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agreed...seems like minny people/students love north stars (no malice involved just slightly biased), fargo people love sundogs (much malice involved with wanting the worst possible nickname), and north dakota students/people like roughriders???

what most people mean about the consultants is the money we are paying them to forward the "insert color" and hawks nickname when the committee could have and should have been formed with non-paid people like lowell and karl and the such...the consultants have brought little to this process to validate their pay...

but it did give you a small sample size of how he sees things in this mean mean world that all full of angry mean people hurting everyone else feelings....sundogs makes him smile and warm

is it unique to north dakota? can we all rally around it? .....

is it just me or do i find it very offensive that this consulting group is telling US that our award that we give to the best north dakota citizens is offensive??? i think they just wanna keep on keeping on with the "insert school color" and add hawk formula that has made them big money because of the pc police....

could someone look up the isp of the three losers who voted for sundogs and find out who they are??? probably karl g, karl g's wife, and karl g's kid???

if you look at my avatar and thing below it i was all forthe "fighting norse" for one bc it would be a thumb in the nose of the pc crowd to name our new nickname after the nordic people aroudn here and that it would have a cool side profile of a norse warrior...if roughriders wins have bb do a side profile of teddy and put riders above it and you have the old/new hockey jersey that everyone loved....

must be a great gig for these consultants....get hired by a school to replace a name...choose the primary color of the color add the word Hawk to it and charge about 100K...

for one i hope roughriders wins and two i hope its a no brainer that bb is chosen to do the new new logo...and not one that looks like a cartoon of teddy but something along the line of the old/new sioux logo he did a decade ago that is sharp, classy, fierce, and timeless

i guess it comes down to do we name the oldest, largest, flagship university in North Dakota one of OUR nicknames or do we name it after a rival to the east...seems pretty obvious to me?

they are using the advanced stableford scoring system???

so roughriders has the highest score so that means it will be eliminated???

yes karl g...you are now officially a !@#!$! “I kind of like the ‘Spirit,’ as kind of the spirit of North Dakota,” Committee Chairman and UND alumnus Karl Goehring said. “It just sticks out a little bit to me."

what's funny is that the majority of people i talk to about hak say he had is time/opportunity and its time for someone else to try their style...yes he won a lot but still this aint jv hockey we are talking about here...

greg johnson-before my time parise-gave it everything he had on every shift greene-have some mutual friends...they say one of the nicest guys you could meet toews-until he brings the cup back to gf and rea the jury is out on him

no but he does like to use "do you know who i am" at the altru er when waiting in line....

it's bad enough that hak is going to philly where riping coaches is what they do but to think that hak won't have an "x" on his back by opposing coaches that worked their way up from the echl, ahl, and then to assistants for many many years you are delusional...this is going to look pretty tame if hak goes to phily and becomes "a good coach."

of the four major sports winning 16 games in the nhl postseason is the toughest accomplishment there is.....sorry phil.

i guess this little fluff piece written by the philly writer rubbed me the wrong way...hak's legacy will not a legendary legacy like the previous couple of coaches bc of the 1000 pound gorilla in the room that the beat writer briefly mentioned in his article....

yet somehow calipari somehow figured it out in 2012 and won the whole damn thing....if hak had one it even in 2005 we wouldn't be having this conversation....much less in 2012 with 11 seniors

so... 4 straight wins in college (highest budget in d1 so you are the big dog) is easier/harder than 16 wins in the postseason aginst dogs that are just as big or bigger (ny rangers, red wings, maple leafs)

was hak hired "to be a good coach" or to win the cup???

i guess im still a little puzzled about them hiring him still...if hak couldn't figure out a way to win four games how the hell do you think he is gonna figure out a way to win 16??? and on top of that he aint going against michigan tech, st lawrence, niagra, or penn state anymore!!

pretty sure that any of the above would have won a national title at und given the same tools and resources hak was given over and 11 year span...

what i'm saying is that some people get a little soft when the money comes rolling in and they get lazy...