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this is a UND hockey message board. What have you done for us lately?

I give you credit, you stick with your script Typically, yes, but there are times on the prairie when you need to toast the sunset and a good day At least you tried to reason it out. :-)

moving this to the tickets forum where it belongs

Gotta say I'm disappointed in you

Let me know what gear I would buy. I drive a Subaru. In case it's helpful I pheasant hunt out of it, trained my own dog, grew up in a small SD farming community and am no stranger to picking rocks and throwing bales. I built my own smoker, love David Allen Coe,George Jones and God, can butcher my own deer and drink my scotch out of the bottle (sometimes).

Been thinking of that for a while and think it could work, and completely agree that could work for Nodaks too. In fact, I think it's a pretty good way to go calling Bennett Brien

if RR, I like the idea of Teddy-less logos. Not that I have anything against Teddy, but I prefer that this evoke the image of a roughrider in general, rather than 1 man. Someone else said it and I agree, Teddy-like logos look cartoonish. I think more general associations lead to better logo opportunities

Oh cool, we live in Hogwarts!

Wisdom has no place on message boards and twitter. There must be something in the forum rules somewhere.....

I think that about sums it up. I like to watch UND hockey so I'm not that particular about the venue. I do think it would be best if they can fix the on-ice issues. And I am disappointed that these facility upgrades won't be happening for a couple of years. That sucks. But it's still worth going to watch UND hockey.

This is an emotional topic and an emotional time. Let's stay away from name calling.

I'm not sure that he needs to have an opinion on that nickname. I don't believe his point was that Roughriders was offensive and shouldn't be chosen. I believe his point was that UND has just undergone a very long and painful process to transition away from Fighting Sioux to another nickname, and would it be the wisest to transition to a nickname that the same groups might decide to protest again? I think his point was that he didn't think that was the best course for UND, not that the nickname itself was offensive.

Well stated

I get you on that. But I still think we can own it, and work with it. As for logos, one of the interesting things about Nodaks is it opens up the possibilities of a logo. If you pick an animal, you pretty much know what your logo is going to be. Some version of that animal. Some are good, some not so much. With Nodaks, your logo could be the outline of the state of ND. It could be a stalk of wheat, an oil derrick, a plow, a scythe, a censor bar!, or a combo of a few items that portray an image of ND.

Why is Nodaks so much different than "Canucks"?

That is who he covers. Miller covers football, etc. The other reporters may be following up with those sports. Who knows. He's reaching out to those he has a rapport with and who will likely be willing to share their opinion with him. I think it would be good to get opinions from other sports, and I also think it would be interesting to know if these opinions would be different from sport to sport, and if so, why. I'm not sure they would be different....why would opinions differ by sport? But would be interesting to see.

I was a Roughrider's vote but Nodaks ran a very close 2nd of late. Hearing Nodak is the choice of Berry and the players was enough to push me over to vote for Nodaks in the end. It's a little dorky, but it could be "our" dorky, and it is unique. The big key for me is there is tradition involved in this selection, and it is unique to Grand Forks. In the end, I'm comfortable with it.

If they ever even get to doing the thing

A little hard to tell from the video but it kind of looks like he drives the shoulder up and into the guy's chin. If so that's a good call. From seeing the video the NHL released when suspending Raffi Torres this looks just like some of the hits Raffi was laying on guys.

think you about summed it up

feeling some gravity there myself. Not decided yet. Still really like Roughriders.

Good to have some eyes on site to give us a scouting report. Thanks, Siouxman. On another note, don't have too many at happy hour to make it to the game!

thank you!

I think Bucky's problem is less the Big10 and more Eaves