Somebody's Lying

[homer]

It amazes me that so many on this board want to give Kelley and Faison a free pass.

The denials yesterday by Kelley and Faison are just artfully worded denials like those given by any talented politician.

Kelley is stridently anti-Sioux nickname and two years ago he believed that the nickname was too big a hurdle for a successive DI transition. For him to scheme with Douple to use conference leverage as a means to get rid of the nickname is an rational - but unethical - plan. Conference affiliation was seen as the arrow that would kill the Sioux nickname: the perfect assassination weapon.

Remember, at the time, Spirit Lake approval did not seem possible. Kelley, with his PC mindset, could easily see a Douple agreement as silently heroic. Kelley likely dreamed of the private accolades he would receive from the hallowed grounds of Berkely, Madison, and Boston if he could successfully remove the name.

It's very telling that no other conference commissioner anyway has ever stated that the Sioux name - especially with the NCAA agreement - was ever a hindrance to membership. Patty Viverito never expressed that lie, neither did Fullerton. Douple's line about the nickname actually implicated the NCAA with duplicity, which the NCAA never would have wanted for legal reasons.

Douple's story is plausible. There is much more to this story than will ever come to light.

Anyone denying that Kelley did not have powerful motivations to make an agreement with Douple is hopelessly naive.

Good theory Star but in my mind if a deal was made than UND ends up in the Summit plain and simple.

Those other conference either made it perfectly clear that they where not interested in expanding (MVFC) or did not have to deal with the nickname issue since the plan was already in place (BigSky).

Once Gene Taylor first stated the Summit teams would not schedule UND due to the nickname and USD got accepted into the Summit than Douple insisted no visit would happen at UND until the nickname was resolved one way or the other he and the Summit where involved. I'm not giving a free pass but for as smart as you are making Kelly sound he had to have known if he didn't join the Summit this was all coming out.

[UNDvince97-01]

I'm not making an emotionally-charged rush judgment on all this yet. I'll give Faison and Kelley the benefit of the doubt until PROVEN otherwise. IF proven otherwise, so help me......

I do know however that Douple has proven over and over again that he is a piece of _____, and a puppet for the NCAA PC 'higher-ups'. One thing is for certain: If Douple DIDN'T tell Summit/MVFC conference members to not schedule UND in the past, he FOR SURE will be doing it now.

Good luck getting SDSU, USD or NDSU on the non-conference schedules in the future. I wonder if a school like USD would still do it regardless of what Douple says? It just makes too much sense. Will there be a Patty V/Douple spiteful joint venture on this? What would the possible repercussions be if a school went against the wishes of its commissioner in scheduling us?

The proverbial dominoes on this have only begun to fall.