The Sicatoka

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?

I bolded that section to point out the obvious: Nobody knows the Illini Confederation of Tribes any more. The author had to explain "Illini" as to what it was. Remove "Sioux" and expect the same fate.

You have to make some assumptions when doing calculations without all of the details. I made a straight-line assumption because no other data was available. I'm sure I'd have been jumped on for making any other assumption too, so I took the most straight-forward. The following is undeniable however: Waiving $11 million bucks and then coming up short nearly $2 million says NDSU needs better accounting, accountability, or to give fewer waivers.

I could solve all of this right now. - Stop the "situational officiating". It's not the official's job to keep the game interesting or close, nor is there a section in the rules about putting the whistle away late in the game or in OT. - Call the rule book as written. I’m reading some interesting definitions that are clearly in the “never been read before” category. If you don’t have it you can download it in PDF here: http://www.ncaapublications.com/ProductsDe...w.aspx?sku=IH10 Rule 6-5: A player shall not butt-end an opponent. A butt-end is when a player uses the shaft of the stick above the upper hand to jab an opponent. Nowhere in that does it say what direction the action has to be. We normally think of a spearing action. No, you make the move with that part of the stick, landing it or not, and it’s a penalty. Rule 6-7: A player shall not deliver a check at or below the opponent’s knees. Clipping includes all cases in which an attempt to clip is made regardless of whether contact occurs. If you dive and contact a skater’s skates you’ve clipped. Rule 6-8: A player shall not make contact with an opposing player’s head or neck area in any manner. This one explicitly states “zero tolerance policy”. Yeah, right, whatever. I’d keep going but reading what the rule book actually says tells me I’m not watching ice hockey in REA. Instead, other recommended reading: 6-9: “making contact” means any contact, like a two-hander, right? 6-10b: “freeze it along the boards”? Anyone? 6-10f: It defines and clarifies “breakaway” as “A player with a breakaway is a player in control of the puck, on the opponent’s side of the center red line, without opposition between the player and the opposing goal and with a reasonable scoring opportunity." 6-16: “ … but any use of hands to make the puck unplayable should be penalized promptly.” 6-22: “A player shall not make physical contact with an opponent, including the goalkeeper (see 6-6-b), anywhere on the ice after the whistle has blown if, in the opinion of a referee, the player had sufficient time after the whistle to avoid such contact.” Shouldn’t that whistle be like a boxing ref’s “break command”? 6-44: “Refusal to obey the decision of the referee shall not be permitted.” Uh, hello? Anyone? 6-53: “A player shall not taunt an official or opponent.” … or as I like to call it “The Hextall Rule” 6-59b: “A player shall not trip or foul from behind a player in control of the puck on the opponent’s side of the center red line, thus preventing a reasonable scoring opportunity.” Now go back and read “breakaway”. A “reasonable scoring opportunity”. That’s a pretty low criteria. That’s a shot. Clearly, not enough penalty shot opportunities are being recognized and awarded.

I heard Brian Faison talk about this recently. He said he was hoping for a $10-20 million facility, depending on the "bells and whistles", where $10 million would be a good facility, and $20 million would be a facility that would be more capable and meet more needs for space, training rooms, and such. From the ND SBoHE minutes: I'm glad to see they requested authorization up at the high end, the "bells and whistles" end of that range.

Uhhh ... so I shouldn't pick Hrkac or Joyce either? Fine. John Noah.

That old axe is out of the shed again? I thought NDSU president Joe Chapman set the Legislature and the ND SBoHE straight on all of that and made NDSU's growth and budget wonderful. Joe's made it all "wonderful" for NDSU, yes indeed. And this will sting all of the NDUS schools because I suspect the Legislature will seriously relook at the power it gave to the ND SBoHE under the Education Roundtable.

That's what we're being told. I'd like to hear the auditors' view.

That's my experience (at UND) as well. That's the question you weren't supposed to ask.

1. You're not going to win lots of friends in small town ND telling parents that they're paying tuition for someone other than a professor to be teaching their kid. (I'm from the realm that says you need to have a masters to teach folks working on a bachelors, and a doctorate to teach masters degree classes.) 2. You need those "more undergrads" to pay their tuition bill (which is a part of the shortfall per Dr. Hanson). In my UND days there was a word for someone who didn't pay their tuition: Disenrolled. Apparently the word for that at NDSU is: Headcount.

Let's go further inside the numbers. At NDSU 3066 waivers, 14186 students: 21.6% on a waiver. Let's talk dollars instead. NDSU waivers: $11 million UND waivers: $7 million If NDSU went down from $11 million to $7 million in waivers that

Dern it, you guys got me. All that Summit League noise had me thinking there was a hard date in February. Settlement Agreement

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/263086/ And NDSU fans were worried about waivers for 18 womens hockey scholarships?