geaux_sioux

Clemson SC, population 42,199. Football stadium seats over 80,000.

maybe you should change your name to 'facepalm' so it gives people a heads up to what they're about to read

It's because of sports

I grew up in Grand Forks loving the Fighting Sioux and enjoying their success. I am an alumnus of UND. I have more Fighting Sioux gear than I probably should. It's the best nickname in all of sports and easily the best logo. The logo means even more to me since I got to know how great of a guy Mr. Brine is from being in some of his art classes. I am also a very stubborn Norwegian/Swed that would love to keep everything to spite the NCAA. That being said we need to move on. There would be nothing more selfish for us to do than to bring about the death of UND athletics just so we can have a nickname and to keep dragging this nickname, which represents more than just the school, through the mud while in the process making the whole state look ignorant and short-sighted. We need to move on because what good is a nickname and logo if you have no sports teams worth cheering for.

Sure this team doesn't look the part but all it takes sometimes is to get in and get hot or lucky or both. Who thought the Giants would win the SuperBowl this year after they barely got in? Not saying we'll do it, but we are overdue. The white to green ratio of banners in the Ralph needs to be adjusted.

And yet anothother in a long line of soft goals at inopertune times in the career of Eidsness...... my blood pressure spikes with him in net, cant trust him in a big game as far as you can throw him

I think I'm going to puke if someone mentions Bradley as a possible starter next year, he could hardly get the ball to the reciever on a bubble screen. He would propbably be a decent qb for a team like Mankato. Comes, on the other hand, has plenty of arm talent and good pocket presense and has had two years to digest the offense. Hendrickson has an absolute cannon and is one of the fastest players on the team but has maturity and consistancy issues. This spring we will see what Hansen can do, I hope he has 'it' and can allow the coaches to use the playbook and create mismatches. I am extremely excited to see the new players show what they can do this spring and see how the younger players have improved but please, please lay off the Bradley Kool-Aid...

Had he left his purse in the locker room instead of bringing it on the ice with him every night he couldv'e been great. He shyed away from contact like it was his job. That doesn't work at UND regardless of how much of an offensive defenseman he was. Chay had no problem with getting a little dirty and he probably doesn't come up to Lee's shoulders and was a more productive player. I can't say that many other players have been more dissapointing to me in my history of watching UND hockey. Such a high draft pick and not much else to show for it...

I'm sure they will just look at the further expanded playoff feild as more chumps to invite for a Fargo Dome playoff beat down like they did in the 90's......

Toews did just fine as a 17 year old. If he comes in at 18 years old we might only get him for 1 year insted of 2

apples and oranges

' 216 with a 5.5 average at Fresno. Jake Miller had 961 yards and 13 TD's even though for half the season apposing defenses knew that even a slant was testing the outer limits of Joey Bradley's arm strength. After the first 4 games teams were putting 8 in the box all day and asking us to pass on them, which didn't usually go well.

With the departure of coach Belmore perhaps we should try and bring in Jimmy Kleinsasser in as a coach. He could possibly coach tight ends and coach Schleusner to wide recievers. I just think it'd be extremely cool to have him on staff call me crazy but I think it'd look great and be a fantastic fit and selling point.

he was talking about recruiting coordinator

we're pretty stacked at guard right now. DT and OG are pretty similar positions as far as o and d compairisons go so im sure if our depth is at quesiton he'll be the first in line to fill the hole.

Am I mistaken in thinking that the coaching staff at NDSU is virtually the same as the 2003 one that lost to UND? Would that have been a coaching advantage for UND or better players or a fluke? If you look at the UND defense and special teams you can tell that they have great coaching. Everyone was down on Mussman even though he had to try and win with the pile of talentless garbage that Lennon left for him but I think that what he was able to show this year was nothing that a substandard coach would be able to accomplish. As far as geographical coherance..... would you rather drive to Vermillion SD or charter a flight out to Cali? Play at SDSU or Montana? Let's not act like NDSU didn't want to be in the Big Sky. The reason they like football in Fargo is 1. Fargo Shanley was once the top high school team in the nation and engrained football in the blood of Fargo and 2. they have nothing else to cheer for. They like their basketball but every weekend I-29 is packed with Fargo residents driving to a hockey game in Grand Forks against a premiere power school. We are rivals with Northern Colorado from the old NCC and have played enough meaningful games with SUU Davis and Poly to be budding rivals. And with Montana playing at the Alerus three years in a row you can bet there will be a rivalry brewing. The prominence part starts next year because winning during the trasition is hard but in the long run means very little compaired to making a playoff run. We will see them in the playoffs next year if they don't get complacent in the off season.

He was off the list and now he's on. I'm glad thats all it was.

Is there a reason that anthony fletcher isn't listed on SFI's 2012 commitments list?

Just like NDSU was the only real good team from 'the valley'

Don't forget about Townsend. He had a horrible ankle injury his freshman fall camp and from what I hear is just now getting back to being where he was with the ankle befire the injury. He could be a big time possesion reciever. Also Roman Bridges should be a stud kick returner. And Jer Garmin can hopefully improve as much as Jake Miller did from his freshman to sophomore year. I'm expecting big things on offense, the playbook should be wide open.

sure he's injured. but you can't injure chemisty, which that line has alot of.

Is anyone else excited to have another player with a great football name on the team? Conrad Schwarzkopf is an excellant name. Myles Jablonski is another. Stanchik is another. Anyone have any favorite classic football names of former players?

Yup. I don't want to spoil any surprise though

I didn't say right now spaz. Look at the process that Boise did apply it to UND. Yes, Really. It was people like you who gave them no chance in those games. Fool you twice shame on.....?

Boise State did it. Beat Alabama, beat Oklahoma. Short sighted people like yourself will always doubt visionary statements play it safe and watch the risk takers do great things.