Cardinals

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Watching the World Series and while realizing that this train has long ago left the station, it would have been much better, IMO, to rename the school's teams CARDINALS instead of RED STORM.

It would have played into the schools main color (red) and it arguably has a religious tie in (cardinals) so to speak.

The decision would have been made before Louisville joined the Big East so the conference would not have had (at the time) 2 schools with the same nick name.

 

[redstorm80]

I get the feeling i'm the only one that likes the name Red Storm 

 

[salty dog]

Stanford U went from the Redmen to the Cardinal. 

 

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Stanford went from the Stanford INDIAN to the Stanford Cardinal. They were never the REDMEN. 

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

What is it about Stanford and not using the plural, is it an Ivy thing?

Indian/Cardinal?

Any other school go by the singular and why?

Schools that go by a color only don't count.

Come to think of it how about the St. John's RED? BIG RED? Other variations of RED?

Is it the Cornell RED? 

Aw, the Red Storm is here to stay, it's not horrible.

 

[LJSA]

Come to think of it how about the St. John's RED?

 

That is actually my vote. Then we could put "Red Men" on T-shirts and other merchandise and not get grief for it.

 

[Moose]

Our mascot is pretty much a Cardinal right now. 

 

[jerseyshorejohnny]

Let's not forget that the PC Police put an end to using the word MEN .

It was only "last week" that Syracuse was forced to change its name to Orange from OrangeMEN.

Is Redstorm the worst name ? Probably not. Is it among the best? Far from it.

Latest victim of political correctness run amuck is the University of North Dakota who is being forced to drop their Fighting Sioux name and mascot.

At the end of the day, we are stuck with the name Redstorm, for better or worse. Only wish that a bit more consideration was entertained at the time of the change.  

 

[Moose]

Let's not forget that the PC Police put an end to using the word MEN .

It was only "last week" that Syracuse was forced to change its name to Orange from OrangeMEN.

Is Redstorm the worst name ? Probably not. Is it among the best? Far from it.

Latest victim of political correctness run amuck is the University of North Dakota who is being forced to use their Fighting Sioux name and mascot.

At the end of the day, we are stuck with the name Redstorm, for better or worse. Only wish that a bit more consideration was entertained at the time of the change. 

 

Were were the runner up names to Red Storm?