Looks like UND will change their nickname.

[Tom]

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/u-of-north-dakota-nickname-vote-will-be-binding-br.html?eid=96660005&bid=1187065

[fotoguzzi]

I like the NoDaks.. still sounds like an Native American name..

[acogoff]

     My vote is for "The Indecisive Butt Covering Administrators".  True, but a bit too long for a nickname.

[ITSec]

Well, some of the aboriginal-inspired team names are more offensive than others. The Braves can't be considered as problematic as the Redskins, for example, and calling the UND team the 'Fighting Sioux' has got to annoy some people (though maybe South Dakota should have called themselves 'Custer's Cavalry'?  )

[nc43bsa]

As someone with Irish ancestry, I am incensed that a Prominent University is allowed to call its teams the "Fighting Irish."

I don't get drunk and fight, and I don't know any people of Irish ancestry who get drunk and fight, and I find the stereotype highly offensive.  The NCAA should force this Prominent University to change its team nickname or be sanctioned by the official Committee on Team Names.

[oldbike54]

As someone with Irish ancestry, I am incensed that a Prominent University is allowed to call its teams the "Fighting Irish."

I don't get drunk and fight, and I don't know any people of Irish ancestry who get drunk and fight, and I find the stereotype highly offensive.  The NCAA should force this Prominent University to change its team nickname or be sanctioned by the official Committee on Team Names.

 Sounds like a good idea to me  One question , what prominent university is this ?

  Dusty

[nsmith]

Grand dad always said stop greasing the squeaky wheel and replaced it.. Why is it someone gets it in their craw to make a bunch of noise and the whole world lays down at their feet. Some people need to figure out if you want to change the world start with something like taking care a your neighbor who could use a little help in the yard or something that, makes sense don't it. And I have yet to start drinking tonight.   

[Sasquatch Jim]

 
I  think that might be the university of the Nortre Damned.

 The North Dakota team could well be the freezing icicles.

[oldbike54]

 I vote for "The Wasicuns" .

  Dusty

[ITSec]

I vote for "The Wasicuns" .

  Dusty

It doesn't work right without Swampy Cree syllabics, but maybe another alternative is to call them the Mis-tah-jim-nah ?

(OK, that's rude  )

[oldbike54]

It doesn't work right without Swampy Cree syllabics, but maybe another alternative is to call them the Mis-tah-jim-nah ?

(OK, that's rude  )

 Little too far North 

  Dusty

[fotoguzzi]

As someone with Irish ancestry, I am incensed that a Prominent University is allowed to call its teams the "Fighting Irish."

I don't get drunk and fight, and I don't know any people of Irish ancestry who get drunk and fight, and I find the stereotype highly offensive.  The NCAA should force this Prominent University to change its team nickname or be sanctioned by the official Committee on Team Names.

the Potates? potato eaters?

 
I  think that might be the university of the Nortre Damned.

 The North Dakota team could well be the freezing icicles.

fighting Frosty's?

[ITSec]

the Potates? potato eaters?

I vote for the 'Holy Peats'!

[oldbike54]

 It does seem a shame that it required a blanket statement from the NCAA to weed out a few distasteful nicknames . Of course the Lakota and Dakota peoples did not refer to themselves as Sioux , but "Fighting Sioux" does reflect a certain respect for the indigenous people in North Dakota , who were after all ferocious adversaries .


  There should be an English premiere league known as


                                                                                The Dr Whovians

  Not that ferocious , but really clever 

   Dusty

[rodekyll]

They could call their mud wrestling team the Dirty UNDies.

[ken farr]

     My vote is for "The Indecisive Butt Covering Administrators".  True, but a bit too long for a nickname.

+100


kjf

[pebra]

I thought it was the Norskies who populated North Dakota?
Is"Vikings" taken? Valhalla Warriors"? "Thore Loothers"?