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Beatcha! cough cough...

Exactly what I was thinking.

I agree, we really don't know how serious any of these supposed offers were. Doesn't matter to me, I'm just happy to have Joe back. My money is on a game 2 tilt, so neither has to miss the Saturday game.

Oooo! I've been wanting to get this one on here. How about a little BW Stephenson? I hope he doesn't take My Maria.

I don't buy the old man's explanation either. There was the newspaper story a couple weeks ago where the old man was being obviously vague about what was going on, and the current stories reporting that discussions had been going on for months and months. I think there's more to this than the old man is letting on to.

The standard practice there seems to be if you repeat something often enough, it does become fact.

I don't have a solution but the environment sort of encourages this sort of thing. It appears obvious the Clarke's were using Fargo and the Sioux for their own purposes, which is pretty crappy for the mature individuals (parents, advisor/agent) who should handle themselves in a more up front manner. But as the NCAA route offers these kids some leverage in dealing with the MJ draft we can only expect some will use it to their fullest advantage. I can't fault a 15 year old kid for this. I couldn't make these decisions at 20. But the certainly the parents and the advisor/agent.....glad not to know them personally.

He's a 15 year old kid. I could hardly make these decisions at 20. It's the way things go when you are dealing with kids this age. You know, this could be a hockey-karma thing. Hagemo switched his commitment from Bucky to Goldy and look what happened in the end. The Sioux were fortunate to end up with Gregoire. Can you imagine how this would hurt if it were the other way around? Maybe the Clarke thing was just a little what-goes-around-comes-around. In today's environment, we have to expect some of these way-early commits to go south. Better early than late.

It's a big gamble for a team to use that high of a pick on someone that might not show up. For me, I'm going to assume Clarke is g o n e.

That doesn't say that the Tribes want a say in the new nickname, certainly not the right to vote down a new nickname. It just says that they don't want UND to change to a nickname that would be a problem for any other group. That's more of an opinion rather than a request to be part of the approval process.

Exactly. That was one poster's idea and I didn't want to get on a track of ripping the Tribes for something suggested by a poster on this site. Now, if someone has a link to a story or article that reports this request by the Tribes I'm all eyes and ears, but until then I would suggest keeping our righteous indignation for the real issues. On another issue I'm going to offer a rather unpopular perspective. We're all upset that the tribal councils won't allow a referendum of the tribal membership to decide this issue. Heck, I'd like to see that as well so don't shoot me as a supporter of the tribal leadership. However, in a representative democracy our leaders are tasked with speaking for the people. I don't know exactly how the tribal constitutions are written, but if the council is given the authority to speak for the people, then they have that authority whether we like it or not. There are times when a government's official position is not necessarily representative of the people it represents. For instance, I think the majority of Americans are against the Iraq war yet our government supports it. There would be other examples you can find over time along the same lines. The governmental organization is going to make decisions that it feels are best for the people (at least in theory). It's a plausible argument that the tribal leadership feels that the nickname is indeed a bad thing even if the majority of their population doesn't agree. I'll bet if we polled the population of the Confederate States of America they would have shown the population supports slavery. Did that make slavery right? I don't think so. I, too, want the tribal referendums on the nickname to take place. I, too, want those referendums to show overwhelming support for the Fighting Sioux nickname. I, too, want that to decide the issue in our favor. I, too, believe that the best thing for the future of the tribes would be to sit down with UND and together find a way to make this a beneficial arrangement for all parties. But at the same time we have to understand it may not happen, and that it MIGHT not be anyone abusing their power if it doesn't.

Before we get all whipped up about whether the tribes will or should have some say in a future nickname, where did that actually come from? I haven't read or seen anything about that.

I guess Shawn-O can be the ultimate "decider" but I think any 70's genre is fair game. Alphabetically by band/group/performer name.

Not the kind of thing you hear out of some programs.

That's happened to me on several letters!!

That song is so good who cares if it's a duplicate. Now, have I forgotten or has someone already Outlawed Green Grass and High Tides?

With regards to the sorority party, in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice: IDIOTS!

I just had to say that for gopherguy33

Looks like Blake just wants a little more of mommy's home cooking.

How about a little Elvin Bishop? Fooled Around and Fell In Love

Well sometimes around here it is open War with gopher fans. To which I ask Why Can't We Be Friends? (and I answer myself..."because you're a gopher fan". )

Right! What's all this, then?

Stranglehold is one of the all-time great kick-ass songs. Nice!

Kenny Loggins throws me right back into high school with this song. Which song? This is it.

How are you getting to work, now, NDH?