In today’s strip, Texas Lieutenant Governor-elect Dan Patrick reveals the real reason he’s graced Westview High with his presence… he wants to offer Bull the head football coaching position at Dallas Ugandan Intellectuals because their first choice did not accept the job.
More importantly, today we learn that DUI’s mascot is the “Fighting Consensus Builders” which may or may not be intended as a joke. It’s hard to tell.
Really, if you are going to name a fictional university so awkwardly just to shoehorn it into a backronym for DUI, at least complete the joke by making their mascot the “Offenders”.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Batiuk’s used this “fighting consensus builders” “joke” a couple times before. And Westview’s won the championship before too, but I guess that’s been retconned away for some reason.
Now I can’t wait for the Feburary 2015 storyline where Dick Tracy will going door-to-door to sell Scapegoat Band Candy.
I stand by my affirmation that Batiuk is the comic strip version of Coleman Francis.
“Fighting Consensus Builders”? Not good. And what does he mean by “come back”? Bull never left. This always happens when TB tries to tell a story, his skills have atrophied so badly that it all just becomes a stream of gibberish.
Obviously something’s going to come along to “queer the deal”, as they say. No way he writes Bushka out of the strip, I’d be stunned to see that happen. He struggles enough as it is with trying to fill 52 weeks, without those five or six easy dumb-jock arcs a year TB is screwed.
He couldn’t call the team the Diversity Wrought Irons?
I find it strange that Batiuk is making lame jokes about diversity and consensus-building, as he seems to be a regular boomer/politically correct type. He even wore the dreaded middle aged ponytail for a while.
I’d love to comment, but this is yet another night when I still can’t access the page because Comics Kingdom insists that 11/13 can’t be found. Seriously I hate that site.
@Gyre, you’re better off not seeing it, but it’s visible on the right in the Twitter feed. It zooms in nicely. Sorry.
Gee, I wonder why he turned them down. Perhaps he heard they thought Bull Bushka was a viable candidate and realized they lived up to the acronym.
The first candidate probably took the job at the Miami Academy of Diversity and Dance.
I’m hoping DUI’s first choice was the assistant coach they sent down to meet with Bull back in August, you know, the guy who taught Bull absolutely everything about the hurry-up offense that the Scapegoats presumably used to win the conference championship.
I am assuming the August meeting was to gage Bull’s interest in becoming a DUI assistant, given that they sent an assistant coach to meet with him. When new head coaches get hired, old assistant coaches generally get replaced.
The first choice was probably Jerry Sandusky…….Sorry, was it too soon to make this joke??
“I stand by my affirmation that Batiuk is the comic strip version of Coleman Francis.”
Nice. But given the relentlessly meandering and constantly disjointed nature of the strip, at this point I think Batiuk is actually closer to the level of Harold P. Warren, director, producer and star of Manos the Hands of Fate.
I would think “The Drunken Louts” would be a more appropriate mascot for a DUI football team.
Three is one thing Batiuk and Hal Warren have in common. And that’s a ton of fertilizer.