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  1. 1. Who Wins the Popularity Contest?

    • RoughRiders
      74
    • No Nickname
      58


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A public vote of the stakeholders would probably be the same.

I'll bet Roughriders will hit the magical 36 soon...the number of outraged no nickname supporters that bothered to show up for the mass demonstration...

Just sayin'

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Roughriders would be the favorite in any head to head matchup.

My fear is that Fighting Hawks or Sundogs would win with 25 or 30% plurality among five or six finalists and they don't require a runoff election.

The voting public is not nearly as informed as here. A lot of irrational fears about Roughriders seem to be out there.

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Roughriders would be the favorite in any head to head matchup.

My fear is that Fighting Hawks or Sundogs would win with 25 or 30% plurality among five or six finalists and they don't require a runoff election.

The voting public is not nearly as informed as here. A lot of irrational fears about Roughriders seem to be out there.

Which are being pushed by the No Nickname and Sun Dog camps...for different reasons. Politics make strange bedfellows and this is another example of that.

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Which are being pushed by the No Nickname and Sun Dog camps...for different reasons. Politics make strange bedfellows and this is another example of that.

Totally agree with you there, fs4l. Once again, while the Roughrider and No Nickname/Fighting Sioux Forever forces continue to do battle with each other, Sundog supporters just sit in the bushes, waiting to strike. Once some TR quotes start being "exposed" by committee members and "trademark and licensing problems" start popping up with North Stars and Roughriders, we'll see a few more cuts and all of a sudden --BAM! -- Sundogs will find itself a finalist.

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Has anyone actually talked to someone who likes the name Sundogs?  I mean, do these people actually exist?  Seems to me they are about as common as abdominal snowmen!!  :)

 

Yep, most of the opposition fans on my twitter feed that love seeing UND suffer.

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Has anyone actually talked to someone who likes the name Sundogs?  I mean, do these people actually exist?  Seems to me they are about as common as abdominal snowmen!!  :)

 

When reading these threads I usually find myself wanting to defend Sundogs.  Even though it's not my first choice, I get tired of hearing the exaggerated abuse it takes here.  Wouldn't be so bad if just one of you actually could explain specifically what is so bad about it.  Instead we are stuck with general terms like "lame" or "terrible."

 

Overcompensated bashing like this doesn't discredit Sundogs.  It makes it appear as a real threat.

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When reading these threads I usually find myself wanting to defend Sundogs.  Even though it's not my first choice, I get tired of hearing the exaggerated abuse it takes here.  Wouldn't be so bad if just one of you actually could explain specifically what is so bad about it.  Instead we are stuck with general terms like "lame" or "terrible."

 

Overcompensated bashing like this doesn't discredit Sundogs.  It makes it appear as a real threat.

 

I'll take a bite at this apple.

 

Outside of about 50 people in Clifford Hall, that is the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (i.e Meteorologists), it would be hard to find anyone to know what is a Sundog.  It is an atmospheric phenomena that occurs in the wintertime.  That is problem #1, which is exasperated by the Herald when in their crude logo use a dog... yes a dog to represent it.  I swear some people are expecting a dog with a sun body suit on his head (I kid you not, that is what I heard last week). Same issue with Nodaks, how in the world do you represent it?  Especially with the color scheme of Green and White?

 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy looking at one in the dead of winter.  I just don't think it should represent a state flagship university.  Sounds perfect for the new elementary school in GF however.

 

Plus why would we support a name that our rivals openly support? 

 

I could go with the conspiracy theory route (what the anti-nickname crowd wants, Kelley has the fix in (although it is telling that Kelley's hand picked person on the committee voted Sundogs #1).  But logic should rule the day

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Has anyone actually talked to someone who likes the name Sundogs? I mean, do these people actually exist? Seems to me they are about as common as abdominal snowmen!! :)

Sundogs seems popular among the psuedo-hippies, professorial, and rainbow flag types on Facebook, literally anyone who doesn't like athletics to begin with. They don't want a fierce nickname or anything that can be construed as potentially violent, so they go with Sundogs, rainbows, and lolly pops (sugar free of course, but without aspartame) etc. They will be voting.

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I understand.  What you're making clear is that much of the ostensible hate for Sundogs is actually hate for its supporters.  Modern politics at its finest.

Maybe he was just expressing contempt for Cosmo Kramer and his legion of fans.

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