The Sicatoka

Oh that is so easy for a comment about females in Bemidji. Instead, I'll just and step away.

FSU, Utah, and Central Michigan got "one tribe" approval in the designated time period from the NCAA. The Spirit Lake Sioux of ND were late to the party. SL approves now but the NCAA won't accept "one tribe" in ND and now demands "two tribe" approval. Illinois' "Illini" name was deemed by the NCAA to not come from the name of the Illini Tribal Confederacy but from a nickname of a WWI (or WWII?) unit from Illinois (even though they used to use "Chief Illiniwek" as a logo). Makes total sense now, doesn't it?

Fetch, in the settlement agreement, the NCAA says UND is not "hostile and abusive". That's something Kupchella demanded. However, the NCAA still doesn't want certain imagery at their (NCAA) tournaments.

Let me point out three things and then explain why I keep pointing them out. You want the old (non-school color) grey football uniforms because that's what you first saw the team wear. You want standard definition television, even when there is proven technology, HDTV, that is better (and now costs the same or less). You want the moniker to stay, even if there is obvious, proven damage that will come from it. No Dave, I point it out to point out your primary issue. What you want is nothing in your little world to change. Nothing. What you remember from your youth is the best there ever was and ever will be. Apparently to you change is bad even if change brings obviously better things (HDTV) or even if not changing will cause more harm than good (moniker staying = sanction). That's not logical. That's not even rational. You just can't seem to handle change. Worse? You expect the rest of us to be like you. Actually, you get angry at those of us who can be rational and logical and accept (note I didn't say 'like' or 'agree with') change. And you get angrier when we point it out to you. Dave, the only constant in life ... is change.

Bemidji State? You mean this Bemidji State? All this talk of Final Five seems very premature given that BSU has figured out how to beat UND. Alternatively, after that debacle UND was 4-7-1. Since then UND is 16-5-2. Let's hope whatever the team learned that ugly day continues to stick in UND's mind and they want a chance to teach it to Bemidji State.

Hey, Dale Lennon admits recruits have told him that it has been done. That means it is being done, and will continue to be done as long as it can be, in all sports. (And honestly, why wouldn't Dale participate in it as well. Recruiting is dog-eat-dog.)

Rather than dog poo, how about say you're carrying a bouquet of prairie roses and the owner of the house is allergic to them. Prairie roses are just fine, it's just that some (the NCAA) can't stand them and don't want them in their house. If you want to come in you have to leave the bouquet outside.

... or on HDTV. (He bemoaned that as well for a while.)

The ND SBoHE isn't challenging just any ol' law. It's challenging a law that appears to infringe upon its state constitutionally defined "administration and control" powers over state universities. If the ND SBoHE was challenging the speed limit on state highways Bjornson might have a point.

Grey is not a official school color. DaveK will not approve.

Hey, I'd be fine with UND (no moniker) wearing matte black helmets and with a black alternate football jersey in a home football playoff game on my High-Definition television. I wonder what DaveK would think of all of that.

Nursing at NDSU was an LPN program run out of a pharmacy school not that long ago. UND offers the full range of Nursing degrees (BS, MS, PhD). Win to UND. (And that's before even mentioning the benefits to UND Nursing or having UND Med across the street.) And Engineering? Which branch? Electrical or Mechanical is a toss-up. NDSU does offer Ag Eng'g but doesn't offer Chemical or Petroleum Eng'g (UND offers both). If the dude would have been smart he'd have tauted NDSU's architecture and pharmacy versus UND medical and law and business.

I expect a healthy dose of Refasplit. Refasplit, prescribed for road winners of Friday games in Magness Arena, ensures George Gwozdecky doesn't have a heart attack or loss of grip of his sanity on Saturday nights. The drug, administered by whistle, comes in either 2 or 5 min doses. Although Refasplit is not FDA approved, is WCHAHOC approved. Known side effects are extreme frustation and hypertension in those it is administered to. Refasplit - keeps your dasher monkey sane. Refasplit. *WCHA Head of Officials Greg Shepherd

Head of Officials Greg Shepherd was so mad at all the non-sense in the Minnesota/UNO game that he had his son call a major on Andrew MacWilliam ...

So Carlson is accusing the ND SBoHE of a power grab? There's the pot calling the kettle ...

First time I read that I read "file" as "fill".

So the ND SBoHE suing to keep the Legislature's own last action in tact is somehow challenging the Legislature's power? Is uproarious laughter allowed in the NDSC chamber if the justices are the ones laughing?

Seems our own Don "DaveK" Quixote has found his windmill to tilt at.

And I'm sure the Court isn't happy to see the SL C.U.R. group back there ... again ... after having been sent packing last time.

You snooze, ... They should be prepared to go before the NDSC already. Weren't they there (and lost) a couple months back? PS - I don't think the court is tipping it's hand. It's just playing from the ace down the hand full of trump it holds.

Do they play a bowl game in that stadium? Who sponsors? Scrubbing Bubbles automatic toilet bowl cleaner or White Cloud? I can hear the broadcasters now ... It's a beatiful day here at the Ode to the Commode Bowl, the lid is open. Let's hope nothing overshadows the stadium and drops anything on us ... </broadcaster guy voice>

What "ira" forgot to mention is that the only way to make contacts and meet the people to find a decent job in that town is to attend that party.

Yes, it is. But it's their party. Their rules.

Gee, aren't the Governor and AG both Republicans and aren't they both on the opposite side of Al Carlson on this one?

I don't see why the NCAA would approve Fargo. If UND has the moniker and is not allowed to host NCAA post-season events, doesn't that mean "can't be the home team"?