fightingsioux4life

Look Junior, I am as big of a critic of Kelley and Faison as you will find. But you are simply wrong on this issue. Deal with it.

I suppose we should do what they did in Baltimore during the civil unrest last week and have the games in an empty arena? Because that is what some of these games have been like. Meh yourself.

It is "fans" like you that are holding this entire institution and its programs back with your "hockey only" rhetoric. While NDSU wins FB titles and goes to the NCAA tournament in MBB, we sit around and fight losing battles like this over and over and over again, even with the knowledge that we cannot and won't win. We fought the good fight and lost, so it's time to move on and start building Division I programs (not just hockey) that everyone can point to with a sense of pride. But if that isn't good enough for you, you are more than welcome to get off the bandwagon. The rest of us will proceed to enjoy the ride upward and forward.

MafiaMan is the only person I have seen that is crabbier than usual on Fridays.

Which scares me as someone who really wants us to build strong mid-major basketball programs and an FCS-title contending football team.

Makes no sense. But I suppose nothing about this whole sorry issue makes sense either. So it kind of does make sense, in a nonsensical way!

I like Aviators. We could use a picture of the Red Barron on our hockey jerseys!!!

Goon should breathe easier.....Sun Dogs has been thrown onto the ash heap!

I don't think that Karl Goehring (Chair of the Nickname Committee and all-world goaltender) will allow anything stupid, insulting or embarrassing to reach the serious consideration stage. Whatever list they send to Kelley will have some decent choices on it.

I never saw this coming. I don't know how long it will last, but it's nice to see the Twins competitive again.

But according to some people, Kelley and company are doing a great job because they are telling people "no" more.

Some of the "fans" quoted in the Heraldo cover story on Thursday need to hear that as well. Because they are confusing a nickname with an institution that many of us here have strong positive feelings about.

Umm, I am dedicated to the Vikings, not to any one player. As great as AP is, he is not bigger than the team. No one is. Nice try though.

Yes and there are too many people that jump on and off and can't make their minds up.

True fans stick with their teams no matter what. Any fans of the Purple who want off the bandwagon are strongly encouraged to get off and stay off.

Bottom line: I don't like Kelley's leadership style. He does everything he can to keep his fingernails squeaky clean no matter how sticky the issue, he runs and hides behind his staff and lets them do the dirty work and then he'll come out of hiding and proclaim to the entire world "Yep, the buck stops here!", when in fact it never even slowed down there. EERC needed intervention, it was having problems that weren't being solved. Aerospace is one of the most successful programs on campus, why does it need to be "in the crosshairs" at all? They more than pull their own weight on campus. Kelley wants to put a fair-haired boy into place that he can remote control from his office. Any "waste of taxpayer money" is a result of all these new VP positions that Kelley seems to believe are absolutely necessary. All he wants them for is to make it easier for him to micromanage everyone. You will never get the best out of someone if you are breathing over their shoulder all the time. And please don't make this political because when I come to work on campus, I don't see "liberal" or "conservative" or anything else. I see a dedicated group of faculty and staff doing what they can to help students reach their goals and get off to a good start in life. We are not "wasteful", "entitled", or "spoiled". Faculty work as hard (if not harder) than all the self-professed working class heroes on this forum and in the hinterlands of the Midwest. Same goes for the staff. And one last thing, what do you have against Reader's Digest? End rant.

Not an option, I don't care how many people are quoted in the Heraldo saying otherwise. This issue will not go away until we get a new nickname.

Lack of leadership at the top from Kelley and his minions to Faison at the Athletic Department. Trying to sneak controversial decisions by everyone so that people cannot express their objections and/or concerns about said decisions. That about sums it up. Some people were critical of Ken Baker, but that was the last UND President I really liked. I wish we could go back to that kind of leadership.

I think just using "Stars" instead of "North Stars", with a unique logo, would work. Although I think someone on here would find something in Webster's Dictionary that disqualifies that too. Some people here need to get over this idea that anything that anybody uses at any level of sports is off-limits. There really aren't that many unique names that aren't being used by someone. Whatever is picked, a unique logo can be designed to help distinguish ourselves. That is the best we can do in our current situation.

Well, considering UND is a college and the Wild are a fellow competing NHL team, that isn't necessarily apples to apples. UND using the North Stars name and logo wouldn't threaten the Dallas Stars at all.

Go with just plain "Stars". Sure, it's a little bland, but it's better than a lot of alternatives (Prairie Dogs, Sun Dogs, Spirit, Flames, Green and White, etc.).

Isn't that an added bonus?

I must admit, it's a cute little animal. But that is what makes it a bad choice for an sports nickname.

Questioning the loyalty of a fellow poster is not cool.