I don't know that the sailor hat motif was necessarily dog crap, to me it reads more as this dude was kind of a one trick pony but he milked it for all he could. Like imagine he gets around to NC State and they're like "we're thinking like a pack of several wolves where you can't really pick out any individual wolf but you can see several sets of eyes and teeth?"
And then it cuts to pawn stars meme and he's like "best I can do is wolf in a sailor hat"