He should get the same reprimand that Leigh Jeanotte got after disagreeing loudly and publicly with the SBoHE in Dec 2000.
Oh, wait, ... that was ... none.
He was a QB. Has he played the position? I guess I like to see coaches that have experience in the role (especially younger coaches). Learning how to teach/coach is hard enough; having to learn a position at the same time doubles the difficulty.
Well, all we know right now* is that the 2011 WCHA will finish with
1 North Dakota
12 Michigan Tech
2-3-4 will be DU, UMD, and UNO in some order
5-6 will be Minnesota and CC in some order
7-8-9 will be SCSU, UW and UAA in some order
10-11 will be BSU and MSUM in some order.
Make your final standings prediction here.
*We are just hours away from the start of the last five WCHA regular season games of the season and we still don't know! Tim Hennessy called this situation in the Saturday UND@MTU pregame "a schmozzle" (whatever that is).
I'm thinking Tech needs to stop taking penalties so Lammy-Davidson-Rodwell and Nelson-Cichy-Gleason get some playing time.
Tech: 10 saves ... 6 goals allowed. Ouch.
Why is Kariya the measure?
Kariya's best college season:
1992-93 U. of Maine H-East 39 25 75 100 12
Tony Hrkac's best college season:
1986-87 U. of North Dakota WCHA 48 46 70 116 48
So, UND has to use the nickname and logo to retain the rights, which is what the NCAA settlement requires. Gosh. How's that going to work?
There's an option that nobody has brought up: UND could transfer the rights to one of the two Sioux tribes. But that means the tribe holding those rights would be in the same "use it or lose it" situation that UND is in.
I could see one of two great ironic scenarios coming out of a transfer of rights however:
- Either the alleged victims of the "hostile and abusive" nickname and logo would make a lot of money selling Fighting Sioux merchandise to UND fans. (Spirit Lake would be in the best position to take advantage of that opportunity. Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth at Standing Rock if that scenario played out.)
- Or, the tribe wouldn't do anything and lose the rights, which would then enable third parties to begin engaging in the very practice that the NCAA sought to avoid when it tried to force UND to keep the rights.
Thank you, NCAA.
You certainly made a fine mess of this.