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They have recently been rallying behind "North Dakota Proud".

Or the 3 year "cool down" period is up and the intention all along after that "cool down" period was to select a replacement nickname for the Fighting Sioux. Perhaps that is why the "we are North Dakota" has stopped. However, the University hasn't completely dropped calling themselves North Dakota in its marketing efforts so there is not the propaganda you hope is there.

Like the Roughrider state? Naming a state university after a state nickname, there is an idea.

Being North Dakota is not unique. It's a state name. "We are one, we are North Dakota" should be used by the state tourism agency.

Depth is a huge concern with the altitude. UND may have more talent starting than it had last season but we are not two deep at a lot of positions yet. Bohl and company are also familiar with the 3-4 scheme they will be seeing and will have their troops prepared.

Reading the last few pages I don't think its clear that everyone understands the FSU has permission from the Seminole tribe.

I'd say both schools, UND and NDSU have come a long ways in regards to exposure. NDSU football gets great coverage regionally having all games on statewide NBC. UND has done a better job at getting coverage to all of its core sports (men's and women's) over the last few years.

They have also worn green jerseys with black pants which I am a bigger fan of than the green on white.

The grey throwbacks would be a cool alternative jersey to have. My only complaint with the new jerseys, and someone mentioned it earlier, is I would like to see the green pants. I'm not a huge fan of the green jersey/white pants in the picture. I wish we would have stuck with the green jersey/black pant combo.

So what is your idea of a nickname. Its easy to blast the process, what is your solution? What nickname would have had to come out of the process to make you happy?

Why would Standing Rock or Spirit Lake be involved with selecting a new nickname? I think what you are seeing is a portion of that group wants to retain the old logo and does not care about what may be best for the university and the other portion (who voted to change the name) will want any other name selected. I don't even know if the reservations will get a vote if the nickname is put to an election unless you are an alum.

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.