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Brad Schlossman said it was in the high $200,000. "UND spent $200,000 on a new nickname and all I got was this F'Hawkin' t shirt."

Where have you been?!

Hey I'm trying to find positives. It's not easy though.

Well at least we have come to expect the new Fighting Hawks logo to look more like this: Instead of this: But I also expect UND to screw that up too.

Lets Go Fighting Hawks.

Its an phone app. And you have to live in GF to see them.

I see the UND Nazi Hawk logo has already made its way to twitter.

Welcome to UND, Fighting Hawks (I guess ) The question now is how do we differentiate ourselves from the other thirty plus Hawks teams the Fighting Hawks will be playing against.

Good job you figured it out.

From this day on UND is known as the Fighting Hawks.

Like the student at the hockey game this weekend when he yelled lets go hawks. Nobody knew which team he meant.

F'Hawk!

Go to the books website. Enter info posing as a teacher, have answer sheet emailed to you. What?? Accounting homework sucked.

Last time it was announced Sunday night after the polls closed Friday at 11:59. So I'd guess tomorrow sometime.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's how UND doesn't get in?: Eastern Washington beats Portland State. EWU is in. Montana beats Montana State. Montana is in. Winner of SSU and NAU. Portland State is already in. .....I'm not sure five teams would get in from the Big Sky. It would be do they choose EWU or UND with identical records. Do they choose UND with the FBS win or EWU with the better conference record? Another reason to cheer for Southern Utah, Montana State, and Portland of course, because otherwise EWU losses could all potentially be against playoff teams (If UNI wins they are probably in...Go Southern Illinois) and the Oregon Ducks.

The nice thing is there is a couple of games being played that can help UND's chances: Portland State over Eastern Washington. Montana State over Montana. To a "lesser extent:" James Madison over Villanova. Maine over New Hampshire.

It would be different if they hadn't just made that account to post just that.

I also had a hawk voter (student) tell me it was unconstitutional to try and sway the vote.

Schedule strength based off Massey Ratings. I do think if its Southern Utah vs UND, UND gets in. Where do you draw the line? Do you punish a team for scheduling a D2 team, instead of Incarnate Word, yet they finish ahead of the others in the polls and conference standings (isn't that sorta what conferences are about to see how those teams compare against the same teams?) And have a harder schedule. .....the committees history has said yes. Basically if Southern Utah losses and UND wins and gets into the playoffs we can thank Southern Utah for its scheduling mistake.

So you're saying even a 10-1 team isn't guaranteed to make the playoffs. Let alone 7-4 Lehigh finished second in the conference that is one bid conference when it was still 16 playoff field.

Southern Utah has the 16th hardest schedule in FCS. North Dakota has the 51th hardest schedule in FCS.

Is that why SUU is #20 in the polls and UND is about 31. Its pretty easy to think the committee has a print out of the last poll at these meetings.

This part I'm not so sure about. SUU could be one missed field goal away from winning a Big Sky Championship and getting an autobid. But because they missed that field goal not even make the playoffs?! I think the committee will use some discretion.