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For some, The acceptance stage seems to take longer for a nickname than it does for a tragic loss of a loved one. This whole loss of the great Fighting Sioux nickname certainly sucks, but if we start putting our collective energies behind something else, maybe we can take this program to new levels.

I'd even put up with the annoying PC ivory tower pointy heads on campus, who like to tell us how hostile and abusive we are, with a big old smile on my face. Because we know they're never going away anyway. Crap, back to reality!

Wrong again! I can confidently say as a card carrying member of the Sky is Falling Crowd (capitalize if you will), if the NCAA and the State ever said we could have unrestricted use of the original back -- no strings -- I'd take it in a heart beat! Not gonna happen. ( ;

They'll mock us regardless of what we pick as a nickname... they always have. Who cares? Pick a name and don't worry about the rival fans' reactions. I had no idea we were all of a sudden so thin skinned around here. They called us names all the time when we were the FS -- and we somehow were able to sleep at night. We will prevail whether its North Stars, Nodaks, North Dakota, Rough Riders or whatever. I will get behind whatever names is picked in the end and cheer on our athletes as hard as ever.

So, same as always then, you're saying.

Yeah, I think you're right... Brekke was more talent than project. Just had a lot of luck -- the bad kind.

Exactly. You said it better than I ever could.

Funny, when I was growing up in western North Dakota in the 1970s/80s, we would have born and raised red, white and blue Americans walk into our business right off the ranch -- grease-stained caps, scoria-scuffed boots and all -- demand the exact same kind of service. I guess because they were white American good ol' boys, it never struck me as a stereotypical thing when I was a kid. I just thought they were a-holes. Things never change, it would seem, no matter who you are, when you were born or where you are from. Everyone's got an anecdote.

There's some merit to this. It would seem that our ability to develop local projects has been lacking in recent years, whereas others (not naming names) have cracked the code. The last local project that I can remember remotely developing into an effective contributor at UND was Warroad's 6-11 center Mitch Wilmer, and that took all the way until his senior year.

You are not wrong. That is correct. Kelley threw out 3 as an arbitrary number early on, and that "Burleson girl" from the Herald, as she is known by some on here, awkwardly reported it as the number that the final list would comprise.

Still better than an effin' rodent. LOL! They made fun of us when we were the "Fighting Suesies," too. Who cares?

Absolutely.

I remember when this story came out in 2011.

A little more than a month away, boys and girls!

We're all ears -- what have you got for an idea?

I don't think that anyone who is truly invested in this change to a new nickname ever honestly thought that in the end that we would not be settling, regardless of the final outcome. Fighting Sioux was just too damn perfect of a nickname for UND. EVERYTHING ELSE pales in comparison. But we need a true concrete nickname to latch onto or we will be doing this all over again in the future, whether that's because the NCAA, in its infinite wisdom forces us to do it, or because future UND students in the year 20?? decide that they'd like to have a true athletic nickname just like everyone else.

I would pretty much have the same opinion of this whole process as yours if the final selection turns out to be just "North Dakota." What a monumental waste of time this will have been.

Funny thing is that he quietly changed the headline after a few commenters called him on it. At first, it read: "North Dakotans overwhelmingly Oppose New UND Nickname" As usual in everything he does, he's just trying to click-bait as much as he can to justify advertising on his site.

You beat me to it. Somehow they think an unscientific newspaper poll is going to be a saving grace.

Totally agree with this, Sic! Russ is the king of the PC Thought Police -- or its most loyal lieutenant.

Trivial off season stuff: Looks like new FBS transfer Daquan Baker will sport #10 this year for UND. WR Brandon Walker, the former owner of that number, will be #2.

Yeah, but there are actually people out there that like those names (not saying I'm one of them) and were disappointed to see them eliminated. You see, opinions are like (insert body part here); everybody's got one -- even bad ones.

Iwarri Smith is set to arrive June 25.

Probably as many as the "What Would Tom Do?" threads -- as in Clifford.

He was a smart businessman who knew when to cut his losses. So, I would think that he would have done exactly what his daughter, Kris, is doing now. Ralph taught her well.