Dr. Cornelius Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 North Dakota has waited too long and will not be added to the conference. ----------------------- http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/1745/ UND has missed it's opportunity to joining the Summit League this year. UND president Robert Kelley says he talked with League commissioner Tom Douple over the last few days and learned UND has missed the scheduling window for the 2011-2012 season. Full Article: Summit League will have to wait another year for UND GRAND FORKS – The University of North Dakota will not be able to get into The Summit League athletic conference’s 2011-2012 schedule, President Robert Kelley said Tuesday. By: Tu-Uyen Tran / Forum Communications Co., INFORUM GRAND FORKS – The University of North Dakota will not be able to get into The Summit League athletic conference’s 2011-2012 schedule, President Robert Kelley said Tuesday. It appears that this would’ve happened anyway if the State Board of Higher Education retired UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname at the board meeting last week. Kelley said he spoke after meeting with league commissioner Tom Douple and was told it was already too late. The league was putting the finishing touches on the schedule and was working on contracts among league members, he said. “The bottom line is that door has pretty much closed on us.” At the board meeting mid-January, Kelley and Athletic Director Brian Faison had told the board that there was still about 30 days left to end the controversy over the nickname. At that point, that meant getting rid of the nickname – before the door completely closed. They also warned of the high costs of sending teams all over the Great West Conference, whose members are more geographically dispersed compared to The Summit League, and of the opportunities lost in a stronger fan response, and revenue, from playing old rivals, such as North Dakota State. The league has UND’s membership application, but won’t act on it until the nickname issue is settled. Under a settlement with the NCAA, which considers American Indian nicknames offensive, the university can either win the blessings of the state’s two Sioux tribes by Nov. 30, 2010, or retire the nickname. At UND’s urging, the board has tried to move the deadline forward so the university can get into the Summit League. A lawsuit by nickname supporters from one of the tribes, the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation, stopped the board from retiring the nickname after its Oct. 31, 2009, deadline. The board won that suit, but chose to not take action in January and this month out of respect for the Supreme Court, which is scheduled to hear the issue on March 23. Kelley said he’s told North Dakota University System Chancellor Bill Goetz what he learned from the league commissioner and, informally, spoken with board President Richie Smith. Disseminating the news to the entire board, he said, is Goetz’s authority. Smith, like the rest of the board, was under the impression that there was a single “drop-dead deadline,” Kelley said. The reality, he said, is there are a series of deadlines that gradually reduces options for a university seeking late entry into the schedule. Now that it’s clearly too late for 2011-2012, that doesn’t necessarily mean UND can just wait around until the Nov. 30 deadline, according to Kelley. Other universities want to join The Summit League, too, and it’s not clear the league would want to expand beyond adding one more member, he said. The league’s members will confer in March by conference call and again in June. Kelley said the league commissioner told him he’d ask league members in March if it would be possible to accept UND’s application contingent on the nickname issue being settled. Of course, one way or the other, it will be settled by Nov. 30 because of the NCAA settlement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 . . . And in related news, UND's RPI of 327 is on the rise, according to RealTime RPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOLO_Gold Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Similar to us, most if not all of their home games are broadcasted on Fox College Sports. It would be nice to add a team to the Summit that saw the value of investing in a television deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Cornelius Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 Good point. It would be nice to add a school like UND that has a TV contract. Maybe NDSU will get its act together. I think that UND focuses primarily on hockey... their FCS deal was done to showcase their hockey team. They are a hockey school first so their addition probably wouldn't help us. There are several players from UND playing on both the Canadian mens (Jonathan Toews), USA mens (Zach Parise), and USA womens teams in Vancouver. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancou ... oly,221096 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakesbison Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 YOu guys dont want UND in this league. THEY will fight at every game, they are horribly ignorant.. hell the guy that built their hockey arena?? ralphy engelstad threw NAZI parties and hitler bday parties at his casino and once called the indians of north dakota "prairie ni___" just trust me, you do NOT want these people in our league. HOCKEY is their #1 sport and they have 16 canadians on their team and they love to fight and its just a shame. their bball team is #347 in the nation. 0-16 vs D1 teams. anyone can get a tv deal, big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 YOu guys dont want UND in this league. THEY will fight at every game, they are horribly ignorant.. hell the guy that built their hockey arena?? ralphy engelstad threw NAZI parties and hitler bday parties at his casino and once called the indians of north dakota "prairie ni___" just trust me, you do NOT want these people in our league. HOCKEY is their #1 sport and they have 16 canadians on their team and they love to fight and its just a shame. their bball team is #347 in the nation. 0-16 vs D1 teams. anyone can get a tv deal, big deal. . . . Meaning what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Canadians are rednecks??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Canadians are rednecks??? I dare you to meet me on a hockey rink in hockey equipment and say that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 I'm not sure they make hockey equipment big enough to fit me, Ron!!! Not only that, but *I* wasn't the one that said it - I was only the interpreter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 I'm not sure they make hockey equipment big enough to fit me, Ron!!! Not only that, but *I* wasn't the one that said it - I was only the interpreter! I was only playing along, tmh. You know that, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakesbison Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I almost fell over, UND is claiming that TOM DOUPLE will consider them at the JUNE meeting. ARE YOU F_____ KIDDING ME?? If any of you have watched the total embarassment of an university the last week should know that THEIR OWN BASKETBALL COACH was quoted as saying "Id rather have the nickname than the summit league" <<< in a HUGE CONDISCENDING way!! Their fans, coaches and admin has RIPPED on the Summit league nonstop, they belittle it, sayings it's a rinky dink and below them. email douple@thesummitleague.org These arrogant pricks are the same people demanding the TRIBES let them use their nickname sioux even though in 1992 the tribe council voted 12-0 to have UND STOP USING IT. and again in 1999. DO NOT LET THEM IN> Contact your president & AD. their fans are hockey fans, they will fight you in grand forks, at summit tourney they are horrible individuals'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theeagleman5 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 TheEagleman thinks that lakesbison has hit on the perfect nickname for UND....the Arrogant Pr#%*@KS.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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