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Game was streamed on Youtube (replay here). No word yet on UND's game being available.

Guessing they'll have to make up for it with a continuous rotation, keeping fresh bodies in. Hopefully one or two guys can step up and take the spot.

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That's just a ridiculous comment. Again, the kid hasn't even played his senior year in high school. Clearly the coaches see something you don't. For the most part, they have been pretty good at identifying talent at the high school level. Molding them once they get onto campus has been an issue in some cases, but that is a different argument.

Hoping that they include the number of respondents in the results as well. Curious how many students will bother responding.

Is it just a 1 question survey or are there multiple questions and ability to add comments?

Guessing it is mainly a reference to walk-ons which, because of roster limitations until classes start, can't join workouts yet. Assuming anyone who is expected to possibly have an impact this year is already at practice and it is getting pretty late to be finding a transfer, though you never know.

I'm not as familiar as you likely are but they won the D-1/U-17 division and aausports.org has them ranked as the #11 team in the country, not sure when that was last updated. The Prep Hoops Iowa rankings that you're referencing also haven't been updated since May 22. Martin Brothers is a hugely successful AAU team dating back decades. My only point is that the kid is on a successful AAU team, impressed the coach's in person at the Elite camp, had interest from multiple area schools and is a multi-sport athlete, yet you're already downplaying him as a mistake off a few games that as far as I can tell, weren't available for viewing and have no box scores. UND has a very good Iowa connection with Horner and Jones, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until the kid is at least on campus.

Didn't his AAU team win the national championship? I haven't seen any box scores that showed how he did but he was on a pretty good team. I also have not saw much of him in action except his highlight tapes but if the coaching staff was confident enough after seeing him in person at the elite camp, then I would assume they know what kind of player he is.

This. I've heard some players asking about them as well.

Jayson Hajdu (UND Sports Information Director) and Mitch Wigness (Assistant Media Relations Director) started a podcast a few weeks back covering a huge variety of things related to UND Athletics and talk with various guests. So far their have been 4 episodes. They have been pretty entertaining and have had a lot of insight you don't get to hear normally. Available on SoundCloud and iTunes. Episode 1 - Dan Hammer, Mark Pryor (UND VB), Pat Sweeney Episode 2 - Danny Freund Episode 3 - Brad Schlossman Episode 4 - Bubba Schweigert, Brandon Anderson (UND FB OL), Kent Keys (UND statistician) Glad to see the athletic department taking the time and effort on trying something like this.

Guess those underlying numbers showing that their record was all smoke and mirrors (and unsustainable timely hitting) weren't too far off and Molitor isn't some magical being who willed the team to those wins in his first season. Not a huge surprise they've been struggling but seem to be dropping to the complete other end of the spectrum. It was fun while it lasted I guess.

All schools have their offseason issues, UND included, but that's the second NDSU player to have some sort of theft charge against them this offseason.

Season tickets showed up today. Got my tickets to the game down at the FargoLoaf as well. Tailgating upgrades nearing completion. Ready for the season to start.

10 years since the policy was put in place but the fight has been going on for decades. Your last point is spot on.

I asked you the most likely outcome. And you seem to have no problem speculating on what the NCAA would need to do in order to enforce sanctions (which also are already known). Your long winded non-answer is pretty telling on what you think it actually will be despite your refusal to admit it. The NCAA using the words "very likely" should have been a tip off considering the actions that will trigger that are going to happen with 100% certainty.

Simple yes or no. From the information now known, what is the most likely end result to the question "Will the NCAA Sanction UND if School Does Not Adopt New Nickname"?

Quinnipiac, Michigan Tech and St. Cloud didn't get seem to mind when it happened during the Regionals....

You specifically asked if there has been comments from UND or the NCAA on whether choosing "no nickname" would result in sanctions. There is a statement from Peter Johnson stating the NCAA has said that it is very likely if UND chooses "no nickname" and the fans continue to use Sioux and Fighting Sioux (which there is absolutely zero doubt that they will). Your question was answered when it was stated UND was very likely to face sanctions (because it is a foregone conclusion on what the fans will do). And yet somehow, out of all that, what you get is that UND will not face sanctions? I get you're just playing a bit here, but being intentionally being dense to muddy the waters does no one any good.

To the first part: nothing. By all appearances, UND will have done everything in its power to move on, similar to my guess as why they haven't done anything to date (and is backed up by the NCAA stating that they feel UND has done everything in its power to comply). As has been previously stated, when part of the crowd that is publicly pushing for "no nickname" continues to simultaneously push Fighting Sioux Foreever, UND picking "no nickname" can easily be tied to them being OK with and encouraging Fighting Sioux being the de facto nickname. The difference between now and then would be UND would officially be taking a stance that they are fine with it as they would have "completed" the nickname transition. To the second part, it is a crapshoot to where the people who complained came from but I'd guess that there were multiple other schools that did (SCSU comes to mind along with the B1G scheduling policies), not to mention people within UND and others that have no affiliation with the school.

Guess you got your answer yet somehow it has not seemed to change the minds of those who are convinced nothing bad will happen. Seems very similar to the group that was convinced the NCAA would never force UND to drop the Fighting Sioux name, even if it was "voluntary".

Interesting catch-22 the NCAA has laid out. If the Fighting Sioux Forever crowd wants to continue to wear and yell Fighting Sioux related things, then the only way to do so without a very likely possibility of sanctions is to actually pick a new nickname. If they hold fast, insist that it is all about being unique and keep pushing for "no nickname", then they really will have to follow through and support "no nickname". I personally don't see the second scenario as plausible. There are way too many people that have it entrenched in their mind that the University of North Dakota can only be known as the Fighting Sioux (and the NCAA knows this). They aren't going to force UND to pick a new nickname, just like they didn't force them to retire the Fighting Sioux nickname. However, they have no issue letting the possible (and very likely) consequences be known.

I should have been more clear, I meant in the coming year. The word out of Fargo after the announcement in January was that NDSU would be paying FCOA going forward, though a portion of that was from the "fans" with all the inside information. Within the last month or so, NDSU pulled back on that and announced they weren't doing it yet and are still looking into it (as are many non P5 and G5 schools)

You finally get concrete evidence that there is very likely consequences to choosing "no nickname" and then proceed to downplay it. The NCAA also gave UND the green light to continue to use Fighting Sioux if they wanted.

Where did it specifically state anything about a new policy? It said that if UND chooses "no nickname" that is fine as long as fans don't resume using Sioux or Fighting Sioux or sanctions are very likely. Not that the fans ever stopped but the difference is that at that point UND has chosen to go forward and they can no longer be viewed as transitioning to a new nickname. In the end, it doesn't matter whether the sanctions occur because the NCAA says that UND didn't actually transition and is violation or because of a new policy. The end result is the same and not favorable. The NCAA played it perfectly, the same as they did when UND "voluntarily" retired the Fighting Sioux nickname.