Hawkster

I feel Roughriders is out because of the GFRR connection, and I'm not changing my position on this, no matter what the argument is against it. Sundogs isn't worth considering either. My first choice had been Northstars but I'm not voting that way because so many others hate the name. So, that leaves Hawks and NoDaks and I'm going with NoDaks as well. It fits us, it's unique and everyone will know who we are when they hear the name. I'm pleasantly happy with my choice.

I have zero interest in leaving the Sky in football, and really I don't see the Summit as being that great either. It gives us a different footprint to recruit in for one thing. The other thing is we have a much better chance of making the playoffs in football in the Sky as opposed to the MVFC. Besides, I don't see the MVFC offering us an invite any time soon

Wouldn't do any good, the dumpster fire would only move to 4 other threads. Might as well keep it contained here. I'm surprised no one started a thread about the 2019 game yet.

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Bartles was rated number 2 coming out of fall camp. I don't know if anything has changed, but if he's still better than Mollberg, then give him a shot.

Not happening. The Montanas are going to pound us just as bad and so will Cal Poly. I had figured we'd lose to NDSU but the total lack of offense shows just how bad this team is. When you don't get a first down until the very end of the third quarter and have something like 4 or 5 yards rushing, it means you have a long ways to go.

Not happening. The Montanas are going to pound us just as bad and so will Cal Poly. I had figured we'd lose to NDSU but the total lack of offense shows just how bad this team is. When you don't get a first down until the very end of the third quarter and have something like 4 or 5 yards rushing, it means you have a long ways to go.

But you have to assume the teams we are playing are also getting better every week.

I'm thinking 2 more victories this year if we are lucky. We should beat UNC, unless Bubba pulls a Muss and blows the finish, and UC Davis, assuming they are as bad as everyone says they are. I really had high hopes for this year, figured we'd give NDSU a run in this game. How bad are the teams from Drake and Wyoming if we beat them?

No kidding. If we can't even get a first down we are in serious trouble.

This is downright embarrassing. We have a long, long ways to go to even be competitive. Bubba had better get going because I sure don't want this sheet to keep on.

I'm going with 24-14 NDSU.

I had very early said 8-3 and then revised it to 7-4 and had WY figured as a loss. I'm still sticking with 7-4 with loses to NDSU, Montana, Montana State, and Cal Poly.

WY 28, UND 21. I think we keep it close the whole time. No way we get blown out.

I'm glad Kelley decided to dump the idea of no nickname. I just can't get on board with that idea. I can live with North Stars, Nodaks, and Roughriders.

I think we are looking at this all wrong. NDSU doesn't have the money in hand and it has to come from somewhere. Donors are only going to give so much, no matter what you do. My guess is the bulk of this $700,000 comes from cuts in other areas. What we really need to look at is what is the rest of the Sky doing? The Montana schools said last spring they weren't going to do it and I think they meant it. The Sky is our real competition and that's where we look. We can't afford this for anything but hockey and neither can any other FCS school. You hide and watch, in a couple years NDSU is going to back away from this because in the end they wind up getting the same players they would have gotten any way and they have to bleed other programs to come up with the cash. There is a reason why only 2 FCS schools have announced going with this in the 6 months since this was implemented. It sounds good on the surface for cooler heads know nothing will be gained in the long run. Mark my words, NDSU back peddles soon. Do it for hockey and lets move on.

Starting Studs only makes sense. I've never been a big fan of Mollberg, and I've sadly concluded that Bartels isn't going to fully get the job done either, so it may as well be Studsrud since he's the future of the program. All I care about is making the playoffs and Studsrud gives us the best chance. And we had better make the playoffs, I'm sick and tired of no UND football after November.

Having no nickname isn't going to work. We all know what the agenda is of the no name crowd There is no need to refight the same battles again year after year and the only way we avoid this is go with a nickname. While Roughriders isn't my first choice, I can live with it and would support it. I can't live with or support being the University of North Dakota UND's.

That's for sure. We absolutely need to make the playoffs this year. Anything less is unacceptable

What I do find surprising is we are ranked only one notch above DRAKE! Something is surely not right there.

I brought up that very argument back in about 2007 that the NCAA could and probably would frown on the continued use of the Sioux name after we lost it, and I was shouted down by a chorus of free speech advocates who said I was full of bunk. We need to select a name and move on, there is no way the NCAA is going to let us stay as UND only, with the Sioux name then being the name we continue to use. I know you will still hear Fighting Sioux at games for years, we are going to have to at least make a good faith effort at this and select a new name.

I'm still staying with the position that we need an actual nickname. If we stay with just North Dakota, we will never move on. White I'm not happy with some of choices the committee gave us, most are still better than no name at all.

This has been very true in the past but I expect Bubba will step things up here as well.

I don't know where you got that idea from. I think most of us were led to believe that the agreement signed with the NCAA stipulated that we had to pick a new nickname, and no nickname ISN'T a new nickname.

I have to wonder how much this fiasco has cost in tax dollars? I'm assuming none of this was paid for with donations, so it had to come from tax dollars budgeted to UND. What a waste. Just get this thing over with and it won't end until we have a new name. Anyone want to even fathom a guess on what it cost?