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They have as many recent national titles as "all the other sports."

So what is your idea for an acceptable replacement name?

The O line play the last few years hasn't been good enough for me to form a fair opinion on either guy. They have looked good at times, bad at times all while having to dodge oncoming pass rushers consistently. Key to the offense this season is O-line play.

Great video. Excited for the fall.

Looking forward to 2015. Hoping for a healthy and productive fall camp.

Have you been paying attention to Cecil the Lion? Not governed by the NCAA but equally as bad. There is plenty of blame to go around on this. NCAA, UND leadership, Standing Rock leadership, etc. it's been going on for years so if you are offended by animal nicknames you better start the petition now.

Stockwell has to get healthy. His luck with injuries has been terrible. Either way we are going into next season with inexperience at the LT spot.

Those examples you gave above were part of the problem that led to the NCAA creating a policy on Native American nicknames. Native American people did not like seeing t-shirts with a native american performing oral sex on an animal or shirts saying "Siouxper Drunk". The NCAA can't force those shirts to go away but they can make things miserable for one of its member institutions. The anti nickname crowd will be all over this and make the argument that no nickname was selected so the school can remain the Fighting Sioux. Its exactly what the Sioux Forever crowd wants. This is really no different than their stance on the confederate flag at colleges in South Carolina. They couldn't make the flag go away but they were able to punish the their member institutions in that state. Those universities were not responsible for that flag but they were the ones who served the punishment with the NCAA not allowing any post season tournaments in the state of SC.

That's actually a good deal when you think about how many people graduated from NDSU in 2011. I'm not sure if you believe the stuff you type or just throw it out there.

That is a lot of people trying to call the shots. The entire NDSU 2011 graduating class and two additional people. How did you split the winnings?

You might want to share that Sept 19th is just another game with the Bison media crew. I think they have some special things planned for that day that they aren't doing for UNI. I also have a feeling Sept 19th will be the weekend every NDSU sport has kids on campus for recruiting (just speculation). You don't do that for just another game. I don't deny the demand is there but to continue to downplay having UND visit while everything in NDSUs athletic dept says otherwise is getting old.

The staff has done a great job getting these kids on campus early for unofficial visits. Keep up the great work.

It is going to be hard for NDSU to tell the people of North Dakota they are no longer going to schedule the game after they get a taste again on Sept. 19th. Hell, even NDSU won't help the cause much with a planned 2 hour pregame show featuring interviews with past players and highlights from past games. Its easy for the entire NDSU graduating class of 2011 to type they are going to call all the shots but the people of North Dakota aren't going to want this series to end again and there is going to be more and more pressure on Faison and Larsen to keep it going.

Is next season a 12 game season? Also, if the opportunity (longshot) is there to get NDSU at the Alerus, UND should buy out whatever game they need to (Stoney Brook). They couldn't pass that opportunity up.

Did any of them have names?

The state of North Dakota created the law, the University of North Dakota made every attempt to transition away from the name. We already addressed how the NCAA handled the same situation with state law before and addressed it with state leaders in the face to face meeting. You must have read that quote. Now that the 3 year cooling off period is up, I would assume the NCAA wants to see movement towards full retirement of the nickname and transition to a new nickname.

The high school of Tucker and Irvin-Sills seems like a good place to build a relationship. Its a long way to North Dakota but those kids will be college football ready.

Your not going to find any concrete evidence. Our administration or committee members need to be the ones to provide it and I don't know if any of them know for certain. Again, this thread proves the grey area regarding interpretation of the signed agreement between the state of North Dakota and the NCAA. What there is evidence of from the NCAA is them getting their members to cooperate with them by hammering them in ways that can directly affect their success. They can range from putting very loosely defined violation terms on schools- "unethical conduct" or "lack of institutional control" to some of its members not scheduling teams or conference membership deals. Those can be proven and have happened all across the country. The only thing there is concrete evidence of is the NCAA is very inconsistent of the way it goes about its business.

I liked these two parts. It shows the importance of getting these kids on campus, evaluating them in person and giving them a "unofficial" opportunity to see the school and campus. UND has a lot to offer and getting kids to see all the construction of what this campus will be is huge early in the recruiting process.

What are they? I'd be open to listening to your ideas of dealing with the NCAA. My opinion on it is yes, there is the legal part and I won't try and argue that as this thread has proven there is a ton of grey area in the agreement. All I have asked is the UND leadership make this black and white for the people who will ultimately be voting on the nickname and at the end of the day don't have skin in the game. It really shouldn't be that difficult for them to lay out what was agreed upon. To me this is part of the "institutional control" that the NCAA loves to use and is very loosely defined. Than there is the NCAA's being able to take things out on UND. The NCAA and various committees make so many decisions that have an effect on UND, why give them any reason to make things difficult? These would include seeding, scheduling and to an extent conference affiliation if UND ever had a reason to switch. I don't think its fair to potentially punish the current or future athletes so some fans can hang on to a past nickname, regardless how popular it was.

I don't disagree. It is not a bad set up and I don't think NDSU will have a problem getting some of the schools on the schedule for duals. So does this get the full cost of attendance going for NDSU in wrestling? You are in the conference with schools that will offer it now.

You maybe missed this part. These six additions were made to give the Big XII tournament more legitimacy and regain recognition as an NCAA qualifying event. For the time being, these additions are for the Big XII tournament only. Iowa State will not be required to add these affiliate schools to their dual meet schedule. Don't get me wrong, still a big deal and nice to be affiliated with those schools.

No one knows for sure if they must transition to a new nickname but it in my opinion it needs to be addressed. What satisfies the written agreement that has been in place since 2012?

All most are asking is for clarification on if selecting no nickname satisfies the signed agreement between the state of North Dakota and the NCAA. You even say above that its not clearly defined and could mean anything. Therefore, it is not a scare tactic, its a legitimate question that should have been answered at the start but needs to be answered before things move along any further.

Thank you entire NDSU graduating class of 2011.