NoiseInsideMyHead

No offense to anyone, but aren't college hockey boards just about the lowest of the low hanging fruit on the internet? Kind of like a gang of heavily armed robbers targeting $1.00 stores?

That particular microphone would curiously stop working or worse, malfunction, thereby electrocuting the person asking the question.

Don't know why I never noticed it before..."Here come your University of North Dakota Spearfishing Yellow Snakes"! Is it too late to suggest a new name?

Needs more up votes.

Selling, which itself keeps the trademark alive, costs the University nothing. Instead, selling earns the University a royalty.

Countless sports franchises successfully market retro names, logos, and gear simultaneously with their current brand. In fact, with some teams (looking at you, MLB), I defy anyone to tell the old from the new. Why so little faith in UND?

If they want to be able to enforce the trademark against the most likely sources of infringement (i.e., apparel, because that's what people want and that's what sells), it would be best to be using the trademark in that field, no?

Don't forget the multiple Targets, one of which even has an escalator just for carts.

I'm gonna miss those big birds flying low overhead. When all you have to look at are CRJs and a couple of Allegiant MD-whatevers, it's downright depressing.

Click bait for the Herald, newspaper revenues what they are.

But what is the relevance of any of that to the relationship between parent and child? The good parents are the ones that don't bring any of the marital baggage in. UND can still love the Hawks even if the Sioux are over at Christmas, Easter, and every other week during the summer.

How is this any different from marrying, having kids, divorcing, re-marrying, and having more kids? Not to say that some folks don't screw it up royally, but are you suggesting that it is completely impossible to be a loving parent to both sets of kids?

Hmmm...of all the places for a grass-roots movement in support of the Fighting Hawks, I figured Denver would be high on the list.

Lots of upholstery-clad fans in Omaha.

http://www.fansedge.com/Illinois_Fighting_Illini_Mens

If by "run of the mill" you mean collegiate athletic logos, then yeah. Because that's what they are, collegiate athletic logos. Yes, friends, collegiate athletic logos tend to look an awful lot like collegiate athletic logos. And everyone needs to brace themselves because UND is going to get…a collegiate athletic logo. Because that's what UND asked for and that's what UND needs, a collegiate athletic logo. I am worried that too many people here honestly believe that lightning can strike twice. It can't. No big city design firm can do it, no student or local can do it, and not even Ben Brien can do it. Even if somebody -- anybody -- COULD do something that is truly great, we might not even realize it for a while, because the bar has been set too high, and people have unrealistic expectations. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride as a UND fan/alum/supporter, because if you are looking only at the next UND logo with one eye trained on the last, you almost certainly won't like the view.

One tough league.

Safe bet, as the logo itself won't be unwrapped until May at the earliest, but it's a long season. Would you wager the same that new gear won't make an appearance some time before it's over?

Probably sooner than you think. The University will of course claim that cost and lead time are both critical factors, but I predict that if they can come up with a decent graphic identity (primary/secondary logos, typeface), then money and a willing and able manufacturer will both miraculously be found in short order. Anything less than a winning look in the minds of a few power brokers, and the budget cuts will turn out 'far worse than expected,' causing the athletic department to make some 'difficult choices' that 'prolong the useable life of existing inventory' and, regrettably, 'defer implementation.' Kind of a nice position where the coaches and leadership have veto power courtesy of the sluggish economy. But even that will be short-lived, unless for some reason they really stocked up on "North Dakota" sweaters.

They're ba-ack. http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/3943998-join-sports-chat-herald-reporters-starting-230-pm

Sold stuff left behind by Kelleys.

When a straight hawk has way too much abstractness for one gender, he is a Fighting Hawk.

Not when the conference they are attending is right there at the pricey hotel, and not when the meal per diem is pre-established. Budget lodging + cab fare is still cheaper than the urban hotel convention center, but employers generally don't push it. An employee on per diem (e.g., $X for breakfast, $XX for lunch, $XXX for dinner) who eats on the cheap simply pockets the difference. Bottom line is that employers often pay REGARDLESS of whether the employees are frugal and whether there were opportunities for savings. Nothing made up about that.

A recap: Now, if I were a betting man...

What others - especially those NOT operating under the maligned NDUS policy - may have done is completely irrelevant to the discussion. If you look hard enough, you'll find someone who backpacked to the coast and hitched a ride on a tramp steamer to India. Some people are cheap; some are just naturally humble; some recognize that there are can be value in upgrading goods and services. The worst are the ones who will forego niceties and then spend the rest of their lives boasting about it and judging others. Some people make only one trip at an all you can eat buffet. Maybe they weren't hungry, or they would have been embarrassed or ashamed. Does that make everyone else a glutton? What if the two-tripper didn't like to carry as much on his plate, or hadn't eaten all day, or all week? Maybe the three-tripper wanted to try different entrees, or sides. Bottom line, they all paid the same admission, under the same rules, and management left the choice up to them.