jdub27

My understanding is that Brown was up here at a camp and really liked the facilities, campus, coaches and current players. He was headed to camps at USD and SDSU right after UND's and decided rather than wait to see if they offered, to take the UND offer before attending the other camps. It was also possible that UND was only going to take one guard and by waiting, he could have missed his opportunity. Being he liked everything he had seen about UND, it wasn't worth the risk.

What you're saying is completely different than saying "All the big alumni seem to want to keep the no name option".

Huh? What or who's comments are you basing that off of? Dave St. Peter indicated that he was open to the idea but also didn't say he was against having one. That's all that I've seen. But somehow "all the big alumni" want "no nickname"? All the recent polls, though very unscientific and with no actual degree of accuracy, have indicated that people prefer Roughriders over "no nickname" and any nickname over "no nickname" (GF Herald, Forum, SiouxSports).

Odd that you'd bash the kids from Canada since NDSU made a late offer or two to a couple of the kids that were already committed to UND last year.

Congrats to Campbell, great showing and did UND proud!

UND announced it was moving to D-1 in July, 2006 so whatever you are trying to imply makes no sense.

New first round record with 20 (19 actual homeruns). No big deal. Some moonshots in there.

Do not like that one game a week throws a wrench into the other 11 teams broadcast availability. I get why its in there but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Thanks for the updates.

Excellent. Love it.

Terrel de Rouen is no longer listed on the roster on UNDSports.com

Agree. Think he would have fit in very well as a DE in the 3-4. Not much argument on your second point either. For the record, I have no clue how much money either school offered him.

Good get for them. I heard NDSU offered more money (that's how that works right....?)

No argument from me on that. Its why I took the time to hunt down the comment, I knew someone with quality insight must have mentioned it otherwise I wouldn't have remembered it.

There is insulation above what you can see.

Can we have a thread titled "Fetch's Random Thoughts"?

There's conflicting information on whether UND is using the turf from the Alerus or not. I (and others) were under the assumption they were but VMeister said they weren't. I've never seen it confirmed one way or another.

Not to mention the continued negative press and attention that was drawn to UND and brought up any time UND was in the news because of it or the resources that have continued to be allocated towards it. I'd prefer to talk about the performance on the field/ice/court/classroom rather than what's on the front of the jerseys.

I was included in that group as well. My point was that it is an issue that isn't going to go away or improve and it becomes a balance of whether the negative connotations and publicity are worth it. For multiple reasons in UND case, the situation was a net negative.

Like the protests against the name in Cleveland and Washington? Cleveland continues to move away from the imagery but Dan Snyder continues to keep his head in the sand.

I've been inside, massive doesn't really do it justice. Can't wait to see once the inside is finished.

Agree very much with your first statement. Qualification on your second statement, I believe that this camp did run for a time when Mussman was head coach at UND (or at least AHC/OC for sure) and only went on hiatus because Bollinger had conflicts. That being said, sounds like him (and his dad) have a good relationship with Bubba and that was part of the reason for starting it back up again. Not sure if they had something similar in the interim but doubtful that it would have had the "name recognition" element without Brooks.

Weird how NDSU fans and staff seem to be the ones embarssed about it. But just another game on the schedule. Have they said it enough times to convince themselves of it yet?

Red River spells it Roughriders and uses Roosevelt imagery as do the Frisco RoughRiders (who seem to use a hybrid spelling of the two, one word but capitalize both R's). Also, the committee has the power to make slight adjustments as they see fit to any remaining finalists (such as changing "North Stars" to "Stars", etc)

Not to mention it was a one line snippet from a multiple hour meeting. Guessing KG said a lot of things that could be interpreted many ways when they are presented with little to no context.

Correct. Just clarifying that North Dakota didn't officially adopt it until 1911.