The Sicatoka

It's on the schedule. It's a game that the defense should win on its own. It's a game that the offense should use to figure out what works. But it's also a late enough date that it's not going to change. Make lemonade.

And if UND keeps the moniker the NCAA and many of the schools we'd like to keep seeing on our schedules will give us raspberries. Like the letterhead used to say: the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. University of North Dakota first. Fighting Sioux second. If one has to go ...

"Saint" Luke Schluessner is doing well as a recruiter. He's one of our youngest. He wouldn't be a bad guy to lead the overall efforts. And maybe they're looking to get some additional younger faces out there, like Danny Freund.

I know a guy with one of these. He sings its praises. http://www.roku.com/

I have laptops with HDMI or DisplayPort connections. I run that to the HDMI input on one of the big monitors/televisions in my house to watch ESPN3 all the time. If you're running Windows 7 it's literally plug in the cable and change the input on the monitor.

The Big Sky has "Big Sky Television": http://www.bigskyconf.com/sports/2009/8/14/BigSKYTV81509.aspx Who says the NCHC can't set something similar up? A lot of dust can settle in 18 months.

The Big Sky has "Big Sky Television": The Big Sky Conference has teamed with America One (formerly B2 Networks) to bring you this season's action. Fans can enjoy all football, volleyball, men's and women's basketball games played in Big Sky venues for free. http://www.bigskycon...SKYTV81509.aspx If the NCHC set up something like that for hockey, wouldn't that be a step up? As far as not wanting to watch on a computer monitor, don't most of us have a laptop with an HDMI or DisplayPort connection? Most new televisons have an HDMI input so connecting a PC to a television is plug-and-play. I watch ESPN3 (from Midcontinent Cable) from my laptop to a big monitor all the time. Having said all that, I'm reserving judgement on all of this until all the dust settles.

I'm reserving judgement until all the dust settles.

Please do not feed the one-trick pony. Thank you.

Some villages have a village idiot. Other villages have a surplus and supply idiots to their neighboring villages. Welcome to our village.

Please explain.

Call me greedy, but I'd like to see another offensive lineman or two. Offensive linemen are the guys who make QBs and RBs and WRs look good. And offensive linemen are like money and goaltending: You may have enough but you'll always take more.

If I knew the officials were calling an even game, by the book, with no "marble" going pocket to pocket, and no "officiating the scoreboard", and that they saw everything, I'd say fighting should be out of the game. But when I see cheap hacks and whacks behind the play (including some when the official is watching) not get called, or when I see the non-sense non-call that I saw in the final minute of first on Saturday (MacWilliam. Was. Tripped.) I know why tempers flair and why fights happen. The catch is this: If you know, odds are, that you're going to get away with it, why not? Call it the old SEC football philosophy: "if ya ain't cheatin' ya ain't tryin'." And this ultimately leads to a lack of respect for your opponent. Add in advances in gear the full mask requirement and you have a formula where you have a bunch of folks who feel invincible and who don't have a lot of respect for their opponents. What's that lead to? More and worse kinds of contact: high sticks, and checks from behind. That leads to tempers flairing and fights. How would I solve this? First, I'd take an official off the ice. "WHAT!?!?!" you say. I said off the ice, not out of the game. I'd connect him wirelessly to the one remaining on the ice. Both could call penalties (the on-ice would have the whistle), but the off-ice would have a different vantage point. I'd put him in a designated spot in each rink (normally press box). He'd also be responsible for replay reviews. Too often the on-ice officials miss plays that everyone else in the rink can see (see: the MacWilliam trip). This would solve it. It would also free up some space on the ice again.

This sentence deserved to be repeated, individually, clearly, for everyone to see, understand, and really think about.

Nice win Friday. Now the maturity test. The captain gave a nice gift to the General. Hopefully the General, on his birthday, ordered the troops to stand down last night and be ready in force for tonight. I thought I was halucinating: That really was Joe Gleason playing center last night according to Schlossman's article. Defense, wing, center. Heck, get Joe some big pads and a clip board, maybe he can play goal and coach a little too.

Anyone can look at this objectively and see the problem in this dialog and why one side is desperately losing ground: "82" explains, citing official document references, showing precedent (ACC, SEC actions; the NCAA's disregard for Carlson's folly), the issues to estabilish their position in the debate. The other side references an anonymous blog making dubious claims (1996 is "recent"?) and makes animal noises.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ

I copied what the other guy wrote. I got suckered. Yes, the logo is a trademark.

I like to think of it as "ethnic cleansing" or "racial cleansing".

If a private business is using the five-letter S word there's no limit on that. If they are using the logo, yes, there's a copyright issue.

Doesn't work. First weekend of the season (SD Mines @ UND) has "Bobby Mo" @ NDSU. Why would NDSU buy out "Bobby Mo" to play UND (and risk humiliation in the first game after a title)? NDSU's open dates are now Sep 15 and 22 when UND plays @ San Diego State and @ Sac State. If I'm UND, I don't give either of those dates up for NDSU.

Thanks. I was trying to suppress that memory.

Has to be a mistake in the box score. UND can't hit free throws for any reason.

The interwebs are just a passing fad.

But having a good, solid kicker sure came in handy in Greeley this year.