NoiseInsideMyHead

Doesn't say much for UND and the caliber of the people it attracts (and educates). But it certainly does make it easy to shrug your shoulders and say that those folks deserve whatever is coming their way.

Not sure that UND wants or needs students who would honestly believe that to have been the case. Lux et Lex et Gullibility?

Like all of you, I have seen the litany of anecdotal 'evidence' about this, but I am not convinced. Any remotely informed voter would know that logos are not yet on the table, and to buy into this line of thinking would call into question the baseline intelligence of an insane number of your peers (students, alumni, etc.). Is anyone prepared to admit that the UND community is collectively that stupid?

Don't forget that none of this was of the fans' making. And lightning seldom strikes twice. A proud nickname and tradition are almost impossible to duplicate. Besides, just how exciting is your team's name that you feel so empowered to criticize?

And would anyone have guessed the level of disconnect between this site and the UND community at large? Posters on here tend to be a zealous lot, naturally, but I am surprised how little predictive value these discussions have had. Maybe we sports fans are truly on the fringe.

FYP.

A soldier would do nicely. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hawk?s=t

Pick an old guy with COPD as your mascot, call him Loogie, and yes...yes, it is.

3rd star to the league office for the clutch suspension.

I was going for Schlossman.

Fire Brad.

I don't know. Somebody called it a trap game on here the other day and was promptly rebuked.

Nice commentary on the state of Wisconsin hockey.

I'm going to assume that reply was directed at me. Yes, I do watch college sports. And while I agree that there are some shite examples out there of Adidas uni's, I have no way of knowing whether those are the result of Adidas' bad design choices, or the school simply having way too much input in the process. Short of seeing what Adidas considers their in-house, team design portfolio, I am reluctant to accept your bare assertion that they are "terrible." Heck, you may be right, I just want to see for myself.

Examples? And you can't just point to team uni's unless you can show that the team wasn't involved in the design.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/business/3873279-planning-ahead-grand-forks-airport-preparing-next-20-years If you're telling me that Allegiant's occasional flights and Delta's CRJ-900s are creating unanticipated "congestion" that will require significant improvements at a brand new airport terminal that isn't yet 5 years old, the designers and planners should be strung up and publicly flogged on principle alone. How is that even possible? They had one job, with just two gates. I'm not saying that we should be configured for A380's, but to build a terminal with an apron that gets 'congested' within 5 years with relatively small aircraft is asinine. How are we ever going to get back to having two carriers?

Perhaps, but how much rope do you give the untested "star" when you have a hot backup? I suspect that people will be calling for the hook as soon as Tomek has a bad period, let alone a game or weekend. Nice problem to have, naturally, but still a sticky coaching dilemma.

I'd be feeling pretty good right now if I was a student FB fan...there must be only like 5-10 people who are eligible for the $1,000 in Bubba Bucks in two weeks. On the other hand, think of today's crowd had the Bubba Bucks promotion not been in place.

Hall of Fame ceremony. PA guy just butchered "posthumously." Where do they find these people? Do they rehearse? It sounded like he hadn't even seen the script until just then. UND needs to act big time if it wants to be big time.

Bump, and bumped. The Crue has bid adieu. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/3872748-motley-crue-concert-grand-forks-canceled

Yet another poster has played the "UND will lose a lot of alumni donations" card on a nickname thread. Not that we'll ever know for sure, but I would be interested in seeing if anybody here has actually based a donation decision on the nickname, or plans to. (First poll I've created, so I hope it works.)

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/3871006-former-bismarck-mayor-registers-words-trademarks-stop-und-nickname-vote Upper. Upper!

Differentiate? Incrementally, perhaps. But there's a lot of "noise" out there, and anything less than a unique name or concept presents problems. Add up all of Cedar Rapids' logos, all of Saskatchewan's logos, all of Frisco's logos, subtract those from the universe of ideas, and that's your starting point for Rough Riders. Hawks is obviously much worse, as you're relegated to the bird world. Collegiate nicknames are often decades old. I doubt that a big time SEC power would choose Bulldogs or Tigers if it was starting from scratch in 2015 with what licensing has become. It's easy to count up the number of instances of nickname overlap in sports and say "we can make it work"; what is hard is trying to figure out whether there is a better way to go. No easy answers, but the committee painted UND into some corners.

But everybody gets to vote again. Nobody is harmed.