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jcolli30

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SPMSportspage.com :: The Top 100 College Nicknames/Mascots Among NCAA Division I Schools - Part I

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SPMSportspage.com :: The Top 100 College Nicknames/Mascots Among NCAA Division I Schools - Part II

63 - University of Tennessee "Volunteers"

I don't know. They volunteered to get slaughtered by Mexican General Santa Anna's forces at The Alamo. Why you would want to proudly proclaim that Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap wearing friends all left Tennessee and rode off happily to certain death in Texas is beyond me. It's also another school which stole one of Cole Porter's Yale fight songs, this one being "March, March on Down the Field" (fighting for Eli Yale, not Davy Crockett), although more recently, they've adopted the moonshiner's ballad "Rocky Top" as their school fight song, for some unknown reason.
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Yeah I'm not in total agreement of Ohio State and Syracuse being so high.
 
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Tennessee is known as "Volunteers" for the War of 1812 in particular the Battle of New Orleans. Maybe they should read a book before they publish stuff like that.
 
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USAF_Vol said:
Tennessee is known as "Volunteers" for the War of 1812 in particular the Battle of New Orleans. Maybe they should read a book before they publish stuff like that.
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I agree, State of Tennessee sent the most to fight and that showed loyalty to the United States. I'm glad to be a Volunteer :salute:
 
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USAF_Vol said:
Tennessee is known as "Volunteers" for the War of 1812 in particular the Battle of New Orleans. Maybe they should read a book before they publish stuff like that.
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Testify :salute:
 
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I don't know. They volunteered to get slaughtered by Mexican General Santa Anna's forces at The Alamo. Why you would want to proudly proclaim that Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap wearing friends all left Tennessee and rode off happily to certain death in Texas is beyond me. It's also another school which stole one of Cole Porter's Yale fight songs, this one being "March, March on Down the Field" (fighting for Eli Yale, not Davy Crockett), although more recently, they've adopted the moonshiner's ballad "Rocky Top" as their school fight song, for some unknown reason.
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This really gets my blood boiling. I am sure I cannot post my true words to this idiocy. I guess I will have to email him directly and voice my dissatisfaction.
 
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USAF_Vol said:
This really gets my blood boiling. I am sure I cannot post my true words to this idiocy. I guess I will have to email him directly and voice my dissatisfaction.
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Agreed . . . It's one thing to take a lighthearted approach, but there's nothing funny about making bad jokes about men of honor who died in battle. That's pathetic.
 
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GAVol said:
Agreed . . . It's one thing to take a lighthearted approach, but there's nothing funny about making bad jokes about men of honor who died in battle. That's pathetic.
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Volunteers is an honorable name that is based on many years of volunteer service by brave men (and women). Every war where a request has come to Tennessee, more have volunteered than the military has requested. It did start with the war of 1812, but how this joker makes fun of the slaughter of US forces at the Alamo is disturbing.

Of course, putting the Gamecocks so high just shows the juvenile level of thinking of the author.

In short, my one year old son could've put together a better list (with better jokes).
 
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What an odd list.

It seems like this is a random assembly of mascots listed in no particular order.

How else do you explain the placement of the SLU Billiken at No. 1?

Man, I hate the offseason...
 
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USAF_Vol said:
Tennessee is known as "Volunteers" for the War of 1812 in particular the Battle of New Orleans. Maybe they should read a book before they publish stuff like that.
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He got the Tarheels wrong too. That is from the Civil War.

This joker really should pick up a book. Helps explain why he is not working for a better publication.
 
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It's also sort of funny that he's got the Tulane "Green Wave" at 27, but he thinks "Crimson Tide" is lame and has them at 100.
 
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kcvols1 said:
He got the Tarheels wrong too. That is from the Civil War.

This joker really should pick up a book. Helps explain why he is not working for a better publication.
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We are due congrats then because we lost to TN-Chattanooga- the Mocs.
 
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I emailed him yesterday. No reply yet. I will let you know if I get anything back. Doubt I will. It prolly pissed alot of people off, might have a full inbox.
 
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99 - University of Hawaii "Rainbow Warriors"

Although "Warriors" is very trite, adding the "Rainbow" is pretty cool, and I love the big guy who dresses up as the warrior at their athletic events, with the traditional Hawaiian tribal adornment, complete with war paint. He looks like a refugee from the opening of the old, long-running TV series, "Hawaii-Five-O."
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Um, either that should be higher or this dude is a serious idiot (well established at this point).

Besides, this dude already tells us doesn't know much by starting the UT description with "I don't know."
 
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