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alexhortdog95
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The hilarity in this thread is epic.
I shed a faux tear for ShaggyBevoTexas
I shed a faux tear for ShaggyBevoTexas
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Fungo Squiggly
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Right? If they ever actually left their own little board and there were more than 12 of them, this place would be ripe for a takeover.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Actually, that pic sums up the relationship perfectly. The mixture of longing for attention, jealousy and hate in its eyes as it looks up at Brutus who, even as it clings to him, is barely acknowledging its existence.
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Palpie
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Started under the mack/dodds ad, but patterson is gonna get the blame in most members minds.blacklab
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A few things
1. Yes, I probably could have won a legal battle. there were a few pretty strong defenses against UT
latches - if you use something for 4 years and the owner doesn't inform you you should be able to use it
parody - it's a parody of bevo, a common man wouldn't mistake this for an official UT site
selective enforcement - other sites have not been forced to change their name.
Unfortunately it would have cost $100k+ to defend. The other problem is there are 2 federal judges in town, who basically do whatever UT tells them to do and would see me as a smartass kid trying to $#@! with authority
The trademarks are owned by the athletic department, not the university. I offered to pay to use it and they said that was a non starter. So it was ultimately Mack Brown/Dodds/Patterson/Plonsky who decided shaggy had to change. The name change did start at the height of the $#@! mack brown era. Notice how "Bevo Beat" is still the name of the statesman blog athttp://longhorns.blog.statesman.com ? It's not an accident they went after shaggy.
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That and the fact that under the hood, it was really just an idiot that flunked out of Hocking Tech.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
And when it couldn't take Brutus down straight on, he had to resort to a sucker punch from behind and even that had little effect. Yep. Perfect analogy for the relationship and history between the two schools.
The fact that these clowns actually are proud of the event and boast of it today, just shows the level of jilted little brother syndrome.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
They do have a trademark on buckeye(s), and did go after a for-profit Alabama publication awhile ago.
That being said, I think the policies here are diametrically opposed to those of the shag, where the website header for the last year has been, The Website Devoted to Getting Steve Patterson Fired. Nobody here is going full Randall "Tex" Cobb and standing in the oval in a jockstrap shooting flaming arrows at Bricker Hall. It would be incredibly petty of the university to take down a well-moderated (obsessively so in the recruiting forums) website that does nothing but generate goodwill for the university and ad.
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