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Glad your not on the committee.

Not bad.

Like how the intangibles (Pride, Spirit, Force) don't even meet the committees own criteria: The committee decided the school's name needs to be unique, promote pride and fierceness, embody the state and region and unify people. Except for being unique. And there's a reason they are unique... NO ONE WANTS THEM!

Didn't they leave it off the original list "by accident" saying something of the opposite like hard to trademark?

Quote: "North Stars," one she did move forward, was chosen because it had been submitted multiple times with accompanying comments Friesz saw as passionate. "A beacon of stability and consistency; symbol of the north and of success," one anonymous submitter wrote. "It's a prominent point that guides people toward their goals," wrote another.

And he's the chairman. So what he says had a lot of weight. ""I kind of like the 'Spirit,' as kind of the spirit of North Dakota," Committee Chairman and UND alumnus Karl Goehring said. "It just sticks out a little bit to me." Herald articles have people stating they like intangibles, north stars, and schweigert liking hawks. Oddly silent on the peoples choice of Roughriders.

Roughriders is gender neutral.

I don't wanna go through this whole process for "nothing."

What does it really matter if Red River is the Roughriders? Don't wanna be a copycat? Google all the names. 90% are already in use by another team somewhere. Id rather have a duplicate than Spirits. Few Herald readers will get confused with the headlines: "Roughriders fall to Fargo North in boys basketball"? Someone needs to go through the list and list all the names and what schools use them. (Hard for me on a cell phone).

Herald articles states he likes Spirit.

Getting nervous no one on the committee has said their favorites are everyone else's favorites. Cavalry, Roughriders, Explorers.

I'm in the no nickname is better than spirit or sundogs camp.

So let's just have the debate in one.

So you don't want a new nickname. Some people want a new nickname. Wouldnt the compromise be. Get a new nickname so those new nickname fans can have that. And the no nickname fans can jut buy plain UND gear and not cheer on the new nickname?

I don't have a middle name. Makes me feel badass. But my birth certificate says "nmn" on that space. So Technically..

Now move all the discussion here. It'd be 200 pages.

I don't think excelling in sex is a "bad thing."

The only safe way is official ballots mailed out to out of city\state alumni. And a couple polling places on campus for gf residents and UND students.

Not only is roughriders by far the favorite new nickname among the masses, but dare I say also is already starting to evoke passion and pride...

If UND becomes the Roughriders. Maybe there will be a movement to change Red Rivers name...to Cavalry. They could even keep the same logos.

Will someone start a nickname vs no nickname thread? This is getting tiresome to those of us that actually want to discuss UNDs NEW NICKNAME!

Based on herald polls, I don't think barely anyone "could care less".

University of North Dakota Fighting Nodaks to keep the Sioux name...

Au contraire. Native Americans were the original Roughriders. In fact, there's a Roughrider statue right outside the front of the Ralph. A Roughrider is a skilled rider of little-trained horses, especially one who breaks horses for riding. That's where TR and his men got the name from.