The Sicatoka

Thin roster --> thinner.

Schlossman had Hak quoted as Grimaldi is doubtful earlier this week. That's not very hush-hush.

I'm not sure everyone's identity on the team (in my getter-setter-shooter theory) has been established yet, beyond a couple obvious ... Knight's a setter. Kristo ... uh, yeah, he's a shooter. Until that's figured out the lines won't be settled and the team won't start rolling.

A wise man (don't tell him I said it) told me once: Anybody can say anything.

This game is a must win for UND. This is the first toe-hold for the long climb to the top of the Big Sky.

Check the date on the linked post. Glad to see you finally show up.

I've heard that somewhere ... http://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/5832-lacrosse-at-a-di-und/page__view__findpost__p__129490

(Assuming you're male ... ) Are you married? Did your wife take your last name after marrying you? Did you love her less after she {gasp!} changed her name? Or, were the fundamentals that initially attracted you still there, just renamed.

Except there will continue to be UND presence in Minnesota and Wisconsin through North Dakota hockey. Always key is "get the name out there" and hockey will continue to do it for UND to the east.

For 50+ years UND was "on its own" (compared to the other Dakota schools) with hockey. It did kinda-OK by itself there (7 NCAA National Championship). I think UND will be just fine on its own again in the Big Sky.

The legally binding contracts would disagree with you.

I think Mr. Engelstad was a savvy business man who liked the old ways but accepted that times change, and not always for the better. My proof: There was an article during construction of REA where Mr. E pointed out that when he started in construction everything was done with a handshake and that today everything required battalions of lawyers and piles of contracts. He said he wished he could do the handshake but had the lawyers on retainer. He changed as the times did.

Per the settlement agreement, UND must retain it's claim over the name and logo or transfer them to a namesake tribe. Those are the option or UND is in violation of a legal settlement Settlement Agreement: http://www.ag.nd.gov/NCAA/SettlementAgreement.pdf , see 2.j "Intellectual Property".

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).