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Ever since Ed O'Bannon told them they are all starving college athletes forgot how to feed themselves and became instantly too poor to buy food.

He is talking about being able to feed themselves. They have the same dorm food and scholarship room and board allotment that everyone before them had-at EVERY college in America. But now suddenly kids are starving and can't make it. How did the kids before them feed themselves and also get bigger and achieve success? What a mystery.

I cannot believe all the football players that came before these poor kids were able to actually put in 5 years of work and win dozens of conference championships and even a national championship. I mean, they had to feed themselves or eat dorm food. How did they survive?

Why do they have two different school districts so close together?

There is a huge dropoff as the draft goes on. They needed a reliable point guard to distribute once Rubio gets hurt so I like it. They gave up Rakeem Christmas from the Cuse (meh) and some guard from Turkey. I would say it was a pretty good trade.

Comical.

What? No and not sure I want to.

These violent, sometimes homicidal, incidents are becoming daily occurrences in Fargo. The Forum and WDAY's websites are filled with stories.

Thanks for sharing.

Can't wait til the Sioux name is relocated to the history books and trophy cases forever. Then, I can change my handle and move on, also.

Very sad news. RIP Travis. He seemed like an outstanding family man.

Is she still the immediate Boss of your life and have the ability to make your life miserable at any time?

Exactly. What are the merits for not having a nickname? UND is already "North Dakota" on all their marketing stuff - they can go by that for the next 200 years, just as they did before. Sioux sometimes, North Dakota sometimes, UND sometimes.

Why do you want to stay "North Dakota"?

As I said before, it was an issue. Not anymore due to no sanctions or naughty list.

The hockey team also has a 100 million dollar arena to sell and possibly the best history in the NCAA hockey. Football and basketball do not and have to fight for everything they get just to try and build their program. Anything that can be used against them is a problem. The conference and name issue were verified problems.

2007-2012. Once the Big Sky move was named it stopped alot of it. UND had the double whammy going against them with no conference and NCAA sanctions being levied if they didn't get approval from tribes. It was bad around 2010-2012. Local teams did whatever they could to "remind" recruits about all the issues up in Grand Forks. I don't think the name issue comes up anymore since the NCAA backed off.

What you want, an article? People can only relay what the actual coaching staff has told them.

Five assistant captains? They should just tell us who isn't wearing the 'A'. Make it mean something.

That is a great question and point. Five years from now if the NCAA said UND could get their Sioux nickname back due to tribes backing it, should UND stay unique and confident in their decision to be 'North Dakota'?

The only fan base (basically hockey fans) in the history of collegiate athletics where no nickname is good enough. Get over yourselves.

Why do they annoy the hell out of everyone with Lewis and Clark ads all summer? Cause they passed through ND? I didn't know the new name had to be someone/something that spent X amount of time in the state of ND (with X having a minimum). Better pick an animal then. The only other group that spent X amount of time in ND wants nothing to do with UND.

Really, LOL'd huh? Wish we could get a cool name like Sooners, Jackrabbits, Cyclones, Badgers, Gophers, Spartans, Wildcats (all 50 of them), Bobcats, or Tigers. Those are really cool nicknames (that everyone seems to think are actually good and are accepted).

And if their isn't a dirty connotation that can be applied to a name, it probably sucks. And if the name doesn't suck then it probably has already been used by somebody. And if..... We can go round and round forever. ITS A F'CKING NICKNAME. Get over yourselves. Pick a damn name and get this over with so the University and it's fans can move on and start investing our capital in something that matters.

What would make this whole process worth it is if they chose to stay 'North Dakota' after 6+ months and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested. Let's do that.