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Everything posted by The Sicatoka
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It's easier to get 'em out of a cheap prom dress.
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Things I'm sure of: 1. Like a cheap prom dress, UW will be soon be out of the #1 spot. 2. The only 'poll' that matters is the 'pole' you raise a championship banner on.
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The better question in that scenario: What's U of Montana's next move?
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It takes all kinds. (shrugs) Is there still a DI-AA 'game of the week' on some network? That'd play.
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What a difference a day makes. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/footba...RELEASE_ID=5089
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Home-and-home with UND: - full house (about 20000) - premium pricing? - 75 mile road trip costs the other year Home-and-home with anyone else: - 16000 (figure high average) - standard pricing - (unknown) mile road trip costs the other year Nope. Nothin'. I hope you aren't managing the accounts for Mr. Taylor.
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There was a guy in Fargo radio who described this as the "haves" and "have nots" of football. He'd say that you needed to look as much at "have" or "have not" of the program as the level they are at. "Haves" are consistently at the top of their level of play and can normally pick off "have nots" of the surrounding levels. Let's face it: St. John's (MIAC, DIII, a "have") v. Valparaiso (DI-AA non-scholarship, "have not") would be a heck of a game.
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Didn't I read/hear that there are a couple others out there awaiting further diagnosis or maybe needing a week to heal too? That's an expensive victory.
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Nobody is getting in to the WCHA right now. Bemidji State (with Duluth, SCSU, and MSU-Mankato, plus Minnesota, in the league) still ended up in the CHA. It's that simple. And how is it that NDSU felt slighted by the lack of help from UND when it was looking at DI hockey? If NDSU doesn't care what UND thinks and doesn't need UND, then why didn't the Joe Chapman just go full-force into hockey? If one or another needs a road game what road game can still give economic impact to the state? Given that UND Football is now quoting 12,283 for seating in Alerus Center, it did sell out. (The 13500 number apparently includes suites and SROs that Alerus, not UND, controls so UND only quotes what it controls.) And if $27.50 is "ill will", UND must have a lot to spread around: That's what they charge per game for a two-game series v. Minnesota. Big-time pricing for big-time events.
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Holdem, you make a fair case, but you make some assumptions and forget some other areas: 1. You assume each would play a home game instead of "one at other" in your gating estimates. If someone needs a road game that assumption fails. 2. What's a seat to the first "one at other" game worth in terms of ticket price? Bison fans howled when UND charged premium prices for NDSU at UND the last time. (UND's been charging premium ticket levels for key foes in hockey for quite a while.) Don't think the host of that game couldn't ask for double (more?) of normal face for that first "let's get re-associated" game. (And if it were NDSU as host, I'm pretty sure the Stop-n-Go 2-for-1 discount wouldn't apply.) There's the economic impact. 3. That's a bad sentiment to have in play if the day of "Bison DI Hockey" ever comes to pass. Or even basketball (UND put 13500 into REA for Kansas and REA is better for BB than either dome).
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1. Ball State's attempt at an easy home game failed miserably*. Given their previous season they don't seem to be on a path to success. 2. A loss to NDSU could (would?) cost Glen Mason his job. Plus, the Gophers have all but that game against the Big Ten. They're 2-2 now with 8 games left. They need a win v. NDSU to have any hope for a bowl game. 3. Has there been a week yet this college football season where a team from a fewer scholarships division hasn't beaten a team from a higher scholarships division? * You have to wonder if Ball State drank from the same Powerade jug that UND drank from in the first half against WWU. If they did, it's their mistake. Why? See 3.
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They gave up 271 passing. Citing that isn't far from saying Western Washington held UNO to just 86 passing yards.
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If it wasn't for Harry Nyquist many things we take for granted today, like satellite radio and cell phones, just wouldn't be possible. His contributions to signal processing and controls theories (Nyquist frequency, Nyquist noise, Nyquist Theory, Nyquist stability criteria) are taught to every EE student in the world today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist And he started out at little old UND.
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Verdict is in. Please stand by ...
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So much can be gleaned from that sentence: 1. Clearly, we learned of your personal view of Dr. Charles Kupchella with the reference to him as "Kuppy." 2. Kupchella has a choice, he has the ultimate choice: Stay or go. He still has the big office on third floor in Twamley Hall. What's that say? 3. You have little idea how Kupchella operates and has operated. For starters, try reading Priority/Action Area A, Goal 5 in here**. That's Kupchella's Strategic Plan* for UND. We are in year two of five of that. Dr. Kupchella, and his senior most advisors, work to a well thought out plan, and to a schedule, controlling what's theirs to control. That the plan doesn't meet the desired timelines of other folks is not the primary concern. The concern is plan execution for the greatest long-term benefit to UND. (That's the job description.) * That's actually StratPlanII. He has already completed the actions from StratPlanI and used that as the foundation to build this one from. ** I'm sure you'll enjoy all of Priority/Action Area G also.
