BYU students and the general public alike are already crying “copycat” over the new face of Utah Valley University.

Last Friday, UVU announced that they were lying their mascot Willy the Wolverine to rest to make room for their new figurehead, “Costco”. Costco is a 6 foot tall Ocelot who specializes in clogging. Though he sports green rather than blue, he seems eerily similar to Cosmo the Cougar.

In an exclusive interview, the Alternate Universe confronted Astrid S. Tuminez, President of Utah Valley University, with questions regarding the recent change. Without offering much explanation behind the rebranding, she told AU, “He’s an ocelot! They’re completely different!”

Upon further investigation, detectives revealed that “Costco the Ocelot” is the product of a marketing campaign for big-box store company Costco Wholesale, who paid hundreds of dollars to have Willy the Wolverine erased and Costco put on the rise. If only they knew his downfall would be so quick.

Costco is currently voted “least popular mascot in college athletics” on a Twitter Poll that ESPN has been running since last Friday. Apparently, clogging is not popular. And Ocelots aren’t much better.

“I thought ocelot was some sort of kingdom from the medieval times,” said Tyler Wooden on twitter.

After determining that Costco could not be less of a threat, Cosmo the Cougar canceled his plans to tear him to shreds and decided to try to buy him out of his contract instead. Negotiations are currently going on to settle this infringement case. It is most likely that exchanges of bulk Costco meat will be used as currency for tax reasons.