GeauxSioux

Says the guy who went to school for this stuff.

Finishing touches.

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/sports/college/3806716-university-north-dakota-athletic-facility-officially-be-ready-use-saturday Sounds pretty confident that construction will begin soon on Phase II, if they are looking at bringing to the legislature for approval.

Going back to what started this whole thing. ... http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/PressArchive/2005/Announcements/NCAA%2BExecutive%2BCommittee%2BIssues%2BGuidelines%2Bfor%2BUse%2Bof%2BNative%2BAmerican%2BMascots%2Bat%2BChampionship%2BEvents.html Their intent was to get rid of the nicknames, mascots and imagery that were deemed hostile and abusive. Settlement aside, just going with North Dakota achieves that end. Yes, that is just my opinion. Model institution, Wisconsin, has been scheduling North Dakota.

Hadn't seen this posted anywhere... http://www.uscho.com/2015/07/27/north-dakota-committee-takes-away-option-for-school-to-continue-to-play-with-no-nickname/

http://www.ag.nd.gov/NCAA/AddendumToSettlement.pdf "provided the University remains in compliance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement and this Amendment".

In honor of the nickname debacle... UND Farce

Nice little history lesson. Thanks for the link.

Watching his video, he looks very good at WR.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GkFS2Zy6Ba4&t=11

I was visiting the CSNBBS board and saw that someone posted that in addition to ASU, the B1G is looking at adding University of Toronto and McGill University as affiliates.

I have had mixed feelings over the years on the no nickname idea, one of the reasons was that there would be lost revenue by not picking a nickname and marketing it. Someone had a post yesterday (I don't know who it was and I can't seem to find it today) that pointed out there would be lost revenue from the big stakeholders in that donations would suffer. I'm not sure if that is true or not, but it got me thinking why can't we have no nickname and still have something new to market. I had the idea of North Dakota Arrows back in April, but it didn't make the cut, it was deemed "Native American" imagery. I totally disagree with that as arrows have been around for 1000's of years. If UND is going to by "North Dakota", there needs to be something to market with it, such as a new logo. The arrow logo I threw together would be a way of separating the North Dakota "ND" from the Notre Dame "ND".

UND Breaks Ground on Collaborative Energy Center Thanks to all who made this happen. If I were of the college age, this is the direction that I would take.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2015/07/20/ncaa-18-million-help-pay-cost--attendance-scholarships/30428777/

Yes, but one of us was serious and the other sarcastic.

Yes, the government has done a fine job of running the VA, we should have them do all of healthcare.

I just learned last week that our current insurance plan is going to go up 40% and this is with a $4,000 deductible. I still can't get past how we got the ACA. All of the Washington 2-step getting it passed or "deemed approved" at some point, as a fee and then Roberts comes out and says that it okay, because it was a tax, not a fee. If is is a tax, doesn't the bill have to start from the House and not the Senate? The current Supreme Court has gutted the constitution and doing whatever the hell they want to do. As Scalia said, words no longer have meaning.

Agreed. I mentioned Louisiana's jungle primary once before in this forum, which is what you would have with multiple options. Using last year's election as an example, Landrieu got the most votes on election day of the eight candidates, but didn't get a majority of the votes (she got 42%), which required a run-off election between the two candidate with the most votes. When it was just an election between the two top vote getters, she got beat 56-44. A final vote between two would be best.

The 180,000 came from the original Icon description. http://iconarchitects.com/projects/masterplan/indoor-practice-facility.html It must have grown over time.

Seats are supposed to be in this phase. I read 180,000 somewhere, but it may have been an old figure.

There is big and there is BIG. When SDSU opened their indoor facility last year, it was the largest in Division I, at 149,000 square feet. UND's is 180,000 square feet.

I just got an email from a friend with a link to....

I know I am going to get blasted for this, but here it goes anyway... So since the North won the war against the South, all memorials and flags for the South should be removed and bases renamed, etc.? Yet, having the Sioux logo/name and a statue of Sitting Bull sitting in front of the REA is okay? Didn't the American Indians lose too? To be clear, I am not against the Sioux name/logo. I am now hearing that there are folks who want to tear down the Jefferson Memorial because he was a slave holder and even more far-fetched, rename Washington DC, since Washington had slaves. They will probably do away with the phrase "Whistling Dixie", because it is racist.

Do you mean like this??... Destruction of private property must be the answer.\s