fightingsioux4life

You sir, have no idea what you are talking about. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. Shame on you for potentially misleading undecided North Dakota voters and thus putting UND athletics in serious, long-term peril. Now please, go sit on the beach and soak up the sun. That way, you won't be able to damage this great institution.

We get it, you are a hockey-only, nickname-at-all-costs fan. Please go back to the Men's Hockey forum since that is all you care about.

The thing is, everything won't "go on as it always has". You sound like one of those 65 year old grandpas living in Kief, ND who thinks everything should stay the same forever and ever. Well, our world just doesn't work like that. Our world has very real cause and effect consequences in it and they will not be kind to UND if the name and logo stay. Our Potato Bowls and Homecomings will feature the likes of Mayville State, Dickinson State and Sioux Falls College. How many people will care enough to buy tickets to those matchups? Nothing less than the future of UND athletics is at stake on June 12th. Please, everyone, think long and hard about this before you vote.

The Big Sky isn't going to kick us out unless it is almost 100% certain that the name and logo will be retained forever. And that won't be known until 2013 at the earliest. Let us all hope that they don't decide they are sick and tired of us screwing around with this issue and give us the boot. It would spell the end of athletics at UND.

I voted today at the Alerus Center: Measure 1: No Measure 2: No Measure 3: No Measure 4: Yes Measures 2 and 4 will drive the most turnout, with Measure 3 drawing some people as well.

My condolences.

I just got back from voting early at the Alerus Center and I proudly cast my YES vote for Measure 4, which would repeal Carlson's Folly and allow UND to retire the name and logo.

As with everything else connected to the Big Sky Conference, this is contingent on what happens with Measure 4 on June 12th. Get out and vote YES and allow UND to achieve all it can at the Division I level.

Fetch is too busy trying to lure an AHL team to Grand Forks.

That must really irk Don Cherry and all the CHL brass.

It's the unrestricted submarine warfare that the CHL wages on College Hockey to get all the best talent in North America. It's also the "live and let live" attitude that College Hockey has towards the CHL. This is a unilateral war in which one side uses machine guns and the other side uses wooden swords. It shouldn't surprise anyone that these things are happening. College Hockey, Inc. needs to take the gloves off and really get after it. Stop being so nice and deferential towards the CHL.

I wonder how much "Torts" will whine and complain about his season being done? Thank God that clown is out of the picture until next year.

Pot-Kettle-Black

Don't stoop to their level. They have lost and they just don't realize it yet. Or they simply don't want to.

Ever since Karl Goehring graduated and moved on, our fan base has always whined and moaned about the goaltending at one point or another. Every goaltender we have had over the past ten years has been raked over the hot coals by our fans at one point or another. Anytime we lose, it's the goaltender's fault. I think it's time we all realize that this is a team game and you win and lose as a team. While I don't think Dell is the best we've had over the past ten years, he has been good for the most part and good enough for us to win most of our games. I can almost guarrantee you that Gothberg will be burned at the stake by the same people that are talking him up today.

Or the Nazi death camps in Europe.

Wow, what a bunch of granola-eating, politically correct hippies! It's plainly obvious that they have had it in for the nickname and logo all along, so we should just shun them and vote no on June 12th, right? Only if you believe the irrational rantings of the "nickname at all costs" crowd, led by the "incomparable" Rob Port. If you want your sanity intact, please get out and vote YES on Measure 4 so we can move on and build a successful Division I athletic department.

The 2010 Olympics, in February 2010.

This is pure baloney. What GF folks are sick and tired of is the CHL lying and distorting the truth to get kids to sign with them. The idea that the CHL is "the fast track to the pros" is pure garbage and is not supported by the facts. What about all the kids that didn't pan out in the CHL and were tossed aside after their usefulness was at an end? They can't go back and change their minds, it's too late for them. Too bad, so sad, right? It is time that College Hockey, Inc. fight fire with fire. Get some stories from kids that were used and discarded by the CHL. Get some stories from kids that were promised the moon to sign and then were shocked to learn that it "just doesn't work that way here". Get some stories from kids that were promised help to pay for their education and then didn't get the help when they needed it. I, for one, am so sick and tired of the conciliatory approach that our fans and fans of college hockey take towards the CHL. I can guarrantee you that the CHL does NOT take the same kumbaya approach towards us. This is war and I want to win. Do you?

Where is the "nickname at all costs" crowd now? Where are all the conspiracy theories as to why the poll came out the way it did? I would bet Rob Port is blowing his stack right now!

What the heck are you talking about? You, DaveK, yababy8 and everyone else on the Vote No bandwagon have had free reign to express yourselves on here. It's not my (or anyone else's fault) that you are a part of a radical, extreme minority.

Watch the threats and insults, son.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0SUZRzp7Sg