The Sicatoka

... if they choose to allow it to. Some do; others don't.

From the PLAINTIFF

Nothing is a given until is it completed. Just ask Kellen Briggs, or Tyler McGregor.

(to be fair) ... if he decides UND's case merits it.

Washington. Indianapolis. So, in the great and wise words of The Joker ...

" ... about student-athletes ... " Oh my, I love that one. It gets me rollin' every time.

Thursday gets more interesting given that UND's football team is a lock for a top four regional seed, and those should get home field in their opening games. Somebody planned the filing date well. Someone set the hearing date well.

And aren't the top four regional seeds supposed to get home field in their first games .... And November 9 is Thursday ....

That's pretty mean .... to penguins.

She knows what you should spend your money on. It's the classic MO.

OK numbers-gurus, is there a scenario under which UND would fall below #4 in the region?

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."