Small Time

This university is at the crossroads.
This is ND's first year in Division One athletics. They made the move in part to keep up with the school to the south (NDSU) since they made the move to division one about five years ago (this would be the point where you point out how in the past ten years that the 'land grant' has surpassed the 'flagship' although when I ask the my students, the undergrads, about this fact (well it is a fact to everyone else not in GF) they deny the fact that they now attend the number two school in the state, whoa, I was shouted down in class last semester when I brought this up, ha ha love it).
The local paper has an article which explains how the Summit league (a goof-ball collection of schools from Maryland to Utah, Louisiana to North Dakota State, public and private schools with enrollments ranging from just over 28,000 students to just under 2,000) just decided to not even visit this campus for consideration to join the conference due to the logo and nickname issue.
Yeesch, this is a bad sign for this school. This is the conference that UWM left a few years back and never looked back (the history of this conference is a nice historical story of how schools wanted to get their teams into NCAA tournaments and how little known schools wanted to 'get big' by pumping money into their athletic budgets).
This will be interesting.
Link:
Summit Bypasses UND