OT - K State mascot "EcoKat"
The late great Woody Hayes is generally credited with the famous quote, "There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad."
I think that a million things can happen when your school has a mascot, and most of them are bad.
Take the Kansas State Wildcats. And their new, alternative, "green" (but "Royal Purple") mascot, "EcoKat." Because whenever I think of college football, I am certainly thinking about renewable energy and recycling.
Blogger and Wisconsin Law Prof Ann Althouse looks at EcoKat (hat tip, apparently, to Instapundit), which is interesting because of all mascots, Bucky Badger may be the one least deserving of execution. And so her comments page is pretty funny.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/ecokat-backlash.html
Let this be a lesson to you, Mr. Brandon. Don't do it. No possible good can come from a Michigan "mascot." There can be no clearer warning, as to what harm an academic committee can do, than "EcoKat."
Behold. EcoKat. You'll want to crank up the Freakbass to view these.
EcoKat! Pow!
August 31st, 2011 at 7:12 PM ^
This seriously violates the No OT rule.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:14 PM ^
This is so ridiculous I don't even care
August 31st, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
Therefore not OT!?
August 31st, 2011 at 8:19 PM ^
K-State is neither in the Big Ten nor an upcoming opponent.
That places it in the "gray area."
August 31st, 2011 at 9:08 PM ^
... because it is very relevant to what can happen if Michigan adopts a mascot. If there were no mascot issue right now at Michigan, this would be OT. Given the AD's floating of the idea, I'd say it's pretty relevant... and hilarious.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:53 PM ^
OT BUT ACCEPTABLE:
<br>local pro teams in moderation
<br>general college football in whatever quantity you'd like
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<br>this is general college football and applicable to our situation. So yes it's okay to be here
September 1st, 2011 at 2:29 AM ^
The front page post discussed how to handle the eight-month barren wasteland of off-season; a few days before kickoff things are a little different.
Brian's rule of general application:
ONTOPIC Anything Michigan sports related Anything related to other Big Ten teams or upcoming opponents Stuff about the blog itself University of Michigan topics that don't relate to sports GRAY AREA College sports in general
The user above (4god) may have the right of it that this is directly relevant enough to Michigan football to be on-topic, but the rule you cited probably no longer applies.
Just hoping to clarify, I don't mean to be an asshat.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:25 PM ^
Does this mean Brutus will no longer smell like Budweiser and feces?
August 31st, 2011 at 7:59 PM ^
No, Brutus will always smell like feces. The feces of the Ohio Bobcat.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^
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August 31st, 2011 at 7:29 PM ^
August 31st, 2011 at 7:41 PM ^
Wait wait wait. Hold the phone. Even people in Ohio are starting to believe him? Never in a million years I would have thought that.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:48 PM ^
Hey, the operative phrase is, 'People in Ohio.'
They'll believe anything. Example: The Vest is a Saint.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:56 PM ^
August 31st, 2011 at 7:34 PM ^
Dave Brandon won't be able to help himself. He'll be in his lab designing a mascot that will be the most marketable and all things to all people. Probably a happy faced, multiracial, rapping wolverine with an American flag cape. Yeah I don't know how a wolverine can be multiracial either but Brandon makes the big bucks. He'll find a way.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:50 PM ^
by your American flag
August 31st, 2011 at 9:08 PM ^
I feel we should rastafy him by 10 percent or so.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:48 PM ^
Dreads for improved speed?
September 1st, 2011 at 12:00 AM ^
I feel like I'd be okay with Poochie as a mascot. Sure, he has no relevance to Michigan or a wolverine, but damn he's cool.
Note: Poochie died on his way back to his home planet.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:17 AM ^
Mascots don't talk but if they have a homer simpson voice I say screw tradition!
August 31st, 2011 at 9:09 PM ^
With dancing curly fries as his sidekick.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:44 PM ^
I wanna die
August 31st, 2011 at 8:40 PM ^
order a Domino's ...
Go Blue!
August 31st, 2011 at 7:57 PM ^
the eco thing is kind of weird, but can someone explain why they have Erin E-surance as Eco-cat's sidekick?
