UNDBIZ

Perhaps the Green North Dakota Hawk-Riders

In Higher Ed, the purpose of a consultant is to provide cover to the administrators, not to actually come up with good ideas.

Already planning ahead for corporate sponsorship. Good thinking

If Sundogs was chosen and Phil Jackson donated a big chunk of change, resulting in Phil Jackson Sundogs Arena.... would Sundogs be a noun or a verb?

I can understand wanting to leave ND, but to leave it for WYO? Ooftas. At least he'll be closer to Colorado, I guess.....

Guessing it'll be similar to Dickinson State's blue hawks

UND fan should be put in quotes when referring to gfhockey.....

Thought he might fall over rounding third but he held on....

CC is a pretty good school....

Word is UND had the interlocking ND before Notre Dame......

Manbearpig is from the show South Park. It's half man half bear and half pig. Al Gore is trying to destroy it (global warming parody).

Don't know if anyone else has noticed the Fargo forum poll, but Green Hawks is popular in that one. Pretty scary. http://www.inforum.com/basic-page/3763106-inforum-und-nickname-challenge-20

Agreed. The logos might have a bit too much going on right now, but they could be cleaned up some. I'd also suggest right now that if Roughriders is selected that we don't have "Lady Roughriders" for the women's teams. It'll inevitably be shortened to Lady Riders by someone and then we'll have a big twitter deal on how sexist the school is.

Looks like they've got a few logos:

http://news.yahoo.com/university-north-carolina-sanctioned-amid-academic-fraud-scandal-171941357--nfl.html UNC put on probation by accrediting commission, which is actually about as crazy as the accrediting agencies get. Will the NCAA do anything to them? (or have they and I just forgot what measly punishment they received?)

Fighting Green - That's two adjectives describing nothing. Just awful, don't know why it's still on the list (or how it was even suggested by someone in the first place). Fighting Hawks - Sounds awful. Desperate attempt to hold onto "Fighting" by throwing it together with the generic name that consultants always seem to push. Green Hawks - Dumb. There's no such thing as a green hawk. Or are we talking about environmentally friendly hawks? Perhaps the logo can be a hawk carrying a plastic bottle towards a recycling bin. Thunder Hawks - Least terrible of the 4, but still pretty bad. In summary, I'd rather just be "Hawks" than have it paired with any of the awful adjectives they chose. These 4, along with pride (setting ourselves up here), blaze (ok Cheech), spirit (what?), sundogs (well at least we can just steal Hawaii's rainbow logo and save some money), and force (Fargo?) should not make the final ballot.

And there will continue to be national stories of how racist UND is when young people from other cities and schools wear Siouxperdrunk shirts out boozing.....

If North Stars was to be chosen we just need to make sure the extra North is dropped for the actual implementation. The Dakota North Stars. Call your legislator.

Well I would remove the frilly lace around the edges anyway....

I just showed you a green and white star. Looks fine. Those other names are so bad I'm not going to spend any time trying to find a workable logo for them.

Eff em.

I'm not trying to argue in favor of those names, as I don't like them, but have you looked at the Sioux logo recently? Not much green there, mostly brown, black, and white. I guess I wouldn't have a problem with a primarily silver star (I wouldn't have a problem with the color that is, I'd be somewhat disappointed in the name), if that was the choice.

The Ben Brien Sioux logo has red, green, yellow, black, white, and brown in it.

He's the only one that appears to care that they're losing.

So not quite the same level of legal backing as ladybugs for state insect then..... Edit: An agreed-upon, single, official state nickname would be found here: http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t54c02.pdf?20150610141556 ...... if it existed.