Benny Baker

Being off sanctions for the past three years sure hasn't seemed to help this football team. If I see another season like this, we might as well go back to the "Fighting Sioux" because this team is never going to put itself in the position (making the playoffs) for sanctions to even matter.

I completely agree with you, brother.

Bubba Ball = punt ball off opposing team in order to offensively move football down field

Just wait until we have a new nickname, guys! That's clearly what's holding us back today. If we had a Sundog on our helmet, I guarantee we'd easily be leading this game.

From a trademark/trade name standpoint, UND will not have any issues moving forward with any of the five potential nicknames. This Cedar Rapids and Bismarck mayor stuff is a bunch of nonsense.

This (along with the North Stars) controversy is completely a non-issue.

Maybe from the mid-major FBS teams after the Power 5 break away.

Grand Junction

I know, right? Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on committees and marketing experts, and we come up with Hawks? At least we included an adjective to separate UND from the others!

He'll probably just name UND the "Robert Kelley's" as his last act in office.

Right! Instead, extrapolate the minuscule amount of hearsay we've heard to support the position of the anti-UND/North Dakota crowd!

Have it both ways then. But considering what the NCAA has said, and that you wouldn't put "anything" past them, I just question why you would risk the future of UND athletics--that is, unless you don't care about the future of UND athletics.

And yet, you openly wear Fighting Sioux gear to UND sporting events despite knowing that the NCAA has threatened sanctions if schools complain about fans wearing Fighting Sioux gear to UND sporting events. I mean, you wouldn't put that or "anything" past the NCAA, right? Too bad you're not looking out for UND's interests like me and the rest of us.

cool story, bro.

Eh, move along.

Well, since the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux no longer exists, that takes care of that!

If you're so scared about the possibility of sanctions against UND then you wouldn't wear Fighting Sioux clothes to a UND game. So you either aren't really scared about the possibility of sanctions against UND or you don't care about UND. Oh, and by the way, move along.

Don't recall seeing anything about that either. Again, whether or not there is a new nickname, the report from UND's office was that if other schools complain, the NCAA would investigate, and it might, might result in sanctions. If the anti-no nickname crowd actually cared about UND like they allege they do, they should make a bigger effort to stomp out the use of Fighting Sioux at UND games regardless of a new nickname. Instead, we have people like fightingsioux4life, who obviously cares nothing about UND, and says he's going to continue to wear Fighting Sioux gear at UND games regardless of what the NCAA says. If sanctions occur, I guess I know where to point the finger!

True. The tread title actually pertained to the settlement agreement and addendum. Darell, 82SiouxGuy, Sioux83, Sicatoka, and a few others all claimed that "no nickname" would violate the settlement agreement and result in sanctions. They were wrong, as usual. Now, some of them are creating assumptions from hearsay to fulfill their own personal belief that the NCAA will sanction UND at all costs. It's as if these guys want nothing more than UND to get punished. Kind of odd if you ask me.

How is it that you know for a fact St. Cloud State, Wisconsin, and Minnesota will all go "complain" to the NCAA because someone's wearing a fighting sioux jersey? How is that you know for a fact that the NCAA will sanction UND as a result of this fan wearing a fighting sioux jersey?

I don't recall seeing anything about sanctions resulting from "one person" complaining. I do, however, know that the NCAA allegedly saying that if "schools" (meaning more than one) complained, the NCAA would then investigate the situation, which "might, might" result in sanctions. Sorry, but I'm unable to thank you for playing when you're purposefully misrepresenting the few facts that we know, so there's no need for you to play again. Move along.

This is a good thing then! If Fighting Sioux chants are already fading into oblivion, then there really is no need to worry about those new threats of sanctions; i.e., other schools complaining to the NCAA about the use of Fighting Sioux. Let's move forward as North Dakota!

No, he compared your opinion on public rallies to election campaigns. For someone who represents himself as a "Sioux", you really seem to hate the idea of "Sioux Forever". Kinda strange.

Oh, I get. It's okay for you to use the sioux name, but you'll mock anyone else whose post might tangentially relate to the nickname. Gotcha.

says Sioux83.