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

[marty]

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.

Cornell fans had a laugh or two with their "Warm up the grill" chant when the Red Hawk used to frequent Houston Field House.  Maybe we can take some of the credit for him flying away and hence Puckman getting the job.

[Chris '03]

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!

Sioux Hawks forever.

[ursusminor]

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.

As of 2009-10, RPI thankfully eliminated the Red Hawks as a nickname. As to Bachelors, I would love to see the PC complaints had we kept it.

[RichH]

Cornell fans had a laugh or two with their "Warm up the grill" chant when the Red Hawk used to frequent Houston Field House.  Maybe we can take some of the credit for him flying away and hence Puckman getting the job.

A friend who went to Clarkson told me a story on how the RPI fans themselves led them in a chant of "KFC!" when the mascot appeared.

[billhoward]

August 2015 update in the Wall Street Journal. http://www.wsj.com/articles/name-game-in-search-of-a-new-north-dakota-mascot-1439334225

University of North Dakota sports teams may soon be known as the Roughriders. Or the Nodaks. Or possibly the Fighting Hawks. One option that won't be considered: "North Dakota," unless the school president decides otherwise.

The institution, which retired its Fighting Sioux nickname in 2012 after opposition from American Indian groups and others sparked years of legal battles, had since adopted the state's name as its unofficial moniker for the sake of sports and school spirit. But a committee assigned to identify a new nickname for the school, which first met in March, voted recently by a margin of 7-4 to eliminate North Dakota as an option. Some argued that the state name didn't actually count as a nickname. ...

[Trotsky]

"Roughriders" sounds like people who don't use condoms.

I'd love to see them go with no nickname.  It would stand out, and there'd be no better middle finger to the NC$$.

[Jim Hyla]

Voting for the new name starts Oct. 19.

[Jim Hyla]

They are down to 2.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

[Dafatone]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

It's lame, unoriginal, AND doesn't really shake native appropriation the way roughriders would.

[Jim Hyla]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

It's lame, unoriginal, AND doesn't really shake native appropriation the way roughriders would.

And "Big Red" isn't lame.

[jtwcornell91]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

It's lame, unoriginal, AND doesn't really shake native appropriation the way roughriders would.

My guess is that some of the people who voted for that did so because it contains the word "Fighting" and they plan to shout "SIOUX!" over the PA announcer when he/she says "Hawks".

[KeithK]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

It's lame, unoriginal, AND doesn't really shake native appropriation the way roughriders would.

My guess is that some of the people who voted for that did so because it contains the word "Fighting" and they plan to shout "SIOUX!" over the PA announcer when he/she says "Hawks".

Too bad they couldn't vote for simply "Fighting".

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

God, not another "XXX Hawks"  nickname.

It's lame, unoriginal, AND doesn't really shake native appropriation the way roughriders would.

My guess is that some of the people who voted for that did so because it contains the word "Fighting" and they plan to shout "SIOUX!" over the PA announcer when he/she says "Hawks".

Too bad they couldn't vote for simply "Fighting".

Could have always gone with Fighters, like the Nippon Ham baseball team.

[KeithK]

Could have always gone with Fighters, like the Nippon Ham baseball team.

I always think of them as the Ham Fighters, as in they're really good at fighting pork.