Post by Logan on Jun 29, 2016 0:04:19 GMT -6
I debated if I really wanted to do this column. After all, it’s been a year since I graduated from North Dakota State. With that, any opinion I offer about the University of North Dakota is often met with a “says the NDSU grad” response.
But as someone who doesn’t have any emotional investment in how UND does in sports, I figured I’d offer up my opinion on Wednesday’s Fighting Hawks logo unveiling.
Devils Lake is an interesting place to live in North Dakota. I see plenty of UND hockey attire. I also see the same amount of NDSU football attire. But the buzz anywhere I went yesterday into Thursday morning has been about UND’s new logo.
Most of the buzz has been negative.
But the thing about the new UND logo is it was doomed from the start once Fighting Hawks was chosen as the new nickname. Most people tuned into the webstream with the intention of laughing or being angry. No matter how unique or how plain the logo would be, the internet people were prepared to be savages once the press conference started at 11 a.m.
Read more: www.devilslakejournal.com/news/20160623/herder-thing-about-new-und-logo-is