darell1976

Like Dave St. Peter said, "Somewhere along the line ... some people connected support of 'North Dakota' with a protest vote over the 'Fighting Sioux' nickname going away," St. Peter said in an interview Wednesday morning. " 'If you were for North Dakota, you were trying to hang on to Fighting Sioux.' Some people even suggested that if we didn't have a new nickname, 'Fighting Sioux' would come back. That was certainly not the motivation for me.” http://m.startribune.com/north-dakota-nickname-committee-eliminates-no-nickname-option-for-und/318111091/

By keeping the small Fighting Hawk group even smaller? They don’t want them as a fan base. Keeping the words North Dakota is like making the name, no nickname. So they are pleasing 2 groups the no nickname group and the Sioux Forever group which is all one big group.

Only Denver has words with no logo at center court in the SL, everyone else has a logo. South Dakota has both a logo with South Dakota around it.

^^^^^^^THIS!!!

GF Central Knights was voted on 24 years ago. I was proud to be part of that process to name the school that will last forever. It sucked when they got rid of Redskins and I graduated as a Maroon and Grey because of the cooling off period, but now Knights is cemented into the hearts and minds of GF and people playing GFC. There are no Redskin Forever chants, no booing of the Knights name, just love and support of a school.

Even though the president of the school, the AD, 3 head coaches want the logo on it to help with the game atmosphere, recruiting, etc. it all doesn’t matter because the poor FSF snowflakes may get butthurt over a little Hawk invading their safespace. Pathetic!!

Bull Sh*t!! UND hasn’t been the Sioux in 6 years, but the REA doesn’t want to offend the fans holding on to that name so to appease them they go with the bland North Dakota on the ice. If they were going any slower they would be going backwards. How long in your opinion is the right time to go slow enough and start putting the logo on the center ice/court? 5 years, 20 years?

That’s like saying we would use the Hawk logo but don’t have the stencil yet. They are buying time until 2030.

How does it look to new donors and new customers not to mention the new recruits. The email said all the coaches in the Betty want the logo on center court, so obviously their programs don’t matter? Hockey only wins again.

So in 2030 are the donors going to stop when a Hawk is on the building and ice? I think we heard that song and dance before.

Alerus will have new turf when we join the MVFC in 2020 then we can see if a logo goes on it, remember the Alerus has Hawk logos inside and outside the building, where are the Hawk logos at the Ralph besides the jerseys?

So they can have the logo on the ice in Fargo and Sioux Falls but not the REA because they don’t want to piss of the Fighting Sioux Forever fans. 12 years will come up quick and Jodi and his group will be out of a job, and the Hawk logo will be on the ice and court where it belongs.

But there was no public input on the logo. They had focus groups to narrow it down, who were these people in the group and what were the other choices. The only part of the process without a vote of at least the students, seems to be the biggest criticism.

For the near future we are.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/education/4046532-schafer-und-logo-development-down-two-options UND's Fighting Hawks athletic logo design is down to two options, and it's unknown to the public what they look like. Interim President Ed Schafer said seven or eight semi-final concepts have been narrowed to two after several recent focus groups. The next step is deciding the appropriate time to release the final logo.

I am sure a lot of people would be curious on the other submissions by SME.

No one else had a say on the logo, SME came out with 3 logos which no one else saw and Ed picked which one “he” liked best. https://www.google.com/amp/www.wdaz.com/news/4064977-schafer-fighting-hawks-logo-not-debate%3famp

I liked picking different college players on DK, then it vanished. At least we weren't a state where DK was banned, I think NY and or NJ was.

Did UND need a new basketball arena? Was the Hyslop in bad shape, also isn't the capacity of the Betty less than what the Hyslop was?

At least a board is picking from multiple logos, unlike what Ed Schafer did.

Seems like the SL knows how to do tournaments better, they just have a hard time keeping teams.

Does this mean DraftKings can do college basketball/football contests and not just pros?

Fixed

Don’t forget the hundreds on social media who somehow got lost of the way to the Arena and never made it to a game.

And majority always rules...Fighting Sioux Forever.