jimdahl

You're all lucky that the Caps got a new logo, and that I felt the need to make sure everyone knew about it. There are new jerseys too. I'm not completely sold, but I like that they're trying to get back to their roots. I miss my old avatar, it was like looking in a mirror (with some extra hair squiggled on the top).

Sorry if this was already in another thread, I didn't see it. Many remember that the SD Board of Regents was very concerned about SDSU's D-I transition monetarily impacting the rest of the school, so put in place some rules to assuage those fears: The "you must have a conference affiliation" rule was never enforced, but the financing rules have been quite strict, preventing SDSU from accelerating it's scholarship growth at the same rate as wealthier partner, NDSU. No more. SDSU now gets to use institutional funds to catch up. SDSU Can Redirect Money - Argus Leader A cynic might point out the coincidental weakening of this rule, hypothesized to have been created to discourage SDSU, with USD beginning its exploratory year.

While we often discuss who our new peers are and who's being added to DI/FCS, it's sometimes worth taking a look in the rearview mirror to remind ourselves why we're on this road. Institutions approved for D-II membership And the new class:

I saw just this weekend that a Wisconsin State Senator ran over his granddaughter, killing her. Toddlers, cars bring tragedy - The Capital Times

For the record, calling someone a bitch or prick isn't allowed either. However, someone slipping an insulting name into the middle of an active debate is a lot harder to catch in a timely manner than a post or thread that's entirely smack. We try, and we do respond to reported complaints.

All is well here, thanks for asking We made it out to the ocean last weekend for just one night, and have reservations at a different beach for a weekend later in the summer. But the most summery thing I've done so far this summer, by far, was trading in the tired old convertible for a shiny new convertible. So now we mostly try to come up with excuses to drive when the weather is nice enough to go topless

Welcome to the board, Ryan. Though starting new in a 250 post thread is undoubtedly a bit daunting, you can see the Herald article on that topic and subsequent discussion of it a couple pages back in this thread. Glad to have you aboard.

It's not quite N.D., but we can be happy for our friends to the South. This sounds like a really cool project and a great win: South Dakota wins federal lab project

Bollinger set for QB battle - GF Herald

Similar to my disclaimer for the women's schedule in the previous post, add: 11-27-07 vs. Dickinson St. 12-08-07 vs. Valley City St. 12-18-07 vs. Mayville St. 01-15-08 vs. Mary 01-19-08 vs. South Dakota 01-31-08 vs. Mankato 02-23-08 vs. Nebraska-Omaha

A credible home schedule I was given overlaps with what you have above, and adds the following (no shockers, sorry): 10-25-07 vs. Winnipeg 12-07-07 vs. Glenville St. 12-08-07 vs. Dakota St. 12-11-07 vs. Mayville St. 12-20-07 vs. Bemidji St. 01-05-08 vs. Jamestown Coll. 01-19-08 vs. South Dakota 01-31-08 vs. Mankato 02-23-08 vs. Nebraska-Omaha

Area players on UIF rosters - GF Herald Former UND standouts find future in minor league football - Fargo Forum

No thanks -- I don't particularly care how many moniker police there are on some other site, my point was that it's only Bison fans who come here to police acronym and moniker spellings. There's no question that FCS is the current term and I-AA is now obsolete. However, I-AA is still in wide use and more widely understood than FCS; I'm sure we'll all fall into full compliance as these guys do. Of course, I still think (hope?) others might come to their senses and get rid of the "FCS" name before UND is playoff eligible.

Huh, this guy would disagree with that assessment

She was part of the nickname committee in 2000 when she was director of the Indian Affairs Commission. I don't recall, nor can I locate, any strong stance or activism from her. Her one press clipping from the Board's decision to keep the name expresses disappointment at the process (the Board overriding the executive):

I shouldn't have missed that one. Gipp was actually my secret most likely pick (faux odds aside) because of his ND education ties (see Paulsen's not-so-subtle hint) -- I should have kept digging, but it was a hurry-up job to get in my G.K. prediction on time.

I'll give: 3-1 Leigh Jeanotte 10-1 Skip Longie / David Gipp 50-1 G.K.

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While it looks really cool, this is the part that would scare me. To move over 1000 would take some serious time, IMHO, so you'd need to carry substantial inventory. The most obvious way to mitigate that would be to get some distribution agreements (e.g. into the REA Gift Shop and siouxshop.com). Then, I'm reminded of the time that UND itself couldn't get 400 people to commit to a license plate on a short schedule. Of course, I'm rather risk averse...

Minor, occasional for-sale posts are allowed as long as they're related to the topic (e.g. Sioux Football in this forum). Good luck.

I was leaving my hotel room earlier this week and saw plastered on the front page of a national newspaper a story about how I-AA App. State was getting a taste of "big time" football this Fall. It must have mentioned I-AA a dozen times. I actually chuckled to myself, feeling sorry for the poor newspaper that was about to be deluged by letters from indignant Bison fans who: 1) Staunchly chide anyone who dares still use the terminology I-AA (despite not a single FCS game having yet being played) 2) Blanch at any suggestions that I-AA ball is not "big time" It's not clear to me why Bison fans have taken on the role of online champions of the ridiculous FCS moniker, but it sure is amusing. I guess it's not that different from two years ago when we were attacked by the punctuation police who jumped all over any use of "IAA" or "1AA" instead of whatever it was they preferred.

NCAA clarifies position on blogging at NCAA championships

I find the accusation that the SiouxSports.com community is apologist for Kupchella so laughable that I'm a little surprised how many bites D-I's bait has managed to garner. I guess we're all desperate for anything to chat about in the slow off-season.

At one point, UND thought that since hockey was already playing at D-I that we wouldn't get to move another sport: 11-28-06 IAC Meeting The argument against those counting is obvious (we play D-I because there is no D-II available), but I can't seem to find a more recent reference that refutes that assumption.

You failed to propose an alternative for how we're supposed to judge the motivations of a relatively new poster. As I pointed out, we all have one useful criterion available to us -- reputation attached to the handle. You've criticized that criterion as discriminatory against people who don't post frequently. Undoubtedly, that's true. However, anyone can post any insight, true or false, under any name. If the handle Bob6923 doesn't have reputation attached to it through a memorable history of posting, by what criteria are you suggesting we judge his post? For a variety of reasons, people do make false posts; it's probably not a good solution to begin assuming anything posted anonymously on a message board is true and insightful. fs1 made some claims, and other posters asked for more details because they didn't know whether to trust him or not. I really don't see the problem with that. Simply complaining that PCM wouldn't have been similarly challenged doesn't address the problem I posed in the previous two paragraphs.