The Sicatoka

So, if your notion is correct, why do they keep them around?

We'd need this guy and his family to sign off on it or we'd be "hostile and abusive" again.

If the NCAA does decide to meet with Shaft and who knows who else, I hope they ask just one question: Where do we send the bill for the changes you are mandating. Put it in the only terms the NCAA seems to care about.

Truth? By whose standard? Was there a disgusting float in a homecoming parade? Yes. Truth. Was it 30 years ago? Yes. Truth. Guess which matters to the NCAA and other "enlightened" types. Everyone has their "truth" that they operate from and are closed-minded to anything but. The NCAA has their version of truth supplied by partisans of their ilk and moniker supporters have their version supplied by that side of the fence. That's where this gets to quagmire mode, as it is.

No Dave, your short-sighted, single-mindedness on this issue with that singular statement is the death penalty. No, actually, what you ask for is departmental suicide. No. Way.

Well, it's time ... we do exactly what the former chair at Standing Rock and ardent anti-moniker mouthpiece Jesse Taken Alive told us to do ... Name the University of North Dakota sports teams after ... a US Cavalry unit ... the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry ... Go RoughRiders. Dear NCAA, please don't be upset about the "cavalry" implications ... the tribal chair you listened to told us to do it.

What the NCAA said: What they really said: We don't need to do anything. We have a signed agreement. We like what the BSC said and did a week ago. Little do you know that we got to them and we'll get to every other conference you talk to. We ain't budgin'. We have you by the short-hairs.

No, the cost benefit analysis has reached the tipping point.

Oh, and surely everyone was pleased with the notion of naming teams after a group they were literally at war with 70 years earlier.

What, you'd rather fix the problem than fix the blame? You're clearly not management material.

... chicken dinner.

I have acquired secret video from "Al Carlson Meets the NCAA": Note: The last guy to speak in the video is Grant Shaft.

I've heard the special session will be in November. Next, the WAC is still part of the NCAA and is in the same footprint as the BSC. Whoever got to the BSC will get to the WAC and UND will be right back in this untenable situation.

If you don't pick something else someone (not necessarily with your best interests in mind) will tag you with one that will more than likely be a left-handed compliment at best. Control what is yours to control: Pick something and go with it. This is where Dr. Kelley has failed miserably. All he talked about was taking away. He needs to be talking about replacement also. Imagine it this way: He wants to take our cool '68 Pontiac GTO Judge. But he's not telling us about the new better car we could have so we're all assuming "Yugo". Anyone would be upset by that.

This person says it: Unwinnable.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rough+riders Got a problem with DMX?

Don't change the state law, and really become ... The Outlaws. (Like I said before, what'll the Governor and the AG do, throw UND in jail for a nickname? Yeah-right.)

Precisely. And that amount is somewhere between nil and zip-dot-squat.

Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

Reality check time hockey fans (of which I am one): If Minnesota and Wisconsin so desperately need UND, why are they leaving the WCHA for the Big Ten? Riddle me that.

The people at these other institutions (NCAA, BSC, pick the university) will believe what they want to believe and they believe they are right, no matter Al Carlson, Drew Wrigley, or Jack Dalrymple. They'll do what they want. Nothing forces them to schedule UND. And do you really think if UND were to take on the NCAA and win these schools would then want to schedule UND? After beating the NCAA? We're on a collision course with pariah status either way (keep the name or beat the NCAA).

Oh, and as far as a moniker, what're the Governor and the AG going to do, send all of UND to the state pen for not using the Sioux name? Seriously? The new moniker is clear ... call us ... The Outlaws.

That's easy: Enjoy the best kind of victory. And what's that? Well, they think they're leaving us for dead. The best revenge is to come back stronger than ever and continue to beat them, at their game, by their rules, on their field.

Folks, this one is done. Suck it up. Get over it. Move on. The NCAA isn't going to budge. Wisconsin and Minnesota won't come near us when they are out of the WCHA (nor will they in other sports). The Big Sky is stating what are some pretty obvious observations from where they sit. And I'm thinking the Big Sky feels misled because the change process was underway when they took in UND. Now, given the Legislative action, they just feel taken. At this point UND is just in a terrible bind between state law and the NCAA settlement. UND can't become a pariah, and given all of the above, it's on the fast track to that. It's done.

Thank you for your opinion, but allow me one question on it: If they don't want to fly to the eastern Dakotas, why'd they take UND and USD in the first place?