Benny Baker

bisoninwmn, do you ever come out of the shadows? Or do you just lurch around opposing teams' message boards and drop negative votes on UND fans' comments? Just to let you know, there's a limit to the number of times you can do that. So make those negative ratings accordingly!

Good post. It was Bison fans who started bringing up hockey in this thread, not me. I'm sorry, but any time I hear Bison fans mock UND hockey relative to NDSU football, especially when they've raised the issue, I'm going to point out the fact that NDSU football, and even UND football for that matter, can and will never be able to compete with the elite competition (FBS) in football whereas UND hockey has reached the pinnacle of competing against the elite competition (Division 1) in hockey on seven occasions.

Fixed your post.

Says the guy in a hockey jersey.

Hmm, was anyone saying this was a popularity contest?

In the lobby at their hockey arena.

Ohio State are the national champions. Nice try though.

Haha, really? They won their conference title last season and won their NCAA regional for the 7th time in 11 seasons against premier college opponents.

What people watch is their own prerogative. I also care about FCS football, which is lower level football. NDSU's lower level football success is not comparable to UND's division 1 hockey success. That is all.

That mentality hasn't stopped UND from having success against NDSU in football. 62-46-3.

Thanks for the negative vote, but I do hope that UND has success in FCS. But FCS football is not all that impressive. It's the honest truth.

I know UND fans that wear hockey jerseys because its the only college program in North Dakota history to win a real Division 1 championship, and UND hockey has done it 7 times. You might think your cow college football team has won a Division 1 title, but in reality, there's over 120 real division 1 programs contending for the real division 1 title. NDSU's small time college football success should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as UND's real division 1 success in hockey.

Those were the days. I definitely took those conference and national championships for granted at the time.

Just stop. Go to the NCAA news section.

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!