GeauxSioux

The news just keeps getting better with LM Glasfiber LM likely will employ 720 in '07

Part of his coaching strategy that year was to whine the whole week before the Sugar Bowl that the Seminoles were hitting Wuerffel late, in the regular season game. This planted the seed in everyone's mind including the referees and anything even close got flagged. The Seminoles, as usual, lost one of their key running backs for academic reasons for the bowl game. When Warrick Dunn went down with leg cramps that game was over.

Would that be the 1992 game against Pittsburg State, which had an attendance of 5200?

On the contrary. I think that the Bison had a great year and should be proud. Yes, I'll agree that the 5,073 is embarrassing. When I lived in GF, I never missed a game no matter who the opponent or what the weather was and that was at Memorial. But I also think you are comparing apples and oranges when you are talking about attendance. You are comparing a regular season game to which the students get in free early in the season to a playoff game to which the students would have to pay against a team we had already beaten soundly (49-2). As I said previously in this thread, we may not win a championship this year, but it is apparent that the overall level of competition is sliding. I am off the fence about the move to Division I and am willing to fork over more money to the U to pay for it.

Seminole fan here in Pensacola. Typically, one team is a little bit better than the other on paper, but you can throw that away for the game. Not this year, Gators are going to beat up on the Noles. Actually since Spurrier left, I kind of like the Gators. Just couldn't stand Spurrier.

I think we need to hear more of this. Emphasis added.

Prior to going Division I, NDSU's attendance was starting to dwindle. They weren't winning conference championships, but they were still one of the top conference teams on a yearly basis. Since the change to Division I, both NDSU and to a lesser extent SDSU have seen an increase in football attendance. I think you will see the same for UND. When NDSU made the move, I was on the fence about whether UND should be moving also. The past couple of years have proven that they made the move at the right time for them. I'm not saying that we will win the national championship this year, but the game and competition yesterday proved that we are in the wrong classification. A playoff game should be able to have more than 5000 in attendance and would with better competition.

Beautiful goal.

It was prettier on replay!

Just got on with the video feed. What is with all of the empty seats? Looks similar to how the Alerus must have looked this afternoon. Whoops looks like someone was already asking the same question.

307 total yards for Sioux, 28-0 and no posts from Warrior 08 in 45 minutes. Wow.

My comment regarding the REA was on the revenue side, since in the last IAC meeting there was a note that they received more money than expected from REA. I don't think that the expense side of REA is part of the overall budget for UND.

The men lost tonight to CSP 76-72 Box Score Koenig only played 8 minutes??

I'm only guesing, but could that be partially REA?

The following is a link to the same story that was in the GF Herald, but if you go to the bottom of the page there are the readers comments regarding the story. Bismarck Tribune Story regarding University of North Dakota Indian Association leader resigns

It seems the reports of UND's budget problems were incorrect. The latest OPE data is now available. Revenues $ 10,427,002 Expenses $ 10,080,241 That is $346, 761 in the black. OPE Data

Fighting the NCAA

I haven't read through all of the information provided in the links provided by undsportsfan, but I've read enough to find some commonality in it. It seems most of the links talk about nicknames such as Indian or Warrior, inapproriate chants and hand motions, cartoon-like logos and white men dressed as mascots. The University of North Dakota does not have these things. As I said previously, UND has a beautifully designed logo and the name Fighting Sioux. Is the name Sioux offensive to Native Americans? I ask this because I have read where some try and say that Sioux is a deragatory name. But if it is deragatory, why it is used on a casino and a manufacturing facility? I digress. UND has no mascot. There is no chanting. There are no feathers worn inappropriately. No tomahawk chop. I'll trot out my Fighting Icelanders one more time and hope to get someone to present a serious repsonse to the question that I posed previously. What's up with this? Change The Name

Hellevang earns national player of the week honors You have come along way from the begining of the year. Great job Brandon.

That would be nice, but unfortuantely only people in the state of New York have that power and the majority of them appear to be of the same ilk.

If the UNDIA'a agenda has nothing to do with the logo/name issue, why would they have an official vote to oppose the Sioux nickname? I would call that an agenda If Mr. Peltier was elected president when his opinion of the issue was known, why shouldn't he able to voice that same opinion publicly? I would like to hear an answer to PCM's question regarding why the nickname is dehumanizing. As I posed once previously, if UND was known as the Fighting Icelanders and had a picture of my grandfather as the logo, I would be proud. Why not turn the name issue around and be proud of what it stands for? Bennet Brien did a wonderful job with the logo and gave it meaning and strength. Why not be proud instead of dehumanized?

Women’s hockey inks three to National Letters of Intent Since I'm not knowledgeble on Women's hockey, can someone provide information on these women?

UND to hire consultant to help D-1 progress

UND: UND Indian Association head resigns over nickname

The Sioux were actually losing by 7 with 7:56 to play and went on a 23-3 run to end the game. Losing to Crookston would not have been a good way to start the season. I also saw where UND gave up 15 offensive rebounds. I'm sure that is something that they will be working on this week. A win is a win, congrats on the win Sioux!!