The Sicatoka

WCHA TV? http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/18550594.html Early departures for the pro ranks. http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/18551049.html But was there anything about bringing WCHA officiating into alignment with the NHL standards?

Davidson was brought in knowing he was a project. I don't see the coaches moving away from that stance any time soon. Forney hasn't seen a healthy season yet. And I'll note again that Hakstol played him in Game 17 of the 35 game schedule and he only played 3 games this season (see posts 18 and 21 here). Hak spoke of Forney in "top six forward" terms in the fall of 2007. I just want to see a healthy Michael Forney for more than two games in a row before rushing to conclusions. Like I said elsewhere, the numbers of forwards lined up to come between now and September 2009 (yes, 9) matches the number to run out of eligibility plus one (VV) so the assumption in there is Davidson and Forney are on the roster. My questions are all "who and when". That's controlled by departures. What does all that tell me? There is no off-season for Dave Hakstol.

Truer words never spoken. Interesting datapoints along the way: NDSU has adopted the model of buying air time and doing their own production and sales (be it radio or TV). If you can't get folks to say enough nice things about you on your own merits I guess you buy the time and hire someone to fill it with such things. It's good to know Phil Hansen has gainful employment. Leighton's had the problem of not having a "big stick" (a low frequency mid-power or plain-old 50 kW monster) in the Fargo area in the past. That really hasn't changed. Or has it .... Hennen is already claiming "AM 1100 will be the new home for North Dakota's original radio talk show...news, opinion, passion will be heard throughout all of North Dakota and Minnesota on AM 1100 and on a brand new regional radio network coming soon to a radio near you." Hennen's AM 1100 is a 50 kW station licensed in Dilworth, MN with studios in Fargo. Is this Leighton's solution, or ... If Hennen is working on a new regional network, is SMAHH Communications (his new group) going to bid on UND Athletics? Then there's Radio Fargo-Moorhead with KFGO and 50 kW "The Fan" 740. Would they sell their time to NDSU to stick it to WDAY-AM? WDAY-AM is part of Forum Communications, which owns The Forum, The GF Herald, WDAY-TV, and WDAZ-TV. WDAY-AM could, if Radio FM and SMAHH both push, be left on the outside. Then again, WDAZ is the orginal and remains the production host of Fighting Sioux Sports Network (television). If ForumComm was odd-man out in the radio game would they refocus on FSSN? Like the man said,

Then riddle me this: Oklahoma Seminole tribe members: no. Florida Seminole tribe members: yes. FSU: OK Five, yes 5, Chippewa bands in Michigan and yet Central Michigan has tribal approval from only one, yes 1, (the closest geographically) of them. The other four are on record as no. CMU: OK Two Sioux bands in ND (and should it not be 3 considering the Sisseton-Wahpeton have a casino on I-29 at the ND/SD border). Yet UND needs approval from both, not just the nearest one like CMU. Consistency not. It seems WCHA referee Don Adam is in charge. (Some of you will get that reference. )

Exactly. Who's going, who's coming, led me to do some pondering .... As things stand now, there are really only four open roster slots, and it looks to me like they are accounted for: Lamoureux --> Eidsness Bina --> Blood Kaip --> Hextall Radke --> Lamoureux (he's age 20+ this fall) So, where do Gregoire, Bruneteau, Toews, and Cichy find playing time? Mario Lamoureux is eligible to play another USHL season and Gregoire could be the guy, but again, where are the other slots?

I'll be sure to send your "stick it to the man" sentiment to my legislators as well. If "Go Sioux!" is wrong, and really means "Sitting Bull ____s" as some would try to tell you ... quite simply the answer is obvious: "Go Cavalry!" Thus, "Custer ____s!" <-- fourwindsboy should love that! (Don't blame me. It's someone else's "logic" strung to it's logical extension.)

Think you don't like that? Imagine the horrors of being of German ancestry and hearing the Idaho Vandals moniker. Those are my fellow Germanic tribesmen and no one asked me for permission. I'm nearly as mad as those folks in South Bend, IN, ... you know, the Fightin' Irish.

Sioux-cia (that dirty girl) explained the problem with the inconsistency. Me? I'll point out the moniker at http://www.yu.edu/athletics Go Maccabees!

Wrong. First, the "workplace" is by definition an NCAA championship event, not a campus, or so sayeth the NCAA. Next, certain members of the (albeit Oklahoma) Seminole Nation declared an issue with FSU. By your own words: We had that one person from the Seminole Nation just as we have that one from the Sioux Nation. We have one person with a problem with it in the "workplace". Yet, FSU got off.

"We've moved on." Oh yeah, sure you have .... that's why that video is about SDSU. And they had to rip the notion off! Just another case of "chucklehead Bison fans who believe that the idea of thinking for oneself is vastly overrated."

The "workplace" notion is a nice try until you remember the "FSU" exemption. And "gettin' back at the man" is so clich

For a group so supposedly past UND they sure do spend a lot of time fixated on UND don't they. PS - Read McFeely in today's Fool'em.

Just like I don't need to know Player X spent 20 extra minutes after practice working on his backhand from 10' out on the off wing, or Player Y shot 200 extra free throws after practice, I don't need daily spoonfed football propaganda about depth charts or 40-times (both of which will change by fall) to sleep at night.

Read your signature line.

Did you miss those four straight trips to the NCAA .... oh, ... wait, ...

Priceless.

I guess someone is going to fail senior design. http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/i...ection=homepage PS - Dr. Chapman is out of the country and unavailable for comment. Now you can't make that stuff up.

Isn't that the old "Congress sucks, but I'm voting to re-elect my Congressman" mindset? Classic.

No, not really.

Frey, Henley, et al, said it best: "I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ... "

Change the name and all this type of stuff goes away. Change it to some furry drooling mammal. Like at St. Cloud State, or North Dakota State, where swastikas have also appeared on campus at times. Kum-bah-ya. PS - Sounds like the wrong one or ones no longer live in the halls. There should be some booting out for vandalism and threats.

Heck of a nice senior design project. Good to know the fixation and paranoia at hasn't subsided at NDSU. There are psychiatrists for that; you know, psychiatrists, people with medical degrees from medical schools like at UND. I hope there was no copyright violation using that much of that film. Someone might get sued, by a lawyer, from a law school, like at UND.

I assume you've all heard the "breakin face" theme song.

Adam Wodon's take (minus a few league media guides for spell-checking names ) followed by my thoughts: 1 BC - a gimme pick 2 Michigan - they were freshman dominated this past season 3 Notre Dame - feel good pick but, I'm not so sure, slide down a couple slots 4 CC - until March and April, again 5 Minnesota - apply the standard Minnesota off-season overrating factor and here they are (but who's gonna score?) 6 BU - I don't see this at all, replace with UNH 7 UND - departures control this 8 Wisconsin - seems too high, replace with DU 9 Miami - no Ryan Jones, go to 11, replace with Michigan State 10 Northern Michigan - reasonable given their finish Dark Horse? Minnesota State - Mankato. How will being shunned motivate them for 2008-2009.

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