GeauxSioux

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

http://www.hockeyfeed.com/breaking-city-comes-out-of-nowhere-and-expresses-desire-for-an-nhl-team/

I have a quote from Thomas Jefferson in my signature line along those lines... Thomas Jefferson... "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Bring back Liberty. We are heading down the wrong path in regards to liberty and tyranny. I asked some of the questions, that Dice asked, in my office and I got some of the same responses that Dice got. Not surprisingly, the people that didn't know, don't vote the same way that I do. I then went home and asked my kids the questions. They knew the answers and started telling me that July 2nd really should have been Independence Day, since that is when the founding fathers voted on it and that Adams wanted July 2nd to be THE day. Teach your children and we may be able to turn this boat around one day.

Happy 4th of July to all!! I found this interesting...

Man, that place is big. https://instagram.com/p/4owdW6tcNZ/

Well done.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/blood-sweat-and-tears.html

A good nickname/logo can bring a lot of $$ to the school, if marketed well. I think the consultants and the committee erred by including both Fighting Hawks and Green Hawks. Replacing the word Sioux with Hawks after the word Fighting is unimaginative. Almost as unimaginative as using the school color with Hawks. A lame weather phenomenon as a nickname/logo? Uh... No. Lame name and limited marketing potential. I just don't see am lot of $$$ coming to UND, marketing it as Nodaks or just North Dakota. With North Stars being a Minnesota thing, that leaves Roughriders. Of the seven remaining, I see it as the one with the most marketing potential and revenue generator.