[RealSNR]

Given that the non-consideration list had so many "NO NICKNAME" entries, I think it's fair to say that UND is GOING to get a new mascot. We're in the clear there, and honestly that was our biggest competition that I was afraid of.

I think you can also get rid of all the non-corporeal WNBA-style nicknames. "Force of the North" was UND's secondary moniker in the 90s/2000s that some people used, but you just can't do that. It's stupid and goes against the overwhelming "tradition" criteria. All that stuff is out.

The weather shit is out, too. How the **** are you supposed to depict that? Blizzard, Blizzards, Flood, Floods, Tsunamis (Good ****, there are 10 people in the world dumb enough to identify Tsunamis with North Dakota? It would be funny if they spelled it Siouxnami, but still...) All those are gone.

You can forget about all the vaguely tribal names. They're going to steer clear completely. Warriors, Warriors of the North, Tomahawks... all gone. They're also likely going to take away all the names that can be tied to manifest destiny. No Trailblazers, Pioneers, Settlers, or shit like that.

Get rid of the names that are already recognizable mascots from other franchises and universities. Thrashers, Raptors, North Stars are gone. Get rid of the reeruned ones like Fighting Farmers. And get rid of Flickertails, because the university isn't going to go through all this trouble just to say, "Oh hey let's just use our former nickname that we ditched before," like it was some revelatory spark of genius that only could have been revealed through a large-population search like the one they just conducted.

Here are the names I'm most frightened of:

Aviators
Badlanders
Flames
Frost Giants
Green Machine
Kodiaks
Mallards
Meadowlarks
Nighthawks
Rattlers
Reapers
Snowy Owls (or perhaps Barn Owls, which are a far more common species found in ND)
Sodbusters
Stallions
Sundogs
Trappers
Yeti