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Home-Road Balance Will be Factored Into Selections Not much to do but quote myself here...

Awesome exposure for NDSU and I-AA and North Dakota! A lot of the comments here clearly reflect the envy a lot of us feel--I certainly wish it was UND/Grand Forks. (That said... you do have to wonder... what are the odds one of them accidentally refers to NDSU as UND or The Sioux?) Regardless, congrats NDSU. Huge publicity win.

Toward the end of today's game my 5 year-old declared that she's going to start cheering for the opposite teams as me because my teams always lose and it's no fun to cheer for them. We were in the car when the Vikings fumbled the kickoff (she had been asking repeatedly, "is it over, did Chicago win yet?") and she was cheering "Go Chicago! Chicago Wins!". I told her that cheering for the opposite teams as me was probably a pretty good strategy. Sigh.

I got a complaint about SiouxSports' link to the article having the wrong team -- all I could say is that we take the headline they post

Yeah, I saw that Post article today. While a big absolute drop for UND, UND's starting rank is low enough that it's in a different situation than a lot of the schools on that list (e.g. Howard and Colorado School of Mines). Frankly, it could easily be the methodology changes or even statistical noise. The longer term trends in the contributors (graduation rates, test scores, or other things that you think matter) are the things to watch. Changes in years without methodology changes will also be truer windows into those.

I don't even really mind contrarians. But we do demand common decency. Here are the last 4 posts.

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Got it. I'll try to post some photos sometime...

I just got the schedules loaded last week (still don't have a great source for football -- the Big Sky composite is promising, but is clearly human-entered and had a few errors last season). Just hadn't football back to the "active sports" list yet, just did now. Thanks.

So did mine ever work out?

We're not worried about people who know UND's logo well, we're worried about the 95% of people who have no idea there's another school using what they think of as the Notre Dame logo, differentiated only by being green. There's not enough difference in the UND logo for those people to realize its a different logo, unless they already knew the UND logo existed. Logos are printed in all sort of colors these days, and green is actually somewhat commonly used by Notre Dame because of the Irish association. Just google image search "Notre Dame logo" or go to a Notre Dame online merchandise store and browse, you'll see a lot of green.

We are in the minority, but I've always agreed. Doesn't matter what claim we may think we have to it, 99% of people identify it (even the new version with embossing/drop shadows) with Notre Dame. Bad branding on our part.

Sigh, way to *completely* break all the SiouxSports standings code that assumes 2 points per game. Looks like I'll have some work to do this Fall.

My favorite quote, because it's so reminiscent of what many of us were saying when the 'SUs were first looking at I-AA -- when schools like the Dakota schools are rushing into D-I, that's watering down and the big guys will eventually do something about it. We did what we had to do (we're absolutely more with peers now than we would be if we hadn't moved), but we've just been maintaining staying in the 2nd tier (though the name has changed over the years, D-II, I-AA, FCS).

Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins. Though they're quick to acknowledge it's more symbolic than meaningful...

And call them the Fighting Sioux, right?

Wow, that brings back memories. That's still what I picture when I think of "the Ralph". I know, I'm old.

Meet Grand Forks "Super Fan" Mark Kauk

I was a little surprised it didn't have a thread yet... maybe I'll go start one. Edit, dropped a new thread in "community": Meet Grand Forks "Super Fan" Mark Kauk

This story just won't die... a new twist! Boston Bruins Bieber-Proof Their Locker Room

I'm just waiting until my SiouxSports one gets delivered...

The usual thinking is that without a nickname, Sioux sticks around a lot longer. For example, if there were a new nickname, this site probably wouldn't still be SiouxSports.com.

Mafia-- Haha, I got you to defend Bieber. I agree on the cup, though. When I saw the cup my buddy and I debated for all of 5 secs, decided that since we weren't ever going to be playing for it we got to touch it. People are just picking on poor Biebs.

http://bleacherrepor...orial&hpt=hp_c4 Not EVERYONE thinks its cool he's touching the cup AND stands on the Blackhawks logo...

Fixed.