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Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
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Are there any other 6 syllable nicknames in D1?
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jersey guy wrote:
Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
Don't ever change Jersey guy.
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Can’t wait for JB IV to be rocking the REVS 3rd jersey.
All that money and Ernest sounding out reach for a nickname that’s the answer to the American Motors Ambassador. Why not the GW 5 Year Plans?
Will the much Bally hooed increased student engagement get us Che Guevara t shirts battling Proud Boys garb?
Id laugh all the time except as a season ticket holder I’m going to be sitting the middle of this. Oh Joy! What an energizing coup!
What’s the under/over on those in power claiming to be keep out of the loop? How many will claim there is broad support for the new name?
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Are there any other 6 syllable nicknames in D1?
This might be the one. Coming up with 5 for the Fighting illini and the Rainbow Warriors. I'd venture to say that nobody has 6 within a single word.
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Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
Best laugh I have had in awhile- well done
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Summing up what I believe would be a majority opinion of those here: it could be worse.
Totally unnecessary and huge aggravating that we are doing it, but definitely one of the least
dumber options in this multi-million dollar waste of time and energy.
And the fix long seemed to be in, as predicted here, and not a bad idea in this case.
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Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
The uninformed freshmen (along with uniformed sophs, jrs and srs) will conflate them very soon. Probably on twitter and other parts of the interweb.
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Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
The uninformed freshmen (along with uniformed sophs, jrs and srs) will conflate them very soon. Probably on twitter and other parts of the interweb.
I know someone who is already stirring that pot 
I can hear it now ... Announcer: this is a very proud moment for the GW Revolutionaries as James Bishop scores his 2000th career point. GW Student: Did he just say James Bishop is a member of the revolutionary Proud Boys? I am offended!
Are you ready for the next iteration of pick that moniker?
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Are there any other 6 syllable nicknames in D1?
I would think they follow the lead of the New England Revolution in the MLS and mostly go by the REVS moniker.
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Call me crazy-and many have-I was kind of hoping for the “Blue Fog”-just because it was so different and dare I say “sexy”?Having said that if they called the team the GW “Revolution” I would have been
satisfied.But-no! Close but no cigar.IIts long,clumsy and will become controversial -of course.
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Halftime Entertainment ...
With a nod to the Presidents race at Nationals Park ....a race back and forth - length of the court - between revolutionary figures ... Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Guevarra. Very fitting for this iteration of GW. The students will love it!
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Halftime Entertainment ...
With a nod to the Presidents race at Nationals Park ....a race back and forth - length of the court - between revolutionary figures ... Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Guevarra. Very fitting for this iteration of GW. The students will love it!
Yikes-- it's amazing that this "advisory" committee didn't have enough time to do a few Googles.
And btw- not a single female on the list.
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Let’s all keep it in perspective. Our original list of “finalists” actually included The Catalysts amd The Squad. Maybe that was by design, so people like me will say, “”well at least it wasn’t those!” That said, I can live with the Revolutionaries. George Washington was a revolutionary He led a revolution. At least there’s a semblance of red thread thinking that connects past to present. Sounds obvious that there would be some sort of logical red thread, but we’ve seen that movie before with this bunch. So there’s that.
So count me in. I’ll always be a Colonial. You ain’t ever going to take that lineage away from me. But I am looking forward too. And let me close by saying, #LetsGoRevs!!!!!
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A tad long. Does Revos work as some sort of slang?
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Halftime Entertainment ...
With a nod to the Presidents race at Nationals Park ....a race back and forth - length of the court - between revolutionary figures ... Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Guevarra. Very fitting for this iteration of GW. The students will love it!Yikes-- it's amazing that this "advisory" committee didn't have enough time to do a few Googles.
The new logo can be a hammer and sickle. That would be as nice as the six syllable “Go” chant.
GW will not be on my future donation list. Their loss is someone else’s gain.
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Rising-I love it!Trotsky and Lenin could run down the court and then the Stalin trailing right behind could
take out a gun (real or toy) and shoot Trotsky.I,for one ,would pay top dollar to watch this psychodrama
play out.So many scenarios are possible with the costumed revolutionaries that I would love to volunteer
to stage and direct these half-time bon bons.Truly delicious absurdities!
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Just because I am like this how long before Revolutionary is conflated with Insurrectionist... Not that I want to cause any trouble.
Tourist will be the compromise is Ashville will let us share the name.
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I am thankful they chose Revs over Blue Fog. Although I was already mentally preparing myself for BF, because I was suspecting that was the direction they were headed, since it seemed to have a lot of student support. (If you Raise High Blue Fog, isn't it just a cloud???)
Revolutionaries and Colonials are practically the same thing (in our case).
Revs, for short.
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Just win me an A10 championship. I couldn’t care less about the “moniker.”