The Sicatoka

What I see in those numbers is this: 1. UND has reported FY05 (yes, FY05*) and come in about $62,900 in the black (by EADA accounting**). 2. NDSU's numbers are still FY04 numbers. * UND and NDSU athletics are both currently in FY 06. The fiscal year for each started on July 1, 2005. ** It's anyone's guess if EADA reporting and accounting matches UND's methods of internal accounting. EADA could look at some things as "revenues" that UND considers internally "expenses" or doesn't consider (or vice versa).

I didn't mean for this question to devolve into who sells more of which collegiate merchandise. (Of course Fargo Scheels sells more UND stuff: Folks buy Bison stuff at NDSU's bookstore. Plus, I'd bet, no proof, the Fargo Scheels sell more UND stuff than the GF Scheels. Why? The REA Pro Shop sells a lot of stuff in GF.) My question remains: Would UND fans in Fargo be willing to buy the Herald on weekends (instead of the Forum) for Sioux coverage if same-day home delivery was offered? (The rest of a Sunday paper is essentially all the same anyway.) I wonder if anyone from the Herald reads this board ....

That's what I needed to know. Thanks. The message remains: Stay out of #6 or a #9 or 10 NSIC team will get your slot.

Don't forget "earned access": The NSIC is in the top ten so an NSIC team (Winona right now) gets one of the six regional bids. (#6 Northwood is in jeopardy.) The next question: Does Central Washington count for that four-team far west conference? They're also top ten regionally. Is UM-Duluth at #5 in jeopardy because of that?

Thinking out loud: If the GF Herald offered same-day Saturday and Sunday home delivery in Fargo/Moorhead/West Fargo, I wonder how many UND fans would subscribe (and go to weekday only Fargo Forum).

Folks, they didn't drive the stake through the heart (7), but that long drive for 3 points was key because it kept our D off the field, their D on the field, our Hoggies pushing down on their lines, and ate up clock.

So who's still on the "Need first career goal list"? Kaip Foyt (?) Watkins Kozek Chorney Jones Finley Alexander (edit) Did I miss any?

Game snapshot? Quarter, time, ball on x of team, score.

Any speculation as to who gets into the lineup tonight. (I'm assuming Spirko is a scratch.)

Game set: Quarter? Time?

Yup.

From UI's appeal, namely the letter from US OCR to UI regarding campus climate: The OCR seems to think campuses need this crazy concept called "free speech", even if the speech offends some. I guess the NCAA needs to have a "teachable moment" with the US OCR.

If they grant UI's appeal with that basis, doesn't the NCAA tacitly admit that every appeal should be granted because they overstepped their bounds?

There's a nasty echo when I read that and think about UND.

If you say "hostile and abusive" don't you have to put the little "TM" by it and credit Miles Brand a quarter every time?

Duluth is a young and excited team. Their only loss is to Northern Iowa. They run an unconventional offense. Their coach knows our defense. It'd be foolish to expect anything less than a full challenge from a team that hung 38 on Nebraska-Omaha last week.

"Who do you play this year coach?" "Well, first the Wildcats, then the Golden Rams, Warriors, Vikings, Vikings, Huskies, Bulldogs, Bulldogs, Mavericks, Mavericks, and finally the Coyotes." "You feeling OK coach? You kind of echoed or doubled up there."

I can only think of one UND "throwback" jersey that would pass muster with the NCAA's latest dance with PC --> the (ugly) block letters Kendall Baker "North Dakota" models. Of course, "Dakota" is a tribal name ....

You forgot the NDSU student who nearly "power hour-ed" himself to death within the last three years also. There seems to be a new focus on binge drinking at all the regional campuses. Recent events put a "rightly so" behind that. This has become a binge drinking fest. I'd rather see UND get ahead of it and tame it back down (I'm not saying knitting party, just something tamer) before someone ends up in the hospital and headlines (or worse).

From the DS: From the Herald: Some interesting questions: - Can a private organization (that appears to be a monopoly) limit the free speech of a public institution? - Has the NCAA breeched its constitution (the contract of what it does for and with members) and overstepped its bounds in this case?

Saturday, October 8, 2005 UND hosts (a known to be not-so-good) Ferris State: 8800+ DI-AA #9 at home v. DI-AA #12 (NDSU @ Cal Poly): < 7000.

Even after you said that I'd still bet against it: I do believe this keeps you up at night.

Ms. Carson's letter seems to go to great lengths to tell us who to and who not to listen to: In the NOT to category: - UND's administration - ND State Board of Higher Education In the TO category: - the NCAA - democratically elected tribal governments - the NCACS (accreditation body) - various Indian Education Associations The catch is this: Who is put in place by the people of the State of North Dakota to run the University of North Dakota? (Hint: The elected governor names ND SBoHE members who select the president.) I don't recall voting for Miles Brand, any tribal chair, or the rest.

"I'm an expert witness, because I say I am." - the stranger who appeared in a cloud of smoke (courtesy Don Henley, "The Garden of Allah" off the LP "Original Miles") "Anybody can say anything." - PCM (courtesy SiouxSports.com)

Didn't I tell you we need to modify that pant leg stripe to look more like a sword in a sheath against the side of a leg? If using a group name as a mascot is "hostile and offensive" as some tell us, then removing "Sioux" and replacing it with the name of the greatest enemy of the Sioux should make the Sioux really happy because then we'd be "hostile and abusive" a Sioux enemy. Go Cavalry. (insert bugel call to "Charge!" here)