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Look, everybody understands there is Native American support for the nickname, and that the nickname itself isn't causing anyone to have personal issues. The simple fact remains that according to the agreement with the NCAA, UND needs the official approval of the 2 closest tribes and it only has that from 1. Therefore the sanctions remain in place. The NCAA doesn't care about state laws or constitutions, because they don't have to. The issue is simple and has been stated many times before. UND either needs to get Standing Rock to give approval or quit using the nickname in order to stay out from under the NCAA sanctions. It's just that simple and there are no other alternatives available. Until the NCAA changes its stance UND is stuck in that rock and a hard place. Some of us are looking at this as a practical matter, not a philosophical one.

My buddy says we should be the Fighting UNDies.

MN also has a huge fan base (relatively speaking, for college hockey) so perhaps merchandise sales, etc may contribute. I would guess the TV contract must be a big part of that, as mentioned.

Nelson - Fri Knight - Sat

This had me laughing out loud. Just funny. And the last part, yep. It's popular to hate the Fighting Sioux.

Thing is, and forgive me, but I think it's kind of a joke too. Who puts in their constitution what the nickname for a University's sports name should be? Is that really a proper use of the state's constitution?

I was at the Friday/Sat games against MN and thought Sat was a morgue from the start of the game. Got a little interesting when the team started to pressure MN but other than that it might have been as quiet as I've ever seen (I only see 1 series a year at the Ralph, so take that for what it's worth)

Tough call. I guess I don't know the rule but it doesn't appear to me to be a distinct kicking motion. I could buy that it was a motion to redirect the puck, so maybe that's good enough to meet the requirement in the rulebook.

Good for you, Dave. You did your part.

Shoot! You beat me to it. Plus, do you really think he wanted to go over to Hakstol's house and say "I'm telling everybody to drop the name" unless he really felt it was the only way?

You've got me talked in to either watching or DVR'ing those games!

What about "Phoenix" or "The Phoenix". No, it's not indigineous to ND, but isn't there something about the mythology of the phoenix that is kind of appropriate to this situation?

Great this whole thing feels bad enough, now it feels like we lost to the gophers.....

Same here, though I was a senior in '87. But that was my friday routine for most of my college career!

Or at least you can look at the photo to the left

And if the court ruling goes against their wishes, the justices will be branded "activist judges".

Wow, really? I'm surprised. Kristo should have had a game suspension for his hit during the gopher series, then. But maybe the league is cracking down, which would be a good thing.

Somewhere last night I saw another clip posted, which showed a better view in slo-mo. Rau goes very high with his hit. It was both late, and high.

Ok, well, that doesn't seem logical but it's a sensical explanation for the actions they plan to take. But I should be careful to comment that way as I'm not very knowledgeable about the law in such things....

I'm a little surprised that they would do this. It seems an expensive, and potentially dangerous position for the University to take (relating to conferance affiliation, NCAA relationship, etc) when the petitions aren't forcing the U to use the nickname, they are just putting the referendum on the ballot. After all of the expense to move away from using the nickname, to practically volunteering to go back when it's not required seems a bit surprising to me. One explanation that makes some sense, then, is that University officials really didn't want to get away from using the nickname in the first place. That's a bit surprising, but possible. OR, perhaps they want to start using the nickname so that voters, pre-referendum, might get to feel some of the wounds of continuing to use the nickname in a "hostile" environment. As I type this is sounding more plausible. Let the supporters see some of the consequences before they vote to make this permanent.

Thank you!

Now, surely you're exaggerating!

I think mine ended up with the Sioux in 5th or so. A couple of points either way is the difference between 3rd and 7th.

I think Roman did a pretty good piece. Didn't seem like he was taking any shots to me.

Thank you, as a fairly new subscriber to DirectTV I will have to do a little checking to see. Would love to see this game on TV!