EDIT: Sorry, that's EcoKat
August 31st, 2011 at 8:02 PM ^
Wait, so EcoKat is the chick? Or the animal? I don't get it.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:26 PM ^
sorry, EcoKat is the cat-ish thing. I was editing my initial misspelling of EcoKat's name.
EDIT - I'm wrong again...EcoKat IS the chick. Apparently the cat-ish thing is their regular mascot Willie with a special shirt.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:46 PM ^
She must be EcoKatherine officially.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
would fuck her shit up.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
Seriously.........
How do these things get past the drawing board?
EDIT: Nevermind. How do these things get onto a drawing board? They're not worth a thought after being mentioned the first time.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:02 PM ^
Note to self: New life's goal is to have sex with EcoKat (if unfeasible, will settle for inflatable pool raft)
August 31st, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
PurpleStuff wins the internet for today.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:41 PM ^
Im assuming the inflatable pool raft is consenting?
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August 31st, 2011 at 8:06 PM ^
I'm weirded out that ecokat has human arms and legs... Am I alone on that?
August 31st, 2011 at 8:09 PM ^
EcoKat is the girl... so yes
August 31st, 2011 at 8:52 PM ^
I'M ATTRACTED TO WOMEN I SWEAR (hopes no one notices freudian slip...)
But seriously, i guess i just figured EcoKat==Creepy offspring of a drunk frat/football player and a feline
August 31st, 2011 at 8:53 PM ^
stupid double post...
September 1st, 2011 at 7:30 AM ^
you might even be able to convince yourself.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:25 PM ^
And actually, as I think you are talking about the real Kat, it is something that EDSBS noted. That real K-State Kat is "Willie the Wildcat" (please let there never be an official "Willie Wolverine"). And EDSBS had this wonderful paragraph on the subject:
In the history of this website, please note that the only cease and desist letter we have ever received from anyone came from Kansas State. It concerned an image of Willie the Wildcat, their mascot. Mascot always seemed to be a bit of a stretch here, since Willie is really not even a proper full mascot, but is instead the oversized cat head-shaped golf club cover of your nightmares thrown over the skull of an undergrad with cut biceps wearing a football uniform.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:10 PM ^
September 1st, 2011 at 7:59 AM ^
They probably got a grant from the Department of Energy and this is what they came up with. $1 million spent, 1 job created. Yes I went there, this was WAAYYYY OT anyway.
September 1st, 2011 at 10:05 AM ^
I'm sure the KSU faithful will be fired up by EcoKat as their team is being re-used and recycled by Texas.
You forgot "reduced."
August 31st, 2011 at 8:28 PM ^
this is bullshit. Run a fucking trident through my head please. I know most schools might/should tilt slighty (that way), but this screams of all the PC bullshit "my kid is special and should get a soccer trophy just for particpating/let's all finish in a tie for first/all animals are precious and cuddly/cigarette smokers are all evil/and red meat is evil too/you know my shoes are plastic,not leather. What the fuck, fuck you fuck me we are all fucking doomed.
I hope EcoKat get rickets and dies cold, miserable and alone.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:41 PM ^
Imagine this xray with an EcoKat cape and mask. Absolutely horrifying. Just like most collegiate mascots. (Srsly, university administrators...Just Say No to Mascots.)
August 31st, 2011 at 8:42 PM ^
If she is cold, miserable, alone, and has rickets, I will probably have a much easier time accomplishing my life's goal (to have sex with EcoKat).
August 31st, 2011 at 8:49 PM ^
and add ":anal fissures" or "scabies".
In her, or on her?
August 31st, 2011 at 8:54 PM ^
You really need to tell us what you really think...
August 31st, 2011 at 8:37 PM ^
I went to KSU. I am enjoying the hell out of this. The media has taken this and raaaaaaaan. The best part is, Ecokat has nothing to do with football or even athletics. It is a campaign (terribly awesome campaign) to announce a "green" competition against the Kansas. Nothing to do with sports at all but every media outlet is acting like they are now the KSU Ecokats.