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The staff also obviously thought more talent was needed at position by looking at the recruiting and who they were looking at for transfers/JuCo's. They also had a full off-season to evaluate workouts and abilities.

Welcome to the board!! Thanks for the valuable insight.

I haven't heard UND threatening to shut down any child care facilities so it clearly can't be that bad.

To be expected with what UND has returning for production but I'll take them finishing much better than that with zero hesitation. Q is a conference POY candidate. Baldwin and especially Bernstine seem ready to step in and fill the points that graduated/left. Shanks and Cashman have another year under their belt and will give UND a very solid inside presence. If Geno is anything near as advertised, this team could make some noise. Not sure who is or isn't redshirting but guessing Seales plays right away. I don't think it can be stated enough how huge the overseas trip was for this team, giving them a huge advantage working in the new parts before the season started. Roles are defined and players have bought in. The team chemistry will be very much improved and noticeable. That alone will make a huge difference. This team is going to be fun to watch. Duckies and bunnies until proven otherwise.

That sounds equally as terrible.

How do you figure, the schools granted the Executive Committee (or whatever it is called now) unilateral authority to make decisions. No more full membership votes needed. And how did that lawsuit that the Spirit Lake Sioux turn out?

To add on to that, while he's head of Sports Information, Ryan Powell is actually the one who handles the football team. Doesn't excuse that it took that long to get updated.

I was hoping for Gig 'Em Riders.

Still not updated....

I have to admit that if Nodaks ends up winning, I can almost guarantee I will laugh every single time the public address announcer at the REA yells "Here comes your University of North Dakota Nodaks!!" because of how bad it sounds.

In my life experiences, this is code for "no clue but I'm sure we can come up with something". That being said, outside of Fighting Hawks and maybe North Stars, pretty sure all the remaining names could fall under the category of being "pretty versatile" and are open to interpretations.

Starting with 13 seconds left in the 3rd quarter, UND had 3 drives following Idaho State TD's. Those three totaled 9 plays and 14 yards with no first downs taking up a whopping 3:50 of clock. Idaho State was a terrible match-up for how and where UND was banged up. EWU and maybe MSU would have been the only other two conference teams that would have been worse. That being said, UND gave the game away with multiple big errors on both sides of the ball.

Weekly 2-deep changes: Offense Brandon Anderson returns from injury to move back into #1 LG spot, Dan Bell moves back down to #2 (Anderson ended up playing the whole game last week after the staff didn't think he'd be able to go early in the week). Defense N/A Special Teams N/A Of note - Studsrud and Reyes both listed as starters on the depth chart, with the staff hoping they will play. Clive Georges not on the depth chart, staff is hoping he will play.

Friday - LJ Saturday - Drake

And what exactly is this other shoe going to be? So far the only thing that has came out is information that is 6 months old and has nothing to do with the claims you were making. There is a lot of connected people who post on here and everything is public information to begin with yet somehow a FargoU fan has the inside scoop that he heard second or third hand. Sure thing...

But hear me out here....what if a guy from Texas files the lawsuit? That seems like it would be a game changer, no?

Can you point me to this podcast? I'd actually love to listen to it but it appears KNOX doesn't have the technology or didn't think it was important enough to record.

With ISU having a 1-4 record including being on the wrong end of a few pretty good beat downs, a quick start would go a long way in making sure they don't start getting any confidence and into any sort of a rhythm. If UND is able to do that, I think they can shut the door pretty quickly, eat up clock and the game won't be nearly as close as whatever the final score might be. On the other hand, if ISU starts hitting some passes and moving the ball, could be a tough day for UND's secondary. I think ISU has the talent, they just haven't put it together yet. It'd be preferable if they didn't do so this week.

Well considering it was your main (first) argument on how/why he had standing, it seems somewhat important. And you didn't mis-type, you flat out presented incorrect information. Because of that, your first point on why he had standing most definitely is not still true. Since you seem to know quite a bit about this, could you expand and explain how being part of the Sioux tribe has anything to do with North Dakota not being on the ballot and gives people standing to sue the University of North Dakota?

I was asking what you were talking about since you were trying to be so vague about it. If you were referring to the guy down in Texas, it is no surprise that you didn't want to actually mention it. The guy is so committed to the cause that he's crowdfunding the filing fees (and what looks like to be a nice cut for himself), is hoping to have it filed maybe the last weekday before the vote actually takes place not to mention he has no ground to stand on. Not sure how that qualifies as "quite the push to get ND back into the vote" but to each their own. I stated long ago the my preferred nicknames were eliminated from consideration. That didn't change the fact that I remain committed to supporting the University of North Dakota and the student-athletes, not a nickname.

No med school, no law school, research grants are mainly non-competitive and USDA related, want to increase endowment 80% (will still be smaller than UND's) and increase enrollment almost 25% in 5 years (worked well for Chapman right?). Sounds Bresciani finally found JC's old stash of the good stuff...

You might want to re-check that...

Is the money to cover the costs he's going to get slapped with for a frivolous lawsuit? And what happens if (when) he doesn't raise the $50K?

That's a whole lot of conjecture. Don't vote for Roughriders because you don't know what you're voting for but vote for Nodaks because even though no one knows what it is, it can be adjusted? Seems like you're arguing the same thing just presenting it different ways. And football and basketball teams have had no issues putting "North Dakota" on the front of their jersey's multiple times in the past, seems to me that is about the same length as Roughriders.

The teeth gnashing over Kelley retiring in January and what it has to do with the new nickname continues to be a little bit confusing. A committee was picked to come up with the process. Another committee was selected to represent stakeholders, use the process that was previously decided upon and sort through the names (with the unfortunate help of consultants). They narrowed down the list to five names. Stakeholders are voting. The name that gets 50% + 1 of the votes wins (whether it takes one or two votes). Kelley didn't pick the finalists nor is he picking the new nickname. Kelley isn't the one that removed North Dakota from consideration, the committee tasked to come up with a new nickname (which North Dakota is not) removed it. He did get his hands a little dirty by taking into consideration adding it back, but doing so would have undermined the committee who narrowed the list down. The people who are claiming he is or will be making unilateral decisions are the same ones who actually want him to do just that. I'm in no way saying that I don't think the process could have been handled better because it is obvious it could, just seems odd that people are stuck on Kelley retiring in January when he isn't the one making the final decisions. If people really think that its a brilliant idea to stick this nickname disaster on a new president, they haven't been paying attention for the last few decades.