<p>BEST ------------> Michigan State “Sparty” all the way!! lol</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Sparty’s 2006 National Performance](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCr5gDJFZ9Y&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCr5gDJFZ9Y&feature=related)</p>
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<p>The original, complete chant was hoya saxa!
Greek for “what” and Latin for “rocks” -> “What rocks!”</p>
<p>The meaning is a little obscure, but the interpretation I like is, “Our defense is like a rock wall!”</p>
<p>WORST:</p>
<p>Alabama Crimson Tide… but the mascot thing is an elephant?
Auburn Tigers… but what’s with the war eagle?</p>
<p>Make up your mind, Alabamians! </p>
<p>Also…</p>
<p>Ohio State Buckeyes… isn’t that a breed of chicken or a tree?
Stanford Cardinal… gay.
Syracuse Orange…gayer.
North Carolina Tar Heels… maybe it has some sort of historical significance, but the foot logo is straight up ■■■■■■■■.
University of Oregon Ducks… really, a duck?
USF Bulls… the mascot is fine, but their geography department apparently sucks.
UT Longhorns… they picked a cow?
University of Minnesota Golden Gophers… I hate to pick on my own school, but a gopher is a pretty lame animal.</p>
<p>Worst = Brandeis…i believe they have a judge if im not mistaken</p>
<p>Best= Syracuse Orange, gotta love Otto!</p>
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<p>-North Texas “Mean Green”
-U of Hawaii “Rainbow Warriors”
-Stephen F. Austin University “Lumberjacks”
-Western Illinois “Leathernecks”</p>
<p>WORST</p>
<p>Cincinnati Bearcats (just bizarre)
Stanford Cardinal (why no S?)
Penn State Nittany Lions (sounds awkward)
Virginia Tech Hokies (ditto)
Ole Miss Rebels (you lost, get over it)</p>
<p>BEST</p>
<p>Notre Dame Fighting Irish (simply badass)
Southern Illinois Salukis (some sort of dog I guess, it looks really cool though)
Michigan Wolverines (sounds better than “huskies” or “wolfpack”)
Iowa Hawkeyes (not just a hawk, the EYE of a hawk, waiting for a college to be the “tigereyes”)</p>
<p>Best: The Reed College Griffins. This from a school with no varsity athletics.</p>
<p>University of Connecticut Huskies, 'cause it’s such a good pun :-)</p>
<p>Hannah, Scottsdale Community College in California is the Fighting Artichokes. And they have a great story why, one that should warm the heart of any academic. </p>
<p>[Scottsdale</a> Community College - Why the Artichoke?](<a href=“http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/about_scc/why_the_artichoke.html]Scottsdale”>http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/about_scc/why_the_artichoke.html)</p>
<p>nice story about scottsdale</p>
<p>similar to UCSC, where the Chancellor attempted to ditch the unofficial mascot in favor of the overly cutesy/ready to sell “sea lion” </p>
<p>students stuck with “banana slugs”</p>
<p>I’d have to nominate Oklahoma State’s Pistol Pete as the best mascot in the nation. Basically back in the late 1920s a real Cowboy named Frank Eaton was leading an Armistice Day Parade in Stillwater at the end of WW1 and OSU students saw him and felt he personified the spirit of the Oklahoma frontier, so they asked him to become the school mascot (replacing a lame Tiger) and he agreed. Until he died in the 1960s he shot his pistols off and did rope tricks and other Cowboy stuff, including telling incredible tales of the Wild West to anyone who would listen.</p>
<p>Today there are tryouts to play Pistol Pete. 3 other colleges have copied OSU’s Pistol Pete, including the University of Wyoming, New Mexico State University, and a university in Thailand whose president is an OSU graduate.</p>
<p>For BAD mascots… V this is hilarious.
[Drivl.com</a> | The Worst NCAA D-I College Mascots](<a href=“http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/738]Drivl.com”>http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/738)</p>
<p>Best…</p>
<p>U New Mexico Lobos</p>
<p>Worst…</p>
<p>Purdue - Boilermakers</p>
<p>GO GO BOILERMAKERS!!!</p>
<p>I always thought Purdue Pete looked mentally ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>BTW mascot isn’t the same as nickname. For instance, the University of Florida is the “Gators” but the actual official mascot is “Albert E. Gator.”</p>
<p>I really like…</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
USC Trojans
UConn Huskies</p>
<p>MOST PEDANTIC</p>
<p>The Eutectic – mascot of St. Louis College of Pharmacy (“the one mixture of a set of substances able to dissolve in one another as liquids that, of all such mixtures, liquefies at the lowest temperature” - Encyclopedia Britannica)</p>
<p>When I was a kid, my mascot was XL the star! He was blue, and we were taught to excel in all that we did, and to aim for the stars. Ya, he was way sweet. I wish I had a picture of him to show you. School mascots are so awesome! When my old Junior High didn’t have any school shirts or anything, I customized myself a [school</a> mascot t-shirt](<a href=“http://www.bestmascots.com/catalog/spirit-shop-c-60.html]school”>http://www.bestmascots.com/catalog/spirit-shop-c-60.html)! It was so cool.</p>
<p>Auburn is the best because not only do we have a mascot, we have a nickname AND a war chant that are individual!</p>
<p>Worst mascot hands down is Rhode Island School of Design. Go look it up for yourself. I don’t think I’d even be allowed to post a picture of it here.</p>
<p>Wost- Amherst- Lord Jeff’s</p>