The Sicatoka

USD's rushers and receivers on Saturday: The shortest(!) reception on the day: 21 yards. Draw you up with run, draw you up, draw you up, throw over you.

USD did bad things to UNO Saturday in the DakotaDome. Then again, last time UND was down there .... UND needs to go into this game focused on execution, and winning. One more note for Mr. Enger and friends:

We're going to need a 'year wiser' Rory Manke running the secondary next year, especially since we won't have Hoffschneider on the hot corner (not to mention DeSautel and Greenwood) and we'll have youngish linebackers. Given the emergence of Ryan Chappell, and the "extra year" the injury gave Brandon Strouth, and arguably the best returning running game for UND in quite a while, plus the Dressler factor, we have a year next year where the expectation on the QB position will be to manage the offense for maximum execution and minimum mistakes (meaning little expectation for "how'd he do that?" play like Manke pulled Saturday). That's as "low stress" as you can make the QB position and that's the role the 2007 starter will be stepping in to. My guess it'll be Freund with Setness and Landry pushing him very hard (unless we can get that hack Smith, at Ohio State, another year of eligibility and to transfer to UND).

Let's see Mr. Gary Lapointe prove that one irrefutably. If not, that is slander. Mr. Jim Dahl can prove his statements with computer records.

From a "X tickets" POV, sure $3. But you still have to pay the bills too, don't you?

This bears repeating (with some emphasis added):

That'd mean the highest priced ticket could only be $3. (See posts 4 and 19.)

There are things in life that some faction will always disagree with. Being a functioning part of a civil society is learning that: (a) not everything will be to your satisfaction (b) things you enjoy will be the bane of others We all must live within this framework of satisfaction/dissatisfaction. It's what keeps the whole representative democracy, the great experiment of this country, functioning. It's what keeps us as a country from swinging radically one direction or another. When enough hit the "dissatisfaction" point on an issue, then action and change occurs. Until then you must work, in a civil manner, to convince others to your point of view. What we have now is a minority of a minority who are offended by something (see (b) above) and those same folks demanding that their will be imposed on others. Seeing another's will imposed (think: totalitarianism, censorship, or any of the other great political evils) rammed onto anyone is a bane of my life.

Maybe we just have to put "Force of the North" on the jerseys and hope we don't offend Canadians or Siberians.

"Today I made an appearance downtown, I am an expert witness because I say I am ... "

Putting the answer another way ....

No. I'm a ... hillbilly rockstar out of control! How do you like me now?

No, positively, or like "'burd' is 180 degree off."

Chris? "He'll put a (hockey) boot in your ...", it's the Fighting Sioux way.

I believe he threw a 'some country' in right at the end (or was it one of the others).

'cuz uz beez da "sudo-" ree-por-tah ex-trah-or-din-air.

One last thought: "redwing77", in your Post #20 of that thread I linked to, where you say, "When I think of country music, ..." think Chris Porter and Jon Toews.

Friday's "Ask the Sioux" question: What kind of music do you listen to? All four who answered used the word "Country" at some point in their answers. Now, tell me again: How crazy am I? "Ev'rybody says, "Save a horse, ride a cowboy!" What? What?"

With both at 7-1, which school has played the tougher schedule? Let's go to an objective source: Massey. School StrOfSchedule* UND 132 NDSU 171 Thanks for coming out. Johnny, tell 'im his parting gifts. * smaller number means more difficult schedule, UC-Berkeley ("Cal") is 1.

You missed a key to the context: 4 of 21 is top 20%. Very nice.

A recap of things that came off the pages at me (things in quotes from the NCAA brief): "Because membership ratification of all governance decisions is highly impractical" But the DI and DII manuals say:

Dilks writes an article and presents it to Dogbert: Courtesy and original credit to Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip, 15 May 1989.

I know it'd strain a finger but a scroll up to Post #4 would find: " ... one-third of the highest regular established ticket price as established prior to the season ... "

Dear Gary (and willing accomplices of all sort), Although your timing of this spectacle was near perfect (last day to drop and the week before the hearing for preliminary injunction), your public, education-self-immolation will have a total meaning of zero in the matter of "State of ND (et al) v. NCAA."