The Sicatoka

Jason Ulmer pulled off an "Ulmer" one night v. DU: 3G - 3A - 6Pts.

You doggin' me?

The UNDergroUND. The GroUND RoUNDers. The HoUNDs might be acceptable. We could use a McRuff the Crime Dog looking mascot.

Rephrasing the same question: What are the Purple Eagle's team colors ... hmmm ...

Some obvious names: Brendan O'Donnell Rocco Grimaldi (last March v. Wisconsin) Matt Frattin and Jason Gregoire (same game) in WCHA playoffs in 2011 Brandon Bochenski had a four goal game (that counts ). Dave Kartio scored four in one game in 1968. (The free, downloadable UND Hockey media guide is a good resource.)

You went to see "teh hockies", any kind of "teh hockies", and you admit to it publicly? They'll take your Bisonville password away for this.

I am best looking to the blind.

Hoe. Lee. Crap. It's really gone off the rails when Johnboy seems the rational one.

Only if you sealed the envelope with "spirit fingers". What are those?

That would work to get us through the first three bullet points of my list. The NCAA surely does not want that dominating the college sports politico-chatter. Instead they'd rather say ... "Don't look at how we wrongly strong-armed Penn State and they're now fighting back. Look over here at how we can strong-arm UND and get away with it!"

I'm hurt deeply. I'm not sure I'll ever get over it. . . . . I'm over it.

Yup. The NCAA Football economic* model (only) works because of donors (specifically, tax deductible donations to the schools earmarked for football) and the subsidies from the school for athletics. An NFL developmental league would have neither of those. *OK, OK, ... the entire NCAA athletics economic model with rare exceptions.

Why would it? It has one now, subsidized with public funds, and without the headaches of direct ownership. It's called "the NCAA".

Sooner or later ... we'll get around to it some day ...

He's back. Not sure if he's looked here yet.

Ask the "man on the street" in the major media markets and they don't know the difference between UND and NDSU any more than they know the difference between NDSU and SNHU. Actually, more may have heard of SNHU than NDSU or UND.

There's no story until UND releases it. Why? Private, contract negotiations (legal under ND open records).

Laudable for you; however, many in the "no nickname" camp really are for it for the specific reason you cite: to be able to continue using the old one (and think or feel like they are "stickin' it to the man!"). One morning the NCAA attorneys will: - wake up, - find that a Power 5 school has a scandal brewing, - need a distraction for the media from that, - realize that they've been played by those hick in fly-over North Dakota, - pull out their copy of the Settlement Agreement, - highlight the word "new", - make a statement about "not selecting a new nickname is fostering a hostile and abusive environment" which is what the Policy and the Settlement were to prevent, - put UND back under the Policy, - and put out a press release about it. The media lackeys will miss the P5 scandal story and instead write about how the NCAA is serious about "diversity and inclusion" and how they are rightly slapping down those contract-breaking rube hicks that are still fostering a hostile and abusive environment by not taking the last step in retiring their terrible nickname. Grandiose? Boisterous? Preposterous? Really? Uh ... the same type of scenario got us ... here.

Then again, he chose to go with a new last name rather than just going with "Zane".

David "Izzy" Marvin (late 1980s).

There's the letter, and the spirit, of the agreement. The letter is open to interpretation (as Chewey and I agree). The spirit of the agreement? We're trying to get around it with "weasel words".

Can we ever go back? Do we have to (legal obligation) move forward? I think the answers are in here: Source (reprint of GF Herald): http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/22000/#sthash.FeE0PujV.dpuf

The main reason: Contract Law. UND (the State) signed an agreement with the wording "If UND does not adopt a new nickname and logo ... ". (Settlement Agreement, section 2.d, page 5) North Dakotans don't "weasel word" and do follow through on agreements, especially contracts. I don't want a judge to rule one day that the NCAA is free and clear to stick us back on the list as subject to the Policy. There's one way to ensure that doesn't happen.

It would not be hard for the NCAA to claim UND is "fostering a hostile and abusive" environment by not selecting a new name and allowing the de facto nickname to perpetuate. They would then enforce the Settlement Agreement, section 2.d (see below). Nailed it.