NoiseInsideMyHead
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So are the students going to riot after they find out we can't use the Blackhawks hawk logo?
Not sure that UND wants or needs students who would honestly believe that to have been the case. Lux et Lex et Gullibility?
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Doesn't help that many truly believe they will get a Sioux type logo from it.
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?
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Fighting Hawks huh.....well you will be right there with Southeast Mo, Miami Oh,Louisiana Monroe's of the world. Glad it's not my team....boring.
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?
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Here's my question, if Fighting Hawks is so bad, why did it win the last two nickname votes? Just throwing it out there.
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.
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I will vote for Roughriders. The Fighting Hawks name, although I could live with it, is something chosen by a
consultantcommittee and thepresidentvoters. I want something unique. Hawks is not unique.Either way, I support the university and its athletic teams.
FYP.
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Let's cut thru the pollyanna BS......NO.....and I mean no Hawks logo they can come up with will be "cool" or "unique".
Put down the pitcher of Kool-Aid.
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Do you suppose a creative mind out there can find a logo for Fighting Hawks that doesn't involve a bird?
A soldier would do nicely.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hawk?s=t
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But I guess Hawks is edgy?
Pick an old guy with COPD as your mascot, call him Loogie, and yes...yes, it is.
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3rd star to the league office for the clutch suspension.
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Fire Berry rolls of the tongue better (I am in no way saying Berry is a bad coach or that the season is over, just like "Fire Berry" as it sounds better to say.
I was going for Schlossman.
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I wonder if the article in the Herald about how down and out the Badger program is was ill-advised?
Fire Brad.
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I think I can safely say that none of us were expecting this.
I don't know. Somebody called it a trap game on here the other day and was promptly rebuked.
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4 lower bowel tickes for Friday v UW
Nice commentary on the state of Wisconsin hockey.
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Do you watch college sports?
That should scare teams into keeping their names. Addidas design team is terrible. It's almost like a threat.
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.
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That should scare teams into keeping their names. Addidas design team is terrible. It's almost like a threat.
Examples? And you can't just point to team uni's unless you can show that the team wasn't involved in the design.
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That has implications for the airport's infrastructure. Allegiant Air wasn't flying out of Grand Forks when the new terminal was designed, and Delta Air Lines is now shifting to larger aircraft, Crystal said.
"So we have a lot of congestion on the apron when those aircraft are here, and it's very difficult for them to maneuver," she said
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?
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It's Tomeks net when he's back.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, it appears I was sort of correct. The Crue and Alice Cooper are coming to the Al...not in July, but in December. Another fairly big show for the Al which is nice to see.
Bump, and bumped. The Crue has bid adieu.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/3872748-motley-crue-concert-grand-forks-canceled
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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.)
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I'm no fan of Rough Riders, but if the SEC can successfully market 3 Tigers and 2 Bulldogs, then I'm guessing UND could figure out how to differentiate itself from a CFL team in Saskatchewan, a local high school, and a minor league hockey team in Iowa.
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.
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you're missing the point. 20% more voters would need to change their vote to one of the top two if the rules and integrity of the process was followed. now, they don't.
But everybody gets to vote again. Nobody is harmed.
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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.