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don't remember if this has been suggested before and really don't want to go back over 40 pages of posts... Zebras, maybe the refs will think they are members of the Fighting Sioux team!

Although my vote went to Nokotas, agree that Roughriders would be the best and most logical choice. Have a feeling that it will be Roughriders up against Spirit and Flames as the three finalists.

Glad you like it. Feel free to bring it to the NDSUA&AS administration as the new nickname for your teams --> NDSU Flickertails.

and the expectations begin to rise...

OK, now on to the topic....... Albuquerque Anchorage Birmingham Houston Indianapolis Milwaukee Portland Salt Lake City Seattle Tucson tough question, that's probably why the thread got derailed. Winnipeg would have deserved to be on this list a year and a half ago even tho its not in the US. Apologies, I know I missed some place(s) that is(are) truly deserving (as in "why Tucson?")

Conspicuous in their absence --- where are the Gophers & Bulldogs?

I'd be willing to bet dollars to donut holes that "Fighting" will not be a part of the new nickname.

fair statement. any good nickname is already in use or was forcibly retired.

definitely great news

Has anyone heard if Midcontinent Cable will be picking up ROOT Sports?

Sell. Hockey has been to the Frozen Four & football is only now becoming playoff eligible. Football is entering the arena that hockey has been playing in for decades. Buy or Sell: UND football is undefeated at home in 2012.

+1 Where's BisonDan when you need him - to make sure it gets forwarded quickly and quietly?

take out the 5 conferences (SEC, Big 12, B1G, ACC & Pac 12) and UND is #49 among all schools

yeah, i thought that at first too. but the Hillsboro high school team is the Burros and Hillsboro Burros seems to roll off the tongue without a problem.

there are very few nicknames that will be unique. Liberty Flames, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Windsor Spitfires... at least its not another (feathered) bird Cavalry or Nokotas would be unique

Two very interesting statements: translation?: no more move-ups in the north central part of the country. St Cloud, Duluth, etc MVC doesn't want NDSU (cause deep down inside you know that they would jump at a chance to join the MVC)

actually have read your posts for quite a while on cs and ags and even venture over to egriz occasionally, alpha. enjoy most of them. but, sometimes it seems like you just want to pick a fight. so the question I pose is why do you pick SUU as a loss and Cal Poly as only a maybe? I think SUU will be so disheartened (and maybe beaten up) by the time they play UND that UND will win that game even though the Fighting Sioux will be coming off two weeks against Montana and Montana State. I, like most UND fans, am hoping for a split those two weeks. on the other hand, you give the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux only 4 conference losses. 4 and 4 would be a respectable (not great) rookie year in an established conference like the Big Sky. with the conference schedule UND has this fall and adding Portland as a non-conference game, you would probably agree only SUU's looks tougher on the surface. a 5 and 6 record is not as bad as one would expect from an established Big Sky prognosticator such as yourself. 6 and 5 is definitely a possibility and 7 and 4 is attainable (EDIT: and 8 and 3, 'cause, why not, these guys could do it!) its going to be an exciting year for UND athletics. welcome to siouxsports, alpha.

or 14 and 12 if Idaho decides to rejoin the Big Sky

yeah, I also have a sinking feeling its going to be Flames

Andrea Kremer recently interviewed Jackson for HBO. I don't have HBO, but on Tuesday's Doug Gottlieb radio show, she said Jackson sounds like he would like to coach coaches in how to guide winning teams. Realizing he has shown little interest in UND since his playing days here, would it be possible to get him to do that for Coach Jones?

Wouldn't have even needed Standing Rock's approval in 2005 - 2007. One tribe (Spirit Lake) would have been enough.

Isn't the street definition of insanity 'continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results'? As more details became clear (such as the NCAA meeting with Dalrymple, Carlson, Kelley, et al), many of us realized the NCAA would not change their position, so UND and North Dakota had to. Add that to the wear factor. The ongoing battle just wore the casual observers out. I heard, from students especially, that its just time to move on. Not everyone is as passionate about the nickname as regular posters on siouxsports.com.

Sorry, you are correct, as I reread my prior post, it was not very clear.

Believe me, I do not disagree. I am just as bothered by the Jeffrey Dahmer's and Timothy McVeigh's. My problem is when someone says they are in it for the good of everyone, but their version of everyone is not really everyone. Political correctness is not about being equal, it's about imposing someone else's version of equality on others.