids tell me what they like, and that's how I will vote. You may think it's a life and death affair that should define my being as a fan, but it's just not that at all. As to your comments about the kids with the Col. Reb is my mascot stickers. If they are of the requisite age to really be into mascots, then they are too young to know what those stickers mean, and their parents are the ones giving them the stickers and shirts to wear. My kids liked Col. Reb, or at least the phony one that comes around. They are the right age to care. I've told them we're getting a new mascot, and they're just as excited about that as the old one.
We have a ton of people making way too big of a deal about this. Your mascot is an animal that would die if it spent an entire summer day in the South outside. Somehow I doubt that defines your gameday or your general feeling about your school or how cool you think you are on football Saturdays. If it does mean that much to you, you're a douchebag. And yes, we have a lot of douchebags in our fanbase that care way too much about that kind of stuff and not enough about what really matters.
Our previous mascot was an embarassment because it was divisive. Any change is going to be divisive initially, but at least by making this change, it will be one less image associated with our university that will alienate a group of people. That's all I care about personally. Everyone else that doesn't like it will get over it, but any "embarassment" related to this change pales in comparison to the previous embarassment of having a mascot that alienates 1/3 of the state. Other than that, once we have a new mascot, the only reason I will care at all about it is that my kids will want to see it on gamedays, shake its hand, all that good stuff. They'll grow out of it eventually and one day become students who care more about how much they are going to drink at the game and where the party is after the game than a foam headed character on the sidelines.