Terrible, every one. Idiots.  Shameful, just shameful and such a waste of money because of plain stupidity. GW announces a new change. Who is GW? Bunch of knuckleheads. 

trops_fc wrote:

GW0509 wrote:

• March 4 men’s basketball game: At the nationally televised men’s basketball game on March 4, which tips off against VCU at 4:30 p.m. at the Charles E. Smith Center, GW community members will be able to participate in an in-person activity during the game to show support for their preferred moniker option.  

Feel like this should get more attention - if senior night vs. VCU isn't enough to get people out, then here's a golden opportunity for fans to get their voices heard.

What a fantastically stupid idea. Really what are they thinking? The outcomes will be some combination of the following

1. Falls flat bc of apathy small crowd
2. VCU fans making fun of the whole thing
3. Some sort of Boaty McBoatface/Hippo smarmy nonsense
4. Anger

After being so serious about this whole thing it ENDS with a lame attempt at fun? Just adding to the Dont Do It This Way case study. I am truly an idiot for thinking GW would do anything else than meticulously build a tire fire.

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GW69 wrote:

Clearly my priorities are skewed.With all the shit that happening in the world right now-mass shootings-
earthquakes-seemingly deep schisms in our political and social cultures what really upsets me is this 
incredibly infantile moniker nonsense that we are stuck with.I feel like crying-seriously.We(collective)
can’t even get this right!Absolutely astonishing.People who are “somewhat”depressed are often just 
being realistic.

It's almost like we got to 27-3 and started a campaign to incrementally doom the program, starting with admission of recruiting guilt in the press, loudly stating an HS diploma is not necessarily a prerequisite for admission, backing an AD known to be sexually harassing student-athletes by producing false stories in the press, firing a successful basketball coach whose stated wish was to remain a Colonial for life and replacing him with someone whose highest prior title had been DBO, attaching untrue animus to the Colonials nickname, publicly berating spirited fans ... I know, let's rename the entire university by lottery and then start playing our home games in Virginia. Clearly we will never return to the NCAA Tournament and, if we do, will begin naval gazing as to why the hell that happened, exactly. Our inflated sense of self-importance is absolutely withering. 

Last edited by Mentzinger (2/16/2023 9:42 am)

FredD wrote:

Better the 100TH Wildcat than any of these

Rams. It must be Rams, as we obviously aspire to be Fordham, VCU or a third-rate New England state school.

George Mason with the epic troll job after last night's win

https://twitter.com/MasonMBB/status/1626036558808612865

 

Not to worry. The sound system is so bad that that no one will hear anyone "weighing in" anyway.

moneybox wrote:

This makes the choice of "Commanders" look downright brilliant. I have an alternative. How about the moniker "Colonials but not the oppressive kind"?

Brilliant. 

I have tried to steer clear of this conversation, because I’m so truly bothered and disappointed in the university for how they’ve handle this. I imagine that they’re going to consider people like me, and likely like you, to be whiners who need to get with the times. 

I will continue to root for the Colonials. I will root for GW.  There’s not a single name on there that is any better than what we have now.

If we go with Revolutionaries, maybe our uniforms can have a picture of Che Guevara on the front. That’s the only one I scored higher than “1,” however. The rest are terrible.

Florida Colonial wrote:

Lets me make this clear. I would have just kept Colonials. But lets be honest Colonials wasn't this great moniker. 

But we're not keeping it so lets move on!!

For all the complaining on here I'm not sure I have seen any recommendations that are not on the list. So how about we stop complaining, especially if you dont have any better ideas. If you had better ideas maybe you should have engaged with GW with all those great ideas.  

Do I love most of our choices NO! Revolutionaries is fine. We can go by Revs.
 
I really think all the hate for the choices is not so much that all of them are terrible (yes some definitely are) its that most people on here just don't want the change because its what we are used to.

I'll cheer for GW no matter what and will give to the program no matter what.  I'll also support the new name.  
Take a deep breath and just consider what is going on in the world at the moment and just enjoy supporting GW.

This is a board for discussion of the team all of us have known all our lives as the Colonials. It's perfectly appropriate to discuss and criticize and worry about this here, given the admin and AD have shown a severe, tone deaf lack of acuity when it comes to the school's flagship program (and, well, the university in general). I think you can do this while still being concerned about war in Europe, the inverted yield curve and the ongoing fascist US government takeover.

We are being clowned nationally about not only the name change but the entire process. Tone deaf doesn't begin to describe this. I can't tell you how many emails/texts that I have received from people in college athletics outright laughing at the process and asking if I had anything to do with it. Flat out embarrassing. You really have to wonder if this is just another episode of the old show Punk'd and we are participants.