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Fan [96]
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We need our own tiger
Jun 26, 2012, 2:47 PM
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I think we should have our own tiger and habitat.. Something similar to what LSU has, but better of course. During a recent vacation to New Orleans I made a side trip to check out LSU's stadium and their mascot.
While I wasn't overly impressed with the stadium I was impressed by the new habitat they built for their mascot Mike the tiger.
Here's a clip about the setup I found on Wiki:
”In 2005, a new $3 million habitat was created for Mike.
The Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) raised funds, entirely from private sources, to subsidize the construction project. The habitat features state-of-the-art technologies and includes among its amenities lush plantings, a waterfall, a flowing stream that empties into a wading pond, and rocky plateaus. The new habitat ranks among the largest and finest Tiger preserves in the country and expanded Mike's home from 2,000 to 15,000 square feet. It also features research, conservation, and husbandry programs,as well as educational,interpretive, and recreational activities.
So why can't we do that? If 80,000 Clemson fans gave 40 each something like that would be feasible to do. I'm sure corporate sponsors would also be interested in attaching their names to such an effort. Plus I'm sure that it would bring excellent press to our sports program and university as a whole.
What do y'all think?
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I'm down for an extra $20 if we throw in a moat with sharks
Jun 26, 2012, 2:50 PM
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with freakin laser beams.
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Re: I'm down for an extra $20 if we throw in a moat with sharks
Jun 26, 2012, 3:19 PM
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attached to their frikkin heads?
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Re: We need our own tiger
Jun 26, 2012, 2:50 PM
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They riped off our "Death Valley" no need to steal their live tiger idea. (even though I would go ape s#it if we got one)
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Heisman Winner [139882]
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Owning a tiger isn't something you just jump into.
Jun 26, 2012, 2:57 PM
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I currently share my environment with 11 house cats. It's a full time job.
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Re: Owning a tiger isn't something you just jump into.
Jun 26, 2012, 3:11 PM
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Ehh, I bet your house smells delightful.
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Athletic Dir [872]
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Haven't I seen you on Hoarders?
Jun 26, 2012, 3:17 PM
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just kidding.
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Re: Owning a tiger isn't something you just jump into.
Jun 26, 2012, 2:58 PM
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But could lead to us getting a vet program.
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Oculus Spirit [93609]
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Didn't we have an 'episode,' with a live tiger once?***
Jun 26, 2012, 2:58 PM
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Re: Didn't we have an 'episode,' with a live tiger once?***
Jun 26, 2012, 3:08 PM
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I seem to remember that way back in the 1900's we had one, but USC students poisioned it. Don't know for sure if this is fact or fiction.
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There is a guy in TR....
Jun 26, 2012, 3:00 PM
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that has a tiger and drives him around in the back of his truck. Anyone else seen it?
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110%er [7157]
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yes..where does that dude live? I've heard that he's got it
Jun 26, 2012, 3:09 PM
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in his backyard with a huge fenced in yard. I live off of state park rd and saw that guy about a month ago. I didnt' believe the hype until I saw him. He's got a red truck with caged in bed to his truck like a pine needle truck or something.
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Re: yes..where does that dude live? I've heard that he's got it
Jun 26, 2012, 3:17 PM
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not sure where he lives but he works at Advanced Auto parts in TR. My mother in law lives off of Belvue road and you can hear the roar from her house! Freaky!
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Re: There is a guy in TR....
Jun 27, 2012, 11:47 AM
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He usd to bring it to Blue Rigde High football games but the freaking county made him stop
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Need a chicken house for a perpetual food source.***
Jun 26, 2012, 3:02 PM
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Re: Need a chicken house for a perpetual food source.***
Jun 26, 2012, 3:06 PM
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Now that's a great idea! But only male chickens/gamecocks.
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There's got to be some major liability risk with having.....
Jun 26, 2012, 3:03 PM
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a tiger at the games, etc. - a bulldog or a rooster running around is one thing but a tiger's something else.
It would be neat, though - would love to hear it growl over the speakers in DV.
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Re: There's got to be some major liability risk with having.....
Jun 26, 2012, 3:17 PM
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I can't believe I have to say this...
Obviously he won't be loose in the stadium. He'll be in his giant pen.
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110%er [9049]
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I know you didn't mean that but even being in......
Jun 26, 2012, 3:26 PM
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a pen has to cause a lot of concern in case it somehow got out.
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Oculus Spirit [81628]
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Uh...you realize another school has been doing it safely for
Jun 27, 2012, 1:25 PM
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decades now?
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the new monument across from the hill would have been an
Jun 26, 2012, 3:07 PM
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awesome spot for something like that...i was hoping they would have created something more closely associated with the football team there. Something similar to the large panthers at bank of america stadium.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate the military memorials all over campus and am proud of that heritage but that one spot would have an awesome spot for a focal area for espn to set up shop and film these intimidating Tiger statues or something like what you're talking about because it basically is in a spot that would be a backdrop to the team when they run down the hill. Huge missed opportunity.
I think LSU has a big Vetrinarian program and thats a big reason they have an actual tiger at LSU.
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110%er [5430]
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I am in no big hurry to donate money for a wild animal
Jun 26, 2012, 3:09 PM
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to live in a habitat better than I do.
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Ok, we'll start a blue chicken fund for you at the same time***
Jun 27, 2012, 10:43 AM
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Re: There's got to be some major liability risk with having.....
