The Wrestling Wrens?

We all know the world is run by C students.

So, on behalf of everyone with a slightly embarrassing academic record, I offer this delicious nugget:

The College of William and Mary continues its desperate search for a mascot.

Yep, this elite institution, brimming over with brainiacs, can't find a suitable costumed character to lead cheers on the sidelines during football games.

C'mon, Tribe. All those smarts and still no cute or ironic mascot?

Just how brainy are W+M undergrads? Well, the Princeton Review rates William and Mary one of the most selective schools in the country. The college rating organization gave the Williamsburg university a selectivity rating of 98, just one notch below Harvard. The average high school GPA of entering freshmen, again according to PR, is 4.0.

In other words, the closest most of our underachieving offspring will come to William and Mary will be as part of a guided tour holding Williamsburg Patriot Passes.

The venerable school continues to be known as The Tribe, but it's safe to say the mascot will have absolutely no relation to anything Native American. After all, the last university president - who worshipped at the altar of political correctness - agreed to toss the little feathers that once graced William and Mary's logo. 

School officials are expected to roll out the new mascot soon. The rumored frontrunner?

A wren.

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