Jared Mabry is a man of many identities.

He’s an aspiring rapper whose stage name is TaReef KnockOut.

He’s a former Tallahassee-Lincoln basketball star and the son of a former Florida State men’s basketball player.

He’s a die-hard FSU fan who had one of his songs, “Noles. 2.0,” played before 2016 home games at Doak Campbell Stadium.

And for the last few months on social media and local airwaves, he’s been the guy pushing the hashtag, #PackTheGarnetPants.

“I thought it would bring some excitement,” Mabry said of his push for the Seminoles to ditch their traditional gold pants and wear garnet for at least a game or two. “The team just looked like it had no energy [early in the season].”

Mabry started his push before the Duke game, dialing in to the weekly Jimbo Fisher call-in show and asking the then-head coach if he would consider the uniform switch. The Seminoles were 1-3 at the time and had just lost to rival Miami for the first time in eight years.

Fisher politely dismissed the idea, but Mabry was undeterred. He had heard that several players were in favor of mixing things up on game day, so he ramped up his campaign on Twitter and began using the hashtag, #PackTheGarnetPants, on his tweets before road games.

His first post featured a picture of former Seminole star Warrick Dunn wearing garnet.

“Slowly but surely, more FSU fans started giving me retweets,” said Mabry, whose father, Thomas Mabry, played at FSU in the mid-1980s and later changed his name to Tariq Abdul-Aziz.

The persistent 29-year-old fan called in to Fisher’s show three different times to make the request, including right before the Clemson game in November. Fisher responded that he checks with the players on what they want to wear and playfully added that, “You never know.”

But Mabry wasn’t surprised when the Seminoles wore their traditional gold pants and white tops at Clemson.