What are the worst team nicknames in sports?

Time Magazine has chosen 10 bad college sports team nickmanes.

Most border on the totally obscure, like the Pace (University) Setters, the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Eutetics, and the Grays Harbor College Chokers.

The only Division I teams named were the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, the Long Beach State Dirtbags (used only for the baseball team), and the Evansville Purple Aces.

Number one is the University of California at Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. What's so bad about that?

If you've ever been to Santa Cruz, a great spot on the Pacific Coast with a seaside amusement park, a boardwalk, and plenty of what used to be called hippies, you'd know banana slugs were somehow the perfect nickname for the school, which is truly tucked away inside the city.

Anyway, what are the truly the worst team nicknames in Division I college sports? I'll give you my 10, and maybe you can suggest some of your own.

Keep in mind I didn't spend hours on this. And keep in mind I found a whole lot more names I liked than ones I didn't. In alphabetical order:

1. Arizona State Sun Devils: Weird name. I'm not sure why anyone feels compelled to be devils or demons. Right, Duke, DePaul and Wake Forest?

2. Georgetown Hoyas: If you have to explain what something is, which Georgetown always must with Hoyas, it's not a great name.

3. Hofstra Pride: Yecch.

4. Idaho Vandals: Since when does vandalism have any sort of positive connotation?

5. Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks: The hawk is a noble bird that doesn't need "war" attached to it.

6. Minnesota Gophers: Not to tweak our northern neighbors (Oh, OK, just a little), but c'mon. Minnesota has much about its heritage and landscape worth celebrating. Lakes and loons and walleyes, Paul Bunyan and Jesse The Body Ventura. Gophers? Why, Minnesota, why?

7. Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos: I love the effort to be different, so I hate to put this name here. But honestly, have you ever seen a kangaroo in Kansas City, or Missouri, or the Central time zone? Or North America?

8. North Texas Mean Green: If you have to tell the world you're mean, you aren't. If you have to tell the world you're Mean Green, you may be a green weenie.

9. William and Mary Tribe: Ugh.

10. Wofford Terriers: Now there's a beast that inspires bloodlust. The Terriers play football at Wisconsin in four months. Try not to be terrified, Badger fans.

High honorable mention: Anyone named Eagles: There are too many Bulldogs, Panthers, Tigers and Wildcats. They aren't original names. But I counted a dozen D-I teams that had "Eagles" in their names. Four of them are the Golden Eagles.

Gazette sportswriters Jeff Johnson and Marc Morehouse were asked to weigh in. Jeff immediately chose the Cal-Irvine Anteaters. Marc went with the schools that changed their names to be politically correct, like the Marquette (ahem) Golden Eagles, formerly the Warriors.

OK, what do you think. Who's the worst and why? If any I chose are actually good names, tell me why? And what in the world is so bad about "Banana Slugs?"