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Should be a nice weekend for a recruit to check out campus. Denny would look good up front in a few years with Greer, Dranka and Greely. Any 3-man combo of the four of them.

I hate this time of year....too much idle time for 90+ young men to stay out of trouble. Hit the books, hit the weights, hit the film, rinse repeat.

No clue. If, and I say again IF this is true, and after it plays out in court.... how does this sound?: suspended from spring ball and spring game (obviously), suspended from participating in fall camp and the team's non conference schedule. At that point, he's got to earn his way into the two-deep like he would have had to do had he been practicing since spring. Another violation of any kind is automatic dismissal. Does that sound fair, too lenient, or too harsh? I don't know. What has our precedence been in these kinds of situations within the athletic department?

Oh, the stories that you chuckle heads weave when you're trying to justify reasons why things happen at levels that you're totally closed off to. Your boys need more to do in their lives than sit around and make up stories to pump up their cred in this so-called club. When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle. -- Mia Wallace, 'Pulp Fiction,' 1994.

Denny Elbert was another internal guy who had a lot of support in Grand Forks to get the job. He never expressed overtly any feelings for or against the nickname and logo that I can recall, yet he was dropped from consideration early, too. What's your black helicopter, tin-foil hat reasoning for this? I'm waiting with bated breath.

And this has nothing to do with why Bruce is retiring.

Inter-conference statistic p!$$ing contest aside, the men on this football squad are just good all around people and demonstrate it with things like this time and time again. Way to go, Dayo and Chris! http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/3685425-grand-forks-couple-avoids-homelessness-help-community

UND goes 1-1 today in Florida against UMass-Lowell and Sienna College. They are 3-5 on the season.

Wow! There are only six freshmen listed on the current roster. Looks like Coach Stevens is trying to establish a new culture with new blood from the get-go. They are 2-4 on the year so far. Last year, they went 0-14 before they picked up their first W. Here's to better times ahead!

Exactly. That's what I'm saying. They don't.

I mean we played against them in hockey in South Bend just three years ago, when we were no longer wearing the Fighting Sioux logo, and when the interlocking ND logo was increasingly being used and marketed by the University. I know that the two teams were honoring existing agreements to play each other, but irrespective of that, there was absolutely no beef by NDU at the time when it came to our use of the interlocking logo. I think logo concerns is like problem #99 on NDU's long list of issues when it comes to conference shopping.

That discussion was all about the Fighting Sioux logo. UND and NDU have longstanding mutual understandings on use of their respective logos. There's nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Yes, however, the jury is still out on whether it will be enough of an outcry to mute any other choices that surface.... and then it would be up to the powers that be to decide whether it's in the best interest of the University as a whole to go down that road. Again, I could live with it, but I'm not making the big bucks that those people get who have to make and live with these decisions. I don't envy them at all.

I respectfully submit that #4 should be #2 and vice versa. Awesome sliding finish by Jewels ... hope we can get another year out him at UND!

He he.... Now why would I do that? No, I'm serious about what I wrote.

I, too, hope it will be given a fair chance if that is what the majority of stakeholders in the next round of this saga "vote" for? (I put "vote" in quotes because I don't know how the next committee will ultimately decide to garner input on the matter). I could respect that result, if that is the prevailing choice. But, speaking for myself, if we can't be Fighting Sioux --given the settlement agreement and the stark reality that the NCAA and PC nuts won't ever leave us alone if we thumb our nose at the world and continue to be the Fighting Sioux, I would want a new name that our new generations of students, athletes and fans (like my young daughters who were born after the settlement) can grow to rally around. Something that we can have fun with and market; something that in a few years or decades will be as revered by the younger generations in the same way we in the older crowd love the Fighting Sioux nickname. I think, if there is little to no outcry to be just "North Dakota," the committee/UND leadership will ultimately bless off on a new replacement nickname, knowing full well that there is a long row to hoe ahead before if will be accepted by a large majority of UND fans.

This I can agree with.

I know. I knew the man very well on a personal level.

I would say that is true. I have seen about the same amount of Sioux gear at all the games I go to. At the same time, I have seen a huge surge of "UND" and "North Dakota" gear at the same games, presumably because that is what is largely sold today. Though,I guess if you were voting with your dollars, it would not be that hard to pop into Scheel's or the Sioux Shop at the Ralph to pick up some new Sioux gear.

Why don't throw Tom Clifford in there, too, for good measure? I have the utmost respect for all four of those men and their individual opinions on things, and I would venture to guess they respected mine, or at least they gave me no indication that they did not. BTW, I have had long polite conversations with all four men.

At the hockey games, yes.... at the football games, it's markedly less, and at all other sports, it's barely audible and sometimes not uttered at all. Not saying it's a bad thing. I've always liked it, as it's part of our institution's history.

That wasn't the reason we were laughing at Darell! Sorry, Darell, we're hardest on the ones we love. ( :

You and PETA are going to have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands!!!!

That was a superb blend of hyperbolic romanticism and revisionism. Well done, Frank! But you still might want to stick to your day job. ( ;