Students Vote The Cougar School Mascot – Then get Overturned!

Future Students of the new Drapers High School located in Corner Canyon Utah voted the Cougar to be their Schools Mascot.  This is really cool.  When I was a kid in Maryland, we had a brand new elementary school (Cold Spring Elementary) open up and we got to vote for our mascot too! Our choices were Turkeys or Cougars.  Looking back, I think the voting platform was rigged.

 

Which one would you have voted for?

😉

 

But back to Utah . . .

Now, choosing a cougar is not unusual. In fact three other local schools, including Brigham Young University, have the exact same school colors and mascot.

 

But the school board overturned the vote.  They could have used the reasoning I just mentioned about other schools having the same mascot and colors as the reason for their rejection.  But no!  They had to say that some women would find the word offensive.

 

Really? These are high school student we are talking about.  Not the next Reality TV Show – Real Housewives of Utah!

If you didn’t want their opinion, why bother to let them vote?

 

So, what name did the wonderful school board pick?

 

Chargers!

 

Now this could be offensive to everyone out there who is in debt!

Or possibly laying the foundation for rather neat, yet compulsive eating disorders!

This very name could set a bad example for young people everywhere.

 

Impulse spending, compulsive eating behaviors and poor money management.

 

Congratulations Corner Canyon School board; for not only crushing the faith of your next generation in the establishment but setting them up for years of interest payments and therapy!

Future Fantasy ( vol 1 )

This is an idea that I have tossed around in the back of my head for a while.

Future Talent.

Specifically talent that may not show up on some of the more top sites such as Rivals or Takkle.

So here it goes, the first addition of Fumbled Returns Future Fantasy.

DeAndre Reaves (Loudoun County Virginia Dominion High School).

I personally can attest to all the good hype regarding this fine young man from the many conversations I’ve had with folks at work who either know his family or their own sons have played ball with him at Dominion High.

The 5-foot-10-inch, 180-pound Dominion High School rising senior is best known for his play at running back, where he has averaged more than 1,000 yards and double-digit touchdowns in each of three varsity seasons.

Reaves has impressed several college coaches including West Virginia, Maryland, Marshall and Fordham. Each has extended scholarship offers to Reaves, while other Division I programs – including Tennessee, Wake Forest, Rutgers and East Carolina – have expressed interest in him.

Reaves, who ran a personal-best 4.38-second 40-yard dash during the spring, wants to be able to feel comfortable at which ever school he chooses.

I’d like to fit right in,” Reaves said, I’m looking for a school that has good academic support. Football won’t be there forever.

But, just in case if it is . . or at least until he is 30 or so …

If it was my choice, I would want to play somewhere on offense, Reaves said. But I just love the game. I’ll play anywhere. Wherever the coach asks me to play, that’s what I’ll do.

References and photos courtesy Loudoun Times