New alias for the mascot formerly known as Sir Big Spur will be announced sometime between now and when the Gamecocks kick off the season on Sept. 3 against Georgia State, the university
We all know the reason by now a cone or no cone. Will keep the cone so the mascot will have a new name. It boils down to a disagreement between the bird’s original owners Mary Snelling and Ron Albertelli and the new owners, Beth and Van Clark, over whether or not the animal’s “comb” on its head should be trimmed.
An agreement with the original owners allowing the use of the Sir Big Spur name has expired. USC is guiding the process to select a new name.
The Clarks, for now, has changed the Twitter handle of the rooster simply to “mascot.” The new name won’t be Big Spur, which was the name used for South Carolina costumed mascot in the pre-1980s and before the creation of Cocky. The university’s legal team “advised against using an old name ‘Big Spur,’ which was suggested by many fans, due to its close relationship to Sir Big Spur, which is not owned by the University,
We all know the reason by now a cone or no cone. Will keep the cone so the mascot will have a new name. It boils down to a disagreement between the bird’s original owners Mary Snelling and Ron Albertelli and the new owners, Beth and Van Clark, over whether or not the animal’s “comb” on its head should be trimmed.
An agreement with the original owners allowing the use of the Sir Big Spur name has expired. USC is guiding the process to select a new name.
The Clarks, for now, has changed the Twitter handle of the rooster simply to “mascot.” The new name won’t be Big Spur, which was the name used for South Carolina costumed mascot in the pre-1980s and before the creation of Cocky. The university’s legal team “advised against using an old name ‘Big Spur,’ which was suggested by many fans, due to its close relationship to Sir Big Spur, which is not owned by the University,
