GeauxSioux
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The main thrust of his article- that the Sioux name is likely to be a detriment to UND during a D-I move- right or wrong- is correct.
I thought that the main thrust of the article was the UND is being immature in Stu's mind, because the name hasn't been changed yet. Everyone else is changing, why haven't you type of mentality.
He spent very little time discussing the name being detrimental to the move to D-I other than saying UND would lose out on some $$ from the Big 10 schools refusing to play UND in sports other than hockey.
I liked Sica's post. A columnist in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Classic.
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Time for UND to drop its nickname
It isn't always easy to do the right thing.Just ask the University of North Dakota, which risks becoming a national pariah because of its steadfast refusal to drop a nickname that is deeply offensive to the heritage of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Indians.
Last November, Dartmouth athletic director Josie Harper felt compelled to apologize to her school's students for scheduling a home hockey game against North Dakota, calling the Fighting Sioux symbol "offensive and wrong."Because of such episodes, UND's national profile is based largely on its adherence to a cartoon-like logo (red-skinned warrior, headdress, eagle feathers) that degrades Native Americans in a state that should know better.
Is there a logo that is cartoon-like that UND is using? Does Stu know who designed the new logo?
"Sioux" is a derogatory term derived from a French word meaning "little snake," and it's made worse when placed in a combative context.Research and truth are lost with today's media. Instead of taking this common fallacy at face value, do some research and find out that Sioux=snake is not true.
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I thought this was a hockey only arena.
It will feature five ice sheets, including a main arena that will seat 5,000 for hockey and 6,000 for basketball and volleyball. The main users will be Fargo youth hockey, Fargo Public Schools and Shanley hockey, and the USHL team. -
Blais to coach USHL team in new Fargo arena
Dean Blais, who led the University of North Dakota hockey team to two national titles in 10 years, has agreed to a five-year contract to coach a United States Hockey League expansion team in a new $34 million arena in Fargo, officials announced Thursday. -
You're right my wrestling coach didn't know how to train hockey players. He barely knew wrestling, but he did know how to train people to get the most out of them and when you got down to the end of the match you weren't the one sucking wind. Your opponent was.
Your original post talked about players getting stronger and faster and weight training and that is what I was responding to. What you are talking about now is skills training. You don't think that tennis players, soccer player, football players ... have skills training?
When you talk about high school coaches teaching skills, I would think that there are a couple of pretty coaches at RR in Malm and Chase that know how to teach skills.
Nothing beats hard work though. Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are a couple of good examples that had skill, but their work ethic and training made them great.
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Yours?
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Pretty cool. I would think that this would generate more interest in the non-revenue sports. Thanks SiouxMD.
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The game of hockey today is much different than it was 10 and 20 years ago. Players are bigger, stronger, faster, and less prone to injury than they were in the past. This is mostly because of advances in training, and the acknowledgement that it is necessary to train to become a top notch player. In the past, such training methods were not practiced. An NHL superstar once said "I'll start lifting weights when a dumbell scores a goal". If most players took that approach, it would not be long until they were laughed off the ice. With that said, it takes money to get the proper training. The wealthier the family, the more money they can dish out to support their training needs. This does not mean that all rich kids will be better hockey players than poor kids. It just means that rich parents have more opportunities for their players to improve, because the knowledge you need to train a player effectively is rarely held by the parent, thus you must pay someone for that advice.
Back in the late 70's when I was in 9th grade we had a wrestling coach that had us lifting weights every day before school and running every day after school. He once equated wealth to laziness and that the kids at Schroeder were going to be the least conditioned and that the kids at Valley should be the most conditioned. I was at South, so were kind of in the middle. When we had the city championships that year, we came in as underdogs, but I won my weight class and South won the overall city championship, not because we were the most skilled, it had to do with conditioning. If it was all about skill, I would have gotten my butt kicked, because I was only in my second year of wrestling and the guy I faced in the championship was considered the best in that weight class. Money had nothing to do with it. You do need someone, a coach or trainer, to push you if you don't already have it inside of you.
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Anyone know what came out of this discussion?
I believe that it's on this morning.
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Well if this is true
and this is true
, where's the problem?I thought you understoond that logic has nothing to do with this issue.
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Qwest Communications Reveals Deal With University Of North Dakota - Stock To Watch
There must be more to the story. "Reveals Deal"??
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Nick Coleman: Illinois shows North Dakota what is the truly honorable thing
Maybe someone should tell Nick what the definition of caricature is...With each cleansing of a racial caricature from the sports scene, the pressure mounts on the "Fighting Sioux" logo and name of the University of North Dakota, which finds itself in a small rump group of nickname offenders.At this point, the arguments North Dakota puts forward for keeping the name aren't the issue. The question is what kind of university wants to put its name and reputation through the wringer in defense of "honoring" a tribe whose representatives have said time and time again -- despite bogus claims by those who deny it -- that they don't consider it an honor to be reduced to a nickname.
A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness.I don't believe the Sioux logo distorts anything.
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[url=http://denver.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=108761&type_news=latest] Qwest Communications and University of North Dakota
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Todays Herald reports that the UofM will reconsider scheduling the University of North Dakota in other events besides hockey whether or not the name changes Sounds like the Arthur Ashe Accounting look one way and go in the opposite direction
Link to article...
U of M committee looks at nickname policy
Melissa Avery, chairperson of the school's Advisory Committee on Athletics, said Tuesday her committee will -
Looks like LM Glasfiber is adding another 100 employees.
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Just for fun.
UND still has opening Comments
I think the general consensus is that they want the nickel, although none of them wanted it when they started their "new rivalry" with SDSU.
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With all of the scheduling problems that NDSU had the first couple of years in the transition did football attendance go up or down?
2003 11,567
2004 13,269
2005 14,160
Hmmm,
So why are you so sure that 2008 will be a lean year for UND? Could it be because you just plain hate UND and a lean year is what you want for UND?
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The bottom line is you need to get your attendance for football up significantly to help fund the DI move......that was my only point before all this sioux fan whining took off..........Geez.....
And I believe that the attendance will increase.
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Sioux WIN!
Thanks SiouxMD. I saw we were up by 9, but was on bath duty and missed the end.
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Sioux up by 8 with 2:43 to go.
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About 8 minutes left and the Sioux are up by 3. USD seems to be outhustling the Sioux.
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If UND had a mascot, it probably would be a Sioux warrior such as they have at Illinois and Florida State. See PCM's post. But, UND does not have a mascot. Why is this so hard to understand?
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Let's put your theory to the test with a few NFL teams.
Do the New York Jets have a 747 on the sidelines at their football games?
Do the New Orleans Saints have someone dressed as a saint on the sidelines?
Remember the Chicago Fire from the WFL? Was there a bonfire somwhere on display during home games?
Sure sometime teams do have a mascot to go along with their team name, but "Logo + Nickname = mascot" does not hold water.
SIOUX @ DU - Round 1
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I don't think that sobered yet up he.