Hayduke Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Your name died. hmmm.. ermines is dead. But, that list also killed Rough Riders and RoughRiders. None and No Nickname also died according to that list... Screaming Weasels still has a chance! Quote
darell1976 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 http://und.edu/nickname/consideration-list.pdf And the list that will be considered There are same names on both lists? How can one be on the chopping block and the other on the acceptable list. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I like Aviators. We could use a picture of the Red Barron on our hockey jerseys!!! Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 There are same names on both lists? How can one be on the chopping block and the other on the acceptable list. Makes no sense. But I suppose nothing about this whole sorry issue makes sense either. So it kind of does make sense, in a nonsensical way! Quote
darell1976 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I like Aviators. We could use a picture of the Red Barron on our hockey jerseys!!! And sell Red Barron pizza at games. 1 Quote
jdub27 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I would like to state how non-transparent this process is likely to be. I have numerous patents and have worked on some trademarking of product names, but never as a government entity. I assumed that we could, if necessary, get a FOIA request to see the population of votes for the nicknames (or remaining the University of North Dakota). That will not be the case since they are using an outside agency to gather the nickname suggestions. I would hope that folks would push to make this happen, and push the committee to make this known. This is very disturbing, but I figured there would be a way to keep the public from knowing once they put some nicknames up to vote. If they are afraid to put remaining the University of North Dakota up against a couple of options like the Screamin' Muskrats or Mighty Spudders, then we should know why this would happen. I am getting tired of the majority not getting a say it what is going to happen. I feel any nickname should be powerful enough to gather more votes than remaining the University of North Dakota. If there is one, than so be it and it will be implemented. My point is why should we "settle". If no nickname is good enough to surpass remaining without one, than we should not have one. I would just hope that the university would be open about what is going on and I would hope the committee will be able to get the information from the marketing agency ad pass that on prior to any choice of votes happening. So about this...claims seem fairly far off-base so far. 1 Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Your name died. What the - what kind of rubber-nosed, floppy-shoed committee was behind this? This is a travesty! THERE IS NO JUSTICE! I don't care what they pick. UND is going to be the Ermines in my book forever. Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 There are same names on both lists? How can one be on the chopping block and the other on the acceptable list. It looks like the second list is the suggestions that were submitted, and the first list is the ones that were unfairly and unscientifically eliminated from consideration due to a complete lack of knowledge about ermine. Quote
siouxfan512 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Why would The Nokota be eliminated from contention? Alot of submissions, and what is offensive a out a horse? Quote
cberkas Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Someone needs to go back and look through these lists and see they have the same names on both lists. Quote
MafiaMan Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Goon should breathe easier.....Sun Dogs has been thrown onto the ash heap! Sundogs and Spirit both appear to be on the "still under consideration" list. Quote
scpa0305 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Someone needs to go back and look through these lists and see they have the same names on both lists. Haha noticed that. They also needed a filter on some of the comments to right. Quote
scpa0305 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 It looks like the second list is the suggestions that were submitted, and the first list is the ones that were unfairly and unscientifically eliminated from consideration due to a complete lack of knowledge about ermine. Are you the one who submitted that name 20 times ? Quote
MafiaMan Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Are you the one who submitted that name 20 times ? LOL! Ya think? Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Wait a minute. I think I'm figuring this out. It looks like the non-consideration list excludes the following: Smart-alecky suggestions Names that they know they won't select (You know, like "Fighting Sioux" and "Sioux") Some semi-random selection of duplicate suggestions (which may be something like suggestions coming from the same IP address) I think the consideration list includes everything that's still alive. And do you know what that means? Ermines are still alive! (Oh, and if the committee is reading this, I apologize about that clown show comment. Y'all are awesome. You're great. If you were animals, you would be ermines.) Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Are you the one who submitted that name 20 times ? LOL! Ya think? It appears that the lovable yet ferocious ermine was submitted a total of 60 times. I'm pretty sure that I'm no more than 10 of those. So there are a lot of savvy and intelligent North Dakotans out there. I'm telling you, people. Go set up the forum.erminesport.com domain, because it's going to happen. It just makes too much sense. Quote
KSSioux Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 So about this...claims seem fairly far off-base so far. I give them credit for putting the list out there, but you do not know what I had done after I found out about this as far as contacting numerous people at the university. I am not saying that I caused the list to come out, I would have hoped that they did this on their own. However, I doubt I was the only one to make contact about this issue. The last part of the argument about remaining "North Dakota", and putting the other choices up to compete against it is still up in the air. I sincerely hope it happens. Quote
jimdahl Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I'm telling you, people. Go set up the forum.erminesport.com domain, because it's going to happen. It just makes too much sense. http://ermines.com is for sale! Domain availability was apparently one of the criteria Quote
UND-1 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Any new nickname. Just not North Dakota, that is all I ask. 2 2 Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 http://ermines.com is for sale! Domain availability was apparently one of the criteria I may have to go cybersquat. Quote
UNDErmines Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Okay, I took a look. Now, this is a public input process and not a vote, so it's certainly possible that one person could submit one suggestion that wins it all. But if you look at general support and consider primarily the names that got 10 or more suggestions, you end up with this list: Aeros Aviators Badlanders Berserkers Big Green Blackhawks Blizzard Bombers Cavalry Dakota Dakotans Dragons Drillers Ermines Explorers Fighting Dakotans Fighting Farmers Fighting Warriors Fire Flame Flames Flickertails Flood Force Frackers Frost Giants Green Machine Homesteaders Hunters Kodiaks Legends Mallards Meadowlarks Nighthawks Nodaks Nordics Norse North Dakota North Stars Northern Lights Outlaws Paratas Pilots Polar Bears Predators Pride Pronghorns Raptors Rattlers Reapers Roughnecks Settlers Snowy Owls Sodbusters Spirit Stallions Stars Storm Sundogs Thrashers Tomahawks Trailblazers Trappers Tsunami Tundra Warriors Warriors of the North Wind Yeti Quote
Ray77 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I'm reading the list of all names submitted, and I have to admit, some of them have me laughing. However, I was very surprised to see that Big Cocks was not even suggested?! I thought that was a name that had a lot of support, especially from the GOBC. Makes you wonder... 1 Quote
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