Jun 26, 2012, 3:09 PM
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Yeah but him in an orange and purple cage him the rotc guy doing push ups on his cage would be sick.
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110%er [7157]
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and then throw a live version of whatever the mascot of the
Jun 26, 2012, 3:15 PM
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other team is at the time....i wonder how many seminoles or demon deacons we could find.
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If we had all of the resources LSU has, it would
Jun 26, 2012, 3:26 PM
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be OK to do this although I wouldn't give to it. The way things stand right now, I'd rather see the money go to pay baseball assistants better or football strength and conditioning or whatever other needs there are,
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Re: If we had all of the resources LSU has, it would
Jun 26, 2012, 4:06 PM
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In my opinion our athletic program should be/is the entity in charge of paying our coaches. I don't think it would be proper to have what would amount to fundraising (as LSU did to acquire their new habitat)in order to pay coaches.
What I was proposing would be money raised from donations by the fans of Clemson athletics and in particular Clemson football.
LSU's "resources" really have no bearing on how the money was raised for Mike the Tiger's habitat.
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CU Guru [1151]
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Agreed***
Jun 26, 2012, 3:52 PM
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only if it's a sabertooth tiger***
Jun 26, 2012, 3:54 PM
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Why? Is 8-ball getting more erratic?***
Jun 26, 2012, 4:05 PM
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And bring back the Country Gentleman too!!!***
Jun 26, 2012, 6:48 PM
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Re: And bring back the Country Gentleman too!!!***
Jun 26, 2012, 6:52 PM
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We are all country gentleman.
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Re: And bring back the Country Gentleman too!!!***
Jun 26, 2012, 8:00 PM
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Do you not know of the Country Gentleman mascot that walked the sidelines from '39 to '72?
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Re: And bring back the Country Gentleman too!!!***
Jun 26, 2012, 8:11 PM
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WHO????????????
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LOL***
Jun 26, 2012, 8:13 PM
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Re: We need our own tiger
Jun 26, 2012, 7:40 PM
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We should put it in the tunnel where the away team enters the stadium. So they will see the Tiger and hear the roar of the crowd. That will get them all shaken up before the game. 
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Stampede the tiger...
Jun 26, 2012, 7:56 PM
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in as Colorado does their bison. Then you will have trumped LSU.
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Re: Re: And bring back the Country Gentleman too!!!***
Jun 26, 2012, 8:06 PM
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Yes I know all about him Haha
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Re: Re: There's got to be some major liability risk with having.....
Jun 27, 2012, 2:54 AM
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It would be sick in the worst connotation of the word.
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Some idiot would poison him
Jun 27, 2012, 8:13 AM
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Would't want to risk it
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Re: Some idiot would poison him
Jun 27, 2012, 9:02 AM
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Well if we are talking about spending $3 million plus on this, I'm sure we can add a little security to his home, like more tigers on the outside of the cage to protect whats inside. lol
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good idea especially since SC has their gamecock habitat
Jun 27, 2012, 10:02 AM
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which is probably less expensive. Wonder who would take care of the tiger.
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Absolutely, Irrevocably, and Finally (hopefully)...NO!!
Jun 27, 2012, 10:47 AM
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If a handful of (pardon me) nitwit Clemson fans want to have a live mascot simply to parade on football Saturdays, I say instead lets setup a Clemson Fund for Save The Tigers!! And start funding tiger habitat re-nourishment and conservancy worldwide.....PLUS, put a sizable bounty on poachers AND the Dark Ages Chinese vendors who sell tiger organs and bones to the Dark Ages Chinese public----bring'em in dead or alive and collect a tidy sum....by doing this, we'll also be protecting bears (even local bears)and other endangered wildlife around the globe from the evil grip of commercial folklore science.
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Exactly what I was going to say. I would love for Clemson
Jun 27, 2012, 11:56 AM
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to be closely and visibly associated with the efforts to preserve and protect this amazing animal. I would be much more proud of that than if we spent millions of dollars to have one at Clemson.
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I saw a special on the LSU Tiger not long ago.They said
Jun 27, 2012, 11:36 AM
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you cannot have a live mascot without a Vet program.
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Have it lead the team down the hill
Jun 27, 2012, 12:10 PM
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then have an effigy of the opposing mascot for it to maul (a flock of live chickens for USuC) waiting at the 50 yard line. The best entrance in college football just got better!
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Oculus Spirit [93609]
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Throw DOOK and BC out of the conference and...
Jun 27, 2012, 12:11 PM
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we can afford one.
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No we don't.
Jun 27, 2012, 12:14 PM
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We don't need to have a tiger living in captivity. How about a Clemson fund helping tigers in the wild?
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Yes we do
Jun 27, 2012, 12:18 PM
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and just let it roam free on campus (after it's been trained to only eat things wearing a certain color...say...garnet.)
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Heisman Winner [139882]
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Re: Owning a tiger isn't something you just jump into.
Jun 27, 2012, 1:10 PM
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Check that! I now share my environment with 17 cats. Stacy had 6 kittens this morning in my dirty clothes hamper. Congratulations Stacy, I know you'll be a great mom.
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Re: We need our own tiger
Jun 28, 2012, 7:18 AM
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Doesn't Riverbanks Zoo already have a family of tigers sponsored by IPTAY?
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