Monday, August 28, 2006  Re-Mascoting the Big Ten  Nathan over
at Golden Tornado has put together a terrific set of Mascot
Rankings based on his own "suck-o-meter" rating scale. Michigan
got an incomplete, as no one has had the balls to put a live
wolverine on the sidelines in over 50 years. This is not a bad
thing.  However, since we can't have a live mascot on the field,
is it really a good mascot to have? LSU puts a live bengal tiger
out for everyone to see. Colorado runs out a live 900 lbs
buffalo every game. Baylor, despite sucking, has a live man-
eating bear. No team in The Big Ten sports a mascot as cool or
deadly as any of those on-field mascots. Even worse, there isn't
a live mascot in the conference. Shouldn't the mascot match the
team?  In the case of LSU, the tiger fits. More often than not,
the Bayou Bengals stalk and devour their competition (as Miami
learned last year). Ralphie, much like the team he represents,
spends most of the season leaving steaming piles of crap on the
field come game tim