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Belichek and Kraft had no knowledge of this incident. And they can't even prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Brady did after spending 4 months investigating. I'm not defending Brady (I believe he likely told the equipment official that he preferred the footballs less inflated but even that can't be proven) but again, you are blowing this out of proportion because of your hatred for NE continuously pounding Miami. What should Miami's punishment being for blatant violations of the tampering rules?

They were appointed, not elected and their job is to what is best for the school. If they determine not to choose a nickname, so be it but claiming "will of the people" thing is a little far-fetched.

I too was pretty disappointed in Brad's take on this. Maybe he hears from hockey fans more than anyone else and that's where his POV is coming from but it would be a colossal mistake in my opinion and feel fairly comfortable that the committee is aware of not picking a new nickname will cause the large majority to hold onto the old one because they have nothing to gravitate towards. Your second paragraph is spot on. People will slowly figure out they are cheering for and supporting a University and not a nickname or logo. I honestly wouldn't start getting too concerned at this stage. Names like those are easily deemed to be not offensive or controversial and at this point, it is a high level look on getting rid of the majority of garbage that was submitted.

I think you're over reacting because your team has been buried behind them for the better part of a decade. NE has won the division 11 of the last 12 seasons and 12 of the last 14. No wonder your bitter. What kind of punishment do you think Miami deserves for their tampering with Suh? No team is clean: www.yourteamcheats.com

Frost coming out and ground got soft. Lots of sloughs right where that happened.

I don't think the center hung one would work in the Betty but two similar to the first one would more than fight the bill coupled with the ribbon boards they currently have. Not sure on the HD thing and how it affects the price, but as you stated, the feed is already there.

Odds that genius realizes that Notre Dame plays in a conference in every sport except football? Not to mention there is a strong likelihood they will end up in a football conference in the near future and they only reason they are able to current due it is because NBC pays them $15 million per year just for the football rights. UND gets $1 million total for 5 years from Midco for almost all sports. But these are the people who should have a voice...

Someone must have thought there was a smoking gun somewhere. The NFL continues to succeed despite themselves.

WHAT?!?!

After 4 months of investigation and a 243 page report, the best they could come up with is that Brady was "more probable than not generally aware" of what happened and you think he should be banned for the season? Come on. Pretty weak implication of him whether its true or not. They couldn't come up with any hard evidence after all that digging around.

Because I have no clue, and I know it depends on size, but ballpark on cost for setup like that? The other main thing to consider would be location and whether or not it needs to be able to be moved/folded in to account for the multipurpose uses of the Betty. Depending on location they are placed, it may not matter though.

Not a perfect picture but:

I don't think that if they were doing it on behalf of UND they would be in their personal names.

Transparency:

UND released the list as-is, unedited as given to them from the consulting firm that collected it to prevent anyone from claiming they were not being transparent in the process. The uproar if UND would have done anything to the list, even if it was just cleaning up language, would have invited even more conspiracy theories than there already is. Honestly not even sure to what point they would have been able to censor it because of open record laws. More than anything, it provides sad commentary at what people will say when they feel they are anonymous. I'd guess a few rival fans wouldn't have been so specific on where they were from if they knew it was going to be released to the public. I'm sure NDSU and UM are proud to see their name get attached to this because some of their fans submit vulgar names and then specify which institution they support in the reason section.

Nokes remains as well.

Very well could be. They definitely didn't spend much time making it so it was clear.

Never visited yet you know all about the North Dakota experience. Did you spend more time submitting weasels Ermines 50+ times or coming up with your trolling justifications for it on here?

Well, I still have no clue how the list system works, but this was in the GF Herald's article this morning:

Then why such the incredible determination to stick UND with a weasel as a nickname? I also noticed you excluded Nokotas? Haven't bothered to look and see if there were others, that one stuck out as obviously missing from your list.

The price of that real estate hasn't helped anything out either.

So about this...claims seem fairly far off-base so far.

Wow. Unedited. Lots of class shown.

That one hurts. Thought he had a chance to play right away.

You were a week late on the Shay news. We're talking about when you said without Shay UND wasn't going to get Baker.