I wish I was making this up. Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/24/admiral-ackbar-mississippi-university-mascot/#comments#ixzz0gRMTN2QG
I thought you were full of shit until I googled a bit and found all sorts of shit... http://www.geekosystem.com/admiral-ackbar-mascot-ole-miss/ http://www.intentionalfoul.com/college-football/ole-miss-wants-admiral-ackbar/ http://www.teamspeedkills.com/2010/2/23/1322553/2010/2/23/1322553/sprints-endorses-admiral-ackbar There are many many more but they all seem to site TMZ I nearly went to Ole Miss, I would be outraged if I did and was an alum of the school. I don't quite understand how you can vote to have a Star Wars character become your mascot. Isn't there alot of red tape that would need to be cleared up with George Lucas?I highly doubt the school will want to pay him all that money. We're not talking Disney with Donald Duck and Oregon here. If they wanted to become the giant squid or octopi that would be cool but the Admiral Ackbar's? Seriously?
I sent an email to LucasArts yesterday about it. It probably won't matter, I'm sure they know it's going on thanks to the media exposure. If Colonel Reb, who is really not an offensive figure (I've polled in the community, 93% of 150 blacks surveyed said they found nothing wrong with it), has to go..he damn sure better not be replaced by a fucking starwars character.
Tooooooooga!! We also have a top 25 business school, and top 15 accountancy school. Our newspaper is the 12th ranked in the country, and number 1 in the Southeastern Region. We're also the only daily college newspaper in 3 states. I mean, for all its ups and downs, Ole Miss is really a great place, and its been good to me. But this mascot shit is ridiculous. They might as well make it between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
Believe it or not he's actually right, Ole Miss is actually a decent school. It's very inexpensive for those people from out of state too. Maybe it's a way to convince people that Mississippi isn't as bad as people say. When I looked at it there were hot women everywhere and hot women everywhere and did I mention hot women everywhere. The only downside is that the guys I stayed with on my recruiting trip woke me up at 4 AM to go fucking cat fishing.....seriously nothing makes a hangover worse then fishing on a lake in Mississippi....the other downside is I had to fly into Memphis and then somebody picked me up and drove me the few hours to Oxford. My guess is if I played football it would have been limo service from Memphis instead of an assistant track coach.
That drive should not have taken a few hours. Memphis is 70 miles away, Beale Street being one of my stomping grounds. You sure you didn't fly into Jackson? 200 miles. Rich, is it true they intentionally modeled Hey Reb after Colonel Reb because UNLV wanted to pick its mascot based on the best football team that year? Someone told me that the other day, I laughed and told them the story I was brought up on, that being UNLV was 'rebelling' from Reno in the "north".
