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How many members did the Summit lose and gain during that same time frame? Lost Oral Roberts IUPUI Oakland UMKC SUU Gained Oral Roberts Omaha Denver That excludes Centenary (lost) and USD (gained) which occurred in 2011.

I'd guess Sherva will likely end up seeing more playing time than most expect. On top of that, despite the position having a ton of talent at the top, there really isn't anyone behind them. There were 7 RB's on the roster and one of them is a converted fullback and another might have moved back to LB, though I'm not positive on that.

Good depth pick-up. Looks like a nice change of pace guy who can spell the top 3 guys if necessary.

Incorporate the silo into the R?

I'm sure there will be a few money games. Doesn't look like many of the bigger schools have released their schedule yet. Also found a home game against Presentation, which is no surprise.

UND travels to SDSU on 12/12. Not sure if it is the front end of a home/home or a paid game. Hopefully the former. 11/27 - Presentation 12/5 - @Creighton 12/9 - NDSU 12/12 - @SDSU 1/16 - @NDSU

The problem is that those that don't like or haven't accepted the reality of a new nickname seem to equate any attempt UND makes at marketing themselves and the athletic department as "forcing it down people's throat" which is absurd. UND is finally stepping up their marketing after a lackluster 5+ years in that department, people will just have to accept that the Fighting Hawks brand is going to be part of that. The alternative is the status quo on how they were previously handling their marketing and Kennedy has made it clear that path is not acceptable. I can't say I disagree with him. It was embarrassing the lack of resources that were being dedicated towards promotion and branding, though with how big of a mess that area was, you can't really blame them. They finally have things put into place to make a push and are following through accordingly.

Yep, just didn't want to get people too worried if not necessary. Lot of concern on his and the trainer's face right away. I had a few choice thoughts immediately as well. Guessing he didn't do much the rest of practice as precautionary reasons as he seemed OK for the most part jogging across the field after 10 minutes or so talking with the trainers.

I can't top Teeder's review but I agree with pretty much all of what he said. Greibel and Erbes joined Hunt on the sidelines today, but nothing that looked real serious. One of the CB's went down with an upper body injury during drills, they took a long look at him and sent him over to the sidelines to watch the rest of practice (at least until I left). Hopefully nothing serious, though I was near where it happened and was concerned from the initial reaction from the player. Ray Haas just looks like an absolute monster out there lining up on the edge as an OLB. Impressive how a lot of true freshman look the part already. Thought the offense had a little better showing than the defense in the live drills I saw. Seemed to me that there was a focus on getting the ball to the TE's in a lot of drills. Not sure if it was a point of emphasis or just what the defense was giving them. Bartosh's catch got a great reaction from the crowd and offense. Not so much from the defense who intially thought they had at least a pass break up if not an interception.

There's at least handful of schools or pro teams that use negative white space in their logo at center ice: And again, it looks just fine on the mock-ups the Sioux Shop already sells:

Meh, they sell beanbag boards in the SiouxShop and if they did it like that, it would look just fine. Obviously the word mark wouldn't be there and there would be the sponsor and conference graphics, but overall, I think it would look better than doing just a word mark, which was pretty subpar when they tried it last time.

Parts of it were in the works but temporarily put on hold.

Or come up with a secondary logo that isn't so bad it has to be scrapped. No argument from me on that.

Not quite. Those schools all use those markings as actual logos (primary or secondary), similar to when UND would use the interlocking ND, which was an official logo (secondary that became primary for a few years). The Fighting Hawks word mark is not considered a logo.

He was out of eligibility and didn't get a 6th year granted.

Well, one is people doing something at a public event that is usually broadcast on TV and comes off as embarrassing, the other is anonymous posts on a message board that can easily be skipped over or ignored with a simple click.

And $500,000 in international bonus pool money. Not a huge amount but increases their pool amount by almost 10%.

STATS FCS Preseason All-Americans DB - Cole Reyes (1st team) KR - John Santiago (1st team)

But if he would have been a scholarship player, we would have got to hear about UND using a scholarship on another player who didn't have an impressive offer list.

When a portion of the fan base continues to do something that appears embarrassing to the rest of the fan base and University, I think speaking up on it is fair game.

Personally knowing some of the people on the committee, that is a complete lie and takes some unnecessary shots at some people who have done a ton for UND. I do agree that part of Kelley's job when he was hired was to take care of the nickname issue but the writing was already on the wall when he started in mid-2008 as the settlement was signed in 2007.

It actually seems strange that three isn't more concern. It's a legit concern. For whatever reason either fans are either unaware or have blind faith in Douple. I'm not sure which is worse.

To each his own. The new sound system will be a big improvement but I thought that and the "curious" hawk were great.

Are your serious? They are at the minimum at both sports required to keep their autobids and IPFW, who has sponsors both, is now out on an island. The Summit has truly never been stable. They currently have a good core, but not the numbers in sports where it matters due to not sponsoring football. Either you aren't paying attention or really only care about football.

A lot of those big donations take years to secure, likely just a timing issue. Might be some correlation with the NDUS Challenge grants as well, though I don't remember the exact timeline on those.