The Sicatoka

So you were never a fan of North Dakota Football.

Functional? Yes. However, the new, tighter cut jerseys are both functional and more efficient. What's efficient mean for a jersey? For the backs and receivers it's less to be grabbed by. For the defensive linemen, it's less to be grabbed and held by.

If the conference is bad in non-conference play that "opponent's opponent's" number takes a hit and hurts the conference overall. The WCHA had that problem somewhat this past season.

Indulge me for a few moments here while I go back to the conversation earlier in this thread about "modest sanctions". Some asked if that was like sorta dead or kinda pregnant. Thinking more about it I think it better compares to "modest torture": We'll just put bamboo under the fingernails, pull out a couple molars with a pliers, and open a couple deep cuts and rub in some dog crap; it's just modest torture. It's not like we're attaching live jumper cables to the scrotal sac or anything.

The formula is the same for all teams.

UND teams have had other nicknames. There's "Flickertails", there are the old MBB jerseys that said "NODAKS" on the front ...

RPI is based on three factors: Your winning percentage Your opponent's winning percentage Your opponent's opponent's winning percentage The 25/50/25 is the weighting given to each in the calculation of your RPI.

As Judge Erickson asked Soderstrom, just because the name is given does it force UND to use it? When Soderstrom couldn't answer 'yes' that surely didn't help his case.

Who had "Johnboy" and "under 10 minutes" in the pool?

That may be, but he appeared far out of his depth in Judge Erickson's court room.

Is Dane Jackson ready for an expanded role as a top assistant? That too plays into this whole process for Hakstol.

It's official: SJSU and Utah State to Mountain West. http://www.themwc.com/genrel/050412aag.html Idaho is on an island.

All they were doing was the "public declaration". They were there to talk to local media in Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, and Grand Forks and let the media move the message for them. They weren't there to host a pep rally. How do I know this? Was there coffee, punch, and cookies? Free pom-poms for the kids?

I believe Brad Berry's wife's family is in Grand Forks.

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What you just said is, "Who cares who was there?" to which I say, "You missed my exact same point."

Wouldn't surprise at all. Hastings wanted to be closer to MSP and left a spot just waiting for Eades.

... that applied for the Mankato head job.

Un. Bee. Leave. A. Bull. (look at the guy in the photo in front of Amy Senser) http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/image/id/59492/headline/Amy%20Senser%20arrives%20at%20Hennipen%20County%20Government%20center/

Karl Goehring? Or then there's this story on Dane Litke ... who announced his resignation from the NAHL Janesville Jets organization ... on May 2, 2012. Litke was the Head Coach of the Jets from the inception of the franchise in May of 2009.

Now we know how you got your name.

The Sioux moniker was having chest pains in 2005. Either SL or SR could've driven it to the emergency room and staved off a heart attack. Then along comes 2007 and the Sioux moniker was on the floor in cardiac arrest (when the settlement agreement was signed). Ron His Horse is Thunder, chair of SR at the time, refused to have SR start CPR. SL tried but it was a two-man resuscitation and SR refused. The moniker died in 2010 (the timeframe of the settlement agreement). Now SL CUR thinks CPR will still matter. Patient's dead.

Partial credit. All that the NCAA wants is an official stance statement from the Tribal Council, not a vote of the people of SR. However, apparently, there is a way to vote on some issues at SR: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/tribe-rejects-changing-name-in-vote/article_15a342a9-041f-51ab-9373-3896f785fa05.html The tribe can hold a special election to determine whether members want to be known as "Sioux" or "Oyate," and they can hold a special election on a new definition of tribal membership, but all too conveniently, after voters rejected Ron McNeil's preferred name for the tribe, it's suddenly impossible to let tribal members vote on UND's continued use of the Fighting Sioux nickname. I suspect then Tribal Chair Ron McNeil viewed the vote in the article as a test. If tribal members weren't willing to stop being known as "Sioux," which, as we're constantly told, is a degogatory term for the tribe, then there was a pretty good chance they might also vote to let UND continue to use the "hostile and abusive" moniker. And the NCAA, conveniently, will only accept documentation from the Tribal Council, not a vote. So the vote "can't happen" per McNeil. The conspiracy, if there is one, is between Ron (His Horse is Thunder) McNeil and the NCAA, and the best evidence of it is right there. The NCAA got it into settlement agreement and that agreement is now binding, and UND and the State got blindsided.

It was a press conference, not a pep rally. And you're saying in Minot all there was were the speakers, the direct parties, media, and people paid to be there as part of their job responsibilities. Sounds like the same folks who were in Judge Erickson's court room: the speakers (lawyers), the direct parties, media, and people paid to be there as part of their job responsibilities. Oh, wait, there was one other person in the Fargo court room. Was it Fetch? No. Was it DaveK. No. It was me.

DaveK's always been an in the closet Gopher fan and here's his excuse to finally come out and admit it.