My wife’s college just changed their mascot from “The Colonels.”
Her college was Curry College outside of Boston. The Colonel was not related to the civil war, or any founder of the school. The mascot was designed like Yosemite Sam.
The comments on the Facebook page was pretty much filled with WTF? The school really did not present a case for changing it.
The mob is crazy.
Maybe they mistook it for “colonials”.