My Analysis of Why Cayenne Died at UL:

[Ragin9221]

Not my point. Of course New MEXICO is gonna have spicy food. My point is that they are not the "go to" for spicy food references in the population. If you are making a movie, a TV show or a commercial, and you want to make a joke about spicy food, you are going to reference Cajun food/pepper/culture, not "New Mexico" food.

I disagree that is what NM is known for, specially peppers. I have seen jokes when it comes to NM and spice

[Turbine]

I think we are now criticizing the guy in the suit, not the character. To me, the Cayenne character would be much more conducive to being the Spirit Leader we need.

You are probably right, didn't mean to.

Here is part of the problem with the suit.

Cayenne could be spinning away on a lazy susan and you couldn't tell it was moving.

A snout is a must on a spirit leader.

Just turning its head shows activity.

Cajun Chicken had this advantage. Human mascots and Cayenne strike out in the appearance of activity department.

[jaxmc1023]

Cayenne was easy to make fun of... and this school, when faced with a choice of defending their decisions or pivoting to a new direction, has always opted to do nothing at all and pretend like nothing ever happened

[CajunNation]

Cayenne was easy to make fun of... and this school, when faced with a choice of defending their decisions or pivoting to a new direction, has always opted to do nothing at all and pretend like nothing ever happened

They certainly didn't fight hard enough for him when they had legit reasons to do so. I think they are now resolved to do nothing. They know that any mascot/spirit leader they choose will get plenty of criticism because there is no right answer. To them, the best move is not to play.

They don't want the hassle of defending their selection.

[Swamp]

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Burn in hell Cayenne. Wip-eeeeeee

[JamesTheJeweler]

our best mascot was still the Cajun Man even if snowflakes said it was racist, of course somehow in the US coon ass became a racist word even though the people who it refers to don't see it that way

There was nothing cajun about that mascot. Nothing. If you showed it to anyone outside of the school, who would say, "oh look, a Cajun man." No one is the answer.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Cayenne was a terrible mascot. It just looked terrible and scared children. The flaming d!ldo as many have called it

[CajunVic]

Cayenne was a terrible mascot. It just looked terrible and scared children. The flaming d!ldo as many have called it

well, it’s confirmed, you were not Cayenne

[CajunEXPRESS]

The chicken was a grown man an alumni and not affiliated with the school at all. He made up all of his own skits. The person inside of cayenne was a young student probably not as much confidence and not quit as sure of him / herself.

You can make what ever kind of suit you want it’s the person in the costume that will make or break it.

Copying is the highest form of flattery. There’s certain things that can be done over and over again never getting old. Whatever the spirit leader is they need to use some of the Cajun Chicken tried and true skits. Paying off a zebra is funny no matter who does it. Of course they need to develop timing skills and personalities.

[CouillonCinema]

Stupid is relative. See the list below.

https://www.si.com/college/2019/08/1...scots-rankings

These made the top-10

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It's all about what works, and Cayenne was well on his way to becoming the next crazy mascot to make it big:

https://www.yardbarker.com/college_f...405296#slide_4




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I WILL rise again.

I think an important note to take from all the mascots you mentioned is their origin vs how Cayenne created. I encourage everyone to research the college mascots you admire and look at how they were adopted.

Three out of the four mascots pictured were an individual effort by a students, or students, to bring entertainment to their peers. Once they won over the students, sometimes taking years, their admins adopted the character.

This is also one of my biggest criticisms of Cayenne. Hardly anyone can tell us exactly who came up with the character. And if they did know who came up with him, could they say where is that person now? Being unable to answer those questions led to the in-organic origin of Cayenne. So when he was put up on the chopping block, there was no one around that cared enough to save him.

I will never go back and forth with anyone's appreciation of Cayenne. I appreciate him to an extent. But the truth of the matter is, he's gone. He's gone because the fans did not like him enough to keep him. The work I'm putting into the next character is so that the majority of the fanbase will like him enough to keep him around; because he will be created organically.

[CouillonCinema]

Several of you have mentioned, "it's the person in the suit that makes the suit." That is true, but to an extent. Most university mascots are run by a small group of students, rather than just one. Together, they take shifts putting on the suit for different events. They would also be in charge of coming up with skits for the fanbase. You can think of them sort of like a school sketch comedy group.

The importance of entertainment and building out the character is why I wrote skits for Albineaux in the Phase 2 presentation.

[CajunVic]

#makeAlLouisianaMascot