Brutus and the Ohio mascot.

• trep14

  Con_Alma;490802 wrote:He didn't wrap at all and it looks like he left his feet. Poor, poor tackling.

  
  How was that any different than what Brandon Saine and Dan Herron faced on the field this past Saturday? OU was awful.
• Fly4Fun

  

  Is the OC officially major league now that we have been linked by a news outlet?
  
  Are we more major league than even JJ?
• karen lotz

  

  ^^^
  
  I think so. OC got the call up from the minors and JJ was sent to the Japanese league.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/09/20/ohio.mascot.ap/index.html?eref=sihp
  
  CNNSI on the story.
• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;490677 wrote:I can almost guarantee you the OU Athletic Dept won't do shit about it.

  oops
• Firad

  

  
• karen lotz

  

  Great pic.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  The guy shooting the video had a perfect angle - either the OU mascot guy was drunk, or made a lot of money on a bet. Would have been funnier if security handcuffed him in costume and walked him out.
• Tiernan

  FatHobbit;490950 wrote:oops

  
  I don't run OU athletics dumbass, I'm glad to see they DID do something.
• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;491008 wrote:I don't run OU athletics dumbass, I'm glad to see they DID do something.

  
  Is that an admission that you have no clue what you're talking about?
• vball10set

  http://nbc4i.com/ar/236423/
• like_that

  

  If this kid gets nothing but a ban from being an OU mascot, then I say its well worth it, and a great story to tell for the rest of his life.
• Speedofsand

  

  Good job Krazie45. Way to keep your cool. Pomeroy Rufus is a thug.
• cats gone wild

  Found this on tigerrant. Message from Rufus:
  
  http://thepost.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=32299&TM=57429.52
  
  From the article:
  
  "Brandon Hanning, the person in the Rufus costume, said he was not upset with the aftermath.
  
  "It was the whole reason I tried out (to be Rufus) last year," he said. "I knew we were going back to OSU this year, and I wanted to tackle Brutus."
  
  Hanning, 19, is a student at Hocking College. He enrolled at OU last year but dropped out, he said. He added that he still hadn't been informed of his firing, but didn't care."
• karen lotz

  

  hahaha
• royal_k

  

  How does a kid, not enrolled in school, serve as a mascot?
• believer

  

  cats gone wild;491099 wrote:Found this on tigerrant. Message from Rufus:
  
  http://thepost.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=32299&TM=57429.52
  
  From the article:
  
  "Brandon Hanning, the person in the Rufus costume, said he was not upset with the aftermath.
  
  "It was the whole reason I tried out (to be Rufus) last year," he said. "I knew we were going back to OSU this year, and I wanted to tackle Brutus."
  
  Hanning, 19, is a student at Hocking College. He enrolled at OU last year but dropped out, he said. He added that he still hadn't been informed of his firing, but didn't care."

  Ohio coach Frank Solich said he did not know much about the situation.
  
  "Obviously we needed to tackle the guy with the ball, not the mascot," he said.

  Hey Frank...Ya think?
  
  Ohio has 23,000 students and we couldn't find ONE who wants to be the Bobcat mascot? They allow a Hocking Tech student do the dishonor? WTF??
  
  As an Ohio alum I'm baffled by that one.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  royal_k;491108 wrote:How does a kid, not enrolled in school, serve as a mascot?

  The University of Virginia "Cavalier" (coined CavMan) rides a thoroughbred leading the team onto the field pre-game (and sometimes at half time) - the guy is an alumnus but not a current student. Then again, I agree with you, I'm not sure he's the "mascot", he's just the handler of an animal that could be very, very dangerous if not handled correctly. The "person-in-the-costume" Cavalier is a student. Probably the same thing with the Oklahoma Sooner Schooner - I don't know whether the handlers are students, but I wouldn't be surprised if non-students are helping control ye olde wagontrain.
• darbypitcher22

  

  looks like the OC has finally arrived to the promised land of teh internetz
• Speedofsand

  

  Rufus has to get his gpa back up to par, then he'll go back to OU.
• karen lotz

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;491117 wrote:The University of Virginia "Cavalier" (coined CavMan) rides a thoroughbred leading the team onto the field pre-game (and sometimes at half time) - the guy is an alumnus but not a current student. Then again, I agree with you, I'm not sure he's the "mascot", he's just the handler of an animal that could be very, very dangerous if not handled correctly. The "person-in-the-costume" Cavalier is a student. Probably the same thing with the Oklahoma Sooner Schooner - I don't know whether the handlers are students, but I wouldn't be surprised if non-students are helping control ye olde wagontrain.

  
  
  [video=youtube;nN2URhe-A9Q][/video]
• Heretic

  

  believer;491112 wrote:Hey Frank...Ya think?
  
  Ohio has 23,000 students and we couldn't find ONE who wants to be the Bobcat mascot? They allow a Hocking Tech student do the dishonor? WTF??
  
  As an Ohio alum I'm baffled by that one.

  
  From the article, it says he tried out for mascot last year and enrolled at OU last year before dropping out at some undisclosed time, so he could have become the mascot while he was a student. And, with a larger college, it's very easy to believe that, despite dropping out, he was able to stay on as mascot. It's not like I'd expect people to be checking on things like mascot eligibility on a regular basis.
• like_that

  

  cats gone wild;491099 wrote:Found this on tigerrant. Message from Rufus:
  
  http://thepost.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=32299&TM=57429.52
  
  From the article:
  
  "Brandon Hanning, the person in the Rufus costume, said he was not upset with the aftermath.
  
  "It was the whole reason I tried out (to be Rufus) last year," he said. "I knew we were going back to OSU this year, and I wanted to tackle Brutus."
  
  Hanning, 19, is a student at Hocking College. He enrolled at OU last year but dropped out, he said. He added that he still hadn't been informed of his firing, but didn't care."

  
  Krazie facebook this guy and send him a message haha.
• SportsAndLady

  

  He told the people who hired him as mascot that he is a student at OU, despite being a student at Hocking.
• like_that

  

  SportsAndLady;491154 wrote:He told the people who hired him as mascot that he is a student at OU, despite being a student at Hocking.

  
  They didn't check for his records, maybe a student ID? That's definitely a huge fail.