Over the past few days (weeks even) the references to the Western Carolina Catamounts in the buildup to their season opening game with the Alabama Crimson Tide has caused me to snicker. The snicker is due to this unfortunate relationship:
Is there much chance that the individuals responsible for the choice of nickname/mascot had any idea of this?
Can you come up with some other unfortunate names?
Arkansas Tech Wonderboys. Strikes stark, cold fear in the hearts of opponents, I tell ya.
Every couple of years, I get to mention this. When South Carolina plays USC, it’s the Cocks versus the Trojans. 
Any school that can get a frat boy to wear a hat that says “COCKS” is alright by me.
Ball State University often goes by either Ball U. or BSU. Take your choice.
Kent State is the Golden Flashes! Two perversions in one.
Still, it beats hell out of the Crimson Rivulets.
And what makes this even more cool is that they’re both USC.
I came in here to nominate the antebellum and segregationist tinge of the Ole Miss* Rebels logo, seen here.
What do you know; I searched all over the *University of Mississippi website and couldn’t find it.
Progress. Whodathunk it.
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I think you meant to say “when USC plays Southern Cal”.
The college I started out at (before realizing music wasn’t gonna make me any $$) has a mascot called a “Hilltopper.”
WTF? Now granted, the college is on top of a small hill-like area. But if you look at the mascot, it’s a direct rip-off of WVU’s Mountaineer.
Of course, the 2 year I graduated from had a mascot called The Thundering Chickens. I’m not kidding. I dunno if it’s been changed but yeah, had a mascot and no sports teams, nothing.
They actually told us, at grad student orientation, why the banana slug is the perfect mascot. It’s not sacred to any known group of people, and banana slugs are hermaphrodites, so there’s no possibility of sexism 
Delta State (in LA) has a mascot called the “Fighting Okra” which is a big okra with a mean face and boxing gloves. I only know this because they featured “him” (the Okra) on an episode of Good Eats…about okra.
Does Arkansas Tech have any female teams? That’d be weird to play as the Wonderboys.
The school I work at is also the Hilltoppers. It doesn’t look like a Mountaineer, though: http://www.stedwards.edu/athletic/images/mascot3.gif
Then there’s Western Kentucky’s Hilltopper: http://www.wkusports.com/images/logo/bigred1.gif
And of course there’s the ultra-rightwing Baptist college, Bob Jones University-- or BJU.
I keep hoping some earnest, yet naive, Bob Jones administration decides to give the college the nickname the “Beejers.”
Quite. University of South Carolina, established 1801. State of California, established 1850.
Campbell Camels!
I would have chosen Campbell Supers.
I give you the Geoducks of Evergreen State College
I think that might win…
Not only is it a rare sort of animal, is not scary at all, is ugly and serves barely purpose, but the name is nearly un-pronounceable on sight (It’s pronounced GOO-ee-duck…wtf???)
