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That is probably your best and most insightful post in this forum.

No, it's 0-2. There's no way for a walk with anything less than four bad misses right now. Has bat; doesn't see 1/4 inch wide crack running through trademark.

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Wait until May when the campus is empty. Seems to fit.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/156972/

As important as we thought April 6, 2010 was, April 8, 2010, looms far larger.

Would that make everyone that may defeat the team ... pheasant pluckers? (Careful if you say it out-loud quickly.) Concept status: FAIL.

This suddenly has me asking: How is the payout really done for the Frozen Four? I'd always heard UND doesn't take a slice of Frozen Four tournament money because it is a DII playing in a DI tournament. Now that UND will soon be a full DI (with UMinn, UWisc, and Denver) in the WCHA, will UND get a payout? Is the payout based solely on UND's performance, or on the performance of the WCHA? I guess I'll repeat the core question: How is the payout really done for the Frozen Four tournament (meaning from 16 teams to champion)? It'd be interesting to know what Denver (2005 champs) or Wisconsin (2006 champs) netted from those runs. It'd be interesting to know if there is a similar (conference and multi-year performance based) system.

We've found one thing we agree on.

Tantrum? Never have; never will. (You spin me as a hard-liner. I'm not. I just want to see this play out with open integrity to try to minimize the whining after whatever result comes about.) I'll be surprised if someone actually does something, any real action, in any of this. To this point, all parties have used this as an exposition of action avoidance.

That too would require action. They're all going to do nothing and then act surprised when nothing's happened come November.

I've never seen a formal document saying "June 2010" (heard a lot of noise, but seen nothing formally written down) so the only answer I can say is "Nov 2010", which is documented. Come out and say? That would require action. Don't expect it.

Go back and ready my option/point: SR has effectively a) made the ND SBoHE the "heavy". That's what you're saying too. Deep down inside I know what is really going on: Both sides are letting the clock run out so they can claim it wasn't their action.

I think this ^^^ gets pretty close. By taking this approach Standing Rock is basically asking: - Will you really listen to us? - Will you really turn the decision over to us? If the ND SBoHE drops the name Thursday one could argue that SR made the right call in that they saved themselves time and energy that would have been ignored anyway. This way, they have effectively either a) made the ND SBoHE the "heavy" or, b) truly taken the power on the decision for themselves. Seems win/win for SR Council.

Seems they are playing two more today. http://www.fightingsioux.com/SportSelect.d...amp;SPSID=58539 There's a "listen link" in there also.

Gee, that sounds a little like the "cafeteria plan" some crazy guy offered up a while back, a plan where you picked the sport and the funding level you chose to compete at on a sport-by-sport, and not total department, basis, with no minumum number of sports having to be offered. Who was that crazy guy again?

Tutors to take tests for you aren't cheap. No, wait, that was Haskins, not Tubby.

My prediction: Darby and Anthony L-P in the booth. Gorg at ice level. Marnie G. doing intermissions with Doug Woog taking on a "Don Cherry" like role beside her.

HEAVENS! Is one of LaPanta's hairs out of place!

There, folks, is the key. They're a one-trick pony. As much as Butler's Cinderella run is making media noise and wonderful copy, it's also quietly being "noticed" by schools that have athletic department budgets larger than the total annual operations costs of Butler. I'll be interested to see how they respond to it going forward. I expect a new round of interesting sport sponsorship and funding rules to show up at the next NCAA convention (sponsored by the big conferences).

(Since there's no Moldin' Rodent fan available to cover this I'll take it.) IMPOSSIBLE! There are no trees in ND.

With all this swirling about his team, why doesn't Coach Bohl come out and put the story to bed one way or the other so his team can focus on practice? Coach Bohl, ... where are you?

Let me simplify all that: There's a big difference between "on paper" and "on ice".