The Collective generally (though not always) isn’t interested in sports. Though this ESPN video documents something we find interesting: Admiral Ackbar as a college mascot.

Ole Miss needed a new mascot and the school looked to the students for ideas. Since the school has been known previously as “The Rebels” what better mascot than the admiral of the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars? The students campaigned.

It didn’t work out (b/c George Lucas ruins childhoods). The gentleman in the video says it best: “Maybe it was just too perfect.” It was.

THAT SCHOOL CAN’T REPEL A MASCOT OF THAT MAGNITUDE!