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We're saving our breaks til the end.

1948-49 Hockey sweaters arrived today. These were also the same style worn by the football team in the 1930s.

Yeah, you do gotta work on your BL Lime problem. Haha.

Sicatoka, I do know why you are smirking. I wonder if that would work.

There are a bunch of updates I added to Sioux-Jersey.com. Click the picture below for a detailed list:

I like you more everyday Goon.

If you guys want, I can do different style mockups. It's something I've been thinking about doing for fun on my website (sioux-jersey.com). I can take former ideas from the past and combine them with the current jersey style, or do something completely new. It'd be a "Concepts" page if you will. UND has used a few different styles in their history that had no depiction of, or anything relating to, "Fighting Sioux". From a jersey standpoint, I love anything that relates to Sioux because of the great logo history the team has had (especially our current logo), but a jersey can look good without anything Sioux related as well. One idea I'd be curious to try is the old script style "North Dakota" wordmark on a jersey of today. Maybe I'll tinker....

How about something like this? I made a concept similar to this a couple years ago. I always like simpler fonts and designs.

The jersey itself is the same as the current style, and the front logo is one that UND has been using a couple years now. I really didn't take any liberties with the design on that, just a quick mock-up. I can't say it's the worst thing I've ever seen, and I think that speaks more to the rest of the jersey than the front wordmark. I really don't care for their new designs, and completely agree with LetsGoSioux! about how cartoonish and high schoolish that the new designs depict. They aren't very powerful.

This would be my guess: My reason being is that a couple years ago, when they updated the ND logo, they also had a multitude of other items created from a new font to a plethora of wordmarks. I would guess that this was one of the reasons they went this route, and would be the perfect opportunity to really implement some of those designs.

Can we bring back Finley, Jones, Radke, etc. for this series? I wanna see the poop and pee colored team laying all over the ice.

The NCHC could permit the stipend, and if your school can't afford to pay out your allotted stipend money, tough luck. It's not a requirement for your institution to pay the stipend if your conference allows it. Heck, I hope UND is the only school in the country that can afford to pay their hockey players. With all that said, I'm sure this is something that will get added onto student's tuition at nearly every university. Using the $72,000 figure above, if you add $7 to every student's tuition fees (which would cover an entire year, so $3.50/semester), not one kid would likely notice. Now, if you did this for 5 sports (and triple the amount for football), you're basically adding roughly $50 ($25/semester) to each tuition. Is that ethical? Debatable. But, with how the university wastes money in so many other ways, what's $50 a year to keep the status quo? I don't see this being a huge problem anywhere really.

Joe has a younger sister whom he loves very much who is severely handicapped. Wheeler used the handshake line to spout some BS comments about Joe's younger sister and Joe would have none of it. I think you could say something about anyone else in the Finley family, and Joe would let it slide, but you don't say something about his sister. I completely condone what Joe did in that situation, and any one of you would have reacted the same way if you were him.

How awesome would it be to do a traveling trophy with Wisconsin called the "Waterbottle Trophy"? Yep, confirmed, that would be awesome.

MacMillan Corban Knight

As an outsider looking in, I think Leslie Frazier is a big-time failure in the making. Looking at him on the sidelines, he looks absolutely clueless. I listen to all the press conferences for Coach McCarthy, among other coaches who have achieved something, then you listen to a Leslie Frazier interview, and it's like, you're the coach, have a backbone and stand-up for something. Childress, whether he was right or wrong, at least believed in what he was doing and had some emotion about it. Same with Denny Green. You have to be firm and decisive, and Frazier is not that. I'm not saying he doesn't know the x's and o's of football, because he obviously does, but some guys just aren't meant to be head coaches. Yes, I know that every head coach has a different style and personality...the Tony Dungy's on one end, and the Bill Parcells' on the other...but, any successful head coach has good leadership abilities and make their style work. Frazier just seems like he's always waiting for someone to come up to him and tell him what to do next.

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Like goon said, it's run by the federal government. It also loses billions each and every year. Obama also wants to build more of them. Recipe for success?

I don't see enough offense with this team. Very little in terms of senior leadership. Denver, CC, Minnesota, Duluth, and UNO will all be tough teams in the conference this year. I see a 4-5 place finish.

Hak is an awesome coach, and like an above poster said, he gets kids to come in, work their butts off, and commit to a program with 100% loyalty...Sioux hockey at its finest. The one thing that I am starting to doubt is the system that is employed on offense. Dumping, chasing, cycling, cycling, cycling, cycling, turnover is a bit frustrating. Some years, the personal might dictate a game like that. However, when you have very skilled teams like last year, I'd prefer a very aggressive offensive approach with a bunch of guys crashing the net hard...a lot like what BC does when they turn it on. We can still play physical, but why take away the skill of your best forwards by pushing them along the boards and making them fight puck battles constantly. Yes, I know we've had one of the highest scoring programs over the last 5-6 years on an annual basis, but I think it could have been even better with a more aggressive approach on offense. It's tough to see all three forwards along the boards, half the time trying to just keep control of the puck. I do not want Hak going anywhere, but I'd like to see something new from an offensive standpoint. I know our defense cost us more than anything yesterday, but I'm looking at a general concern over the last number of years where we struggle to get things going offensively at times.

Not to make you Vikings fans feel any worse, but actually, it's been three games they've been ahead at halftime.

If you want to win Super Bowls, then yes, you have to have a QB who is more than just a game manager. But, the Vikes don't have one, so someone who CAN manage the game is your next best option. McNabb has been sufficient in that manner considering the short amount of time he had to learn the offense. He can't go win you a game by himself, but if you mix him in with a $100M running back, and a decent defense, the Vikes should be better than 0-4. That's why I think it comes down to the coaching. Let's face it, the Vikes don't have a winning roster right now, so to expect McNabb to come in and make the team a title contender was just not very thoughtful. However, the Vikes should have at least a win right now.

Nelson Kristo

Yes, I purchased the package. They were also in 109. It's hard to believe this, but these will be my first hockey games at The Ralph since spring of 2009. I've made it to a bunch of road games because they worked out better travel-wise, but I'm pumped to go back to The Ralph, which hopefully will be rockin'.

Goon, that quote has a mistake. It says the Sioux lost prematurely at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines. The Sioux only lost because of Hunwick. UND outclassed Michigan in pretty much all other aspects.