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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#5481	02/07/2019 1:24:33 pm	Mar 13th, 2004
Rock777 Joined: 02/02/2018 Posts: 1532 Inactive	That is a fair point.

#5483	02/07/2019 4:23:58 pm	Mar 13th, 2004
BradenWoA Joined: 12/02/2018 Posts: 276 Houston Cougars IV.5	These are the non plural team names I know of: Alabama Crimson Tide Stanford Cardinal Syracuse Orange Nevada/NC State Wolf Pack N. Texas Mean Green Tulane Green Wave Tulsa Golden Hurricane

#5485	02/08/2019 4:22:27 am	Mar 13th, 2004
mukilteomike Joined: 07/04/2018 Posts: 276 Inactive	With the gadfly out of the way, let's continue making Hardwood great. That's right. Use the letter s properly and get rid of those damn ampersands & Hardwood will be infinitely better. Preach it!

#5490	02/08/2019 9:57:31 am	Mar 14th, 2004
Rock777 Joined: 02/02/2018 Posts: 1532 Inactive	Just as a quick check: Alabama Crimson Tide have Stanford Cardinal have Syracuse Orange have Nevada/NC State Wolf Pack have N. Texas Mean Green have Tulane Green Wave have Tulsa Golden Hurricane have The Hurricane sounds a little off, but the others seem to sound fine when treated as plural.

#5491	02/08/2019 10:24:15 am	Mar 14th, 2004
Ced Joined: 02/14/2018 Posts: 408 Indiana Hoosiers II.2	Those examples listed are good. The following mascots are nouns: Marshall Thundering Herd Pace Setter NC State Wolfpack Nevada Wolf Pack

#5494	02/08/2019 12:30:07 pm	Mar 14th, 2004
Rock777 Joined: 02/02/2018 Posts: 1532 Inactive	Pace Setter sounds a bit weird, but I think overall we can see that 98% of the schools will sound better with have than has. And Steve already made the change anyhow.

#5769	02/21/2019 5:21:11 pm	Oct 20th, 2004
Rock777 Joined: 02/02/2018 Posts: 1532 Inactive	Or maybe not...? Sep 02 2004: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Engineers was promoted to conference V.12.

#5776	02/21/2019 6:25:58 pm	Oct 20th, 2004
BradenWoA Joined: 12/02/2018 Posts: 276 Houston Cougars IV.5	Maybe the solution is just to drop the team name? Then it can always be singular, for example: “Houston was demoted to II.2”.

#5780	02/21/2019 6:33:56 pm	Oct 20th, 2004
Rock777 Joined: 02/02/2018 Posts: 1532 Inactive	6 in one, half dozen in the other. Either way its a one word change in the text. I actually like having the nickname. Adds more flavor in my opinion. Updated Thursday, February 21 2019 @ 6:34:23 pm PST

#5783	02/21/2019 7:13:00 pm	Oct 20th, 2004
BradenWoA Joined: 12/02/2018 Posts: 276 Houston Cougars IV.5	Fair enough, I can respect that