The Sicatoka

Pragmatically, if the Big 5 get their way they pull about 70 FBS programs into their own "D4" level of college football. And please recall what Nick Saban said. He said those should play against each other. Too radical? Tell that to the "no more FCS games" Big Ten and the commissioner of the Pac 12. They have already started to implement insular scheduling. So what is it? Smoke? I'd say ... Fire. What's left of FBS after "D4"? About 40 teams. Will a 40 team division work? No. So what'll happen? Change. What'll the change be? The remainder of FBS, the "below the line" schools, will need someone else to play, someone to fill out a (let's guess) a 70 to 80 team division. Likely candidates? The top portion of FCS. Logistics, details, to make that happen? Your guess is as good as mine; however, '82 puts out some of the concepts that seem reasonably likely.

And he missed Cal Tech. (MIT plays DIII.)

Another reason Mjolnir would work? It was known as the weapon that can level mountains. That would explain the Red River Valley.

As Teeder pointed out, UND's College of Education and Human Development is not the largest college at UND. So you can learn more about your obsession, here's the data: http://und.edu/research/institutional-research/_files/docs/factbook/2012/2012-s8-headcountcollege.pdf

Uh, no. UND has never been a teachers college (or in the past vernacular "normal school"). It is, by State Constitution, a state controlled university and school of mines. NDSU is an agricultural college.* However, UND does grant degrees in Education through the PhD level. NDSU offers education degrees but if you look closely you'll see the faculty comes in from Valley City State University (formerly a normal school). NDSU can't educate teachers by itself. It needs help (from VCSU no less). Meanwhile, UND is creating doctors, and lawyers, and other professional degrees. *Bolded words are quotes from the ND State Constitution, Article VIII, Section 6.1.a and b.

Forgive UND for paying its Med School staff and creating doctors.

Please don't include "poll titles" as the NCAA does not view those as championships.

And if my aunt had testicles she'd be my uncle.

Oh to have heard Doug and The Rug try to say "Mjolnir".

Here's more of this "above the line; below the line" talk that some have tried to tell me is all non-sense. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/dennis-dodd/22972020/aresco-american-could-be-above-the-line-in-division-4 Look out: What some are calling "D4" is coming and the cutoff line is very, very high. Outside of Big Ten, Big XII, Pac 12, ACC, and SEC need not apply. The rest? Can you say, "mad scramble"? Didn't I say about a decade ago that all the motion from DII to DI by the big DIIs would trigger a similar move by the big DIs (to something new and just for them)? <patting self on back>

It was out there for a year and a half ...

And he is using Century club level for UND and all of the lower bowl is at least two levels higher. It's called an estimate.

So 3/4 was working for you.

That's been explained to Fetch many times before, ... with no success.

Do you know how to use a search engine?

Shhh ... Norwegians wouldn't have noticed that.

A year later and I'm still believing in these two ideas. <patting self on back>

Indubitably. If you believe otherwise, "May your only son become the goalie on a nude hockey team."

"It's been kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since noon today."

Why not look at "percent of capacity" of facilities?

Based on last season, that could be said of every game.

I can not disagree.

I was once told by a high ranking Teammakers officer, "Fargo is a frontrunner town. When you win you don't have enough seats, when you lose you have twice as many as you need."

And Toronto.

If teams are going that far, you'd want to be able to get in two games: Bring back the Whalers as ... The Waikiki Whalers.