The Sicatoka

Maine gets nearly $6.945 MM of a $13.4 MM budget from direct institutional support. New Hampshire's $20.272 MM budget gets $6.56 MM from direct institutional support and another $6.913 MM from student fees.

"Flickertails" is bad. Here's why: When Oriska (ND) still had a high schools they were the "Flickers". On one occassion (at a tournament) someone took their all-caps "FLICKERS" banner and connected the right end of horizontal portion of the "L" with the bottom of the "I" ---> "F LI C K E R S" Giddyap.

Yes, and proportionally I'd say they are equal to the number that believe the same in Gopher or Badger fan bases. (By the way, the words I'm most keying on in your question are "at whatever cost".)

With "Goldie Gopher" as a conference rival in a major UND sport you'd want to steer clear of anything resembling rodentia for identity and licensing issue concerns. Saddle up.

I'd split it the way the original did, as in Roosevelt's Rough Riders.

Is that what I said? No, that's not what I said. I want to see how other folks are doing (or not doing) it and learn from that.

Yup. Yup. Yup. And yup. I'm becoming of a mind that says UND needs to take this to court to prove the issues of: - breech of contract (by how the NCAA did this) - free expression (read my signature quote) And then, at that point, with that victory in hand, look around and decide whether or not the University wants to continue this saga in the ever-changing political winds of tribal (and general) politics.

But gee, we can't expect the NCAA to follow it's own rules, like Association-wide governance and policy coming via Association-wide vote and not a via edict of a committee?

The "all about the student athlete" NCAA putting good money to hard work for the student athlete.

You don't have to have a lot of money to hire attorneys when they come to you hoping for a cut of an anti-trust ruling settlement. (I'll stop there because I may have said too much already.)

Easy. The courts don't want you to bring in cases until you've exhausted all other remedies in normal channels, in this case meaning gone through a final appeal with the NCAA. Illinois, North Dakota, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania have just exhausted all possible remedies outside of the courts.

Here are five quick reasons why UND shouldn't be dealing with this: (1) the Executive Committee lacked the authority to do this in the first place; (2) what the NCAA is doing is most likely a violation of federal anti-trust law; (3) the standard of this policy keeps changing and is based upon a faulty presumption; (4) the NCAA hasn't defined "hostile and abusive" and they aren't applying the appropriate legal standard of the terms "hostile" or "abusive", (5) UND should be exempt from the Policy under the so-called "namesake tribe" exemption (Spirit Lake). I'd guess those five would be a good basis of a court case.

Say you join a club or organization, and sign a contractual agreement to join. The by-laws (in the contract) say that all rules have to be approved by a 2/3 vote of the total membership. Instead, a sub-committe of the club decrees that wearing Nike anything to club meetings is "hostile and abusive" to Greek goddesses and outlaws all Nike apparel. You appeal saying the sub-committee can't do that. The sub-committee says "No Nike." I see breech. Where do you go next? I'd say court. PS - Did I mention that certain members get to keep wearing Nike apparel to club meetings even though you don't?

Not Mike, and not even the Sherman that once visited the area Sioux forward Brad Miller lists as a home town, although the NCAA may feel like it later. Sen. John Sherman of Ohio

Where else can UND go? The NCAA has college athletics so tied up that they bought the National Invitiational Tournament (NIT) recently to eliminate that competition in March. The NCAA is a ruling away from getting nailed under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

1. Who knows. It's always a guess. 2. I'd guess fairly likely now that all NCAA appeals processes (however they made them up today) are exhausted. 3. If I were a bettin' man ... .... otherwise, no comment.

Lets go Sue!

Wasn't that Dr. Kupchella was inviting tribal leaders to the campus also in the newspapers? (gasp!)

Hey, cool, they made up some more new rules to the game! This "watch list" is new. Where'd this come from? Arbitrary. Capricious. I'm sure the right honorable judge will find that just as fascinating as I do.

Minnesota-Duluth played Northern Iowa last season. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/...3_boxscore.html

But it sure is fun to see how the tribal chair unwittingly painted the NCAA further into the corner. We have the people saying they support it and yet the council may vote the other way. So who should the NCAA listen to? I know that answer --> the judge's ruling.

Has anyone found the letters out there on-line yet?

Fabian and Porter are gimmes for letters on jerseys. Let's see how fall camp goes for the rest.

The Porter Report: 2005-06: 46 games, 46 games played 2004-05: 45 games, 45 games played 2003-04: 41 games, 41 games played

Let's not think narrowly here, not just hockey. Yeah, the MJ guys would hate NCAA hockey north of the border, but there's more at stake than just them.