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Brian Faison became UND's Athletic Director in May 2008. With his leadership the Athletic Department has made great strides. He hired Ashley Hardee and the volleyball program took off. UND now has a contract to televise all of the mens home hockey games, along with some women's hockey, BB and football. UND is joining the Big Sky in 2012. Faison took the lead in the formation of The National, starting in 2013. If he continues with this type of progress, he will likely go down as one of the best ADs UND has ever had. Brian came from the New Mexico State of the WAC. Any long range plans coming thru those connections. Hmmmm?

Grimaldi's stature may grow despite his diminutive size

The picture on this story which references the WSJ piece is more to my liking.... Study (Abroad) in North Dakota for Less Nice meta tag to Chuck Klosterman, too.

WCHA to Formally Accept Northern Michigan

I haven't heard the whole thing, but what I did hear is that they have $15M in soft money at this point shooting for a total of $37M in the next 3 months to move forward.

Already being shortened by coaches and ADs to "The National". I saw where a writer referred to it as "The Nat".. I like The National, not so much The Nat.

New Republic has a list of Offensive or Controversial Mascots. Slideshow: America’s Most Offensive or Otherwise Controversial Athletic Mascots I love the part about the Stanford band being banned from Irish games.

I'm not so sure about the "not in geographic reach" term. Goon posted that there were four teams already looking at the NCHC. Could it be a couple of East Coast teams are interested? This makes me wonder..... I've read a couple of places where the name is considered to be lame. By what standard? Do people consider the National Football League to be a lame name? How about the National Hockey League? I think when all of the teams are "signed up" and we see that we have a "National" conference the name will fit nicely.

Someone already has updated Wikipedia with National Collegiate Hockey Conference

Interesting timeline put together by NCAA.... New hockey conference timeline

Notre Dame hockey: No move yet for Irish

I may have missed it, but hadn't seen this piece posted yet.... League UND will join in 2013 to announce name Wednesday I think I'll plan to spend tomorrow afternoon in the office.

NY Times pieces on the name... [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/us/13sioux.html]North Dakota and N.C.A.A. Are at Odds Again Over University

Who ruined college hockey? Blame Minnesota or Wisconsin but whatever you do, don't blame the North Dakota Fighting Sioux

Don't you love when the headline and the story don't match? Badgers hockey could join new league Maybe it's wishful thinking.

UND looking to keep up with times in new league Reasons for the new conference.... Exposure There have already been discussions with members of the new league and television executives about getting games nationally televised on Versus, which is expected to soon be re-branded as the NBC Sports Network. Like-minded schools You will probably hear athletic directors use the

WMU unshaken as WCHA crumbles: Athletic director says Broncos will 'have options, no doubt about it'

I kind of like it...

Nice opinion piece by Tom Dennis... OUR OPINION -- UND scores with new conference

The men find a home...... UND joins MPSF in men’s swimming and diving Faison does it again. UND is truly looking west.

The ramblings of an oft banned poster...Big Sky Sends UND a Warning: We Have A Problem I love the post by a UNI fan that UND's record against the other Dakota schools.

One of the things that I posted in the wrong thread..... Floating Tiger breaking news... What happened with Western Michigan??

Oops, I've been posting in Big 10 thread, instead of the new conference thread. The Irish fans seem to be pulling for "Super 6".

What are you, a second grader?