Creative use of a Whiteboard...

After being selected to represent Big Blue & Old Dominion for this contest, I did a little bit of research on how Big Blue was promoting himself for the Capital One Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge. I found that he has been using videos (which are very creative), flyers around campus, posters & a flag at football games, and the unlikely dorm room whiteboard.

Big Blue and his team have created a few great videos to get the campus of ODU to vote. He was able to use locations such as the Ted Constant Convocation Center to the Student Recreation Center on campus. All of these videos are located on Big Blue’s facebook fan page as well as a couple on his youtube page. I would like to think that the videos have helped him to receive many of his votes for the Capital One Bowl Mascot Challenge.

The one thing that was not first on my mind when it came to getting votes in for Big Blue was entering into the dorms of Old Dominion. But then again, you can expect Big Blue to do ANYTHING to get votes. Turns out Big Blue is soliciting ODU silly bands in exchange for a decorated white board that promotes voting for the MONARCH LION. This is brilliant, because really, who DOESN’T have a white board on the door of their dorm. Overnight pictures were uploaded to Blue’s facebook in response. I’d like to take the credit, but this was all Big Blue’s idea.

So far I’d say that Big Blue’s ideas for promotion have worked well considering his vote totals in the first 4 weeks, and even three days into this week against Testudo. So far Big Blue has accumulated 31,000 votes for the week. He is definitely ahead of the turtle, but not in the lead for total votes this week. Montana, OSU, Oregon, and UTEP are giving Big Blue a run for his money for the lead vote-getter this week, but this should not pose a problem seeing that Blue already has over 420,000 votes in the first four weeks. So open your browser to capitalonebowl.com & VOTE BIG BLUE!!!!

And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ CapitalOne Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge

B-I-G B-L-U-E, that’s how ODU spells V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!!!

The Monarchs brought home wins in football as well as the Capital One Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge.

The football Monarchs were able to bring home a win against Monmouth on Saturday. This game had some significance to it, Monmouth being the ONLY team to defeat them on Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium last season. The 35-21 victory for the Monarchs was record setting for QB Thomas DeMarco, with over 400 passing yards. The Monarchs continue play this Saturday at home vs. Gardner-Webb, if you are a Monarch fan, help to cheer them onto VICTORY!

Week 4:

At 9:00 this morning Big Blue was again victorious bringing his win count to 4! This past week, Big Blue faced many doubters because of the student body size at Ohio State and Brutus’ 3-0 record thus far in the competition. Even with the articles promoting sympathy votes for Brutus, Monarch fans were able to triumph over the Big Ten school, with 131,558 votes to Brutus’ 113,682, bringing Blue’s total votes to over 400,000! I’m sure that these totals are making Big Blue proud to be a Monarch!

Week 5:

Going into week five, Big Blue is up against Testudo of the University of Maryland. The turtle is 0-4 so far in the competition with only 45,000 votes total during matchups. As Big Blue’s fans wake up to a new voting week, we should not take into account UMD’s record, but concentrate on bringing ODU another win. Now come on Big Blue fans, GET YOUR VOTE ON!!!

Only 8 more weeks of regular voting left, and then it’s on to the finals, but in order for Big Blue to make it, he needs YOU<<<<<<

And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ CapitalOne Bowl Mascot of the Year Challenge

Who Needs Sympathy????

The battle is on between Big Blue and Brutus. Week 4: ODU vs. OSU

Yesterday afternoon, the Capital One Mascot of the Year Competition facebook page posted an article that was written about Ohio State’s Brutus and the ‘beating’ that he received from inter-state rival Ohio University’s ‘Rufus.’ The article seen here <--, is telling fans that Brutus deserves the sympathy votes because of the abuse received during the rival game last weekend. There was instant reaction from all Big Blue fans on facebook, including myself. Though the reaction would not have been immense if Big Blue was not against Brutus this week , his fans did not adapt well to the article.

Comments such as my own, ‘Sympathy? That’s Lame. Just vote for Big Blue,’ or those of Big Blue fan Erin McCants ‘really? brutus needs sympathy to get votes... how lame! BIG BLUE gets votes on his own!!!,’ even Big Blue supporter Jamie Stewart said ‘at least big blue doesn't need sympathy votes... GO BIG BLUE!’  show how involved/devoted Blue’s fans really are.

Many of Big Blue’s fans just want the name of Old Dominion on the map. With only 24,000 enrolled students to Ohio State’s 63,000, fans of the Monarchs are proud to be in the lead over Brutus without any sympathy votes.

As a representative of Big Blue, and Old Dominion, I am not saying that what Rufus did was a condonable offense, but as a fan of Big Blue (and full supporter of him winning the Capital One Mascot of the Year Challenge) I do not think Brutus needs sympathy votes for a public showing of affection from a rivaling neighbor.

This weekend looks to be a challenge to Big Blue and his fans, but with YOUR vote for him, he can and will become victorious!!!

And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ Capital One Bowl Mascot of the Year 

Here we go...

Alright, its official. I was selected to represent Big Blue for the Female Blogger contest for a chance to travel to Orlando in January for the CapitalOne Bowl, where they will announce the CapitalOne Mascot of the Year. If and when Big Blue is voted as the Mascot of the Year, I will be joining him in Orlando to be announced for his title. As of now, I will be pumping up Big Blue's name in hopes that YOU will vote for him. So I have one question for you, Are YOU into the BLUE?


I will be posting 2-3 times a week with updates on Big Blue's progress!


We are in week four of competition, and I will give a run down of the weeks prior to this. 


Week One:
In the first week of competition Big Blue faced another big cat, Mike the Tiger of LSU. We were not sure how big this contest was going to be, but the Monarchs of ODU showed off how much they supported their mascot.  We came out with a win in the first week, and had the lead in votes. Big Blue was able to beat Mike the Tiger, 34, 282 to 13,771, showing the nation how BLUE we are!


Week Two:  
We were up against the United State Air Force Academy. You would think that they had PT or something, but they shaped up to be much more of a competition than the week previous. The voting got heated, but Blue prevailed taking home his second win with 65, 076 to Air Force's 23,382. Good Job Monarchs! Tennessee's Smokey came close to Big Blue's vote total, by just 550! Giving Big Blue 99,050 to Smokey's 98,500!


Week Three: 
Match-up of the Week! 
Last week Big Blue was up against two time Mascot of the Year, Monte of Montana. Big Blue came out to a 23,000 vote lead in just two days, but Monte would not be stopped getting as close to Big Blue as he could with only 3,000 votes separating them. Big Blue would not accept a loss! When he felt threatened he pulled out all of the stops and went into the football game Saturday sporting his Capital One Mascot jersey asking everyone to text/vote for Big Blue. Old Dominion came together at the game and brought home a win in week 3. With record breaking votes, Big Blue stormed pasted Monte with 234,715 votes to Montana's 205,622! When the results were posted on Monday morning Big Blue was in the lead being undefeated 3-0 with over 300,000 total votes! Go BIG BLUE!


Week Four:
Up Against Brutus...the Buckeye (which by the way is a nut). So far in day three of competition, Big Blue has come out with close to a 20,000 vote lead. Hopefully He can bring the Nut to a stop this week. ODU does not have a home football game, but Brutus does. Will that pose a threat to our voting?! I DON'T THINK SO! Keep those votes coming in for BIG BLUE!


And as always, text 'bigblue' to 69866 or vote @ captialonebowl.com

<disclaimer: this is the first blog that I have written, just let me get used to it before you judge :) >