The Sicatoka

If Dean calls and asks for my opinion, I'd tell him I'd be tempted to swap D'Amigo and Kreider for a period just to see what it would do for each line.

Imagine if that would've happened early Friday morning instead of early Sunday morning. I see fresh material for Answer Guy here.

I'm going with what I can claim having seen first-hand on a consistent basis so it'll look very "UND". The guy most impressing me in general is Stepan.

You can't have superstars and manufactured parity. Bruce McLeod wants his "exciting", everyone is in the race, officiating. It keeps the rinks in the bottom half of the league artificially full of hope and people. And it costs, ... Chay Genoway, Derrick LaPoint, Robbie Bina ... It's a shame that NHL +/- leader Zach Parise, "mayor of St. Louis" TJ Oshie, and Captain Jonathan Toews don't get to showcase their full wares until they turn professional. No, actually, it's a crime.

First the 3-8 football team. Then the whole Chapman affair. Then Dr. Hanson puts in a hiring freeze. Now, parts of NDSU really are collapsing! http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/264023/

You really need to look at the University of North Dakota Athletics' official logos sheet.

Automatically disqualified because it's the name first brought up by BRIDGES. Next, do you know what a sundog is? It's a meterological sign that it is cold and going to get brutally colder. That would be stereotyping of North Dakota weather, and we all know that (as Ron White says) " ... stereotyping is wrong."

Holy-hay-zeus man, get your knickers untwisted. It's an artist's rendering.

Easier to look at a similar image right here:

TRUPP! replaced Duncan. Would Knochenmus replace TRUPP!? "TRUPP!" © Brad Malone, 2008

Or put another way, maybe his methods finally caught up with him.

Interesting philosophy ... From UND's Budget Office (link works) website: http://www.und.edu/dept/undbudgt/html/guidelines.html Those are State funds, and State deficits if NDSU can't cover them, so it's all answerable to the Legislature. Have fun with "but it's only a couple million" in Bismarck. And have more fun asking for more freedom to run budgets down the road. And this harms all of us in the NDUS. It's Chapman's gift that'll keep on giving.

It just writes itself ... Go to http://www.ndsu.edu Click on the "B" in the index. When the "Alphabetical Office Directory :" page loads, click on "Budget Office". <your punch line here>

They wish they were UND.

Shhhh-dammit ... SHHHHHH!!!! Signed, Kommissar of Skulduggery Southern Red River Valley District The Vast Fighting Sioux Conspiracy " ... if you only knew ... "

The positive from that game is that the team learned they're pretty good even without Chay, Darcy, and Danny. TRUPP!, Malone, and Hex were pretty good. However, Gregoire and VandeVelde will soon be appearing on a milk carton near you. Lammy at center seemed to work; Toews seemed more comfortable at wing. Cichy needs to decide it's time to be there full-time. I don't think USA liked seeing Bruno, Rowney and Davidson: Them fellas gotz some girth! Dear Ben Blood: Please talk to Smaby, Greene, Commy, et al, about how if you're big and play defense for UND you're guilty by appearance. Change your play accordingly.

Team USA was together for less than a week. The Sioux have been together since October. Now ask: Which side had the crisper passing and better special teams? That's what concerns me.

When you've given out $11,000,000.00 in freebies and come up $2,000,000.00 short in the bank, maybe it's time to cut back on the freebies to make the books balance. I love how Dr. Hanson's been on the job for less than a month and he's already a smuck because he's not running with Joe "Enron" Chapman accounting.

NDSU: The check's in the mail, in the outbox at the bank, that's holding money back, from just NDSU. Let me guess. There's a story here about homework and your dog's appetite too.

Honestly, why wait. Write the check and put a note with it designating usage of the funds.

That won't work either. The NCAA has put out "points of emphasis" (see rule book link, page 8) and those don't seem to sink in with the league brass either.

They're costing NDSU new full-time faculty hires right now due to the hiring freeze due to the budget deficit. What's that worth? Given that faculty brings in the research ...

If that's the case, NDSU needs to re-evaluate how it's figuring the "cost-to-benefit" ratio. Clearly, with a $1.8 million budget problem they aren't getting the expected benefits from the known costs.

You assume star2city was thinking about a school that wears yellow pants on the football field. There are a lot of schools "down the road" from Grand Forks, and for that matter, which road? I-29? US-2?