Here’s where this gets real interesting. The university says that the suit can’t have any university trademarks on it. Fair enough, it’s not made by the university.
Now say the suit gets made. And then you purchase an XXL football jersey and put it over the suit. Is that a problem? Is that different than someone wearing a jersey to a game?
I love his enthusiasm, but this was never going to happen. It was definitely the wrong name, and probably the wrong mascot too. UL is 100% right to distance itself from his mascot.
The failure from UL wasn’t what they did today. It was what they didn’t do over the last 10 years… which is come up with a damn mascot.
This situation gives UL a golden opportunity to right their wrong. If I’m UL, I’m thanking him for his passion, and then I’m asking him to be part of a new mascot selection committee tasked with creating a new mascot for the first home football game of 2025.
Albi the first spirit booster with off season duties.
Since false connotations, seem to rule the day is Vermilion off the table too?
Originally vermilion was either made from highly toxic mineral Cinnabar or the crushed bodies of female Kermes vermilio.
Digging so deep like they did with Bineaux will alway bring up negatives.
Just pay attention to what the final product looks and acts like and quit running from your shadow.
Honestly, I disagree. The way he and other folks have lashed out about this has been cringey, and the inflexibility behind the Albino name itself shows a real “my way or the highway” type mentality amongst the Albineaux supporters. He even publicly posted “You don’t have to like the character. You don’t have to like that it’s happening, but it is happening” and brushing aside any concerns about the name or critiques on the concept in general.
They’re on Twitter this week posting contact info, and he specifically is attacking her background publicly. It’s gone way past a grassroots mascot campaign and has taken on a straight up adversarial tone this week.
Would progress years ago have been better? Yeah I’m not gonna disagree with that. But the persistence and recent reaction this week even after UL sent a polite “thanks but no thanks” last year ensures they won’t have a seat at the table anytime soon (if there is a table to speak of anytime soon).
The American Alligator.
He and every Alligator in the State of Louisiana encompass a history of a specie that goes back, no one knows how far back. Maybe millions of years. They're in every waterway in Louisiana, including our own Cypress Lake. They deserve Tremendous respect.
I believe we could all agree that a live feed of video from our swamp on campus, sent to each of our stadiums would be a great way to show others how special this place is.
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