GeauxSioux
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Yeah we were in D2 once and we won 7 more NCAA Championships than you guys too. No I'm just messing' with ya. I know for a fact that the Sioux would be competitive with D1AA teams right now. At least they would early in the year. I'm convinced there is not a lot of differnce between the starters on a D1AA team and a top D2 team. But it's the depth that they can't match. Point is UND's starters are as good as most D1AA starters but their backups see a big time drop because they don't get scholorships and are generally walkons. If UND would play a team like Northern Iowa in the playoffs they would probably lose because UNI has superior depth and can field a solid team after the wear and tear of the regular season. You guys won a close game last time in week 2. How good would this team be if they lost 5 starters? Notice how UND has never played a D1AA team LATE in the year? Why? Because they know they could not match the depth. Of course the Bison played the Gophers after 7 games and still almost won even though the Gophers have nearly 90 scholorships.
Anyway.. wasn't trying to rip on ya'll for beating SUU. I was just annoyed that some of you think it's a big deal to beat a bottom feeder 1AA team. It's not.
predictions? if NDSU and UND played next week it would be a really good game. I'd of course give NDSU an edge and I'm confident they would win a close game. If UND played NDSU 7 or 8 weeks into the season, they would lose because they don't have the depth NDSU has with more scholorships and all. UND's 2nd stringers can't compete with our 2nd stringers across the board.
Isn't it somewhat contradictory to say that UND couldn't beat an FCS team late in the year due to the disparity in scholarships and then cite the Bison/Gopher game as an example where a team with a lower number of scholarships almost won late in the year?
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Faculty, for instance, expressed concerns about hiring a president who holds a master's in business administration or a law degree rather than a doctoral degree.
Tom Petros, a UND psychology professor and chairman of the University Senate, said he isn't entirely opposed to a nondoctorate president but believes a strong understanding of academic research is an important component of the president's job.
"That doesn't mean Bill Gates wouldn't be a good UND president," Petros said, "but I'd hold out the jury longer on him than I would on (UND Vice President for Student and Outreach Services) Bob Boyd or (Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs) Greg Weisenstein or other people who have walked in our shoes."
I understand their concerns, but universities are run more like a business these days.
Tim O'Keefe, executive vice president of the UND Alumni Association and a member of the search committee, highlighted the increasing importance of fundraising for university presidents, suggesting UND's next president may spend as much as half the work week on fundraising work.Fundraising was one of the main topics in FGCU's search as well.
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I hope most opposing coaches will feel that way through the year."At one point I looked at (defensive coordinator Cole) Wilson and said 'what do you do?'" said SUU coach Wes Meier. "In the secondary we moved some guys around. We really have depth issues there. Offensively we just disappeared."
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And your playing how many full DI teams this year? If you think you have a tough schedule you're drinking way to much kool-aid. Good win over SUU.
What is a full DI team? I thought that either a team is DI or they aren't. You haven't been reading your NDSU handbook.
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i do believe this is a measuring stick for whenever ndsu plays suu
I don't know whether I would use this as a measuring stick. UND played SUU in Utah early in the season, while NDSU plays them at home after a few games to gel. Last year I did use our game against UNI as a measuring stick, because SDSU played UNI a week after we did in Cedar Falls. This just isn't the same. NDSU will beat them handily, though.
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Great win Sioux !!!!!!!
Let's keep it going next week for Potato Bowl.
Looks as though UND passed the first Great West test.
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After hearing today about Appalachian State football merchandisde becoming a big seller in Columbus, Ohio following the football win over Michigan last Saturday, I couldn't help but be reminded of the fans in Grand Forks who bought Holy Cross game-worn jerseys from the Crusaders' upset of Minnesota in the 2006 NCAA tournament.
The more I thought about it, I couldn't help but wonder if the Gophers had it worse that night in Grand Forks than the Wolverine football players did last Saturday.
The Gophers, on the other hand, played Holy Cross at Ralph Engelstad Arena, with the Sioux set to face Michigan in the next game. Of course, the North Dakota fans showed up early to the Ralph to boo the Gophers and cheer the Crusaders. When Tyler McGregor scored the game-winner for Holy Cross in overtime, not only did the Gophers have to accept the fact they had suffered the biggest upset in NCAA hockey history, but they had to do so with an arena full of North Dakota fans jumping up and down and cheering, with Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blaring over the PA, and the entire building cheering and celebrating the Gophers' defeat.Imagine if Michigan's embarrassment this past Saturday had taken place in Ohio Stadium in front of a crowd full of Buckeye fans. Scary, no?
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Phil Jackson, the Wonder Years
"As far as basketball is concerned, what I think got him was the warrior mentality they went into battle with 'It's a good day to die,'" Rosen says about Jackson, who was influenced by Native Americans while growing up in North Dakota and later playing for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. "He felt that was the way you had to approach a basketball game as ''This is the last basketball game you are ever going to play.'"
