Here you were probably thinking I'd let loose with a list of the things at CSU that are currently causing headaches unto madness (pace Monty Python: "my brain hurts; it will have to come out!") --- that post will have to wait for another day, but it will come --- but no, this is more of a pet peeve and a really frivolous one at that.

Anywaaaay -- I was filling out my brackets for the NCAA pool and I was ruminating for a moment on how much I regret that CSUSM became the Cougars. Boooooring. Today we have the (ok, really MY) Hoyas playing the UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Retrievers --- as in Chesapeake Bay, like woof, woof ------- now how cool is that? It's all I can do to root against them with a name like that. But basically, wouldn't it just have been more fun to remain the Tukwat ---- and be one of the more memorable names in college sports. Ok, it's not the UCSC Banana Slugs, the Maryland Terrapins, the Manhattan Jaspers (which I have no idea what it means, but like anyway) or the UConn (get it, Yukon) Huskies or my personal favorite that came in second in the referendum to rename Stanford's sports teams sometime in the 1980s the Robber Barons (much better than The Cardinals) --- but it would have demonstrated some real creativity. Oh yeah, remember when and under whom the name change was enacted.

Sigh.

BTW -- Hoyas take it all!!! Hoya Saxa!