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Yeah, and Illinois took the Bison lightly to begin with and then took over when they realized they could lose the game. If they start out hard, they blow the bison out.

No doubt they all have some pretty good skill. Just saying unless you are really elite, it might be better to hold off on projecting someone until they have faced stiffer competition because let's face it, UND can get a lot of recruits that develop later because of their name in the college hockey world and facilities. Cakebread produced early on in his USHL career, but not so much later. Even though I understand why, most people have written off Cakebread, and he is even younger than Bowen. I will always be in favor of having a little flexibility to bring in the late developing player, transfer, or mind changers, like Gaudreau, Pecararo, or Conway, even though I don't always like the circumstances involved in them "changing their mind".

Dixon Bowen isn't exactly lighting up the scoreboard in that league, and he is older than Cakebread. That said, some guys are going to be more role players both in the BCHL and at the next level. That is what I expect Bowen will be. Remember after the Minnesota High School Hockey tournament a year or so ago how many were imploring the coaches to sign three or four players from EGF? Dominating at the High School level is far different from the BCHL and even more so the USHL. I think the coaches are wise to hold off in a lot of cases because there are a lot of good players that become available that develop later. Tucker Poolman and Johnny Simonson come to mind.

He should be able to gauge interest by all the home games this year. I would say whatever we got last home game, add 1000 fans to that.

It makes it a lot easier to bid when you can actually get enough fans for the bid to be borderline break even.

Wouldn't that be a perfect scenario for most of the people here that don't think any of the choices are good? We can go down this path for a few years, then start fresh when the protests come. Next time don't have PC representatives on the committee, and maybe we can narrow it down from the start with the stakeholders, with only unique names.

I overheard a girl in the Sioux Shop at the game last night pointing to a jersey and saying with delight "next year there is going to be a little birdie on this". Then she asked her boyfriend if he was going to vote and he said no. She said you have to vote. Would certainly be interesting to see all the demographics when all is said and done.

I just don't think that many more people will vote. Most are far beyond nickname fatigue, and the only way Hawks gets ousted is twofold, needing almost all Nodak supporters and a lot more voters this time around.

Yeah, out of all else that went on, I was really impressed with that line. While JJ hasn't scored yet, I like how he uses his speed. He also seems to be very responsible defensively. It seemed like they played more than Simonson, Gersich and Wilkie, or maybe I just noticed them more.

I think the North Texas logo is a lot nicer than this one.

I said he was being disingenuous with his rant on Teddy Roosevelt, and it turns out he was.

But how ironic is it that the week of the Final Vote UND plays three "Hawk" teams!

... and I think Schlossman said that a couple other UND teams are playing the Skyhawks and Hawkeyes as well.

No North Dakota for Teddy Roosevelet = No Rough Riders. So I would say that is a big connection.

But the wing isn't shaped in the letter "U" in that one.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/education/3880986-final-nickname-vote-begin-no-word-choosing-logo What is this green logo with a "U" that is making the Internet rounds they wrote about?

ahh yes, Abe Lincoln... What were his thoughts on blacks and whites interacting.

Out of respect for those that are sick of the nickname debate, I left this out of the committed recruits thread. Does anybody else think the apparel is incredibly lame that these kids are wearing to their signings? Any nickname, except Sundogs, would improve on the plain look of the current apparel.

From interviews I've seen and things I've heard from when he was in Fargo, it seems he is a confidence goaltender. Obviously that isn't a lot to base an assumption like that after, but if that is the case, he could be really good when his confidence is up, or really off like you said when it isn't. It's safe to say that early on in both the Lake Superior game this year and last, he was getting his feet wet and wasn't super confident.

I think of Schlossman as young! Didn't realize it was that long.

Why doesn't it surprise me that this is contrary to your post on the other nickname thread. If it's all about what young people want, then it is that music.

I googled hawk logo images and out of a ton of them couldn't find any that seemed cool or worthy of UND. Hope they can use a swooping bird to fill in the "N" of ND, and make it a relevant logo. Just don't know if the consultants would take the time to differentiate it enough from the hundreds of stale images. Bennett Brien would at least care what he puts out for consumption.

What I can't understand is how people like Dave St. Peter and others let the consultant take over to the point where that was allowed to happen.

You might want to tell all the empty seats at sporting events that the University is for students.

I think it would take a monumental shift to overthrow Fighting Hawks now. If all the same people voted, and they all won't as some have stated, you would need to get just about every one of the Nodak votes, and that is not going to happen. The only hope would be to have a pretty big shift and have more people voting this time around, which unfortunately I don't think is in the cards either.