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Originally posted by kono
Fighting Blue Hens??? And Tom is complaining about the Huskies??? That's okay I suppose you could be a Golden Gopher 
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I have no attachment to U of MN, and I do think their attempt at making a gopher look mean is silly. In their defense, the mascot does have some historical attachment to the state (can't remember what it is, tho). I assume the same is true wrt blue hens and Delaware. Cornhuskers and Nebraska. Sooners and OK. Longhorns and TX. Seminoles and Fla St. Cyclones and Iowa State. Buckeyes and Ohio State. Even "place neutral" mascots are ok - Tigers and LSU; or team colors: Crimson and Harvard.
Again, my ridicule of yew-con's mascot is their stupid, completely geographically out-of-place pun.
And, nobody stole anybody. Football has been an out-of-place paste up job in the Big East ever since they talked Miami into joining. The Big East was formed as a basketball conference. The attempt to make it a football power was always an unstable coalition of unlike schools.