Siouxphan27

that's fine. You're entitled. My opinion is the committee blew it, and we're left grasping at straws to make connections between these name choices and our university.

I don't believe i'm on record supporting Abe Vigoda as the new UND Nickname. I believe I put that on here during a discussion awhile back about the name North Dakota Nokotas with Abe Vigoda as part of the mascot. Catchy. But, if Abe led a bunch of badass cowboys from New Mexico into war in Cuba that i'm unaware of, I guess he would qualify as a nickname choice. as I've said several times, if everyone is in love with Teddy Roosevelt to the point we would rather honor him than honor something homegrown about our state, then choose a nickname that links teddy to north Dakota. to me, the name roughriders screams of the old north Dakota nice attitude. UND roughriders motto: "We're too shy/modest to pump up our own heritage, so we stole yours instead. Bully!" Or, my second motto choice: There's an award. so there you have it, Casper.

Was he on his death bed? No, it was a regular bed. -Seinfeld

I have no idea. That's more of a question for the roughrider supporters who insist on revisionist history of the state of north Dakota, and attempt to include teddy roosevelt's roughriders as part of our heritage.

Lol lol lol. Yes, and you forgot the part about as he lay dying, his last words were. "In 2015 when the nickname vote occurs at UND because our country has been overrun by political correctness, be sure to vote for roughriders even though they were a group of men from the desert southwest and had nothing to do with North Dakota." -and then he breathed his last... well done Cratter, well done. Lol

I couldn't have been more pumped up listening to the game, how UND gutted out this win despite injuries, big mistakes, missed opportunities, and gifts given to Portland State. I get a chance to read these comments with the bickering and it's sort of depressing.... in the immortal words of Mike Tice... "calm down, calm down" .... and, "enjoy the season!" After hearing about how great Portland State was against the run, I was shocked with how well we moved the ball. And the defense played spectacularly with the exception of the first play from scrimmage. This team is young and improving. Some of the mistakes made Saturday are, in the words of Christian Ponder, "easily correctable." (last Viking reference I promise) hopefully the banged up can get back to full health quickly, and if so, the Sky's the limit for this group. 4-1 baby!!!!!!! see you on Saturday!!!!

this is exactly what I was going to post until I read all the other replies and saw you had already said it. does this guy have any family around looking after him? his bizarre antics definitely sound like dementia to me. or maybe it's just the ndsu degree talking.

whew! Well then it all makes sense! Lol

UND 21 PSU 16 Sweeney continues to pick up his game, and scores a 7 out of 10.

Yup. but then again, accuracy hasn't been important during this nickname process. If we went with a guy on a Nokota horse as the mascot for Roughriders, we would have a mythical North Dakotan riding a mythical horse. Seems fitting, in a total cluster kind of way.

very true! My comment was more in regard to what the mascot Would be- which would most likely be white guy teddy Roosevelt since he's the only shirttail relation that group of diverse men from the desert southwest have to North Dakota. :-)

Looks like they decided to pull his redshirt for the booking photo

I'm surprised UND White Guys didn't make the list.

that hawk with the headdress logo is too obvious and doesn't really look like a bird, but I think something could be done that resembles more of a hawk's natural look with feathers, that still reminds/resembles the shape and coloring of the old logo without the PCers crying "fowl". I don't think white guys toting guns on horseback will pass the PC test.

sorry- only experts allowed here. You'll have to post somewhere else. lol lol lol

I think everyone's rightfully a little concerned with the passing game. But I recall last year, before Studsrud got in there, we had more turnovers than Hometown Bakery.. He's not making costly mistakes and is a threat to run. We haven't lost a game yet due to quarterback play; hard to bench a QB while winning every game except the one against the defending champion.

UND. 23 UC Davis. 18 Sweeney. 6

alright, I know you've all been waiting to hear from the voice of reason; so here I am. first, 3 choices that are out: 1. Sundogs- I don't have a problem with it, (yes i'm aware of B.R.I.D.G.E.S.) it's unique and a lot of things could be done logo-wise. But, there's a lot of people adamantly opposed to it, it will not get unified support if chosen, so it will not get my vote. 2. North Stars- Nice name, but makes no sense given our neighbors to the east. so it's out. 3. Rough Riders- Nice faux history story for 30 second ND Tourism ads, but a poor nickname choice. To think this process started with the idea of possibly honoring/recognizing something great about North Dakota, its pioneers, its industries, its flagship U....heck ANYTHING "north Dakota".... and yet the only choice left that attempts to accomplish this is not even historically accurate, as its assembled members never even set foot in north Dakota. Too many degrees of separation to an entirely different time in Teddy Roosevelt's life to choose this as a name. It would be like remembering when Bill Clinton was president and visited north Dakota a couple of times, and recalling he said he liked it here, so because he liked us, we decided to go with the name UND Saxophones. No Thanks. 2 names I'd be ok with: 1st choice- fighting hawks- keeps the word fighting in our name. Hawks are everywhere in rural north Dakota. they are fun to watch, fearless birds of prey. Yes, there are a lot of other schools with the nickname hawks. there's a reason for that-apparently it works. "Fighting", and our new logo, will be our differentiation. 2nd choice- Nodaks- if it caught on and someone came up with a good logo relating to something uniquely north Dakota to market it, I could definitely get behind it. remember to vote early, and vote often!

yes I would imagine the lawyers on staff would handle it, but sure seems ridiculous if it ever got to that point. just a product of the screwed up world we live in I guess. I think it looks horrible. sticking a tongue out, really?? why anyone would want to buy a defaced/disgraceful version of the logo is beyond me.

So how does this work- does UND have to pay lawyers to defend the logo we cannot use?

I didn't mean to put down the defense; but the way I wrote it did accidentally. the defense is improved and going to keep us in games. what I meant to say was the combo of one of the worst offenses in FCS and no defensive points or short fields created for the offense, is not going to result in much overall improvement. hopefully this weekend tells a different story on the offense than what we have seen lately.

Nearly dead last in total offense. Zero turnovers caused by the defense. Not sure how this equals getting better- But I appreciate your optimism.

Popin'ain't easy

How in the world did the mensies of everyone in the 2011 graduating class from NDSU get in sync? Dang nature, you scary!

information? lol. let us know when you start to provide some "information." we're all ears. (or in this case, eyes)