Siouxperfan7

So who was more relevant last year in college football? Arkansas State or NDSU? Pretty obvious answer.

Thinking that statement is a stupid thing is the next stupid thing. Winning a MAC or Sunbelt Championship and playing in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, while sure a huge accomplishment, is not what the FBS world would consider relevant. Winning a P5 conference Championship and/or making the playoffs is relevant. If you think that NDSU would even have the ability to attempt to accomplish those goals and become "relevant" you are beyyond delusional. I reallu hope you were being sarcastic in your comment. Because if not.....WOW!!!

Whether UND stays with Midco in the future or jumps to FSN, I would love to see them get Clay Matvick to be the play by play guy. The guy is a hockey announcing stud and has done very well foe a long time. I realize that he does work for the grand daddy of them all network (ESPN) but would be great to see a guy like him come in and be the voice of UND hockey on TV. A pipe dream I know, but hey, why not!!

Our house!! In the first ever Fighting Hawks/Bison game, UND will protect the "hawks nest" and win 69-65. #fhawkthebison

Dexter Werner > Shanks or any other big we put against him. Do we have anyone that can slow him down? Totally dominated us last year!

Well, I guess we can change the name to the "Friendly hhat about how everyone feels about the honorable Coach Brian Jones - be respectful please" thread!!

Umm yeah, they both left the Big 12 less than 5 years ago. I don't think they are itching to get back.

So were fans really booing, or were they just saying "Siooooooooox"? (Or were they saying booo-unrs? )

Look at the numbers. Look how may eligible voters chose not to vote. Same thing that applies to political elections applies here. If you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain!!

Gear up!!

Fighting Hawks Forever!!!

I think we may gain recruits ans transfers if Jones is let go!!

Walthall would be a great coach for UND. Look at what he did at MSUM?!! I would be on board with that hiring!

I like this logo. However, I think it is too black. Needs more color. I know we aren't the Green Hawks (thank God) but I think it needs to use our school colors more. I would like to see this with maybe the green and the black reversed., at least on the head. The black on the beak can stay. Just my thoughts.

Cause it's USD!!!

Lennon to USD perhaps??!! I guess it depends on whether he wants to continue coaching.

Jones has only had 1 season inwhich UND ahs had more than 18 wins. (That's ONE). That was one of the years they rattled off 3 straight wins to win the Great West Tournament. Look at his record. Not really that impressive. Great west titles and CIT first round tournament losses are all he has to show for his accomplishments. I guess you can throw in a runner up finish in the conference tournament a couple years ago too. Are those worth extending his contract after this year? I guess thats up for Faison to decide. I would say anything less than a top 4 finish in the Big Sky or an NCAA Tournament appearance and he is done. Lofty expectation? Why not! Certainly hasn't lived up to even mediocre expectations!

http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/3885424-update-und-nickname-fighting-hawks-kelley-reveals-his-vote "a group of stakeholders will help select the design firm while another group will work with the firm to create the logo" So it looks like there will be at least a little input from people other than the logo design firm. Important thing is to get the right people on the committee. Who those are, I guess that is up for debate.

When I emailed in before about the winning name needing be at least a 50% majority, Peter Johnson replied back twice to my emails. These guys do read the emails they get. People voiced their opinion last time and they listened and changed the process. So they actually do care what people think.

I haven't seen a committee do such a horrible job of following the criteria laid our for them since.....the Nickname committee!!!

Big Ten teams are not scheduling FCS teams anymore. Announced it last year. All games currently on Big Ten schedules will be honored. So NDSU will play Iowa next year and that may be the last one. Big 10 schools were not going to schedule UND in any sport as long as we still had the Sioux name. Obviously the Big 10 changed their policy for not playing any FCS schools, but we still play Big 10 teams in other sports. This was 1 of many factors for reasons to drop the name.

Quality Wins > Quality Losses. All day every day, and twice on Sunday!!