UC-Santa Barbara adopted the Gauchos nickname in 1936 because of the 1927 movie "The Gaucho." The name replaced the previous nickname, the Roadrunners, and was voted upon by the women of UCSB as a ...

The University of California-Santa Barbara is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California. Its mascot “The Gaucho” was supposedly inspired by Douglas Fairbank’s ...

Our mascot inflicted a sense of otherness on those we care about. ... There have been calls in the past for a mascot change at UC Santa Barbara, which also calls its teams Gauchos.

UC-Santa Barbara adopted the Gauchos nickname in 1936 because of the 1927 movie "The Gaucho." The name replaced the previous nickname, the Roadrunners, and was voted upon by the women of UCSB as a ...