GeauxSioux

Congratulations to the Sioux soccer team. It looks like the ended the season on the right note and something to build on for next year. Sioux end Season with Victory

Not that I went looking for negative print on UNC, but it seems the Denver media is taking their turn beating on UNC. Denver Post

Mother Jones lists their source as a 2001 article written in Salon. Obviously there is no mention of an NCAA ban in the Salon article. Puck Politics I know it would be a sad world to have everyone always agree with my point of view on all issues, but articles like this make me wonder if these people are even on the same planet that I live on.

The scary part is that it took me three times reading the strip to get it. I don't know if it is lack of sleep or my kids are depleting my brain cells.

Thank you. I'll stop now.

Interesting poll results. Do you happen to have the poll questions? Was North Dakota on the list of potential rivals on this poll? Or was it a list of Big Ten schools? Which point is obviously correct? I do agree that any poll can be skewed. Which questions were asked and how they are asked are the usual methods of shaping a poll. My point is someone at ESPN thought highly enough of the UND vs. Minn rivalry to include it as a poll question and somehow that answer got 23.5% of the response. As long as I was on the site, I went over the North Dakota page. As a Bison fan you couldn't have liked that one. Big front page picture of the Sioux hockey team winning the national championship. You gotta like the poll question about favorite college team. Sioux hockey wins again.

I thought that no one outside of Grand Forks cared about hockey, according to most at Bisonville. You have an employee at ESPN, that is a rabid hockey fan and quite possibly a Sioux hockey fan, creating a poll in which he wanted to skew the results to make UND look good. You would have an easier time convincing me that one person accounted for 23.5% of the voting.

Are you saying that one person voted often enough to account for 23.5% of the votes on that poll question?? Again, the person writing the poll must have thought highly enough of the rivalry to include it as a poll question. This wasn't a write in poll.

The poll may be unscientific and the data skewed, but it is relevent that UND vs Minnesota hockey was put on as a poll question and obviously someone thinks that there is quite a rivalry for there to have gotten the votes that it did. You can't say that every vote for UND vs UM was meaningless.

Thanks for the prompt answers to my questions.

What kind of an arrangement do the member schools have the NCAA? Is it a contract that is annually renewed? The reason that I ask is because of what occured last season in hockey. Originally the "offending schools" were going to be required to cover any logos if they were hosting events after Feb. 1st. I recall that during the appeal process the NCAA was supposed to respond sometime in January and pushed it back until the end of April. Was this because they had contracts for hosting these events with some of the schools and couldn't require that they cover the logos for contractual reasons? Hence my reason for asking the contract question. Also, some on this message board have pointed out the committee that mandated this change has overstepped their bounds. If that is the case, can't the membership as a whole vote on an issue such as this or is a vote not in UND's best interest? I realize we are quite possibly past the point of having a vote. Just a question.

A shot would be they may only sell 1,000 general admission, but how many do they "give away" at Stop-n-Go? That would be a shot. But hey, if they're filling the seats and making money, who cares.

It shoud say "We Stink".

Perhaps I'm just thick skulled, but I will never understand this. If UND was called the North Dakota Fighting Icelanders and had a picture of my grandfather on center ice, I would be proud, not hurt or offended. How are they hurt?

Surveilance on Northern Border

Canad Inn Topping Off

What is the outlook for this weeks game? Is Manke back near 100%? Are there any other key injuries? With a healthy Manke, I see the Sioux by 14. Geaux Sioux !!!

Did you listen to the State of the University address or just read the article? If you listened to it, Kupchella said that funding is the only thing preventing us from acheiving the goals that he has set in place. He talked not only about additional funding from the state, but also private funding and building an endowment ($500M). His goal is for UND to be one of the top 100 doctoral universities in the country and then from there to become one of the top 50. That is a leader setting goals. If you want to actually hear the entire address and not mis-interpret a newspaper article go to the following link. http://www.UND.edu/president/html/stateofu2006.html If you need futher information of Kupchella's goals go to Strategic Plan II. As far as what Chapman has done, I don't wish to revisit the whole Potts episode. In regards to the NCAA issue, would you rather that he bent over and did just as the NCAA wants or have some backbone and stand up to their PC crap? If this were Chapman you would be saying "Go get 'em Joe", but since it's UND it's just a bunch of moaning. If you were to take a poll on this issue across America, you would find more people on UND's side than on the side of the NCAA.

I'd vote for that. It would only be a 200 mile road trip for me.

Although I have only lived in GF 4 out of the last 20+ years and that was 13 years ago, I can see both sides of the pre/post flood. I loved the old Whitey's and don't really care for the chain restaurants (with the exception of Waffle House. The old neighborhoods and parks along the river were great. I had friends who lived along there. I also love old and historic buildings, which have been somewhat removed from GF. Post flood new buildings and houses, cleaner look to the city, and it appears GF has a brighter future from the folks that I talk to in GF. BTW, even though I live in Florida, I still proudly call GF "home". I really don't understand the comments from folks who went to school at UND and hated Grand Forks. Besides the cold, how could you hate the place?

Rather than starting a a new thread for Blogs on this issue, I'll post this blog here. The link, for some reason took a while to load, but it was a good read regarding McMurry deciding to cave into the NCAA. McMurry and the NCAA I hope this blogger gets to see that day.

One mighty upset fan. The NCAA is everything that is wrong with society

Oops.

Looking at the aerial in Google maps one endzone says Fighting Sioux the other says North Dakota. How much does it cost to repaint an end zone?