The Buck Stops Here: A Case for the Hodag

If you couldn’t tell from the content that we’ve been shoveling out the door recently, it’s the offseason. Besides taking a well-deserved break, everyone in the Bucks organization—not to mention here at Brew Hoop—is gearing up for the season by trying to find the slightest competitive advantage that will have the team playing until July. The lack of actual basketball being played increases our bandwidth to leave no stone unturned.

How about the mascot?

Some might say that a team’s mascot does not help a team’s performance. I would counter that a team’s mascot likely does not hurt a team’s performance. And heading into a season where opponents seem less likely to fear the deer in years,…