The Sicatoka

Coach Bohl should have had you out on the field for the first 55 minutes of NDSU's Homecoming game.

Better link: http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_events/asso...ii/4221n18.html Sounds like all is not well in DI-AA-land (much less DII-land) when "90 percent" aren't playing for a playoff spot. There are schools that have a team and schools that fund a team. A cafeteria plan would allow them to sort themselves out without the extra baggage of some arbitrary "division" level for all sports to have to deal with (primarily fiscally).

Sadly, there are far too many "don't fits" in the NCAA today. The current NCAA divisional system is broken (in my opinion). Why? - If you live in an area where hockey and lacrosse are the popular sports and want to play both at DI level you have to "throw in" your golf, swim, and other teams. - If you live in an area where soccer and basketball are the popular sports and want to play both at DI level you have to "throw in" your softball and volleyball teams. - If you live in an area where hockey and football are the popular sports and want to play both at DI level you have to "throw in" your baseball and cross-country teams. I've long said a "cafeteria plan" style would be better for the fiscal health of college athletics. So what if you want to play low-budget ball in some sports and big-budget ball in others. And as long as you are compliant with Federal law (Title IX) why should there be any arbitrary minimum number of sports to sponsor? I say the road to fiscal self-sufficiency in college athletics at all levels is to let the schools pick the sports and level they want to play at (while meeting Title IX) without arbitrary and capricious "minimum sport" requirements. They'll play what makes sense to them (based on constituency and finances).

Why was DU so focused on Scott Foyt? Or was it Foyt was out with Marvin and Lee was on a short fuse and it carried over?

I think "Rob-bie Bi-na" would be very nice to hear throughout the DU introductions. As far as signs .... http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?s=...ndpost&p=124482

So I wonder when "strike three" arrives in Champaign-Urbana. Here are strikes one and two. Strike One, August 5, 2005: Illinois is on the NCAA's list of "Evil 18", the "hostile and abusive" few. Strike Two, October 27, 2005: Bylaw 19.5.2.3 is the "death penalty" (made famous by SMU). I believe "strike two" today is what is called in the pitching trade a "message pitch" regarding their appeal.

Is there logic there that I should be able to follow? Nothing, as long as you're on the side of a Florida State helmet. (And remember, FSU says "Fear the spear!" also.)

Miles Brand, Leigh Jeanotte, and fellow Jihadists would hear the word not as the word you use but as the homonym they want to hear and declare it a Native American reference ("arrows") and we'd still be screwed.

The only "no doubt about it" out there is that there will always be doubts.

MSU-M could be up because this is about all they have left to play for. Toss in "tough road game last week" and "outdoors" and "cold north wind moving in" and "natural grass" and I'm worried. This is a game that could easily be overlooked and turn around and bite a team.

"Crusade" or "Jihad"?

Folks, the NCAA won't let you - wear the logo on jerseys at NCAA tournies - allow the logo in arenas hosting NCAA tournies If you keep the logo you may as well keep the name. The NCAA is equating them.

But then wouldn't we be mocking and "hostile and abusive" to the NCAA "Federation"? PS - If it comes to that I get to be Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. First Natalie Portman , next the bad-ass suit and power over The Force. Sounds like a deal.

Ah, but legal misery would still be headed the NCAA's way because of the lack of "equal protection". Under that scenario: Irish OK, Seminoles not; Vandals OK, Sioux not; Quakers OK, Utes not.

We'll have to drop "Commander in Chief" from the job description of the President of the US. This is where the NCAA policy will fail horribly when it gets tested against the phrase "equal protection". (Seminole OK; Sioux not. Irish OK; Sioux not.)

If memory serves, the Executive Committee meets October 28. Should be an interesting day.

But I'm sure no one from the Herald ever reads this site ....

If you have a problem with that, blame the hiring on the people who directly hired him: the Indian Studies Department. Personally, I hire the best available person who can do the job. I live in a world where it's illegal to base hiring practice on flesh tones or other similar litmus tests. The University of North Dakota lives in that same world. I guess the best Lakota instructor available wasn't Lakota.

So now it's all Bryan Lundbohm's fault?

Could the shortfalls he sees not be purely "fiscal" but "facilities" related? (Facilities require fundraising also.) I'm yet to be in a room with him when I haven't heard him mention the need to bring the facilities for the other sport in line with those available to hockey, basketball, volleyball, and football.

I said "more". I never said how much in either. The computer rankings that seems to most match what my eyes tell me is the PWR (used to seed the DI mens hockey tournament). There aren't enough games played in football to do a PWR.

I have a lot more faith in Massey (last numeric column) than the BCS system.