The Sicatoka

Graduate, English Coulee School of Dangle.

I guess I didn't have to. A Bison fan laid out a couple.

Dude, that's exactly where I'm at. Nov 2010 brings closure, one way or another.

Why are Bison fans so worried about UND getting into the Summit? Shouldn't NDSU fans be wanting UND to stay in DI purgatory (independent/Great West)? Or do NDSU, SDSU, and soon USD, want UND in the conference to help fill buildings with visiting fans?

That's your opinion based on what you know. But is what you know accurate. I seem to see some action in the last 30 days. I'd allow it to play out. Hope. Closure.

Yes, people here would. Why? Hope, ... and closure. Spirit Lake spoke when no one thought they would. So what's so surprising about folks wanting to give Standing Rock every last opportunity to do the same? People want closure. Not giving Standing Rock the full measure of time that they were initially told (Nov 2010) will not provide it.

I'm not the facilities manager at UND. But I'd guess you'd find conditions very difficult to change architecturally in old Memorial, Hyslop, The Ralph, The Betty, and other places used by Athletics.

We're talking today, not for two hours last March. NDSU MBB is back into DI oblivion. Sorry. Say "Hi" to George Mason and Chaminade.

So those changes won't have "trickle down" effect on aspirational leagues for current Summit teams? You're not that naive.

Any structure with the name or logo in a "non-consumable" condition (i.e. architectural).

This must of Cratter's post I completely agree with. The bolded parts are harsh reality screaming down the tracks at all of us who call ourselves college sports fans.

Good question. How about another that's never been answered: What is the total cost of a moniker change (turf, courts, facilities changes, uniforms, gear, lapel pins for "suits", and whatever else)? You have to weight everything together, not just pieces that suit a point of view.

Most popular college sports team in ND? UND Hockey. Most popular sport in ND? Probably basketball at the HS level. (Grandmas get riled up over good rivalries.) Two different questions. Two different answers. Don't confuse them.

Money (television revenue, or collapsing state budgets) will be changing the landscape of college athletics markedly over the next five years.

Read my signature. It's a clue ...

I'm not advocating fighting by any stretch, but Hennessy was probably right: If they'd have let Mario "resolve" the differences with Marvin it would have been over and done. Instead, every open check on Marvin was taken and finished and that just raised the ire of other doggies. PS - Which 1970s porn star did Hepp steal that lip fur from?

Yup. If they leave the NCAA there won't be much left because they generate the majority of fan interest and revenue.

What's FCS (DI-AA) when you have data like this in FBS (DI-A) from spring 2009: There's that massive of a gap in FBS football. FCS (DI-AA) doesn't even register.

Rule 1, point F:

Fi-i-i-i-i-i-er-er-er-er-er-er, smoke, she is a risin' ...

How you measure "costs" may not be the same way other measure "costs". The cost of one year of no conference, how's that compare to the costs of a moniker/logo transition? Courts, turf, uniforms, signage, ... (on and on and on) ... have we ever heard that number? I'll trust UND Admin to smartly measure and weight the costs.

One year, much less nine more months, in the 127 year history of UND is not "make or break". I'll be patient enough to let this play out fully (Nov 2010). PS - When's the last time UND Basketball or UND Football garnered secondary coverage in a eight-page spread in SI? As much as some may choose to downplay it, hockey does garner UND national and international exposure. The next two weeks in Vancouver will continue that theme.

When he's been refuted and beaten he adopts a new technique and accuses the other of being the one doing it. He actually has the techniques of internet "debate" (and I use that term horribly loosely) down exceptionally well. The latest example is claiming "strawman" against me when in reality he's pulling a strawman: I asked about "non-revenue or Olympic" events and he brings up basketball (a revenue sport).

No, I'm more Doc or Grumpy. Sometimes I'm Sneezy or Sleepy.

I have faith in the ability of man to adapt and improve his ways given proper guidance and opportunity. Of course in that statement is the tacit assumption that we're not dealing with one of the 1000 monkeys at 1000 keyboards attempting to write a Shakespearean drama.