Post by Lutzow10 on Jul 28, 2012 12:43:03 GMT -6
I was flipping through eastbay the other day and they had college athletics t-shirts for like 50 different schools with their battle crys or sayings on them. LSU with "geaux tigers", kansas with "rock chalk j-hawk", auburn's " WAR EAGLE" , ohio states "O-H-I-O", etc. It got me wanting UWM to establish a battle cry that will one day be as iconic for our school, obviously not as well known by the whole country as those huge programs, but something that people in wisconsin will know, people in the horizon league will know, something that we can carry with us as our athletics program continues to move forward hopefully continuing on to the big time of college basketball And other sports following. This sort of goes along with my belief that we should ditch the UW in our name when we are branding the school. University of Milwaukee. Madison is the powerhouse, and keeping the UWM will forever shadow us behind the other UWM. People in wisconsin know the difference but when u search uwm you still get the occasional "university of madison" popping up. We are moving forward as a program, establishing ourselves as not just another uw school. And one of the ways to do it, to move us out of peoples minds as a commuter school that snt serious about atheletics is to start SHOWING people we think that we aremore than that too. We say it but we keep pushing the UWM. Drop that logo for a new Milwaukee one. Start going by UM or something new. Start establishing athleti s traditons that will stick for the rest of our schools history, push the sayings, the battle cries, the mascot, push all of it down everyones throats and we will final rise above the "just another UW system school" label and truely become something more i the eyes of the rest of the country. We do that followed by some athletic success and we will stick in peoples minds. People dont remember the schools in the tournament that dont stand out. And standing out doesnt just take winning, it takes image, originality, and tradition. Especially tradition. Yes certain things should be changed up. Certain slogans and game cheers and songs, jerseys need to be messed eith every once and a while but we need that something that we keep. That sticks. That something that we can hear and feel pride. Something uniquefor us. Something that when u search the only thing that comes up is the university of milwaukee panthers. We bleed black and yellow. Lets show the rest of the world.
Everyone keeps saying that our students dont support their team enough that they dont take their schools athletics seriously enough, but it starts with the school SHOWING it takes itself seriously. We can say it all we want, but big time programs want to stand out from the crowd, want to be heard, to let the world hear their roar. We could have something special if we just took the leap. What do you guys think. And more importantly are we as panthers willing to make it happen. Too often do we sit back and talk, i want action for my school and i hope you do too. Let me know what you think and lets make this happen.
Everyone keeps saying that our students dont support their team enough that they dont take their schools athletics seriously enough, but it starts with the school SHOWING it takes itself seriously. We can say it all we want, but big time programs want to stand out from the crowd, want to be heard, to let the world hear their roar. We could have something special if we just took the leap. What do you guys think. And more importantly are we as panthers willing to make it happen. Too often do we sit back and talk, i want action for my school and i hope you do too. Let me know what you think and lets make this happen.