The Sicatoka

As I've already said: Iowa State (Ames, IA) and Ames High School are both the Cyclones. North Dakota is the Rough Rider State, and UND represents North Dakota. Fetch, you're off the rails on this one. Ben Brien gave the logo to UND and REA. Would he "take" it back? What would that make him? And no, he can't. He no longer has claim after his gift and REA and UND claiming legal rights to them. Furthermore, would fans like me go watch some strange CHL team in REA because of a name? No. I watch my alma mater, North Dakota, play hockey (and sometimes football). Plus, here's a good place for a calm, rational statement or two from 'iramurphy':

People seem to love maps here. Well, here's the current Missouri Valley Conference. Look at that and then ask yourself, "If the MVC was going to start picking off Summit members to add, based on geography, who would they call first?" Hint: Fargo isn't on that map. Omaha, Vermillion, and Brookings are.

Correction: LONGHORN Network TV money is huge. What the rest of the Big XII get from that is still TBD.

Overlap it with air routes and the list of WICHE states and re-ask the question.

Not getting rain as long as Texas hasn't is a 'lose'. And they lie. It rains in southern California. See: mud slides.

And that's Fargo's big mistake: Rather than giving the schools names they called them North and South and forever made Main the magical, mysterious line that shall never be violated. At least Fargo figured it out when they named their new HS after a UND alumnus.

The NCAA dares not say a single word about "Rough Riders". Why? Source: http://www.ncaa.org/...velt/index.html Going with "Rough Riders" would be doing exactly what the NCAA does in remembering and honoring and following a great man.

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."

And you'd be off. NDSU won five on the field. The three other titles are "came in first in the last poll and there's no playoff" titles. (And UND fans know about being #1 in the last poll before the playoffs.)

And that's exactly why it needs to be the choice.

What's wrong with a scenario where one North Dakota research university has eastward ties and one has westward ties? I'd think that 's a win-win scenario because it opens lots of contacts and creates lots of options.

You've defined the true issue. The problem isn't UND fans cheering for "Sioux". It's opponent university administrators (cough-RoySaigo-cough-NDSU-cough-cough) who didn't want the true boorish nature of their fan bases continually exposed by their truly hostile and abusive chants toward the "Sioux" (either the team or the people).

SCSU or MSU-Mankato would take the Summit (bus trips) in a minute. However, let me put your question to UND in these terms: Would you trade your 2012 Lincoln Navigator for a 1991 Ford Explorer?

In your scenario the Summit dies. Here's why: The existing Summit eastern schools see the NCC 2.0 (aka the I-29 corridor) consolidating power and they look for a better deal elsewhere. Honestly, in this new "minus ORU" Summit, NDSU is the outlier. The better question is this: Would NDSU jump to the Big Sky if Fullerton came a'callin'. The existing Summit would love that as they'd become a bus league on I-80 and I-90. Think of it this way: UND (and the coat tails riding NDSU ) in the Sky and USD and SDSU in the Summit. Each would get their league games and would have nearby non-conference schools to play as well.

Folks, UND has some housekeeping to get taken care of (moniker fiasco) before it is officially (first conference game, any sport, played) in the Big Sky. I'd like that taken care of before I start worrying about other schools and conferences.

The Haj missed a couple, no, actually four key stats: C - Jonathan Toews, Chicago C - Zach Parise, New Jersey A - Matt Greene, Los Angeles A - Drew Stafford, Buffalo

I think you mean Fargo Davies, and it's open now. A second HS in WF is still a couple years out. Given that most of Fargo South's hockey team lives in what is now Davies territory (south of 32nd Ave, the "high rent district" in Fargo) I think South doesn't have many players. I thought I heard they were looking at a co-op with (defunct) Fargo Shanley. PS - I love that Fargo can't find an NDSU graduate to name a HS after so they name them after UND graduates.

The correct new moniker to choose would be ... Irish. See what the NCAA does with that.

Iowa derives from the name of the Kiowa tribe, as Illinois derives from the Illini Confederation of tribes, as Utah derives from the Ute tribe. But again, none of that matters to the NCAA. They have a priapism* for UND and UND alone. * look it up for yourself

Thirty-two teams is not a conference; it's a league (see: National Football League).

The Big XII school (Iowa State) in Ames, IA, and the high school in Ames, IA, have a common nickname: Cyclones. And what's the state nickname of North Dakota: The Rough Rider State. (<-- that existed before GFRRHS did, there's "first in time ... ")

On August 5, 2005, the NCAA deemed "hostile and abusive" monikers of "racial/ethnic/nation origin" derivation. The NCAA can't figure out that Irish and Vandals fit that criteria, but they'd surely figure it out for UND if it picked "Norsemen".

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/College-football-realignment-all-good-as-long-as-youre-upgrading-102111

Simple reactions to your post: - I sure hope a tie instead of a win doesn't hurt the team come NCAA selection time - The contact was legal (no elbow or cross-check) but the hit wasn't "clean" per se because it was interference, and led to a Maine PP and goal to tie - Look back on the play: MacWilliam got out of position and allowed Maine a rush up the ice with a forward in his position There's a time a place for that hit. That wasn't it. Like I said somewhere else, Blood's play selection (when to deliver a hit, when to retaliate) has significantly improved. MacWilliam still has some finish work to complete.

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