The Sicatoka

Nope. Won't. Just a friendly reminder about "anonymity on the interwebs".

Time for today's non sequitor factoid: Did you know that moderators and administrators on this forum can see the IP address that a post comes from?

Official word ... http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/233464/

I wish they'd break the 'omerta' now that we've seen the white jersey and put images of all three online.

I've seen a lot of possible names here. One missing? UND alumnus Jason Herter (currently at UMD, formerly head coach of the Fargo Force).

Exactly.

The day UND mens lacrosse is announced.

Plea? PLEA? I'm what they call a "hangin' judge".

If during a bank robbery someone is killed, even the getaway driver who never entered the bank is charged with the murder.

Required by Big Ten rules, which the Big Ten made and the Big Ten can change. If you create the rule that you have to put your foot into a bear trap whenever you walk into your house don't complain to me when your foot is chopped off. There were only 11 voting Big Ten members when the BTHC was formed. Six played hockey. That's a majority. Why didn't the hockey schools band together in the Big Ten and act in the best interests of college hockey and get an exception to the Big Ten rule? Because it was Big Ten first, college hockey second.

I wondered if anyone was at the game. How are the field conditions? I'm guessing with this dry spring, and that it's still March, the outfield is brown.

Winning football offense: Pound. Pound. Pound. Over the top. Smile. Repeat.

No. No. No. College sports is all, ALL about the student-athlete and nothing more. The integrity of the student-athlete is paramount. Signed, The NCAA

There's always a choice, and Minnesota and Wisconsin made the "go along get along" one. <domino falls>

Yes, that's a fact. It's also a fact that it was the second domino to fall after Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Big Ten knocked over the first domino.

The Big Ten has rules. They made them. And (critical item to follow, pay attention) they can change them. The "if six member play the sport we must play as the Big Ten" answer is a ruse. It's a Big Ten rule. The Big Ten could've made an exception to it for hockey. (They make their own rules remember.) If the hockey wing of the Big Ten really, really didn't want to create the BTHC they would've lobbied to create a Big Ten exception for hockey (and the status quo could've held). That didn't happen. Given all that, I believe it's logical to conclude that if Minnesota and Wisconsin had said that they weren't interested in creating a Big 10 hockey conference (for whatever reason, traditional rivals, the good of the college game, better travel budgets for UMn), it wouldn't exist. And accordingly, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference wouldn't exist, either. But then again, I can't expect people who fail to comprehend the great irony of Wally Shaver's "go form your own league" comment to get this.

Your spin: Minnesota isn't an influential member of the Big Can't-Count? Minnesota just sat back and was victimized by the dominant Big Can't-Count hockey powers of Penn State and Ohio State? Oh the humanity. Reality: Minnesota is a voting member of the Big Ten. They voted and for that they own the decision. Minnesota is part of the "THEIR" you speak of. Goldie's prints are on the smoking gun of WCHA assassination.

Family is family; business is business: Do not mix the two.

(I can't believe I'm about to do this ...) As long as the matters are strictly campus matter, the NCAA has no authority much less jurisdiction. Now, if NCAA rules violations are involved, yes, the NCAA comes into play in the matter. However, the NCAA can control events that it creates and manages. It seems at first glance horribly unfair to UND, but that's how it is today. (And now I think I need a shower because I defended the NCAA.) What makes me maddest in this is that it appears that Montana created a "look the other way" culture to some things with the football (or whole athletics) program. Same thing seemed to happen with Penn State. And it's happened in other organizations that accumulate too much unquestioned power (cough-Catholic-cough-cough-Church) and think they are above standard civil due process. I love it when reality, and civil due process, crashes those parties.

Lee gives up a year of college. Ryan Faragher gets the whole load for SCSU.

The Montana situation is (hopefully for UM) acute. The UND situation is (unfortunately for Sioux fans) chronic.

O'Day sent a confirmation email to a friend who posted it. http://missoulian.com/news/local/university-of-montana-fires-football-coach-athletic-director/article_b7877268-79c0-11e1-92b3-0019bb2963f4.html

What's this? http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/football-party-ended-by-staff-and-players-1.2831738 Seems there are a lot of interesting goings-on with the Griz. http://www.egriz.com/grizboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56598

Let's not jump too far. Let's just say where there's smoke there's fire.

You should've held out for sophomores.