Gwmayhem wrote:

Am looking forward to next year when some announcer will inevitably say, "so the Colonials...I mean The Fog, are up 6...you know, I have no idea why they changed their name."

To be fair we're already called the Colonels (the La Salle PBP did within the first minute) so it wouldn't be the first time we're called by the wrong name.

As much crap as Dan Snyder got about the name change, there's a reason why teams go with sterile names like the Commanders.  I like the idea of Revolutionaries or Monuments (not Monumentals) because they'll just fade away after a few years.  Although on the flip side, Wizards was a pretty dopey name when it first came out and now it's just the Washington Basketball Team's name.

 

At the risk of being trolled by this list, WTF!      How do any of these complete the cheer, “Let’s Go ____! I’m sure any of these will move the needle in a non-sports setting; so it’s all good (sarcasm).

This is exactly the outcome I wrote GW about that this drawn out every conceivable stakeholder process would produce a terrible result like Commanders. We are going to get a shit name bc of the process and criteria used boxed them in.

OR we will find out that the acting president delegated the decision by mistake to the provost who spent 5 minutes flipping a coin.

Last edited by FredD (2/02/2023 1:37 pm)

BGF wrote:

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.

   Feel like it is legitimizing this stupidity. Award a tie vote to the preconceived notion and discard a longtime nickname to pay millions in rebranding while likely having layoffs of its poorest workers.But BGF is quite correct. 
The alumni, those who also actually graduated from GW, unlike a big percentage of current 
students who wont do so, no doubt will have their thoughts discarded. Like what caused this nonsense in the first place. Do we get a focus group with equal or greater weight?
    The Fog does sound cool. But what does a new recruit say? "I'm proud to say I will be a Fog?"
  Also, and don't know if anyone else has posted this, would we be called Fog U ?
       
     

 

If there is one thing that I remember from being a student at GW, it is that the administration often makes it look like they’re listening to students, but unless the students agree with the administration, it’s not going to make a whole lot of difference.

If you look back at the criteria that the university has set for the new name, it is easy to see that most  of the names, especially anything to do with Fog, have no chance of being chosen.

Last edited by BGF (2/02/2023 2:32 pm)

What does "George Washington Buzz" even mean? Still like Revolution/Revolutionaries the best from the list. Looks like a big drop-off in quality after the first few entries. Could probably get on board with Fog eventually but something about the name feels incomplete.

The “Revolution” makes way too much sense.So by all means let’s choose the “Fog”?

I feel like if I took a focus group consisting of buddies and got them all drunk we could come with something at least slightly better than this amongst our fits of black out stupor

You newbies can talk about fog all you want, but the University has specifically stated that the name has to have some relevance to one of the three guiding themes.  Exactly which one does that fit? Asking for a friend.

Fog doesn't fit saying "I'm a Fog."
But from a juvenile mindset, do like the idea of chanting "Fog U.!" at officials, opposing fans and in general.

What name relates to GW? He was a soldier, surveyor, hemp grower, president. A traitor to England. A Virginian. I think the old timers were right when they picked Colonials. Nothing else seems to fit. Administrators were spineless when they caved in to the nee bobs who wanted a change. Well, they can now pay for their stupidity. If Nebraska has Corn Huskers, we can have Hemp Growers. Pass out weed before every home game. And maybe some protesting students will show up for a game.