The Sicatoka

Now we know how you got your name.

The Sioux moniker was having chest pains in 2005. Either SL or SR could've driven it to the emergency room and staved off a heart attack. Then along comes 2007 and the Sioux moniker was on the floor in cardiac arrest (when the settlement agreement was signed). Ron His Horse is Thunder, chair of SR at the time, refused to have SR start CPR. SL tried but it was a two-man resuscitation and SR refused. The moniker died in 2010 (the timeframe of the settlement agreement). Now SL CUR thinks CPR will still matter. Patient's dead.

Partial credit. All that the NCAA wants is an official stance statement from the Tribal Council, not a vote of the people of SR. However, apparently, there is a way to vote on some issues at SR: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/tribe-rejects-changing-name-in-vote/article_15a342a9-041f-51ab-9373-3896f785fa05.html The tribe can hold a special election to determine whether members want to be known as "Sioux" or "Oyate," and they can hold a special election on a new definition of tribal membership, but all too conveniently, after voters rejected Ron McNeil's preferred name for the tribe, it's suddenly impossible to let tribal members vote on UND's continued use of the Fighting Sioux nickname. I suspect then Tribal Chair Ron McNeil viewed the vote in the article as a test. If tribal members weren't willing to stop being known as "Sioux," which, as we're constantly told, is a degogatory term for the tribe, then there was a pretty good chance they might also vote to let UND continue to use the "hostile and abusive" moniker. And the NCAA, conveniently, will only accept documentation from the Tribal Council, not a vote. So the vote "can't happen" per McNeil. The conspiracy, if there is one, is between Ron (His Horse is Thunder) McNeil and the NCAA, and the best evidence of it is right there. The NCAA got it into settlement agreement and that agreement is now binding, and UND and the State got blindsided.

It was a press conference, not a pep rally. And you're saying in Minot all there was were the speakers, the direct parties, media, and people paid to be there as part of their job responsibilities. Sounds like the same folks who were in Judge Erickson's court room: the speakers (lawyers), the direct parties, media, and people paid to be there as part of their job responsibilities. Oh, wait, there was one other person in the Fargo court room. Was it Fetch? No. Was it DaveK. No. It was me.

DaveK's always been an in the closet Gopher fan and here's his excuse to finally come out and admit it.

Chewey, are you familiar with the acronym DABDA? You should try to be. It'll help you sleep.

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;" -- from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet What's that mean? What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Substance does not come from mere words.

No, Fetch and DaveK are just having trouble moving through the stages of the Kubler-Ross theory. What's that? The Kubler-Ross model, commonly called the Five Stages of Grief and known by the DABDA acronym, is something that we all go through when we experience a deep emotional loss. I moved though that from 2000 to 2007. When the settlement agreement came, I moved to acceptance because resolution would come one way or another.

I can make DaveK's and Fetch's heads explode in one sentence: Just like Ralph Engelstad, Federal Judge Ralph R. Erickson is a UND graduate from Thief River Falls, MN.

As I heard a wise man say many years ago, "Ain't no such thing as sorta dead or kinda pregnant." Under NCAA sanctions you're dead.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.

Looking at the back and forth between 82 and DaveK in posts 192 to 200 in this thread I can state one thing with great assurity: I am thankful I am not a second grade teacher so that I never have to deal with DaveK's kids. Apparently they have a master of throwing "I didn't get my way" temper tantrums teaching them the art of it at home.

No, not "slightly pregnant". More like "mostly dead".

Now C-USA makes another move: http://collegesports...e-old-dominion/ http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2012/05/conference-usa-expansion-six-schools/1 UNC-Charlotte will add football; Old Dominion has been playing FCS but only since 2010.

Read the comments section:

That's the definition. It's referred to by the NCAA (and Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin) as "Best Practices" scheduling policy.

Moorhead is Minnesota State University - Moorhead ==> MnSCU. MnSCU stands for Minnesota State College and University System.

The U of Minnesota system is the campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Morris, and Crookston. The MnSCU system is Mankato, St. Cloud, Bemidji, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. I don't know the MnSCU policy, but with SCSU in that group I can guess what they'll push for.

From the Twitter feed of the UND SID:

I'm guessing he has some of those numbers in his phone already. (Remember where Faison came from.)

Here's the category of folks many are forgetting: "Do you want to end this?" "Yes. I'm tired of it. It's gone on too long." "So vote yes on Measure 4."

The first stop on the statewide tour is complete: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/359369/ "It's not about preference anymore," O'Keefe said. "It's about the price (UND) will pay if we are forced to keep the nickname." O'Keefe said he had "the unanimous support" of the association's board: http://www.undfoundation.org/Page.aspx?pid=1384 By O'Keefe's statement there's two more letterwinners: Steve Burian and Marc Chorney

You just found out about gambling in Rick's Cafe too, right?

Going on around the state today ... http://www.grandfork...icle/id/235529/ Tim O'Keefe, executive vice-president of UND Alumni Association and Foundation, former UND mens hockey letterwinner Rick Bergum, president, UND Foundation Al Olson, former Governor of North Dakota and UND alumnus Jim Kleinsasser, UND football letterwinner Sheri Kleinsasser Stockmoe, UND WBB letterwinner Dave Hakstol, UND mens hockey letterwinner and current mens hockey coach Kylie Oversen, current student body president at UND Dale Lennon, UND letterwinner and former head football coach The list grows, and it's people that have unquestionable ties to the University of North Dakota, people that can't be "bought" (as some claim Hakstol was) or manipulated (as some claim Dr. Kelley and the ND SBoHE is doing). It's people who are connected. It's people who know how to make things happen in the world, but who also see that the NCAA won't budge and know when it's time to cut the losses. So, whom to believe: fans with nothing more than a love of a logo, who'd be willing to burn down UND for two words, like Fetch and DaveK, or UND lettermen, graduates, and donors, like Tim O'Keefe and Jim Kleinsasser.

Now that there is funny given that Ovie was sixth in TOI for the Caps forwards last night. (Former Seawolf Jay Beagle was first with 2.5 times the minutes of Ovie.) Guaranteed ice time indeed. (Insert Dale Hunter's laughing here.)