TCU Athletics
Super Frog has dodged a layoff.
TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini took to social media today to make a major announcement concerning the school’s next 150 years.
Goodbye, Horned Frogs. Hello, Squirrels.
“Starting today, I’m excited to announce that we are transitioning from the TCU Horned Frogs to an animal seen daily and abundantly across our beautiful campus, the TCU Squirrels,” Boschini says on a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, or perhaps TwiXt.
That video has more than 1.2 million views — and counting — according to a TCU spokesperson.
Boschini says the change was made as the school strives to “evolve to the changing landscape of higher education it’s crucial that our university’s mascot reflect our ideals and aspirations.”
The squirrel is noted, Boschini says, for its adaptability, resourcefulness, and tenacity. All essential ingredients to life in the big leagues and playing dominoes in retirement.
The squirrel, of course, is noted for other things, namely a well-earned reputation as a nuisance, a bird feeder burglar, and its tendencies to destroy household things that can’t fight back. Few shed tears at the sight of Rocky having expended his three lives playing Frogger on University Drive.
The chancellor made his most compelling case of the name change by noting that this decision was made after months of study and discernment by a number of committees.
If you really want to screw something up, put a committee on it. That Super Frog was to be replaced by Super Squirrel is right up the alley of a committee.
TCU became the Horned Frogs the day in 1897, as legend has it, after finding the football field littered with horned lizards. “Small-but-mighty horned lizards,” as the story goes.
It beat out the Cactus, which undoubtedly made it out of some committee on campus.
Well, today is, after all, April 1.
TCU is still the Horned Frogs. And why Noah put two squirrels on his ark is anybody’s guess.
He obviously had a committee working on the project.