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Would the NCAA's "Death Penalty" be appropriate here? Of course, if they wouldn't use it on Penn State FB, why would they use it here? Either use it where it is appropriate or get rid of it.

Okay, then how about the time and energy that Kelley and Faison have to devote to this? That takes a toll on those two, don't kid yourself.

The bolded section above is what is wrong with UND today. All that matters is hockey and if everything else goes to Hades in a hand basket, then so be it. As for the other programs not making money, that is the case with 95+ percent of collegiate athletic programs. Most schools have only one revenue sport. For us, it's hockey. For NDSU, it's football. For Duke, it's basketball. But it's also possible to be good in more than one sport (see Florida in football and men's basketball). A myopic focus on one sport is not healthy for an athletic program. Also, it's not my job or your job to find more resources. It's Kelley and Faison's job, with help from the UND Alumni Association. They are making good money to run this campus and athletic department, respectively. And FCOA is coming, we just don't know when. I would like to have some sort of game plan in place that doesn't involve slash and burn athletic department budgets. In short, I am sick of hearing how poor and destitute we are as an athletic department. I will say this again: If we don't have the resources to put competitive and championship contending teams on the field/court, then we shouldn't have moved up in the first place. Sometimes I wonder if we moved up just because FU did. That is never a reason to make a move such as this. But now that we have made the move, there is no going back. Finally, no one has said the nickname issue is the cause of all our problems. What I meant was the resources that go to the nickname fight could be better used to build our non-hockey Division I programs. Of course, some people don't really care about that, which explains some of the divisions on this forum and elsewhere.

Well Ira, I agree with all of this 1000% But you realize you will now get raked over the hot coals for pointing out inconvenient truths. Which truths, some will ask? These truths: That NDSU has overshadowed us to the point where a lot of people outside the Grand Forks City Limits don't even know we exist anymore.That our coaches salaries (outside of hockey, of course) are bargain basement laughingstocks.That too many of our fans and stakeholders think everything is just hunky-dory because we have REA and Men's Hockey and that nothing else really matters.That underachieving and even downright lousy coaches get way too much rope to hang their respective programs with. I am talking about Mussman and Jones in case anyone was wondering.That our AD has already stated in public, in the Grand Forks Heraldo, that there may be some cuts to the budget in order to fund FCOA for Men's Hockey and an equal number of women's scholarships. This is beyond unacceptable and if we go this route, we might as well drop down to NAIA.All of these things will not get fixed and will in fact get worse if the nickname debacle continues to drag on and on. Too many precious financial and human resources are being devoted to this issue and not enough to the issues I have laid out above. We can fight this losing battle or we can strive for, and achieve, excellence in all our programs. We cannot do both.

Me either, a few years ago I called him Phil Load of Crap when he was getting beat over and over again. That said, I never like to see someone get injured like that. Get well soon Phil.

Yes, Teddy looks confident and sure of himself. Last year, he didn't have a reliable running game and the O-Line was okay sometimes and other times terrible. If those two things improve this year, look for Bridgewater to have a breakout sophomore campaign.

In all fairness, the "vikes" in bigskyvikes refers to the Minnesota Vikings. I might not agree with him on much, but I believe him when he says that.

Anyone else feel like we are having a lot of kids leave the team for one reason or another? It's not good for the program's depth.

Farmers will always need fertilizer and this is a big agricultural state.

I think part of the problem is there was a fight over access to water for the plant. It involved someone complaining that the project would harm their private lake, which was man-made to begin with. You won't hear any of the stakeholders talk about it, but I think that is the real reason. I hope those people are happy and are enjoying their little lake on a hot day like this. The price was steep and will be paid by others. Anyone else hear something similar?

Well, Red Sox fans had to wait 86 years between World Championships, so I guess I can wait a little longer for the Vikings to do it. And they finally have competent coaching and a competent front office making good decisions. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

The Vikings are going in the right direction. A playoff berth would be a clear sign of progress.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the NCAA's policy regarding use of American Indian nicknames during NCAA postseason events. On Friday, August 5, 2005, the NCAA announced the following: NCAA Executive Committee Issues Guidelines for Use of Native American Mascots at Championship Events 10 years and counting. And some people on here want to fight this to the death...no matter the cost.

Which is why we cannot go without a name. I don't trust any of those suit-wearing fat cats any further than I could throw them.

People used to complain about "those damn hippies"; now a lot of them are successful professional people. Today's hipster is tomorrow's accountant, lawyer, doctor, etc.

Post of the weekend!!!

As for what to do with the old Hardees/Mia Mexico/Dickey's BBQ location, I think Grand Forks should put a cloverleaf interchange at Washington and DeMers on their transportation wish list. I avoid that intersection at morning and evening rush because of how congested it is. The Dickey's BBQ location (SE) is vacant, the NE corner is vacant, the NW corner is vacant and the SW corner has a Sinclair gas station, which could be bought out and relocated west of the cloverleaf on the north side of Demers. It could be the best addition to the Grand Forks street grid since the Columbia Road overpass.

Yeah, here we go with the Fargo is the Center of the Known Universe woofing again. Even Howard Stern will tell you that is not the case (and I don't even like Howard Stern). Grand Forks is a much different (and better) place than it was 20 years ago. The 1997 flood was a blessing in disguise, it forced us to reinvent ourselves. Now we have a large and prosperous (despite itself) UND, the new UAS tech park, the soon-to-be-built fertilizer plant, the UAS mission at GFAFB, continued Canadian traffic and more home and apartment building than any other time I can remember (and I have lived here since I was 3 years old). Go back to Bisonville and talk about how NDSU is just one step away from joining the Big 12 in all sports now that wrestling is there.

Actually, CNN has turned into a milk toast network that tries to be all things to all people. And that doesn't work all that well in this era of 500 channels and audience fragmentation.

Ditto for me as well.

Is that all you have left? Cute little two word answers in all caps?

And what would those be? Bringing back the Fighting Sioux name and logo and "accept the sanctions"? Have separate hockey jerseys that don't have the name and/or logo because regionals aren't held on-campus anymore anyway? Give a big FU (not a reference to that other school 75 miles away this time) to all the other sports we sponsor because they aren't played on ice? Are thoses the "ways out" you are thinking of? Sorry, that ship sailed a long time ago. We are coming up on 10 years of fighting this battle and we are still in the same place we were on August 5, 2005. When is enough enough?

And we have yet more cherry picking.

Because a legally-binding agreement says so. That trumps any quotes or press clippings you post on here. The last thing the NCAA will tolerate is the Fighting Sioux name and logo living on as an "unofficial" nickname. They are not that stupid. Misguided, yes. Stupid, no.

Man, you are cherry picking more than Dave Spehar did for the Gophers back in the day.