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There's some subtle difference between DI and DII regarding "five years" versus "ten semesters". Seeing how DI is what's ahead (and that I think primarily in 'hockey') I think of "five years". That difference allowed UND Football to pick up an all-conference offensive lineman from SDSU for this season because his DI eligibility was up, but he was still eligible in DII for another (football) season.
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Robbie's 2004-05 season (injury at end) counts as a year of eligibility. He was medically unable to play last year (and the five year clock was ticking). However, didn't use a "freshman redshirt" year (played as a true freshman) and, more importantly, he didn't play at all in 2005-2006 so he spent zero eligibility (no need to apply for anything). He still has two years to use his two remaining years of eligibility. He's a "junior" this year and a (colloquialism again) "fifth-year senior" next year.
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One more notion folks: When Roger Thomas resigned and the search for a new AD began, one candidate for the job was chatting openly (to the media) about how UND would be a good DI school and how he'd love to lead a DI Athletic Department at UND. Charles Kupchella got the list of finalists. Charles Kupchella had the final say. Charles Kupchella hired Tom Buning. Tom Buning is the man first mentioned. Tell me again: Why would Kupchella hire an openly pro-DI Tom Buning as his AD if he had no intentions of moving?
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Couldn't the same be put out there under same hypothesis for NDSU's Chapman (his application at Wyoming) and SDSU's Miller (her resignation/retirement)? And as far as pressure affecting Charles Kupchella, he could have easily buckled, blamed the NCAA, and pulled the "Fighting Sioux" moniker on August 6, 2005. That he was going to pull the moniker is the urban legend out there since 2000. He got an easy chance, with big (NCAA) pressure: Nope. And we got the opposite response from Kupchella no less! None of us really know Charles Kupchella; however, the man surprises me (more positively) every day.
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Not a bad assessment at all. Actually quite good. To apply for a "medical redshirt" (again a colloquial term, I believe the term is really "medical waiver") you can not have played in more than 20% of your team's scheduled games and none of the games you played in can be in the second half of your season. If you meet those, and have suffered a season-ending injury, you can apply to the NCAA for another year of eligibility (to replace the one lost to injury). Examples: Ryan Hale got hurt in Game 8 of the 2001-2002 hockey season. He just made it under the 20% of games. Brandon Strouth* got hurt in Game 2 of the 2005 football season. Again Game 2 of 11 (less than 20%). Neither played in the second half of their seasons. Each got an extra year of play*. * Strouth is a "junior" by playing eligibility right now which is the same status he started last season at. ** Hale was a freshman with Spiewak and Notermann, but was on the team the year after those two were done because of his "extra" year.
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It's hard to disagree. He's taken the number of lawsuits against SCSU for anti-Semetic behaviors and hiring practices from three down to one.
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You have five years to complete four seasons of college playing eligibility. Most players (in football at least) practice with the team during the first year but do not play (and thus do not use up a year of playing eligibility). Thus, the year after that is their second year as a college student, but their first year on the active roster. Those folks are normally called "redshirt freshmen". The NCAA doesn't officially recognize the term "redshirt". It's a colloquial phrase to describe someone "on the five year clock but not using eligibilty". Shall I confuse you further and talk about "medical redshirts"?
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So, where are they*? Much of your treatise is written with an underlying assumption: That NDSU's book are at worst balanced, if not better. Until we have public disclosure of said records to date, the reasonable assumption must remain that said books are at best in their pre-DI status (slightly red). This assumption would be validated in that the last media report on the subject said that NDSU had not reached its fundraising goal*. *"I have no problem opening our books and showing that we're doing what we promised we'd do two years ago," Taylor said last week. -- 'Division I dollars: Raising funds has its good days, bad days', by Jeff Kolpack, The Forum, published Sunday, April 17, 2005. ** "His goal is $1 million a year for the next two years. He says this year's target is 40 percent complete with a June 31 [sic] deadline." -- stet
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I think you just contradicted yourself: 3 or 4 years is nothing in a long-term planning and decision process of this nature. If you are looking short-run only, 3 or 4 years is a big deal.
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Someone else has pounded on that theme; who was that ....