Bison Dan

What no faith in your team?

You're not very smart are you homer? I have never argued for keeping the name and in fact have been against the NCAA from the start. But I'm also not ready to obsolve UND of all blame like some of you posters like to do. It never should have gotten to point were "Carlson" could interfere and it should have been handled years ago. Wonder who dragged this thing out? UND fans! This whole thing has nothing to do with NDSU. It's self-infected for the most part. That's been my whole point since day one.

Point is why would the SBoHE take this mess on if not asked to by UND officials? You know damn well they were asked to off load the name change as to minimize any damage to the university. Once it was out of UND hands they lost control and now we're at the point we're at.

You guys are missing the point - it never should have gotten to the SBoHE, so the legislature couldn't interfere. Yes dick head Al got the ball rolling but he had a lot of support by UND grads along the way. Remember the hockey people were fighting this all the way and if they would have accepted the change I highly doubt Al would have gotten involved.

Yeah keep sticking your head in the sand and blaming everyone else. What are you 14? Do you really think the SBoHE wanted this hot potato thrown at them? Think what you want but the "powers to be" at UND knew they had to change the name but didn't want any part in doing it and were all too willing to off load it.

Exactly right. It was the insistence of UND supporters (Alumni Assoc.) that kicked this thing out of UND's control (scared of losing donations) out to the SBoHE. Once there it was fair game for the legislature to get involved and all the politics that go with it. You guys have no one to blame but yourselves.

Why would you move down from a DI coordinator job to a DII coordinator? Something else going on?

So when does the ax fall on UND Baseball?

I hope you can live that long! :)

Thanks for using NDSU as your measuring stick for success - There is no way in hell that NDSU uses UND for any measure of success in anything. Big difference between the two schools.

We don't want the old WCHA teams.

BS - Easy to pick on the summit league but what about MVFC? I've been to all but Youngstown and SIU. The first year at UNI we had over 3000 fans which annoyed the locals big time. We get a larger following for SDSU fb and bb is good too. We have a alumni tent at every away FB game. You must have your head in the sand if you don't know how well NDSU travels. Ask MN or Frisco, TX. Nothing more fun than to tailgate at a away game and then beat them up.

The only people that are trying to "screw" UND athletics are the UND hockey people. This is all hockey related as there are lots of hockey only posters on this thread that are for keeping the name. NDSU has nothing to do with it and in fact are sick of the whole process. I'm thinking that there won't be a vote and the issue will die (hopefully). You need to direct your anger somewhere else.

Calson's beef is with the SBoE and he's just using this (Fighting Sioux) as a means to take them down.

Remember the NCAA has to sign off on that.

Love your jealousy - Keep it up!

The sanctions have already hurt the fb team by not being able to schedule the Gophers, Iowa, WI. The other 3 Dakota schools all had fb games with Big10 teams during their transition.

He had me until he brought up Mussman. Mussman wants the name to go away if it means no BSC. Hakstol might be another story...

You're probaby right - The only guage I can go by is the bridge building contest that the civil engineering schools compete in. NDSU has won is 3 or 4 times and no other school more than once. I forgot who won last year.

Faison has already said they only want a every other year game.

Seems like UND is paying more than it's fair share for the new turf. They must have dictated which turf to purchase. Anyone have any idea where the money is coming from? Alumni assoc.?

How that's working out?

All our home games were on TV last year but 1. Where do you get your info??? As far as exposure we have all we want. I think all but 1 or 2 games were on TV last year home and away...

Then why are all you guys begging for a game? UND had their chance. I never said it was in the article but do you really think Duluth likes that kind of publicity. Schedule UND and this might happen. Never a good situation for a school to be in.

The only incompetency is your athletic dept. Remember a couple of years ago Muss and Faison refusing the every other year contract that NDSU offered. That was when we had a open schedule which is pretty much filled now. That's right UND refused to play and now they're begging to play a every other year game? Your leadership in this whole DI transition is about as screwed up as it's gets. Only someone from UND would call our AD incompetent as the facts say other wise. Face it NDSU does not need or want you. Just look at the article from UMD now do you know why no one wants to schedule you?