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I would say that it was just the writer being sloppy. I would bet their SI dept. is under staffed. I wonder if he knows how to spell defense.
The spelling of defense varies from where you come. Many Canadians spell it "defence" and with all of the hockey types in this forum, you can never tell.
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I hope the contracts were signed in blue ink. If not, some in this forum may still have a problem with it.
Kid picking a scab?
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I totally disagree with just keeping the Fighting Sioux name and logo for only Hockey. What are we saying about our other sports? They're second class and aren't important enough to keep/use the same name as hockey? Why are we moving to D1? I know that's not what you're saying but that's the message that will be sent.
Removing 'Fighting' from our name is not the only hostile and abusive part of our name and logo (per the NC$$ and the zealots), it the name Sioux and the logo, an Indian head. They're not going to be happy until we're know as the 'Whatchamacall'ems'. I believe if we called ourselves North Dakota, some fool and his followers will object because the name is Native American.
This has to be resolved in a court of law. After we win, WE can decide if, when or how we want to change our name and/or logo.
I believe that we would win in court, but I'm skeptical that it will ever get there. I think the NCAA has too much to lose and won't want to see it get there and therefore will try to settle. They don't have a solid foundation for their edict and they don't want their dirty laundry aired in court.
My reason for breaking hockey out in this negotiation exercise is the cost of changing all of the logos throughout the Ralph and the powers that be won't allow hockey to change during a negotiation. The football team already has the interlocking ND on the helmet and just a small logo on the front of the jersey. I'm not advocating that football make the change, this is purely a speculative "what could you stomach" exercise. Additionally, I don't look down at the other sports as second-class sports. You can probably tell by my past posts, that I'm not a "hockey only" person. I have an interest in just about all things UND.
My vote is that UND wins in court and we keep the Sioux name and logo.
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If the two sides came to an agreement so that both sides could come away with something, what would be the most that you would be willing to give up?
A thought crossed my mind today. Hey, I can have one every once and a while.
What if UND was able to retain the name for hockey, thus allowing the Ralph to not have to make any changes at all? All other sports would have to change or just be known as North Dakota with an interlocking "ND" on the uniforms. Since some folks think "Force of the North" is more than just a slogan, maybe that would be the name for all UND sports with the exception of hockey.
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Not a good week for the Great West.
SDSU lost to WIU
UCD lost to WWU
Cal Poly lost to Texas State
SUU lost to Montana
while the Bison were idle
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I see your smirk and raise you a wink and a nod.
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Great job Appy!
This is historical.
This has to be a huge embarrassment to Michigan. Both for the team and for the fans.
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Has anyone seen the athletic master plan talked about here. It must be finished ?!?
I wonder what the "connection" is between two parking ramps and the athletic master plan. Is part of a plan for the Sioux to move back outdoors into a renovated Memorial Stadium? Interesting.
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He's in mine. He's one of the best presidents UND has ever had.
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How much has Greg Weisenstein's stock risen in the past month to be UND's new president? He was the one of the three finalists for the FGCU job and ended up being one of two finalists when the former OSU president pulled out at the last minute.
Does anyone have a positive or negative vibe on Weisenstein?
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UND press release on the Washington Monthly ranking.
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If this is the case why does UND have more Native American students than any other university around.“There were a lot of things we didn't know about when we made that motion,” Black Cloud said, later adding, “we didn't know about the treatment of Indian students (at UND).”As far as the honoring of the Sioux name is concerned, my thought has always been that it is more to honor the Sioux warriors of the past. They were proud people through some of the most adverse times. I enjoy reading about the Sioux history and that is mainly because UND has the Sioux nickname and because I took classes in the Indian Studies program at UND. If the Sioux leaders of today want their heritage forgotten, they are going about it the right way.
Even though Wovoka warned against the evils of the white man, he also advocated educating the Sioux young. Isn't that part of what UND is trying to do with all of the IS and INMED programs?
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My wife and I collect books and are in the process of building somewhat of a home library. We have a set of 1929 encyclopedias which are great to page through. This is what those encyclopedias had to say about UND back then...
North Dakota, University and School of Mines of, a co-educational institution at Grand Forks, N.D. chartered in 1883. It became the State university on the admission of North Dakota into the Union (1889), when by the enabling act it received a grant of 86,080 acres of public lands-the School of Mines receiving 40,000 acres. The departments include College of Liberal Arts and Engineering, Schools of Law, Education and Medicine, Graduate Department, Extension Division, a Summer Session and the State Public Health Laboratories, the State Geologic Survey, the Biological Station, the Mining Sub-Station and a special Meteorological Station of the United States Weather Bureau. Since 1905 Wesley College has been affiliated with the University. Tuition is free in all departments except law.Since this is UND's 125th anniversary, I thought this was a nice place to post this.
What DI FBS Would You Like the Sioux to Play?
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For selfish reasons I would like to see them play Univ of Southern Miss in Hattiesburg or Tulane at the Superdome. I think you would get a good UND crowd down to New Orleans if they were to play Tulane.