Rimhigh wrote:

porter71 wrote:

I would bet all my money that its Revolutionaries.  Its always been Revolutionaries.  This whole marketing thing is a farce to try to drum up interest in something most people don't care about before they name the choice they landed on in the very beginning.  Its embarrassing.  Every part of it.  

They should have just gone with Buff and Blue.  But this is what happens when your can't keep a University President, and the rest of the administration and athletics department are incompetent.  You throw away all tradition to come up with something that doesn't fit the university to solve a problem that didn't really exist.  

Very well said.  A new tradition will never be established and meaningless.

I hate the rationale and this whole effort to drop the Colonials moniker. But somehow my 50+ years of rooting for GW teams is not going to be undermined by this name change, whatever it becomes. The most enduring tradition of being associated with GW as a student or fan was complaining about whatever it was that gave meaning to one’s gripes. What better way to strengthen that connection than the name change? No doubt there were people upset when the school adopted Colonials and dropped Hatcheitites. I’m not scrapping my GW stuff with Colonials on it any more than I trashed anything with a swoosh. My fond memories of that Pat Tallent, Keith Morris, Haviland Harper, Clyde Burwell recruiting class were tied to the fact that they played for GW in their artistically and historically incorrect uniform colors not because they were the Colonials. Elana Meyers Taylor and Red Auerbach played for GW; Mike Jarvis and Joe McKeown coached for GW. Caricatures of George Washington are still appropriate (at least for now). Even Tevye got over his precious Tradition. Suspect we’ll all survive as Revolutionary Sentinels in the Blue Fog as Ambassadors for GW. Even if it’s stupid, which it is.

gwstudent2024 wrote:

The students didn't want Blue Fog, just Fog. No idea where the Blue came from. I like that it's out of the box but I recognize many of you disagree. As a student I haven't felt like they've weighed our opinions more than any other group. FWIW the general reaction my friends have had is that none of the options are particularly good. The people filling out the feedback forms and whatnot are the ones that pay attention to the sports teams from what I can tell. I am afraid that the marketing firm or whatever has outsized influence for a group of people who the decision ultimately doesn't affect

It seems like a student vote was the driver of all of this, so student opinions certainly seem to be more heavily weighed than other groups.  I for one didn't see any alumni upset about Colonials, either on this board or in the real world.

The actual vote to remove the name, if I recall properly was something 44-43 (or thereabouts with a 1-point margin) on the name change, a virtual tie.
And no doubt, many more students than alumni knew about this, since the alumni outreach consisted of maybe an email--and the students voted. (Maybe just pranking everyone, since presumably they would have a basic knowledge of English language meaning before entering the university.)
   I know alumni who didn't recall any chance to vote. So based on these not clear and tie results, this
is what happens. At no doubt, a cost approaching or in the millions. The only people who are better for this are the consultants, as usual, tying on the rich GW feedbag.
   At some point, GW needs to realize that a combination of provoking needless turmoil/alienating its best supporters in the athletic realm is not really a winning strategy. Literally and figuratively.

I have way too much stuff with Colonials on it. It was and still will be Colonials. I will not get anything which says 'The administration is stupid' and "we don;t give a dam what the alumni feel about the change.
 

Personally I think Revolutionaries is the best, Revs for short, but I also like Blue Fog second best. It's unique, about our neighborhood and references the Continental Army uniforms and our school colors.

I think the other two are fine, not great.

I think Revolutionaries is acceptable; just imagine the Smith Center full with the very loud yell of "Let's Go Revs!"

Can’t wait to see what the NYC Audubon Society comes up with. 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/nyc-audubon-society-changing-white-supremacy-legacy-name/

Merrick, at least our little Cumberland-Harpeth Audubon Society is not changing its name. Even though Audubon killed a lot of birds. Will this name change thing never end. I suggest NY should change their name to the Colonial Audubon Society.

Link here (ugh): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/us/george-washington-university-moniker.html

Interesting. I get the Sunday NY Times and there is no mention of this article. I guess different parts of the country gets different NYTimes.