While I was not in favor of getting rid of the Colonials name in any way, shape or form, I will play this game.

Earlier this evening I submitted a name that I felt could work.  I was inspired by the team mascot for my son’s college in New York, Pace University. They have named themselves the Setters.  As in the Pace Setters.  The first time I heard that, I laughed out loud for sure.  It was clever. But it also stated a very important way of thinking for the University.  It’s a name that is meant to be inspirational to students and at the same time is something that tells the world what’s important to the University.

With the criteria set by GW for the name change, I thought about what they were trying to get across. What is a name that inspires thoughts of leadership? Of shaping the future? Of being bold? Of being at the center of power?   What invokes the spirit of George Washington?  Of his leading the Colonial Army?  Of being the first President?

My suggestion that I submitted:  The Vanguards.  . 

With multiple definitions I’ve found, it works on several levels:

1. The foremost division of an army.
2. The forefront in any movement, field, or the like
3. Any creative group active in the innovation and applications of new concepts and techniques
4. The position of greatest importance or advancement
5.Cutting edge

That is my suggestion.

Every time I keep running through a list of new monikers under the principles above, Colonials keeps rising to the top compared to all others that could be potentially subject to objection from one loony professor.  The most satisfying of my disfavored monikers would be the "Beacons".  Beacons of freedom. liberty, and hope. But that is too metaphorically close to Ronald Reagan's vision of DC as a "shining city upon a hill," so that's probably a disqualifier as well.
    

Believing they all fit the criteria set out by the university, I submitted the following:

Truth
Justice
Righteous

This has nothing to do with GW-but my all time favorite moniker-and I still can’t figure out precisely why-
is the”Wonder Boys”of Arkansas Tech.Just makes me smile.Feels joyous to me.

BGF wrote:

While I was not in favor of getting rid of the Colonials name in any way, shape or form, I will play this game.

Earlier this evening I submitted a name that I felt could work. I was inspired by the team mascot for my son’s college in New York, Pace University. They have named themselves the Setters. As in the Pace Setters. The first time I heard that, I laughed out loud for sure. It was clever. But it also stated a very important way of thinking for the University. It’s a name that is meant to be inspirational to students and at the same time is something that tells the world what’s important to the University.

With the criteria set by GW for the name change, I thought about what they were trying to get across. What is a name that inspires thoughts of leadership? Of shaping the future? Of being bold? Of being at the center of power? What invokes the spirit of George Washington? Of his leading the Colonial Army? Of being the first President?

My suggestion that I submitted: The Vanguards. .

With multiple definitions I’ve found, it works on several levels:

1. The foremost division of an army.
2. The forefront in any movement, field, or the like
3. Any creative group active in the innovation and applications of new concepts and techniques
4. The position of greatest importance or advancement
5.Cutting edge

That is my suggestion.

Love the Vanguards option, very clever. I wonder if Vans would give us a corporate sponsorship. Do they make basketball shoes (lol)?

The Foggy Bottoms take the court. 

While my beloved fraternity house was razed to put up a parking lot, there are two things that are constant, Quigley's and Leo's, and both have likely been in their respective venues for some half a century or more. Perhaps we can get one of them to offer a corporate sponsorship; hence, teh GW Egg-salad sandwiches.
or for those who recall the bygone Quigley's menu c. 1968, when Walter was the french fry guy, and you vied for a seat at the counter, the GW Twist.

What about the 89ers? The NBA has the 76ers and the NFL has the 49ers, so why not?

I do hope that someone from the committee who will make final recommendation is actually monitoring this board. I would like to personally volunteer to sit in on any kind of focus group that might be done with fans who are not under the age of 22, you know, the ones that donate money and are expanding the GW brand into the world, you know, now.