How appropriate...I can practically hear the Big Top music already - both with Ringling Brothers AND the nickname selection process.
Also, FWIW, can we PLEASE stop interjecting the "why do we have to pick a new nickname?" conversation into these threads on new nicknames? I'm not opposed to staying North Dakota but I do like seeing and hearing what nicknames people actually come up with on their own - good or bad.
That's the fear of the NCAA, darell - thousands of t-shirts and jerseys around the town and campus years after the name is changed.
If that trademark expired at midnight tonight, I'd be opening a Sioux screen-printing/jersey shop in Fargo or Grand Forks by 8:00am tomorrow morning.
Oh, no, no, no. They don't want 10,000 Fighting Sioux license plates on cars/trucks throughout the state. What they want is to bust out 20-30 vintage logo t-shirts at Scheels every 5-6 years and sell 'em for $50 each.
I like the concept and the NODAKS jerseys are a great throwback, but it'll take about .6 seconds for NDSU or Minnesota to come up with NODIKS t-shirts, signs, or cheers.