The Sicatoka

Players were suspended for the season opening tournament in Alaska. Those Alaska games affect the final RPI and PWR calculations that are used to select at-large teams to the NCAA tournament. Players were not suspended for exhibition games.

Could the difference be that UND got in front of its situation and suspended a bunch of players and reserved the right to do more later as warranted, and NDSU tried to portray their situation as being victims of their own misgivings and only acted after the pressure (media and public) mounted?

What has worked in the past? Knight and Kristo Rowney Parks MarkMac Rowney and Roc Roc and Drake So how do you maximize the potential damage to the other team? You spread that out as best you can: Knight and Kristo with someone ... and if MitchMac can figure out where to be to trail and clean up their rebounds ... Rowney Parks MarkMac may have been one of the five best lines in all of college hockey at the end of last season ... can they find it again ... Roc and Drake need to find a co-conspirator ... I don't believe it's Pattyn; I think it's St. Clair or Gaarder ... or Gleason. And you just can't seem to get Pattyn and Jim out of the lineup ... so it makes that last forward spot all the more difficult.

Probably makes it more comfortable around the Thanksgiving dinner table.

Attendance is tied to a key aspect of sport. That aspect is defined here.

I like it when QBs move to safety because: (a) they, as you said, think like a QB, and (b) tend to have a lot of pent up frustration from being hit and want to return some of it.

Hey, your cesspool called and, wow, was it upset about being compared to GPL.

Palendech's HS QB numbers say "safety" to me.

Can we get the PA guy to play "Send In The Clowns" when St. Clown State steps onto the ice?

How about "Legends" and "Leaders". No. Wait. Those names are terrible for trophies too.

Dial back the namecalling. Signed, The Management

There's a recent June vote that says otherwise.

For those of you who think your are smarter than the NCAA ... uh, who's missing a nickname and who's won the court battles? Now, if you are a booster (and odds are if you're reading this you are) here's some base information from UND: http://www.undsports.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=3761808

I always smirk when Katie Hale interviews Dave Hakstol: I wonder how Katie feels about interviewing her older sister's husband. Of course, it would've been great if Tim O'Keefe would've had Kober's spot. Then when O'Keefe would throw it to Hale for the Hakstol interview it'd be dad throwing it to daughter to interview son-in-law. If all that didn't make sense to you, buy a program.

I believe a recruit is coming when I see them on the playing surface in a North Dakota jersey.

The vessel to do that should've been the WAC (when it was down to Idaho, NMSU, DU, Seattle U). The autobids would've been in place already. Instead the WAC decided to become the island of misfits (Grand Canyon, Utah Valley, etc.).

He should've used the opportunity to advertise the highlights of UND's home schedule next year: http://wiki.siouxsports.com/doku.php/football/2013_schedule We should've been reading something like this: Faison said, "Our home schedule for next season is magnificent and our overall strength of schedule doesn't need improvement. I'll entertain thoughts of a game in Fargo on September 21 against NDSU, but I'm not sure I want the team traveling between our home games against Montana and Montana State, especially after having played South Dakota State before Montana."

Yes, we know it was a WCHA series with WCHA officials.

Wow, just wow. Imagine this ... "The sooner NDSU minimizes what football is, the sooner y'all get some attendance at other sports." You can keep your recipes for "golden goose".

Oh, they aren't saying it yet, but a brother-against-brother coaching matchup in the Super Bowl would have them just giddy.

Does Bauer make anything for an all-wheel drive? How about CCM?

By popular demand ... {click} ... (That was the sound of the lights going out on this one.)

... today. The ND Secretary of State and ND Attorney General are looking to have the crime redefined as a C felony during this legislative session.

A little more than a decade ago UND was on top in DII WBB, DII FB, and DI MHockey. Things always change and always will. Enjoy when you're on top while you are.

This reminds me of an old joke: A guy goes into a bar and offers a woman sitting at the bar $10,000,000.00 to have sex with him. She thinks for a second and says, "Yes." So, the guy then offers her just $25 to have sex with him. She tells him, "Do you think I am a whore, someone with no morals?" to which he replies, "Well, we'd established that already so I figured I'd try to renegotiate the price." At what price.