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The legislation also includes the potential of an anti-trust suit. Even if there is only a 1% chance of the State of ND winning, that 1% is totally unacceptable risk to the NCAA.

Moderators: Please ban this jerk POS.

Fox Houston: NCAA Certifies Houston Baptist athletics HBU sues the NCAA and wins, and yet still doesn't get messed with in it's transition. The NCAA has since changed its rules so that a former NAIA school like Houston Baptist must go through DII membership prior to DI membership.

Mark Emmert is the new NCAA president, and his view on the NCAA's earlier decision to become a social gerrymandering organization is not known. Currently, with the NCAA facing numerous cheating scandals that threaten the very fabric of the NCAA as an organization (and invite political intervention from Congress), is the NCAA willing to buck a state law? Emmert may have found the NCAA ruling on nicknames distasteful or beyond the realm of the NCAA's responsibilities, in contrast with Myles Brand, who wholeheartedly was anti-Indian nickname. With a change in top executive, there very well may be a change in vision. Just the mere fact that Emmert is going to Bismarck, rather than requiring the State officials go to Indianapolis, seems to indicate that there is an openness for understanding with the legislature's position. A sampling of articles just in the past day: Times-Picayune - Clock is ticking CBS: Emmert on making NCAA clean again Houston Chronicle: NCAA President admits prevention of cheating needs work ESPN: NCAA President addresses integrity Is the NCAA going to focus on cheating, or on social engineering? The NCAA may be at it's most vulnerable time now politically. Can the NCAA afford to antagonize a whole state's congressional representation, when others are calling for congressional hearings?

In 2013, the situation may be entirely different, as South Dakota State and Montana both have scheduled return dates. The key question is if Montana will still honor the return date as a non-conference game. Since UND and Montana are not designated as rivals, the Big Sky schedule could be arranged to allow for a Montana non-conference game at the Alerus.

Last game in 2010: Minot State 30 SD Mines 7 3-2 record vs Mayville St in last five years

Since every Sioux fan is a fool in your book, thanks for the flattering statement.

The biggest question for UAH is hockey. Since a conference affiliation might be near, seems Huntsville would need someone that knows that sport and Johnson would get there at just the perfect time. Doubt the other two applicants (Rice, W Alabama) know hockey people or the sport. UAH's past AD, who died of a coronary just after Christmas, knew hockey well. Also, UAH will be the host school for next year's Frozen Four in Tampa. If UAH can get into a hockey conference, recruiting might actually be easier than many CCHA schools. Huntsville already has an FCS school (Alabama A&M), so football isn't politically realistic. The Gulf South Conference may have to drop football, as it will have trouble fielding six teams, as North Alabama is almost certainly going DI.

Let's hope SD Mines has to cancel this game. There's still a chance that SD Mines will be invited to the RMAC (DII league in Colorado) later in May. The RMAC has offered Eastern New Mexico, Colorado College, and Black Hills State, with a plan to go to two divisions. SD Mines was dished by the RMAC, so is desperate for scheduling. The RMAC may be forced to invite SD MInes, as ENMU hasn't decided whether to leave the Lone Star Conference and Colorado College is still debating if it should move to DII from DIII. Also, the SD Board of Regents might not let Black Hills State accept RMAC's offer, unless they offer SD Mines, too. Mines left playing DII waiting game

If that doesn't happen, the defense will need to put up numbers like Dell to have any shot at a "W".

Wow. Four out-of-state recruits - TX, MN, OH, WI - from last years signing class gone in one swoop. Less depth at WR, OL, DL, and TE as well as wasted opportunities and scholarships.

Arizona Daily Star: Llute Olson's Midwest upbringing

UAH AD finalists

Take your shots at Bisonville at Bisonville or bunnyland, not here.

