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I heard they are announcing a new working relationship of some sort between the two, but mayo is not buying altru.

My mistake, I ment to say the men's basketball coach jones, was all for this action and getting into the summit. But also ment to make the point that the football coach is also in favor of this action, they are both 100percent behind the seeing the nickname go away. And that is a FACT. In my pissed off mood I mixed the 2 comments into one, again sorry for my error.

Board president richie smith along with president kelley are just another 2 of the liberals that are much smarter than we average folks. They know better than the incredibly large majority of North Dakotan's, let alone 67 percent of Spirit Lake tribal members who strongly support the Fighting Sioux nickname. We are so lucky to have "friends" like that on our side. They are identical to the 3 stooges we have in the U.S. congress representing the people of North Dakota, the stooges who dont seem to know the people they represent overwhelmingly dont support the health care bill they voted to pass. They are identical situations, where the will of the people is overruled by the people elected/appointed to represent them. Yababy8 is exactly right, this action can not stand! I am all for protesting this move. When AussieSiouxFan says f--k the summit league, he is 100percent correct! But truth be told, the UND head football coach would sell his soul and who knows what else to get into that league. He is 110percent behind this action today. That is the sad truth. And it is the truth! JODY HODGSON is my hero! Hearing him speak the truth in no uncertain terms tonight on the news was priceless! He said what many of us believe and he didnt shy away from saying it so everyone could hear it. I am sure he would be front and center leading a protest against this action. correction after original posting: My mistake, I ment to say the men's basketball coach jones, was all for this action and getting into the summit. But also ment to make the point that the football coach is also in favor of this action, they are both 100percent behind seeing the nickname go away. And that is a FACT. In my pissed off mood I mixed the 2 comments into one, again sorry for my error.

It is true, Chorney signed yesterday.

Sioux-cia, when you say "I'm not talking about Buning's job performance. I'm talking about the circus/freak show we're calling his firing", how can you put any responsibility on UND for what it has become? Are they responsible for him pulling the leave of absense out of a hat? If you want to call it a circus/freak show then go ahead, but remember, and that is you and the rest that feel that way, who is responsible for what it has become, Mr Buning and he alone is responsible for it. He could have just walked away but chose not to do that. He alone made it into what it is, and I am sure in his future job search it will come back to haunt him.

In sicatoka's mind and according to his sources the negotiations had been stopped sometime between Aug26-29,(those are the dates he indicated to me) when it is now apparent to everyone he was off by a roughly a week or more. So his posting: "Like my post said, I wasn't going to say more then. Now, however .... Yeah, pretty sure." is not correct. Not even close based on the dates he himself has indicated. Heck the contract had already been agreed upon by the time he said the negotiations were called off. I for one am waiting for his retraction on that earlier post. Sorry to all if that seems trivial(it is to me also) but the post he made was directed at me. When I post things some people are quick to jump on me as being for lack of better words arrogant, but yet I havent seen anyone jump on him for his "arrogant" posts(and that one in particular). So if he made the comment, and it is now obviously incorrect, I was hoping he would post something similar to "Like my post said, I wasn't going to say more then. Now, however .... I guess I was wrong and they were right".

mikejm, when you said "Obviously both Tom and Debi were more than a little surprised at the revelation", that is not true, he in now way was surprised, I know for a fact of Tom asking area UND supporters if and when he was going to be fired. So it was not a suprise at all to him, he just didnt know exactly when it would happen.

"So do we know for sure that he asked for the LOA?" We know that UND didnt and in that case whether it was him,his wife or his dog isnt important. He or someone on his behalf did,thats all that matters. The fact that the LOA came at the exact moment he was going to be fired is more than just a coincidence. To believe otherwise would be like believing Hillary Clinton knew nothing about the whereabouts of the missing law firm papers that mysteriously were found on her desk in the private residence of the White House. If you are one who believes that then I cant help you with this one, but if not then yes it is cheap. A cheap ploy by a desperate person. Again we are all held accountable for our actions and when the time comes one would expect a LTC to stand accountable. So again, he and he alone is responsible for the situation. And it seems to speak volumes as to the person he is when he is not giving his rah rah speech or doing his pushups.

You dont have to come right out and pledge your support for Buning, your posts make it clear you are in his corner. Perhaps you shook his hand once, or heard him give a pregame speech, or maybe even counted his pushups! I dont know what it was but again from your posts you make your support for him obvious. You need to step back a bit and deal with the reality of the world, you will get no sources, it just wont happen, but it doesnt mean that the common message you get from several posters isnt the truth. Here is a hint for you, take post #200 as being as close to the facts as it can get. Accept it and believe it. Mr Buning is soley responsible for the situation that has developed and for what led up to this situation in the first place. He made his bed and when time came he wasnt man enough to sleep in it. We all would not choose have happen to us, what has happened to him, but if our own actions are responsible for it, then when the boss comes knocking we should be man enough to accept it. In this case he wasnt! Another hint, this post or 7nationaltitles post have nothing to do with validating stromer's post. His post was as far off base as yours is.

Dont blame the administration, blame the man who came up with the LOA route. He should have just accepted that his actions led to his firing, we are held accountable at our jobs for our actions, and in his case they brought about his being fired. He should have accepted it and let it run its course rather than the lame LOA route he took. The administration cant be held responsible for the route he decided to take this. To me it clearly shows the real person he is, and it isnt the politician/rah rah pushup guy we see in public. To me it just validates the survey results.

An average of 2 something out of seven doesnt validate the info for you?

I would assume Buning,realizing his being fired was just a matter of time(a day or so away), and as stated earlier that process takes a bit of time, requested the LOA to stop/delay that process. If he could make his LOA request to be or at least seem "legitimate", UND would be required to give it to him, whether they wanted to or not, due to the fact he had not yet been techinically fired. This would seem to be the way it happened. It is now common knowledge that he was being fired. And now he is on a LOA, which was not initiated on UND's part. I see it as a delay tactic by a desperate person. There is no way he could think the firing will not happen, its just a matter of time, when and if he comes back from his LOA. One can only assume his delay tactic is being used to determine what if any legal options he thinks he can pursue.

pcm, I guess thetriouxper and I arent quite as smart as you. How else was he suppose to take your comment of "Regardless of how this comes out, it appears that UND is continuing the well-established trend of chewing up ADs and spitting them out. That should be of concern to us all"? Please share your wisdom with us. Or do you need a certain poster (you know which one I mean)(hint: the one that gave you the heads up on this topic) to pm you with reasoning for it.

siouxnami your starting to show your knowledge on the subject, wait let me rephrase that , lack of knowledge on the subject. Let me give you a bit of advice, if you dont know the facts regarding something, dont try to act like you do, it makes you look even worse. Because you cant figure it out for yourself, let me help you, the 9 mths remaining and 5 yrs remaining are quite different, and the Buning sitauation is a legitimate problem, just because you arent aware of it doesnt mean its not legitimate. And one last thing, quoting homer simpson also shows your intelligence level.

The point I am trying to make here is that we are not talking about things like how we think we will do this year or who will win the hobey or who will play on what line or such, we are talking about factual information. And when doing so we should be dealing in the facts. That is why I feel that when something is stated as fact but is not a fact, it should be corrected.