GeauxSioux

Maybe they are changing conferences.

New Orleans is MSY, named after John Moisant. He was a young aviator/barnstormer who crashed in a field outside of New Orleans. The place where he crashed became the Moisant Stock Yard (MSY) years later. Then the stockyard made way for the new airport, which they named Moisant International Airport, now named Louis Armstrong International. Thankfully they are building a new airport, as the current one is an eyesore.

I would prefer that the next UND President be a guy who looks at this job as his final destination job. Not someone who looks a this job as a stepping stone or one that looks at like "well I am going to do this job for 5-6 years and retire". I want someone who will be committed to UND long term, like Tom Clifford was. This may be where someone like Ray Purpur has a leg up.

I would guess this guy.

Since, we have a rather large family, we don't fit well in hotel rooms. A couple of years ago we were attending a wedding in St. Paul and found it much cheaper to rent a house than stay in a hotel. We found the house on VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner). St. Paul had quite a few to choose from. We were going to visit Grand Forks over Christmas, so I checked to see if Grand Forks had any VRBO options. We lucked out. Grand Forks has one. It fit us perfectly and had a garage, which is great in the winter when you are driving up from Florida. If you are heading to GF and need a little room to spread out, I recommend checking this out.

I was here first.

Chickenhawk makes me think of an episode of Hogan's Heroes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

For the record, I didn't saying I was booing the nickname. I am saying I would not ask someone to leave because they don't support it. I said I don't like the name. If you look back thru some the nickname threads, there were a lot of names I could support. The one that was "chosen" was not one of them. It is bland and failed to meet the criteria. The process failed, because the leadership (Kelley) failed.

I don't like the Fighting Hawks name, so I am to "get out"? And they are not booing their team. They are booing a nickname that met none of the critria of the selection committee.

This piece was written in Canada a few years ago, but seems to fit here..... Another university president without a Ph.D.

Utterly amazing.

Done! Still interlocked, but different.

https://sayanythingblog.com/entry/fighting-hawks/ l

New logo. And just keep it North Dakota.

The push to eradicate 'offensive' nicknames

I was in Grand Forks last week and didn't find anyone who likes the new nickname. I did find a lot of people who liked the idea of no nickname and just be known as North Dakota. Unfortunately, that option was removed twice. UND will have an interim president next month who is a politician. Politicians are known for working behind the scenes to get things done for their constituents (aka big dollar folks). Perhaps there is something in the works. One can only hope, after the debacle that we have seen this year.

Clearly the new nickname is not a hit at UND, at least not yet. Boos at hockey games, stakeholders not donating, etc. A few months back President Kelley said he would consider having no nickname, which we all know was lip service. I think no nickname would have won over the lack of good choices that we ended up with. Kelley is gone next month. Maybe either the interim president or the new president will listen to the stakeholders in the University rather than those who thought Hawks was a cool acronym and drop the Hawks name and the travesty we just went through. For those who say that UND has to pick a new nickname to be NCAA compliant, that has been fulfilled. UND had a vote a transitioned to a new nickname and logo. There was no requirement on how long the new nickname had to stay. For those who say what about the new logo aspect of the settlement. UND changed the interlocking ND a few years back to differentiate it from Notre Dame's logo. If you want a new logo, I have advocated a few times using a North arrow through the interlocking ND (see my avatar). And no a North arrow is not Native American imagery. It is used on maps throughout the world. Back in 2004 Marquette did something similar when the Board of Trustees decided to change the name from Warriors to Gold. There was a backlash and they had to have another series of votes, which is how they ended up with another rather bland name, Golden Eagles. Drop the Fighting Hawks name and just leave it at North Dakota.

I saw in one of the threads on AGS that UND gets the recruiting leftovers from NDSU, SDSU and UNI. Thanks so much for Santiago. I'm sure that none of y'all want him.

I haven't studied this whole issue or read all of the posts, but agree that UND got hosed. It is the how that has me thinking. I read that UND submitted a nice bid to host. I don't know how all of this works, but is it possinle that UND outbid some other schools upsetting the apple cart? And rather than have a fight about who hosts, they decided it best to keep UND on the outside and not have the hosting issue? Just kicking it out there.

Here come your "Fighting Hawkys". Let's play Fighting Hawky! The ignorant would say that is redundant.

Has anyone seen the other logo mentioned in the GFH piece?

Final nickname vote to begin with no word on choosing a logo Looks like the GFH took care of that...

Yes, that is why political campaigns never work. Wait, that is wrong. Campaigns do make people think and potentially change their vote.

Someone needs to put all of this in the GF Herald, Fargo Forum and the Dakota Student. And there also needs to be something in there about the "Hawk" logo that is being passed around as not being reality.