The Sicatoka

No. The Fargo Forum thought it is a front page Sunday edition story. We here just chose to talk about what the Forum covered. Are we enjoying the circus and the documentation of how Dr. Bresciani views and treats his constituents? Indubitably.

The only place where 0.500 is an acceptable record at UND is in its Meteorology grads (because that's considered good for those guys).

Yup. Like it said in the article I linked, admittedly anecdotally, people are saying they won't buy insurance, pay the fine, and then only buy insurance when they get sick because pre-existing conditions must be accepted. As long as the fine is cheaper, that's the smart economics route.

Why? Because the average person is feeling lied to right now because of this: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite

This is as good if not better.

After he loses badly at Northern Arizona (they'll take note that UND was in the game at PSU), and then loses at home to UNC (and you heard it here first), ... it'll be done.

This thread. C'mon people, find something positive once in a while.

There's a post by a 'SUer that I agree with.

Now that Cags, Jewels, whatever, is out of Altru, I'm comfortable asking if anyone has video of the collision. (It would be not cool to ask the same if he was still in the hospital.)

If the accusations of MIP w/o team sanction are true it is more reason to ... Fire Muss. (There. I said it. Happy Bison fans? Beware however, because now it's been said and will be fired your direction also.)

Bresciani's view of some of his constituency is interesting. I wonder who else in his constituency he is "not interested in visiting with". PS - Is Bresciani's use of "Russian roulette" hostile and abusive to my ancestry?

Heck, if we can have however many pages on UND shuttle buses, why not talk about the NDSU dance team foibles. http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/416559/ In an Aug. 27 email, NDSU President Dean Bresciani wrote, with the subject line “Dance Team Drama: “As you may know, they and the parents are on the warpath … again.” WARPATH? Seriously? Tsk. Tsk. Dean. Not very PC of you. And this is how Bresciani deals with students and parents? “We are not interested in visiting with the dance team members, their parents or their leadership at this time or in the near future,” he wrote in an Aug. 29 email to Bresciani, Matthew and other staff. It's a great read about how it's all BUTFOOTBALL and damn the rest, or maybe just damn the womens activities, like VB and WBB, at some places.

Seems the Gene and he NDSU president aren't always replying to emails, or if they do, polite. http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/416559/ In an Aug. 27 email, NDSU President Dean Bresciani wrote, with the subject line “Dance Team Drama: “As you may know, they and the parents are on the warpath … again.”

UND 2.0

Altru sees the changes they need to make to the changing landscape, and they are changing. I predict this is merely the a ripple in the first wave of change hitting health care nationally. "Every nation gets the government it deserves." -- Joseph de Maistre

My prediction? Another day closer to UND Football 2.0.

If you didn't think changes to prices and costs in health care were coming with mandated coverage you are naive.

It's so nice that your grandkids still talk to you.

So just the trust fund babies, not the little people ... <whistles past graveyard>

OK, I can dial up the response time back up to about an hour on the email auto-reply generator program that I wrote for Gene. (Licensing from that funds my UND Hockey season tickets ).

Free expression on the American campus on Halloween. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10401584/Offensive-Halloween-costumes-banned-by-US-university.html

Demographics of this region are not in any university's favor (UxD, xDSU, UMt, MtSU). If you're the MAC, you take something east, with more television sets. If you're the Sun Belt you surely don't take a northern tier school with few TV sets.

"I'm not seeing the efforts" statements by coaches work when the coaches have the respect of the players. And it's not a personal insult. Calling guys "divas" is name-calling and personal. That's not something a respectful two-way relationship does. This guy is begging to be put out of OUR misery. For future reference: "I'm not seeing the efforts from some guys that I expect; thus, there will be changes, either in effort or personnel" is how you communicate such things. For you Dean Blais fans allow me to translate: "Skate or sit."

I find the bolded to be the most factual and most pertinent portion of this entire conversation. The rest to me comes off as, well, ... whiny. Signed, A guy who used to use the ramp and shuttles but then did the math a couple years ago and decided to make the donation, get the pass, and take the tax deduction.

I've defined the linemen type I want.