Tech XXI retires from active service as live mascot

[Dwayne From Minden]

taxidermy

Mounted on a skateboard...

[Dawg06]

We have gotten more bad pub from the silly bulldog mascot crap...Wasted resources that gain us nothing.

What wasted resources? The live mascot program is (or at least used to be) funded and run by the SGA.

Fans, especially children, love the live bulldog.

And the live mascot program is one of the best traditions we have dating back to 1930. It's a shame the university hasn't respected the tradition.

[PawDawg]

Fans, especially children, love the live bulldog.

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All kids love a dog in that setting. Any dog.

We've gotten much more bad pub than good pub out of the dog deal.

[Tech52]

All kids love a dog in that setting. Any dog.

We've gotten much more bad pub than good pub out of the dog deal.

The dog is good. The dog should stay. You don't let one bad thing keep you back.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

PawDawg hates dawgs!

[RhythmDawg]

The breeder for XXI just had a litter.

[Choudawg86]

I have a Fox Red Lab, she would be cool with being the mascot AND she could retrieve the kicking tee after the kickoffs.

[Tech52]

I see Guice's response to the mascot question on twitter is "Woof."

[Dawg06]

All kids love a dog in that setting. Any dog.

We've gotten much more bad pub than good pub out of the dog deal.

Because our University has done a very poor job in honoring the tradition.

Georgia and Butler have received a lot of great pub with their live bulldog mascots, and our tradition goes back much further than both of those mascot programs. Yale too, but they were first. I don't recall any bad pub coming out of Mississippi State, Fresno State, Georgetown, Citadel, James Madison, Western Illinois, Gardner-Webb, or Bryant about their live bulldog mascot programs either.

We are talking about Louisiana Tech, the school that orders our mascot costume out of a catalog so that South Carolina State, Minnesota-Duluth, and other schools across the country have mascots that wear the same costume as Champ.

[Houston Techsan]

Could we get that Geico Add "The Running of the Bulldogs" for the dawgzilla? Nah. Not our administration.

[Tech52]

I hate Georgia's costume.

[maverick]

We have gotten more bad pub from the silly bulldog mascot crap...Wasted resources that gain us nothing.

That's not a reason to discontinue the tradition, in my opinion. It just means we need to do it right.

[PawDawg]

That's not a reason to discontinue the tradition, in my opinion. It just means we need to do it right.

Maybe they will get it right this time.

[dawg80]

Tech should seek a rescue bulldog. Find one that has been abandoned, or is in a shelter. Then adopt it.

My wife and I help with such matters thru the Natch. Humane Society, and also a separate organization, Hope for Paws. Be glad to see what's available.

[qng001]

When they know it's time to retire one, have another one ready for replacement.