Boone was like a child to Goddard and took it personal that Boone wasn't going to be the mascot for the Pioneers.
Here's Goddard's quote:
"There's no point in having the blog if we don't have Boone," said Damien Goddard, the LetsGoDU founder and DU graduate, class of 1989, who spearheaded the "Bring Back Boone" campaign in 2008. "Boone and the blog have become intertwined, and you can't have one without the other. And it's silly to have two mascots. If the school is going to march down this path of political correctness, we decided to let them go down that path alone."
The funny thing is Boone was retired in 98.