NCAA Sends Championship Banner to Wrong North Dakota School

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NCAA Sends Championship Banner to Wrong North Dakota School
2012-06-14 15:54:25.839 GMT


By Erik Matuszewski
     
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- North Dakota State's championship
banner for winning a national football title made a side trip to
the University of North Dakota after a shipping error by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association.

North Dakota officials discovered yesterday that a package
that sat in the school's athletic department offices in Grand
Forks for more than a week contained the banner belonging to
North Dakota State, which is located in Fargo about 80 miles to
the south.

The package was addressed to Brian Faison, the athletic
director at North Dakota, instead of Gene Taylor, his
counterpart at North Dakota State. Faison said it had gone
unnoticed, with his school focused on the controversy involving
its Fighting Sioux nickname. State residents voted to dump the
nickname this week and the NCAA has deemed to be "hostile and
abusive" American Indian imagery.

"Periodically, we'll get things from the NCAA and it sat
unopened for about a week and a half because we've been busy
with the nickname and logo," Faison said in a telephone
interview. "When we opened it up, we knew right away. I didn't
think it was that big of a deal, just a little mix-up."

Faison said the error probably wouldn't have "seen the
light of day" if a beat writer hadn't been in the athletic
department at the time. The Grand Forks Herald first reported
the shipping mistake involving the banner, which had been on
display in the NCAA's Hall of Champions in Indianapolis.

North Dakota State won its first Football Championship
Subdivision title in January, capping a 14-1 season with a 17-6
victory over Sam Houston State. The FCS was formerly known as
Division I-AA, just below college football's top level.

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Faison said the error probably wouldn't have "seen the
light of day" if a beat writer hadn't been in the athletic
department at the time.

This, too, can be you, Tommy Enlund!

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Oh, that's why South Dakota isn't just called Dakota.

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Faison said the error probably wouldn't have "seen the
light of day" if a beat writer hadn't been in the athletic
department at the time.

This, too, can be you, Tommy Enlund!

Good one (because it's true)!!!

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Faison said the error probably wouldn't have "seen the
light of day" if a beat writer hadn't been in the athletic
department at the time.

This, too, can be you, Tommy Enlund!

He's on it.  He's just not aware that the Al was built, so he's trying to find the 1212 Building but not having any luck.