It seems longer than 6 months since North Dakota lost to Yale in Worcester. But a new season also brings new hope. I have to admit, I’m very excited to watch UND play this season, and why not. They will have a good team, with great leadership; including Captain Chay Genoway, the key ingredients for a championship team.
But when most teams have a purpose or rally call for a season, there is no better reason then to play literally for the sweater a team wears.
As most know this is the last season UND will be wearing the Fighting Sioux logo and what a better way to honor the pride and spirit of the Sioux logo but to win the National Championship.
Tonight I will be at BU’s exhibition game, as I always do, proudly wearing my Sioux jersey. As BU gets ready to play in the Ice Breaker Tournament in St Louis, I find some irony in this.
As I mention above UND is losing their logo this year. However, the “hostile and abusive” rule imposed by the NCAA does not seem to apply to sponsors. Warrior Sports Apparel is the sponsor of the Ice Breaker tournament this year. The Warrior name is based on a Michigan high school - Brothers Rice Warriors.
I know the NCAA would say this is not an NCAA sanctioned tournament; this is true. But if they feel strongly about this type of abuse then the NCAA could make a determination that teams which agree to play in these types of sponsored tournaments should realized that the outcome of the games played in the tournament may not be included in the NCAA determination of who makes the Frozen Four – which is an NCAA sponsored tournament.
I know this is not reality because of the NC$$.
