Wilbur

Completely agree. As an individual with a lot of Norwegian blood flowing in my veins it would be an absolute honor to have my heritage remembered in this way. In fact I would love it to be the Fighting Norse....but then again you may as well just call them the Vikings...

I don't know......if UND became the roughriders that would kind of be like a high school in South Bend, Indiana becoming the fighting Irish..... Lets let Red River, a school with tons of tradition keep the name they've had. And by gosh....would it cause a bunch of confusion...."Hey, did you hear what those roughriders did the other night"?

If I was a Native American I may have more of an issue with the name "Cavalry" than "Sioux". No new nickname, so we don't have to deal with any of these idiots ever again.

It sounds like Bradley is as advertised. With the kid being a Sophomore, hopefully he is given the reigns to the offense so he has a full year under his belt heading into the big sky next year. I know Goska has waited his turn, been around the program, etc, but I think the future is with this Bradley kid who can throw the ball down the field with some accuracy. Hopefully the secondary heals up....don't want to be getting their butts kicked by the offense too much.

Plus the North Star is used as a consecrated symbol for certain religions.....don't want a lawsuit there either....

I agree with goon. The nickname opponents should get 0% say in the new name if there is one. It doesn't matter what the new name is, I will hate it.....And it better not have any type of affiliation with any race of individuals because I don't want the schools name to get drug through the mud again and again.....Which is why there should be no new nickname. Although the fighting Norseman would be cool, but that is hostile and abusive to my Scandinavian heritage...(Wait......) This ruling won't stop me from wearing my sioux attire to all UND events. Its not like the NCAA can tell me what I can and can't wear to a sporting event.

Good question brought up. Does the NCAA require that a team have a nickname? I think of course the ND logo will stay with the university, but I think it would be absolutely terrible if the university wasn't allowed to just be the University of North Dakota. If they do select a new nickname I hope it offends somebody....some way....somewhere. And I hope whoever it offends writes a letter to the NCAA, or protests on the campus of the University of North Dakota. Heck, the minority won this time, why not again?

I think someone said it best earlier. What exactly did you win? What was your victory?

The spear is on fire....maybe thats what makes it okay? Or the fact that the guy dressed as a native american tries to intimidate whoever it is that Florida State is playing.

So what is the name of the law office that I send my check to in reference to suing the NCAA? Once the nickname goes there should be no new nickname. Just the University of North Dakota.

True. I always wonder how long the current coaching staff at UND will stay in place. Will Hakstol want to try the NHL like Blais did? Will Eades jump ship when a top tier program needs a new head coach? Does Dane Jackson want to be a head coach again? Makes me think how lucky the Sioux are to have the coaching staff that they do.

That would make sense. Playing his junior hockey in Lincoln, then chugging to Omaha. Then again though, by the time Luke is ready to play college hockey will Blais still be coaching? Thats two to three years away, and you never know with Blais.

Speaking of WR's that didn't make it all four years here....what ever happened to Ismael Bamba? Did he continue to play college football somewhere? Just think about the type of career he could have had at UND....

Which is what we've seen as of late....

Yes, I believe this is true. He applied to coach the women I believe a couple years back. Not sure if he has ever applied to be an assistant with the men. Someone with knowledge of the situation want to spread some light?

That would be a great conversation to hear. If you are Steve Johnson, what do you tell your kid who walks up and asks you if he should play for your alma mater or the team that you are currently on the coaching staff of? I mean you would think he would want his son to play at a place where he would see plenty of ice time and develop into a player who has the opportunity to play at the next level, while also fitting in to the team. As a Sioux fan I of course think thats the Sioux more than it is SCSU, but of course SCSU is a good place to play your college hockey as well. The Johnsons will have a big decision to make, I guess the same could be said for the Lucia family with their son. I wonder if it would affect a recruit's decision on whether he would join your program. For example, "Your own son didn't want to play for you, why should I play for you"?.....

Gosh I miss having Bubba Schweigert as the defensive coordinator. You talk about a blitz happy guy who made sure that a QB knew when they played the Sioiux. Or like you would say, he liked to interrupt the "Launch".

I think I opened a can of worms with the secondary talk....alright! Didn't seem like the Sioux blitzed a ton last year because they were afraid to leave man on man coverage in the secondary. But like the wise Sicatoka said this left for QB's with way too much time to pick apart a young secondary. So what do you do.....do you blitz more to try and disrupt a QB's time in the pocket, or do you drop more men into the secondary in an attempt to have more in the pass coverage package? Where is Scotty Schultz when you need him? Or Digger....Digger was great at Blitzing the A or B gap when it was called for.

Dad played for the Sioux.....Uncle Chad played for the Sioux....family in Grand Forks.....only makes sense right?

Playing for Uncle Chad....good call for Luke. He could play junior hockey for at least four years before joining a college team. I don't think he'll use up all of his junior hockey eligibility, probably be an 18 year old Freshman playing somewhere.

Does anyone know where Luke plans on playing this year? I believe Lincoln has his rights correct?

If Hendrickson is such a great team guy you'd think he would move to another position to help out the team if thats what the coaches felt was the right move. I know I've said he should switch positions before, but I truly feel like he could help the team by playing wide receiver or maybe even returning kicks. Heck, he could line up in the secondary on defense....those guys didn't cover anyone last year...

I suppose it helps that Texas has full time high school football coaches while I don't think you would ever see that in North Dakota.

Yeah, he didn't look like the guy at all last year. You wonder if he is one of those All American players in practice that can't put it together in games. Right now he's #3 on the depth chart, and with the kid from California coming in I don't think he'll get that much time under center.

The school I used to teach at formed what was called an "Athletes Lifting" PE class. The problem was that too many kids considered themselves athletes, and they could only have this a period or two a day because the school I was at didn't have a bevy of PE teachers that could teach the class. This created a clogged up weight room with kids with different lifting routines, and not a lot has gotten accomplished since then. I would be in favor of allowing teams to have like a spring camp weekend during the school year. Where your Juniors and down can have a weekend of practices or football drilling together. Each team in North Dakota is allowed to do a camp during the summer for a week or so, but thats so close to the season getting going that its almost like an add on to the beginning of fall camp. Once again though, this would conflict with spring sports......