One can tell that things are awfully slow on Bisonville. Nothing to do but twiddle thumbs. How long has it been since any bison team has had a meaningful game? Two things for sure: you have absolutely no reading comprehension and that you are awfully insecure about NDSU's status in the state. As far as Bismarck growing bigger than Fargo, this is what I said: And then, you being the fool that you are, take the 2010 Census, not the 2030 Census, to refute that. Plenty of Griz fans seem to be moving into ND: Western Montana workers flock to North Dakota for jobs When talking economic and cultural trends, it's certainly apparent that you don't have the thinking skills to process that information. But for the vast majority of readers that do, north central Montana is going to see it's own oil rush that is likely to make the Montana towns of Cut Bank, Shelby, and even Great Falls into boom towns. Montana's new oil rush Montana and North Dakota will be joined at the hip because of oil.

The strategy contrast with NDSU's is quite striking: Coach Bohl speeding west on I-94 with a co-ed on his arms, players and open containers in the back, and a trunk full of Best Buy gifts to ingratiate potential fans. NDSU football: taking wine, women, and song (as well as fast cars) to a whole new level! Is that kind of like the rumor on Bisonville that South Dakota sets it's bar exam so low, that any Tom, Dick or Harry can pass? JackJD, you can do better than run with those dogs, especially for someone who swears up and down he has no dog in the Sioux/Bison spat.

Missoulian: Could the Big Sky find it's basketball tournament in Las Vegas? Would prefer campus sites, or even Phoenix (where more alums live and Allegiant flies there too). An end to Big Sky on-campus tournaments?

Yes, both programs are done and UNO is out of the MIAA after the spring season. MIAA schools are irate, as UNO really screwed them on their football scheduling. UNO has to pay a relatively small exit fee from the MIAA ($80,000) and then pay the NCAA DI entrance fee ($1 Mill). The NCAA fee, as well as Title IX and more football scholarships, was a killer to the football program. Next fall, UNO begins their transition with a mixed DI/DII schedule. In the fall of 2012, I believe they will compete in the Summit League, but won't be eligible until 2015. (The NCAA cut back on the transition years from 5 to 4 because 5 years is too difficult for recruiting.) The Creighton AD actually made some remarks that Creighton might actually just pick up the entire UNO wrestling program. No sure what the status of that is. Creighton's AD has been very classy about the whole situation (welcoming UNO to DI), and has won a lot of admiration in Omaha because of it. Meanwhile, Trev Alberts' stock in that city isn't very high.

So Kolpack can report the same story in the newspaper, but if I state it here, I have made it up? Ridiculous. Douple stated he lied to the media and public about the nickname keeping UND out of the Summit, and he stated Kelley knew it. That is out there, and you can't sweep it under a rug.

"The only test of leadership is that somebody follows." Seriously, you think LSSU, NMU, and Ferris St are first-rate schools.

You missed the point entirely. Leadership is about leading people in a direction they don't want to go. Kelley and Faison don't have that ability.

The issue is that Kelley and Faison have lost the credibility to speak or convince people - if that day comes. Evidence indicates that Kelley spent his time allowing or convincing one or more Summit League Presidents to come out with a anti-Sioux resolution, prior to membership. If true, that's deception on the highest order by a UND leader. The media totally bought into the lie, and it still is perpetuated. At least what Faison spoke at the hearing was on public record, and not some backroom dealing as Kelley has quite possibly done. Kelley and Faison have lost the ability to communicate with a huge majority of UND alumni and fans, largely because they have not given the slightest indication that they have a passion for the nickname. That's a failure of leadership.

The schools that have had anti-Indian nickname policies are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Dartmouth. The phenomena is almost entirely regional in the Upper Midwest, at institutions where "progressive" and social gerrymandering have deep roots. Even Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which have leadership that toes the liberal orthodoxy line on almost every issue, don't have an anti-nickname policy. If North Dakota was in a region further removed from MN, WI, or IA, the "won't play" argument would be a total joke.

So you actually like hockey, even though you would claim to disavow funding NDSU athletics if they ever went ahead on even began studying adding hockey? That's real open minded. Guess if you had been at Wisconsin in 1970 you would have been vehemently opposed that then and there too? Perhaps, in spite of being as supposedly enlightened as you claim, you are "close-minded", not the nickname supporters, as you claim.

Why do you care when you have an avowed hatred of hockey? Your world is centered around bison football, and you want nothing added at NDSU that takes away from that.