I wonder if the NCAA is trying using the forces of the marketplace to drive 
NoDak into compliance?  In other words, if you don't change your nickname, 
we won't play you in your minor sports.   Or, if you can't win legally, beat 
'em with economics!

Which leads to the RPI solution.  Leave the hockey team as the Fighting 
Sioux (everyone still wants to play them) and call the rest of the school 
the Fighting Dakotas.  I think Dakotas (Dakotans?) is a darn sight better 
than Red Hawks.  Right, Ralph?

Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric J. Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: U Of MN Stands Firm, Won't Play 'Fighting Sioux'


> UND will find opponents and if the Gophers don't want to play so be it.
> I would imagine they will think twice before they schedule NDSU again.
> It would have been a fitting end to the Gophers season if they had lost to
> NDSU in football.
> By fitting end I mean no bowl game.
>
> Eric J. Burton
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: U Of MN Stands Firm, Won't Play 'Fighting Sioux'
>
>
> Someone stated that the reason U on MN will not play UND was because they
> wouldn't draw a good crowd.  I believe that the second largest crowd for a
> Gopher home football game came against UND's contemporary down I-29.
> Gopher home football games:
> 1) Iowa- 64,140
> 2) NDSU- 62,845
> 3) Michigan- 50,805
> 4) Temple- 45,612 (home opener)
> 5) Penn State- 45,227
> 6) Illinois- 44,610
>
> UND will travel, maybe not as well as NDSU, but the UM is loosing a good
> non-conference gate not playing UND.
>
> Wisconsin and the University of Iowa have similar policies.  This does put 
> a
> little financial cruch on UND move to Div 1 in all sports.  Smaller 
> programs
> need at least one big payday per year to offset some costs.  For example U
> of MN paid NDSU $275,000 this year, Iowa paid U of Montana $500,000 and
> Texas A&M is reportedly paying Montana State $750,000 next year.  I'm sure
> UND can find some other dance partner, maybe FSU feels bad, but the 
> regional
> big ten schools are nice for fans and allumni.
>
> Random hockey content.  As a Sioux season ticket holder and a UMD grad, my
> hockey life can't get any worse.  My biggest highlight of the 2006-2007
> season is a tie against SCSU.  UGH!!
>
> Matt Sullivan
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