New yearlong Holy Cross campaign for athletics

I posted a longer version under Future Football games. 

On a side note to make Sader1970 happy, I just saw the E-mail about this.   The word "Crusader" appears 4 times in the body of AD Bloom's letter.   Other times in the header and footer of the E-mail.  He is really pumping our Crusader brand even without styrofoam Iggy

OK, I'll rise to your bait. Here's the ongoing thing with me and the Crusader. In for a penny, in for a pound. You can't have it both ways. You can't have your cake and eat it too. [trying to get all the cliches I can here  ]

If you buy the premise that the Crusades from many centuries ago are offensive to people of the 21st century, then you don't simply abandon a logo/mascot, styrofoam or clothe, seated on a horse with a lance or a broadsword, you stop using the name too. You shouldn't pretend you are a Crusader by using the name but be ashamed or embarrassed to use a symbol which not one person believes appears threatening to anyone. TPTB apparently like to play the game that "Crusader" might mean someone who fights for a just cause . . . . just not fighting for Christianity. You know, the religion that founded the College. 

Waiting to receive my Purple Knight pin any day now in the mail. 

Happy, Tom?

Wasn't trying to bait.  I really thought you would be pleased at the heavy use of the phrase Crusader.  Apparently,  I did not fully understand your position on the matter

A couple of years ago during the discussion of dropping the Crusader, I was visiting family in Shrewsbury, Ma. and came across a basketball game on the SELCO cable access channel.  One of the Shrewsbury elementary schools was playing against Venerini Academy, an independent Catholic Elementary School in Worcester, in the Venerini Gym.  The Venerini sports mascot must also be Crusaders because the (single) camera kept capturing Crusader images in full Knight Regalia on the Gym wall.  

It gave me a chuckle because a couple of miles away high on a hill at Holy Cross the powerful implicit symbolism of the Crusader was being put under a microscope and hotly debated while these kids were just glad to be playing basketball and probably proud to have the same team name as the Catholic College on the nearby hill.

The only defense I have for TPTB is even if one is a Trustee and strongly, defiantly committed to the Crusader, you still have to count votes and come up with some kind of compromise if the board is split in their opinions or even if they aren't, if there are different opinions among the College's constituencies.  Perhaps after Coronavirus students will be less interested in abstract symbolism and more focused on a good education and Iggy can rise from the dead under a new administration.

Ditch the shield and bring back the head of the knight, sans sword. It was at one time referred to as the tertiary logo.

Groton-Dunstable Regional High School in MA are the Crusaders as well.

I always thought HC should have had a large crusader statue on horseback or sans horse with shield and sword pointing to the sky on campus at the circle in front of O’Kane or up by the athletic complex. Very inspirational.  Guess it would have been scrapped by now anyway ............so look at the money we saved!!  To the day I die, I still won’t understand how HC could have caved, in all reality, on this non issue, and I am not a fan of DJT.

I am OK with reopening the debate...as long as reinstating the Crusader image can be reopened as well. After all, as one Purple "snowflake" obsrved the first time through..."If one person is unhappy, a change must be made."