Sodacker
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Talk to someone who has more expertise in these elections aand public communication to not continually put themselves in poor situations but giving themselves arbitrary rules.
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I really don't understand how people could still be angry about this other than they want the winner to be Roughriders no matter if that's what the majority wants.
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Fail by UND for rushing another announcement with running it through proper channels.
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It was pretty obvious that this was going to happen. Another fail in their consulting firm to not just announce this immediately and avoid this 3 window of nonsense.
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Well if the nickname is a business decision, why would we let people who vote purely on emotion decide it? Just let the business consultants decide it.
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They deserve their fair share of blame though. I don't blame them for allowing non North Dakota names, our committee should have snuffed those out early and been our voice there. But they should have given much better guidance on the process. Not foreseeing a possible tie for second place and then allowing Kelley to say this is for sure the last vote are completely on them I believe.
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Well und is the flag ship for North Dakota and I don't believe any other sports team goes by Nodak, so it seems very unique. Specific to UND/northDakota and unique as a school name. Hits the boxes for me personally. Roughriders is a good north Dakota name but I don't believe it's all that unique so I prefer Nodak over it.
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If other people think less of our school because our sports teams are called nodaks or Roughrider or Hawks, that is there prerogative. I don't think less of Missouri cause their school has a lame Tigers name or less of Delaware cause they have a weird blue hen name. Anyone who does is small minded and really shouldn't effect our choice.
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They will bother us about the nickname for the next couple years no matter what. But if we accept the name and full integrate it into Athletics, we'll just be another school with another name.
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I ddon't think a nickname needs to be imaginative. I think it should be unique and specific to the school it represents.
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The problem is I couldn't care less what other schools think of our name. If we care wwhat they think why not let them vote on our name.
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Nah. If you cared that much you'd say let's vote Nodak but you don't so I'll vote for the name I like best.
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It's wwhat they should have done when there were 5 selections. Give people the chance to vote for their top two choices and use that to narrow it down to a two name runoff.
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Won't someone please think of the children!
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That's how it should be whether your favorite name gets it or not.
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Having people who don't kknow what they're doing make decisions in advanced and then not fixing problems when they arrive just doubles down the problem, it doesn't help it. Just because it will give some people the warm fuzzy feeling of following an ill conceived plan doesn't make it the right path to take. The problem was them putting up unnecessary rules that there was a possibility they couldn't follow.
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Ya he is obviously over his head and has absolute no foresight. Giving himself these arbitrary and unnecessary rules exist just make him look more foolish. He of course doesn't learn from his mistakes because he is hard headed and incompetent and does it again with this upcoming vote and puts himself in another box saying he will announce a winner, when it is very premature to say that before seeing the results. Kelly has mucked this up from the get and obviously doesn't even realize his incompetence. That doesn't mean adding a third vote or third selection is necessarily wrong.
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That's why I think there will be a third vote if someone doesn't get 50 percent. It would have been easier to just announce fighting Hawks the winner and be done with it if that is the end game
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It truly will be. If one wins with 40 percent of the vote it will be a huge disservice to everyone. I don't believe the nickname will last if there isn't 50 percent vote.
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Ah so there are different pockets of establishment. The one thing they all have in common though is that they want Roughriders out. Seems logical.
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No the establishment choice is nodaks, that's why they expanded it. Anything other than Roughriders is the establishment choice because it's siouxsports.com pick. If they like it it means the University hates it and there is a big conspiracy to get it out.
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I'll let it slide This time
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So you assumed tthey would have multiple votes with the same 3 names?
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Well we know that are willing to change midstream so I am hopeful that they will if there is not a majority there will be another vote. The management of this is obviously terrible. They unnecessarily put themselves in these corners with absolute statements, and did it again yesterday. They will look at the vote results and decide if they need another vote. As long as at the end a majority vote for a name and a possible winning name doesn't get kicked out prematurely I'll be happy. I have no confidence in the process makers and these people having any foresight so I am happy they are willing to adjust as necessary.
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We need majority. If that happens this vote then I'll be content, if we don't get majority then we need another vote. It's about getting the right name, not following an arbitrary process or keeping the number of votes to 2 or below. Allowing 5 names the last vote was a mistake and it will take extra elections to mitigate that mistake, but it is the right thing to do.
