The first is that UND has been full bore confrontational from the word 
go.  I have never gotten the sense that they were willing to sit down 
and talk to the NCAA with any sort of flexibility, as other schools have 
done.  One can argue that the NCAA should ignore UND's attitude and 
judge just on the merits of the case, but we all know the NCAA.  Still, 
I have little sympathy for people who were so obviously spoiling for a 
fight when they then start complaining that they're in a fight.


The second thing, which is intricately related to the first, is that 
when a university allows a mobbed-up, fascist-loving crook to become the de facto spokesman for its athletic department, it shouldn't be 
surprised when there is some downside to go with the hundred million 
upsides.  My guess is that the NCAA is as much opposed to UND's 
connection to Englestad, even after his death, as it is the Sioux 
nickname.  You ought to acknowledge the extent to which it built up some ill will.  On this matter, UND really is failing to live up to the 
wisdom and ethical standards set by the NCAA, and that's a pretty 
amazing accomplishment.
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Why does a school have to be flexible when the policy is wrong? The only reason the NCAA backed off Florida State was they felt the push back from a big time Division one school and felt huge political pressure from a power governor and state. The reason the NCAA didn't back off UND was because hey new we were a small school and we didn't wield the power that a FSU or Utah State does. It was also a way to take a swing at UND because they weren't happy about the way the Englestad arena deal went, basically the NCAA say it as a thumb in the eye and were made that Englestad and UND didn't bow down and kiss the ring of the NCAA. Second; notice most of the schools that allowed the NCAA to bully and casue them to change their teams names were small powerless schools. The NCAA even backed off a bit on Illinois, I am convinced that U of Illinois is eventally going to take a piece out of the NCAA's butt too, they are just waiting to see how the law suit goes. 



On the second point: this is the same tired bullsh!# that UND fans see from misinformed fans (they don't know all the issues surrounding this) or the ones that are from other programs that don't know what is going on in this matter. This is usually the same tired crap that is being feed to us from the left wing elite professors and the John Hoffs of the world, so of it’s do to jealousy because UND has been elevated themselves to almost an unfair recruiting edge with the arena. Although it appears that this is not the case this year. 

I think its funny to some especially some of the fans to the south east on I-94, using the same old tired rhetoric using the same boring and worn out stuff; Nazi’s and Reichstag, Hitler blah, blah, blah... 

Incidentally now John Hoff is the University of Minnesota’s problem, I wonder how long it will take the before he wears out his welcome down there, actually good riddance. 

Anyone who has half an idea what is going on in this case knows that Englestad was cleared by the FBI and ruled not to be a NAZI. Also Mr. Englestad did a lot for charity and for people that were physically challenged, than most. No matter what happened Myles Brand (who I think is a moron) was never going to let UND get a fair shake and was never going to let UND use their name for NCAA events. I think a lot of it has to do with the arena and the fact that most schools don't have such a nice facility for division one hockey. I also think the NCAA was surprised that UND stood up to them. In the end when it is all said and done and the UND lawyers are doing taking depositions from all 20 NCAA employees and after this drags out for some time, maybe the NCAA will get tired I am pretty sure they didn’t want this to go to court. I have been told by someone in the know that we are getting a lot of support behind the scenes from other schools.