Make the Cajun Chicken the Official Mascot!

[ZoomZoom]

Russell trains the first student. That student trains the next. You can't tell me on a campus full of coonasses we can't find one every couple years that can be a nut in a Chicken Suit for some free room and board?

There’s a certain football player that has the passion, but the window is quickly closing.

[JamesTheJeweler]

. . . Some peoples chilren never understand . . . Because it’s hard to understand when all you are interested in doing is complaining . . . this site has a pandemic of Complaintants who are very religious at showing up . . .

Except when YOURE complaining about something. Trolls gonna troll.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Yep. We get to have opinions here. Here's mine

No. No. A thousand times no about making the chicken the official mascot.

The man inside the suit is eligible for Medicare. And, it's the man inside the suit that makes things happen, not the suit itself. If you want the man inside the suit to die before his time, by all means have at it.

Yes, we need a mascot. And, no, I don't have the answer as to what is best.

But it doesn't need to be a chicken.

Whatever the mascot winds up being, it will be the man (or woman) inside the suit that will make it thrive or fail.

Oh, and we do NOT need a live mascot.

Agree 1000%

[CajunVic]

Except when YOURE complaining about something. Trolls gonna troll.

. . . keep doing you . . . constantly posting about Vic will give you a reputation . . . ___ on steroids . . . keep doing you . . . about that room . . .

[CajunVic]

Agree 1000%

. . . this guy is just jealous because the chicken sheite on his show . . .

[ULvictory]

The Chicken should be the mascot. A student should get a full scholarship for the mascot.

He/she should apprentice under the current guy. It’s a tradition and one we should foster.

This.

Have Russell Heim consult and train the new mascot with his current skits (pass the torch). It's too good to pass up.

[HoustonCajun]

Yep. We get to have opinions here. Here's mine

No. No. A thousand times no about making the chicken the official mascot.

The man inside the suit is eligible for Medicare. And, it's the man inside the suit that makes things happen, not the suit itself. If you want the man inside the suit to die before his time, by all means have at it.

Yes, we need a mascot. And, no, I don't have the answer as to what is best.

But it doesn't need to be a chicken.

Whatever the mascot winds up being, it will be the man (or woman) inside the suit that will make it thrive or fail.

Oh, and we do NOT need a live mascot.

Agree, we do NOT need the Chicken as a mascot.

We talk a lot about a lack of tradition at UL. We have tradition when it comes to the Bullgator on campus in The Swamp. We have a football stadium called The Swamp. What better mascot than the Gator. Here is a picture of what that perfect mascot could look like that someone created a while back. This costumed Gator would be perfect on the sidelines and would represent us well. We already have the live mascot in the Swamp on campus.

I would also submit that it is time to replace the tired, old Ragin Cajun logo with Pepper that has been around for decades with an updated logo (we got rid of the pepper a long time ago). Use the "Cajuns" logo that is on our baseball uniforms and basketball warmups, except replace the star over the "j" with a FDL. We had this same jersey back when UL used the old St. Louis style USL cap. See photos of both.

We will always be the Ragin Cajuns. But, many fans and media already refer to us as the Cajuns and we refer to our stadium as Cajun Field (not Ragin Cajun Field). No confusion as there is no other team with that name. This is not unlike Notre Dame using the "Irish" instead of the Fighting Irish. We are still the Ragin Cajuns, just shorten the logo with a clean, modern look as "Cajuns".

If we have to keep the Ragin Cajuns logo, change lettering and include the FDL, removing the pepper. We can get creative on a redesign.

[CajunVic]

. . . the bullgater has the physical characteristics to be just as good as the chicken . . . A snout as opposed to a bill . . . make the mascot Russel’s retirement gig . . . not in the suit but as the mentor . . . we can pay him a nice retirement stipend and he can give of some of his retirement time making the bullgator a bigger than life mascot . . . always played by a student learned by the greatest . . . surely there would be a line of students applying for the role . . . and to assure you get the best, make the periodic winner the beneficiary of some scholarship . . . and hopefully if Russel no longer wants to be involved we find a worthy past bullgator who does and could step into his role . . .

. . . I suggested this role earlier when Feb 4 was announced, just not in this much detail . . . It would be great if this could happen . . .

[CajunT]

Agree, we do NOT need the Chicken as a mascot.

We talk a lot about a lack of tradition at UL. We have tradition when it comes to the Bullgator on campus in The Swamp. We have a football stadium called The Swamp. What better mascot than the Gator. Here is a picture of what that perfect mascot could look like that someone created a while back. This costumed Gator would be perfect on the sidelines and would represent us well. We already have the live mascot in the Swamp on campus.

I would also submit that it is time to replace the tired, old Ragin Cajun logo with Pepper that has been around for decades with an updated logo (we got rid of the pepper a long time ago). Use the "Cajuns" logo that is on our baseball uniforms and basketball warmups, except replace the star over the "j" with a FDL. We had this same jersey back when UL used the old St. Louis style USL cap. See photos of both.

We will always be the Ragin Cajuns. But, many fans and media already refer to us as the Cajuns and we refer to our stadium as Cajun Field (not Ragin Cajun Field). No confusion as there is no other team with that name. This is not unlike Notre Dame using the "Irish" instead of the Fighting Irish. We are still the Ragin Cajuns, just shorten the logo with a clean, modern look as "Cajuns".

If we have to keep the Ragin Cajuns logo, change lettering and include the FDL, removing the pepper. We can get creative on a redesign.

We don't have any traditions with a bull gator other than having a few in the Swamp. It's not a tradition here, it's part of the environment and landscape of the university. We are not the Gators, and being a cheap rip of version of another program's mascot is no way to build a tradition. We are the Ragin Cajuns, that's unique and no other mascot can duplicate it.

[CajunVic]

We don't have any traditions with a bull gator other than having a few in the Swamp. It's not a tradition here, it's part of the environment and landscape of the university. We are not the Gators, and being a cheap rip of version of another program's mascot is no way to build a tradition. We are the Ragin Cajuns, that's unique and no other mascot can duplicate it.

Show us a picture of a Ragin Cajun mascot . . .

[CajunT]

Show us a picture of a Ragin Cajun mascot . . .

The Cane Cutters have one that would be ideal. We did have one before, but it wouldn't pass the woke criteria of today.

[CajunVic]

The Cane Cutters have one that would be ideal. We did have one before, but it wouldn't pass the woke criteria of today.

The Cane Cutters uniform is bulky and too top heavy and would not be conducive to the entertainment value which the chicken or a bullgator outfit would have . . . IMO . . . so if you want dull, that works . . . but if you want entertainment from your mascot . . . A bullgator (which I don’t believe anyone has) can do the trick . . .