Hello Einstein...Trees can't defend themselves. Smokey will eat you alive if he senses danger not to mention his front claw take down. I've had Blue ticks and Walkers my entire life and they don't play.
Technically you could use paintball orange. It's non-toxic, biodegradable, and water soluble so it'd rinse off with water.
What would be far funnier is if someone stenciled on a few power T's or something of the like on the statues jacket or hat using only an orange highlighter marker or some other blacklight reflective ink. Blacklight it at night and snap a photo and twitter it. Not only would that be hilarious but it'd be on the statue all day with people walking all around it and nobody in bamaland would see it until they saw the photo of it.
We were better off the way it was. It was motivation for the team to see everyday until Sat. the way it was. They should have ended it with shove it up your A$$ instead. Then it would have atleast rhymed with swag?