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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1516820, member: 628"] Correct. And when word got out about that there was a massive "Save Otto" campaign. Most people, like myself, didn't realize that Otto was never formally enshrined as the official mascot of SU. So as the outcry grew Chancellor Shaw announced that Otto would be made the official mascot. Then the school tried to update the Otto representation and had a contest to choose the new "logo". There were 3 variations of meaner looking Ottos, but the dopey version won. During the Gross era the school quietly introduced a mean Otto version and has increasingly made that the more frequently used representation. All of this goes back to how unsavy the school was about this sort of thing in the 70s and 80s. Granted, it was a different era, but I am still dumbstruck that when the school retired the Saltine Warrior it didn't have a formal replacement ready to go. As others said, apparently they "tried" the gladiator style mascot and abandoned it. In this day and age there would have been no "try", a replacement would be chosen and stuck with. Otto exsits because we had NO mascot, so the cheer squad made one up. In a way that's kind of cool, it's organic, not market-tested and focus-grouped. But it's still bizarre that the school punted on choosing a replacement. The same thing applies to logos. We went through years of never having an official athletics logo. Hell, we used the freakin' SU seal in the 80s. Then we used the bank logo S, the hoops-only stylized S, then the weird SU-over-Dome, then the horrible SJ, before finally establishing the block S. [IMG]http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/34/859/thumbs/1gn6f1h3qe7xqmhgkgrj.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/34/859/thumbs/ghhy5onlo6qjjyc98hcb.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/34/859/thumbs/7v5ykulntc4mqgc72pgz.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/34/859/thumbs/2770.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/34/859/thumbs/lhf2fxwjfmysj71nzmqw.gif[/IMG] Mascots and logos have been a comedy of errors for this school for years and years. [/QUOTE]

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