The Sicatoka

Although hating the NCAA has become as fashionable and vogue as hating Bill Gates' products (and this would just pile on that theme), I still believe the answer is .... Dirty Chuck. "Go ahead, make his day."

I thought to be "hip" you'd have to call him "C-Gen" (ala J-Lo).

One out of two ain't bad. It's "Genoway."

Welcome to "Web Posting 101: It's all in how you spin it!" It's not: "He only scored 7 points." It is: "He was only 8 points behind his team's leading scorer!" Then you tag on: "For comparison, Toews finished nine points behind Stafford, his team's leading scorer." That's the end of today's lecture. There will be a quiz.

If Genoway is going to play D and Foyt is considered a forward, we only have 14 forwards on the roster right now. We could use a forward, as has been speculated here. Roster: Forwards (14): Fabian, Porter, Foyt, Kaip, Oshie, Toews, Miller, Kozek, Martens, Duncan, Watkins, VandeVelde, Forney, Zajac Defense (8): Radke, Bina, Finley, Chorney, Jones, Lee, Alexander, Genoway Goaltenders (4, .... for now): Parise, Lammy, Walski, Grieco

I think it would catch the fancy of enough UND hockey fans needing a spring hockey-like fix. You'd also probably get a few football fans because of the contact sport. I doubt anyone would disagree with you. Where the disagreement would most likely be is growth potential and timeline.

At today's construction prices, and in MSP, would that even build a field comparable to Newman Field in Fargo for Goldie's boys? And again, northern tier, and no roof.

I can't see UND spending $2.5 million for a baseball stadium (unless the city were to chip in that much as well so a stadium of decent size and facility, and potential minor league use, could be built). Same goes for $1.5 million of a softball field which would get NCAA, and no level higher, usage. Those facilities, at those prices, would still be below average in DI (and probably DII). Those same $4 million would start up a lax program, add lax locker rooms to a potential indoor training facility, and probably leave money for suite improvements at The Al (benefitting both lax and football).

Interesting that a requirement to carry womens hockey was added to the mix.

I can't believe no one caught the easy one: Softball is not an official ND High School Activities Association sport. It's a club sport sponsored by various HS in the state. (West Fargo is the nine-time defending state club champion.)

The NDSU softball team has three ladies from California, and zero from North Dakota. Kind of flies in the face of your "DI venue" notion, eh? (UND has one North Dakotan.) UND was playing NCAA hockey long before the ND HSAA sanctioned hockey as a sport. Someone leads.

Wondering the same myself.

From a recent George Will column:

Ding!

For the folks that just don't "get" what Dr. Kupchella is doing:

Put another way: "You've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" ----> Dirty Chuck?

Normally letters are addressed to a person care of (c/o) a company or organization. The person is a part of a larger entity, the larger entity being the driver or the real power and force, thus the person is under the "care of". (If a company is listed first, a particular intended receiver is listed second and is listed as "Attn: (name here)".) For example, UND's letter from August 30, 2005: Given this passage in the letter:

It's too bad he didn't send it Tuesday so it would have had that "06-06-06" date.

Geez, I gave you that clue a week ago in Post #799 of this thread.

And a lot of senior leaders. We had but two seniors and made it (nearly) that far.

At least he's not "hostile and abusive" (by whatever standard they use to define that).

Geez Dr. K, don't hold back, tell us what's on your mind. I liked:

The message I hear from fellow alumni is the message that the report to Kupchella gave: Have solid answers on cost, and decent answers on conference. Given answers to those two, I don't see any group (save maybe faculty) saying just plain "no way" the notion.

You shall address Him by His formal address at all times: The Oshie.

I sure hope someone whispered "guaranteed coverage area" into Tom Buning's ear before negotiations.