The Disney Renaissance
In the 1994 Disney classic “The Lion King“ this famous male artist sings the love ballad ”Can You Feel the Love Tonight“ while Simba and Nala frolic in the forest.
Elton John
All of Tech‘s athletics played in this conference from 2001 to 2012, prior to joining Conference USA in 2013.
Western Athletic Conference (WAC)
This family of mammals are born unfinished and have to stick around on their mothers for a while longer.
Marsupials
“Don’t leave me here! I’m in hillbilly hell!”
Cars
This is the name for a tuba designed for marching band, the name of which comes from one of the greatest American composers known for his military marches such as “The Stars and Stripes Forever“ and “The Thunderer”.
Sousaphone
In the Disney movie Hercules this is the name of the group of ancient monsters that Hades released to wreck havoc on and destroy Olympus, before Hercules saves the day.
The Titans
During the Skip Holtz era in Tech football, famous for a record-breaking six bowl wins in a row, Tech easily defeated this American Athletic Conference team in the Frisco bowl.
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
President Calvin Coolidge kept these trashy little guys as pets in the White House.
Raccoons
“Bye Buddy! Hope you find your dad!”
Elf
This term is used to refer to instruments crafted specifically for lower pitches and to play a much lower range than the typical version of the instrument.
Contrabass
While boasting of his strength in the pub, in ”Beauty and the Beast” Gaston claims to eat this many dozen eggs every morning so he’s “roughly in the size of a barge”.
Five dozen eggs
This Lady Techester’s basketball coach famously lead the Techsters to win the 1988 women’s national championship and is regarded as one of the best coaches in women’s college basketball history.
Leon Barmore
This type of bird is said to bring bad luck if killed by sailors.
Albatross
”She doesn’t even go here.”
Mean Girls
One of the most well-known musicians in the world is Yo-Yo Ma, famous for performing as a soloist with orchestras all over the world playing this instrument.
Cello
This is the name of Jasmines loyal, protective tiger companion in Disney’s “Aladdin”.
Rajah
Tech football legend Terry Bradshaw won this many Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers over his 14 year NFL career.
Four Super Bowls (IX, X, XIII, XIV)
This type of marine life can see like way more colors than people can.
Shrimp
“Honestly, if you were going any slower, you’d be going backwards”
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
Stradivarius is most well known for perfecting the art of crafting this string instrument, the ones made by his own hand that still exist today are worth well over $1 million each.
Violin
At the beginning of ”The Little Mermaid“, when Ariel finds a fork in a shipwreck and takes it to her seagull friend Scuttle, he incorrectly calls it by this silly name.
Dinglehopper
In 2021, Kenneth Lofton Junior won Conference USA Freshman of the Year. Prior to Junior, this man was the most recent Dunkin’ Dog to receive this award in 2017.
DaQuan Bracey
There are more of this type of animal in Texas than anywhere else in the world.
Tigers
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
This keyboard instrument is similar in appearance to a piano but has a very distinctive sound to it, popular in the Baroque era and used heavily by Mozart and in pieces like Pachelbel’s Canon and Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”.
Harpsichord