The Sicatoka

You're not alone.

Be happy: I could've started rapping again.

No, more like the "Cowardly Lion" from Oz. Ask PCM. He'll explain.

I guess you need to know a word's pedigree.

Is UMD still running that modified "run and shoot" or is that gone to Mankato?

A friend rolled this thought out to me: If the NCAA is "all about the student-athlete" (hold down the laughter) why does the number of fans in the stands matter at all? Shouldn't the NCAA be most interested in getting maximum benefit to student-athletes (85 football scholarships plus the other required scholarships for DI-A) rather than how many people are in the stands? If a school has the money to fund DI-A (say they had a major benefactor or endowment), and as long as student-athletes benefitted from the scholarships, why would it matter if the school played in front of even an empty grandstand? Or is the NCAA really not all about the student-athlete?

Touche.

Step 1: Rink.

You expected less from the NCAA Executive Committee, a group of exclusively university presidents? Read this excerpt from "The Shadow University". You'll understand (not like you don't already). (More excerpts here.) Sound familiar, or exactly like Myles "the NCAA is a catalyst for social change" Brand? What's most noteworthy to me in this is that Dr. Charles E. Kupchella is standing up for true liberty. PS - Before folks start ripping on the book as conservative clap-trap, it'd be good to note one of the co-authors is a Massachusetts ACLU attorney!

From "PLAINTIFF

That's on a bumpersticker in Brookings this week.

Real or "sudo"?

NDSU is being hurt because of their strength of schedule so far. (None of their opponents to date is over 0.500.)

Believe it or not, NDSU's toughest games are ahead. Up to this point, no one 'SU has played has a better than 0.500 record! http://www.mratings.com/team.php?tm=300675

An October/Halloween nightmare for all ..... beware to all those who read on .... Our hero, Buffy of the Hinterlands, dared to enter the mason

Saturday really didn't surprise me all that much. Massey had NDSU at 74 and Minnesota at 77 (in all of college football) going into the game (ratings on Oct 17). What surprised me was NDSU's inability to execute the kill-shot and how much the Gophers looked like a team that has quit on their coach.

The NCAA has watered down the "15000 average attendance" rule for play in DI-A football. From the 2006-07 NCAA Division I manual: The MAC drove for that "or paid" change. Why? Six of the schools Jim lists are MAC schools! (E Mich, Kent, Buffalo, Akron, Ball St, Bowling Green) But how can you not make 15000 under those rules for "paid" attendance? All you have to do is "sell" the ticket at 1/3 of face and you don't even have to have someone use it ("regardless of whether they are used for admission"). Create a "three-for-one" promotion for your season ticket holders and pump up the "paid" numbers. NDSU is doing 2-for-1s which pumps up the "paid" number. Those MAC schools, or even UND, could do the same. PS - 20.9.7.2: "The (DI-A) institution shall schedule and play at least five regular season home games against Division I-A opponents." Given this, the BCS DI-As need lower tier DI-As to fill out their home schedules.

UND's Rylan Kaip came from the Notre Dame Hounds. Chandy Kaip has been named the first women's ice hockey coach at Adrian College. She also came from the Notre Dame Hounds program. Relatives?

Back on October 6, written by everyone's favorite USCHO reporter: Well, it's 13 days later. So, where (what?) is the story? Motions? Responses? Dates? Hell-l-l-l-l-loooooooo? Grand Forks Herald? ....

Like I've said before, I'm hoping you guys win every game that you play for the rest of 2006.

Do you feel better about a home loss to UND after this? Is that what the therapist prescribed?

What do Clemson and Auburn have to do with this?

Turf that doesn't say "Sioux" or "Fighting Sioux" in an endzone?

One more note: Isn't Wisconsin, "model university", with a won't play Indian monikers non-conference policy, playing FSU (non-conference) in hoop this year. Hypocrits?

Just wait until your neighbor figures out you've hacked into his home's wireless network.