March Madness picks…by the mascots
e College Finder posted a fun article where they pick the entire NCAA tournament by determining who has the tougher mascot.
Here’s a sample…
1. Connecticut Huskies
16. UT Chattanooga Mocs
Very interesting matchup here. Not the Huskies. We all know what a husky is. It’s a dog. A crazy dog. They like to pull sleds. And shed.
Now as for the Mocs, I’m baffled. Apparently, so is UT Chattanooga. Originally they were the Moccasins, represented by the water moccasin.
In case you can’t tell, that’s a snake. In the water! Oh. Dear. God. That is my number one fear. Is anywhere safe?! Foolishly, UT Chattanooga switched to being represented by a shoe. Come on now. Not cool.
Then, in the 1970s they switched to having a mascot known as Chief Moccanooga. Wow. In a move that could only mean that someone there was finally using common sense (aka not the guy who got rid of the water moccasins) they rid themselves of the Chief and went to the currently used Mocs, which is represented by a mockingbird driving a train. Zany!
UT Chattanooga, for your flip-flopping, fickle, absurd approach to a very serious matter you have lost to a fluffy dog, which, coincidentally, is terrified of snakes (side note: not true).
Huskies advance.
It’s long, but if you’re killing time waiting for the tournament to start, it’s a great read.
Posted in: College Basketball, March Madness
Tags: March Madness, NCAA tournament, NCAA tourney picks, NCAA tourney talk
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First off, UTC has NEVER had a water moccasin as a mascot. From the time we were The Univesity of Chattanooga, we’ve had a Native American themed mascot, up until the time we mistakenly tried to go with the shoe (which now is a great source of fun history and folklore). We have always called ourselves the Mocs though. In 1997, out of respect to the Native American community, we changed our mascot to our state bird, the MOCkingbird. Scrappy, the name of our mascos, was named after our former football coach A.C. “Scrappy” Moore.
So much more interesting than a furry dog.
Thanks for the history lesson, but you realize that I didn’t write this piece, right?
Maniac, I’d take a look at this:
http://www.utc.edu/Administration/Admissions/documents/selfguided.p
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Especially this part:
History of the Mascot:
Many want to know how we became the Mocs, and it is a long history indeed . . taking the name from Moccasin bend we adopted a water moccasin as our mascot in the 1920s, along the way we changed the mascot to a Cherokee tribesman: Chief Chattamoc, and in the 60s & 70s we used a moccasin shoe as UTC’s mascot. In the late 70s our mascot returned to a Cherokee tribesman, this time Chief Mocanooga, but due to concerns of ethnic sensitivity, we adopted a new mascot in the ’96’ 97 school year – Scrappy.