Summit Expansion?

[zooropa]

Star2city, is that you?

Nope. I'm just anal about some things that, in the big scheme of things, don't much matter.

Still, the overall travel partner arrangement does contain less than optimal pairings in order to make the whole thing work properly.






Maybe NDSU would consider moving to Watertown (warmer weather!), and WIU could move to Hannibal, MO (Mark Twain's birthplace!!).

[Kermit]

Maybe NDSU would consider moving to Watertown (warmer weather!), and WIU could move to Hannibal, MO (Mark Twain's birthplace!!).

Counter proposal: SDSU should move to San Diego to lessen confusion among national media types. You could then consider jumping to the Big Sky and becoming UND's travel partner.

[tjbison]

What's ironic about all that is:

USD is closer to SDSU than it is to UNO, SDSU is closer to USD than it is to NDSU, and UMKC is closer to UNO than it is to WIU,

you've got SDSU & USD @ 100 miles apart, not travel partners and UNO to UMKC @ 188 miles, not travel partners.

Instead you get NDSU & SDSU @ 190 miles and UMKC to WIU @ 290 miles.

My solution? Kick NDSU and WIU out of the league to simplify logistics.

Yeah then SDSU might have a shot to win the Conference

[zooropa]

Yeah then SDSU might have a shot to win the Conference

Yeah. I guess I forgot to congratulate NDSU for winning the Commissioner's Cup last year.

[zooropa]

Counter proposal: SDSU should move to San Diego to lessen confusion among national media types. You could then consider jumping to the Big Sky and becoming UND's travel partner.

The SDSU-SDSU merger... Scary part? Another Native American nickname to fight over (the Aztecs, and how, by the way did that one slip below the NCAA radar?)

However, last I heard, Doug Fullerton was talking to the Puerto Rico-Bayamon Cowboys about moving up to D-1 and joining the Big Sky conference in order to make UND look comparatively close to the rest of the Big Sky schools.

[56BISON73]

The SDSU-SDSU merger... Scary part? Another Native American nickname to fight over (the Aztecs, and how, by the way did that one slip below the NCAA radar?)However, last I heard, Doug Fullerton was talking to the Puerto Rico-Bayamon Cowboys about moving up to D-1 and joining the Big Sky conference in order to make UND look comparatively close to the rest of the Big Sky schools.

San Diego State was allowed to keep its "Aztecs" nickname because Aztecs were Mexican, not American,

[tony]

San Diego State was allowed to keep its "Aztecs" nickname because Aztecs were Mexican, not American,

Well, that, and nobody is using the name seeing as how they are extinct as a culture (kind of like the Vikings.)

[DjKyRo]

Well, that, and nobody is using the name seeing as how they are extinct as a culture (kind of like the Vikings.)

So UND could go with "Mongols" and be good to go!

[zooropa]

Well, that, and nobody is using the name seeing as how they are extinct as a culture (kind of like the Vikings.)

Hmf. I thought that, like the Maya, there were still a few left in Mexico, but Wikipedia says not, so I guess I learned *something* today.

[JSUBison]

So UND could go with "Mongols" and be good to go!

It's actually kind of a neat mascot, but I do see some problems for UND if they use this.

Let's work this one out to it's logical conclusion:

Mongols...Mongoloids....Mongs....Window Lickers
And it can only get worse from there.