petey23

I agree....kind of. Move the "Fighting" off of the Hawks and onto Nodaks. Replace it with Green or White or Prairie, cut roughriders and vote....OK, I know you can't cut roughriders but I would be fine with either of the other 2.

Could be many reasons. Some kids develop later....see Ladue, Paul Several NHL players and current D1 College Kids went through the NAHL. Some spent there junior careers there, some moved "up" to USHL. A lot of kids choose to play there, especially if they are maybe a late developer or realize they are going to spend 2-3 years in Juniors in all likelihood. A good example would be Taylor Richart who is a senior at Miami.(friends with the family and have know Taylor since he was about 4 or 5). He played at Blaine and was a bit undersized coming out of high school he tried out for the Force his first year out of High School and had the opportunity to stay with them and he would have probably been in the 6th to 8th defensemen role for them that season. He also had tryout with Aberdeen in the NAHL and chose to go that route. He ended up playing on their top D pairing and getting plenty of time on power play and penalty kill. Played a top 4 role for the Force the following season and had a couple offers(Air Force and a couple Eastern Ivy League schools as he is a good student) and was planning on playing a 3rd year of juniors until Miami offered him after a summer showcase.

I like the logo......but it would be an "expensive" logo for most apparel---expensive to produce and that makes it expensive to buy.

Another way to look at it would be that 72% of the people didn't bother to vote since their selection was eliminated pre-vote.

Wait. What? I thought they were all Team Nodak now? it really is hard to keep track

Agree. I said when the Big 10 was formed for hockey that if in the next 4-5 years it doesn't result in the addition of several additional programs it will have been terrible for all of college .................................as opposed to those who declared immediately that it wrecked college hockey.

75% of the people could say that about any of the selections.

I know you don't know much about college hockey so I'll help you out. There are 6 conferences in college hockey. The Big 10 was the 5th best conference of these 6 last season and while this season has to play out the best they could probably hope for would be to move past the WCHA for 4th.

Well, these Vermont announcers would go with Nodak Nodaks if we had the name in place.

Well they are actually shortening North Dakota to Nodak and/or reading the abbreviation off the scoreboard rather than using it as a nickname.

Actually the reason Kelley didn't put North Dakota back on the ballot is because anyone with any awareness of reality knows that it would have easily won. I don't have a big problem with it not being on the ballot just wish they would have had the stones to announce this decision months before they did and explained the reasoning.....but anyone who thinks North Dakota wouldn't have won is being disingenuous at best or is completely tuned out to the surrounding world at worst in which case you may be qualified to be a President of a University(see Kelley, Robert and Bresciani, Dean)

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I don't know if these numbers are as large as you think they are? For example. In the years leading up to UND losing the Fighting Sioux name, UND was receiving about $280,000/year from the sale of licensed apparel and gear. When it became apparent that the name was going away, these numbers jumped to $624,000(2011), $606,000(2012), and $520,000(2013). I would guess that in the first year of a new logo/name that UND could expect to maybe see $300,000 but after that I would imagine the money from licensing will drop down well below the $200,000/year mark. As a point of reference, another school just 70 miles away was receiving about $140,000/year from the sale of licensed apparel and gear until they had some incredible success on the football field and with a few of their other sports and spiked to $418,000 in 2013 and $488,000 in 2014.

UND grinds out some yards and moves the ball to take a 16-10 lead into halftime. Montana sells out to stop the run in the second half daring us to throw the ball. Offense goes 3 and out 5 or 6 times and the defense wears down and Montana wins 27-16......stop me if you have heard this before. This is not a shot at our team or the job Bubba is doing......it is just where we are right now at this stage of a total rebuild.

Am proud to say that this reference goes completely over my head.....have no idea what Hogwarts is.

Well I have officially voted. I went with what I thought was the second best name available as the far and away best name is already in use in another form by our neighbors to the East.

Well you could probably shut the average "terd" fan down pretty quickly. Just inquire as to the sexual proclivities of their mascot ........not that there's anything wrong with that.

Maybe you should tell him to go to his own board.

haven't you been paying attention? That is exactly how this works. If I don't want a new name chosen from these 5 it has to be that I want Fighting Sioux back and no name would ever be good enough for me even though that is completely inaccurate. People need to remember that message boards like this one are a tiny representation of the real world outside. I was back at homecoming and have been to all the football games and as some one who was in a house while in college and has remained pretty active in attending UND events(mostly sports) both home and away over the last 25 years or so I have had opportunity to meet and interact with many fellow alum and of the 150-200 I run into or see on a regular basis it is accurate to say that a good 90% of them were probably in favor of going forward with no name for now and of that 90% there are probably 2% who actually think that the Sioux name has a chance to return.

Like I said. anyone who has taken a freshmen marketing class would have handled this better than President Kelley. The fact that there wasn't potential logos and branding and marketing plans when it got down to 10-12 names as absolutely backwards.

I think this will happen " revisit the decision and perhaps decide it was time for a new nickname in 10 years." no matter which way this ends up. Bottom line is, of the 5 selections remaining there isn't one that is worthy of the University of North Dakota.

this info isn't hard to find.

I'll probably vote in the next day or to and I couldn't care less about the new name. Just want to make sure it's not Sun Dogs. But I certainly have no investment in a name that is going to be a short term solution because the permanent name solution whatever it was or is was not in the final 5.

There administration has at times over the years tried and they received pretty major backlash.