"Fighting Sioux" nickname may [not] [may too] stick at N Dakota

[Dafatone]

Good.  I hate UND and I hate the Flyers, so this is a natural progression.

[RichH]

And a blogger managed to find a list of all the domain names UND has registered after some initial brush-off attempts. There are a lot of "Warrior" permutations.

https://sayanythingblog.com/entry/heres-hundreds-of-domains-the-university-of-north-dakota-has-registered-for-nickname-transition/

[CowbellGuy]

The submissions to be considered can be viewed at HERE

tl;dr:

Cats: I like cats
Data Miners: Miners is obvious. data would make UND the first team with a computer connotation
Dragons of Ice
Epic Prairie Stars: Says our open prairie is like none other.
Ermines: No explanation needed. [I beg to differ]
Fighting Frackers [7 of these!]
Fighting Mongeese [I don't think the plural of mongoose is...]
Flaming Snow: North Dakota is known for its cold environment but in order to describe UND's passion for the game, the word "glowing" was added to "snow". [What?]
Flying Carp: Carp are an important species in the rivers of North Dakota.
Force of the Norse
Furious Flatlanders: North Dakota is horribly flat
Icy Flying Reptiles
Milos: That's my dogs name and he's fierce and passionate.
ProngBucks: a.k.a. Prong Horn, Spring Buck, indigenous to ND, fastest land animal in N. hemisphere, e.g. 55 mph for .5m [layin' down the science]
Sandbaggers: Honoring the historic '97 flood fighters, many of whom were UND students. 'Baggers for short. Unique, appropriate, rallying.
Sandbaggers: The river and it's cool
Snow Ice Devils: I think it's a unique nickname no other school has. It promotes fierceness. Representative to the state's region. Great rallying symbol.
Steamboat Captains: History of Grand Forks - being founded by a Steamboat Captain.
Superb Owls
Turbo: Turbo is fast, fast helps in sports.
White saber tooth tiger: It was a strong and fierce animal. It also fits with the region being cold. With it being white and black it would still match school colors
Zombies: We already have a green, black, and pink color scheme, and zombies are cool.

[Beeeej]

And a blogger managed to find a list of all the domain names UND has registered after some initial brush-off attempts. There are a lot of "Warrior" permutations.

https://sayanythingblog.com/entry/heres-hundreds-of-domains-the-university-of-north-dakota-has-registered-for-nickname-transition/

So glad to know North Dakota can afford to splurge on hundreds of domains they'll never use.

http://247wallst.com/energy-economy/2015/02/01/north-dakota-faces-massive-budget-shortfall-from-lower-crude-prices/

Of course I'm not stupid, I know their sports fans are footing the bill.

[RichH]

Buried on this page: http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/24/espn-says-cowherd-won-return-air/p9MKDmaV2lenG5WW2iqPiJ/story.html

Selecting a new nickname for the University of North Dakota has been so fraught with backlash that the school's president said he'd reconsider another option — none at all. A committee submitted a list of five potential nicknames earlier this week for UND President Robert Kelly to approve for a public vote, but didn't include the possibility of going forward as ''just North Dakota.'' The five potential nicknames are Roughriders, North Stars, Fighting Hawks, Nodaks, and Sundogs.

I'm in favor of "just North Dakota."

[billhoward]

I'm in favor of "just North Dakota."

Uncomfortably close to "Oklahoma is Just OK."

[KeithK]

Buried on this page: http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/24/espn-says-cowherd-won-return-air/p9MKDmaV2lenG5WW2iqPiJ/story.html

Selecting a new nickname for the University of North Dakota has been so fraught with backlash that the school's president said he'd reconsider another option — none at all. A committee submitted a list of five potential nicknames earlier this week for UND President Robert Kelly to approve for a public vote, but didn't include the possibility of going forward as ''just North Dakota.'' The five potential nicknames are Roughriders, North Stars, Fighting Hawks, Nodaks, and Sundogs.

I'm in favor of "just North Dakota."

Agreed. There's no reason they have to have a nickname.

[Jim Hyla]

Here's USCHO's take on the issue. Congrads if you can get past the first sentence.

And as I load it again, up pops an ad for a t shirt stating "DO NOT READ THE NEXT SENTENCE."

[Dafatone]

Here's USCHO's take on the issue. Congrads if you can get past the first sentence.

And as I load it again, up pops an ad for a t shirt stating "DO NOT READ THE NEXT SENTENCE."

The emotional investment in no nickname there kinda reads like an Onion article.

[billhoward]

Sometimes the women's team has a different nickname, like Fighting Wolverines and Supportive Wolverinesses. Here, it could be the Fighting Sues. I'm sure that has been suggested at some point when all suggestions were accepted for discussion.

[billhoward]

It's no Harvard Sucks, but the thread has stayed lived for 3-1/2 years and is slowly closing in on 200 comments.

[RichH]

It's no Harvard Sucks, but the thread has stayed lived for 3-1/2 years and is slowly closing in on 200 comments.

Yeah, but imagine what eRalph is like.

[billhoward]

It's no Harvard Sucks, but the thread has stayed lived for 3-1/2 years and is slowly closing in on 200 comments.

Yeah, but imagine what eRalph is like.

At least there is no derogatory term "eLynahing"

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Oh God.  Not another replace the unsatisfactory nickname with some variant on XXXX Hawks!  Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Miami Red Hawks...enough with the hawks already!

[RichH]

Oh God.  Not another replace the unsatisfactory nickname with some variant on XXXX Hawks!  Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Miami Red Hawks...enough with the hawks already!

Let's not forget that most of the RPI teams are officially the RedHawks. Only a few teams kept "Engineers." And I just learned that the 1954 NCAA Champs were nicknamed "Bachelors."

UND could be the Bulldogs and join Yale, UMD and Ferris State in a tournament.