The Sicatoka

Tu-Uyen Tran has taken this past blog and onto the news pages.

Anyone can join the FSC for as little as $110 annually. It gets you the ability to buy season tickets, and it gets you passwords, and it gets you into pre-game festivities, and it gets you higher on the list for road game tickets or Frozen Four charters. And it supports University of North Dakota Athletics. Yes, I want to help out a fellow Sioux fan, but I also want to support Chris VandeVelde, Jake Landry, and all the other student-athletes. So, I won't give "the sugar" (password) out as a way to encourage folks who want it to join the FSC and help support Fighting Sioux Athletics. <This unpaid announcement I'm sure would be supported by Josh Morton and the FSC.>

The AG worked hard to hammer out any settlement. Why would the ND SBoHE undermine that work?

Listen to the Coaches Show available on FightingSioux.com. Even there Mussman is obscure and obtuse about the nature of it. Basically he said it was internal and may have required an invasive surgery. But nothing more specific. And that's fine by me. I'm more interested in full recovery than nature of injury.

Dirty is blind and squirrelly?

FYP.

Why would Fighting Sioux Club members give that out? Just so they have more competion for seats?

You forgot "humble" too.

Ding. RBK wants their own style so they can sell it.

You can't be that smart, so, who told you. New Uniforms at Sioux Fan Fest PS - I haven't seen the new mens jerseys. The womens' green and black jerseys are fine. Please, please, please keep the mens' white jersey traditional, and not like that abomination that is the womens'.

Technically, TT didn't do that. They'd farmed that product out to a supplier.

Dude, this whole section of this posting board is dedicated to the subject, hence the "Sioux Name" forum name. Summary: About five years ago the NCAA created a list of monikers it found "hostile and abusive". Those schools had to either i) change the name, ii) get tribal approval to use the name, or iii) face sanctions like no home playoff games and having to have special uniforms w/o words like "Sioux". FSU and Utah have tribal approval. Illinois got special dispensation because in "NCAA logic" (yes, an oxymoron) Illini derives from the state name (even though the state was named for the Illini tribal confederations). UND is trying to get approval from the ND tribes (two). Central Michigan got approval from one of five Michigan Chippewa tribes and that was enough, yet UND needs both. Yes, more "NCAA logic".

Archie Fool Bear keeps trying. You have to respect the man because he seems sincere even facing great (tribal council) adversity. This, however, seems like a play the early 1970s Oakland Raiders ran: Stabler to Cliff Branch on a 'go', throw deep, big risk, potential big reward. If Mr. Fool Bear connects on that even Stabler and Branch would be impressed. So, why the focus on the pipe ceremony by Mr. Fool Bear. What is a pipe ceremony? The Standing Rock Constitution does say the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its tribal government is to " ... exercise our inherent ... unwritten Tribal laws, customs, and practices ... " Seems Mr. Fool Bear is not looking out just for UND's moniker but is looking to see that a pipe ceremony is not trampled by modern politics.

Back to the challenge of election results and the tribal judge's ruling, look at the fallout. Seems predictable namely because: - tribal politics at work (as I believe the tribal chair, yeah, the guy who barely made final ballot, has the power to fire this person) and - a particular non-UND friendly posts spewing his sewage in the comments.

Fargo's new coach is Steve Johnson. I think he has some sort of tie to UND ... I think the assistants may have heard of UND also given they both wore Sioux jerseys.

Two simple statements: 1. Recruiting 14-15 year olds is dicey at best: Their minds change faster than the weather in ND. 2. Verbal-schmerbal*: It ain't real until it's a signed national letter of intent. * That statement in no way advocates tampering with a kid after a verbal is given. Please refer to Statement 1 for clarification of my intent.

People, please, it takes two parties to carry on a conversation. One side has tried dialog; the other side not only rejects it but has shut it down. So, if you insist on fixing the blame please fix it where it belongs: Ron His Horse is Thunder and his ilk. Here's why: http://forum.siouxsports.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=402972

Honestly, no one knows right now. There are lots of new faces in new roles and that's unnerving for fans: We haven't seen this team play. On paper, sure it may not look as good. But are games played on paper? These guys have an opportunity to "overachieve" in the minds of many. I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised by it. Let's hope they do it.

I almost feel sorry for you WYO. Almost. The world of DI is filled with people who have moved around. The norm is to be extremely "pro" toward whomever is signing the check today; however, everyone in the DI game has an alma mater and that will nearly invariably show up when there's no other factor (direct game involvement) involved in hoping for an outcome of a game. If NDSU can't handle the fact that UND's head coach is a former ISU captain and said "Go Cyclones" I'd say they need to take a trip back down to DII because this won't be the last time something like this happens. Put another way, when Bemidji State was playing Notre Dame in last year's NCAA hockey playoffs (Mar 28, 2009) I'd imagine Minnesota coach Don Lucia probably said, "Go Irish" even if only in his own mind. It wasn't a slam on another Minnesota school or even a potential future conference rival. It was a former Notre Damer expressing the sentiment that every ... alumnus ... feels when he hears his team's playing. I suppose if NDSU ever plays Illinois in MBB, SDSU's Scott Nagy better not breathe a word. (Nagy got his masters degree from Illinois.) Or better, what would Craig Bohl (former Nebraska player) say in regard to a North Dakota at Nebraska matchup? I'm sure he'd be saying "Go Sioux" ... not.

Did I hear it correctly: NDSU played six true freshmen?

You need paint; however, I'd recommend putting on insulation and steel siding (and never paint again). Anyone can create a new Wiki page on this site. You just have to be brave enough to do it.

When's the last time you saw a hockey roster where the lowest jersey number on the team is ... a goalie (#31). What's up with that? I'm still itching that UND has a goalie wearing 32 this year and then I see this from the U17s. <traditionalist shakes head in disgust> Goalies should wear 1, 29, 30, 31, or 35. Everyone else should wear from 2-29 (except at UND where 12 and 23 are excluded). (Sorry JPL, I know you wore 34 for a season, but your redeemed yourself with a 1.)

If "ifs and buts were fruits and nuts" ... you'd move to West Fargo to get Midcontinent.

On a late October or November hockey weekend?