The Sicatoka

Somebody crank up the wiretap.

From NDSU's Carr Report:

You'd be right if it was summer of 2004. The 2004-05 season was a tough one. Looking through the scenario put forth by star2city it seems to cover everything, including sport misalignments between UND and the (admitted possibility) of the BSC. Because the BSC doesn't sponsor baseball, softball, and swimming, those three seem to be the odd-man out. This climate just doesn't seem to support springtime baseball/softball. If UND had a dome for those sports, but I won't hold my breath there. If the season was moved later in the spring/early summer it would probably help them also. If UND ends up in a conference that doesn't support those sports it won't help them unless they come up with a way to be self-supporting. Now, let me toss a crazy idea out there: - it's the national summertime sport of Canada - DU just built a stadium for just this sport - UND already has facilities that would support it (Memorial, Bronson, or Alerus) - it draws better ($$$) than baseball where it is played today - it's more in-line with the hockey demographic (already present in Grand Forks) If the current emerging growth (HS and college) signs stay on course, and if conference affiliation possibilities arise, way (and I mean way, half a decade from now) down the road should UND be evaluating adding lacrosse as a potential spring revenue sport?

I found it in print in the Fargo Forum on Sunday. Page A13, at the fold, bottom edge of the page, about four column inches. I believe a small-town festival of some sort was "news" above it in the region.

Sadly, searching the 30-day archive at in-forum.com for "NASA" I can't find any mention of this story. Considering the positive this is for the RRV Research Corridor (and GF AFB and recognition of UND, all of which is good for all of ND) I'd expected the Forum would have picked it up.

Can we talk about something more pleasant like a pulled groin, or a root canal.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11802517.htm The Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium and the National Sub-orbital Education and Research Center are things at UND that I hadn't heard about before now.

The latest: http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11802530.htm http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=93863

I won't disagree with that at all: In terms of "close" we're as close to the Stump Lake overflow situation as we are to being able to walk from Bonzer's to Whitey's without using a boat or a bridge. Neither is a pleasant thought but either is a possibility.

Who are these Satans of which you speak? Don't you mean the Devils Lake High School Firebirds? Attention Bismarck High School: I'm sure you'll be next. (And here's notice that Duke, Wake Forest, and DePaul come soon after.)

The lake goes through this dry up then flood out then dry up cycle all the time if you look at it geologically and not like we tend to (immediately). What few want to discuss is how close Stump Lake (where Devils Lake is overflowing into now) is to overrunning its natural outlet (naturally geologically sealed now) which would effectively allow that lake to outflow overland and end up in Canada by natural means.

They want to use the Sheyenne to empty Devils Lake because then they only have a short outlet path (under 20 miles). The Sheyenne goes to Valley City, Lisbon, Kindred, Horace, West Fargo, Harwood, then the Red. To get it down to Wahpeton would be a tough trick. However, Fargo can still drink water from the Sheyenne even though the Sheyenne empties into the Red north of the city: There is a cutover channel (underground pipe) south of Fargo that allows water from the Sheyenne to be diverted to the Red. (It's out along Cass County 6.) That's the reason why that first link talks about getting the water to the Sheyenne so much: If it's in the Sheyenne it can get to the Fargo water purification plant (via that cutover). As a last note, Baldhill Dam, north of Valley City on the Sheyenne, was built not for flood control as much as to ensure water supply for downstream (aka Fargo and Grand Forks).

That's the "Devils Lake Outlet" that Hoeven is pushing forward and the Canadians and others are trying to stop. The water from the lake would go into the Sheyenne (near Tioga?) and into the Red near Harwood and then on to Winnipeg. The Canadians don't want Devils Lake water coming their way.

Ouch. Those are two nasty aspects to this that'll take at least a decade to get the politics resolved on (much less the actual resource and environmental issues). Here's another: The Army Corps in St. Paul controls the Red basin. A whole different division of the Corps (Omaha? Kansas City?) controls the Missouri's upper basin. Who sets and defines "right level" for the Red?

Definitely. It's a much easier problem to discuss when there's still water coming out of the tap. Now come the options for Fargoans (and surrounding community people if Fargoans choose "sales tax") on how to pay for Fargo's infrastructure needs. http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=93774 What hasn't been talked about is how the regional water issue (13 ND counties and 3 MN cities) plan would be paid for. Going back to Garrison would mean some Federal monies, but the Feds are looking for locals to take on a greater and greater share of project dollars (see: recent push by Feds for states to match Federal grants for Amtrack). There would have to be some form of regional system to pay for a water supply project of a magnitude to supply the whole Red River Valley. PS - There's a nice article about Burian's UND athletics career and the scholarships he's set up for athletics and the engineering department in this month's "Sioux Illustrated." (Hey, it's still SiouxSports.com, right? )

Ah yes, the very definition of equal opportunity.

Skyhawk.

Kupchella's visiting Marshall this week. http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/11784741.htm

As wet as this wet cycle has been, it's scary to think how dry the next dry cycle could be. Remember, less than 100 years ago the Red between Fargo and Moorhead was dry and people could walk between the cities.

From the second link: Didn't they just try to extend the dome sales tax in Fargo for an arena?

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=93667 That's just to ensure that there is enough water in the RRV (13 counties in ND plus 3 Minnesota cities) for the next 50 years! Now toss in that the city of Fargo is looking at infrastructure rehabilitations (to replace and update existing systems), like ...

My guess: He wants this last year of "head coach" pay before becoming a school fundraiser (lower pay). To summarize, it most likely has to do with Benjamins, denero, cash-ola, bling-bling, and such.

Kennesaw State of Georgia? http://www.uscho.com/news/2005/05/31_010620.php

Folks, I had a bit of an epiphany over the weekend. I've been thinking in terms of a 15-9-3 roster* going into the fall with VandeVelde and Marto coming in fall of 2006. But then the name "Matt Moreland" struck me again. He's in the team photo that was in the charter materials given to folks who went to Columbus. What's his status going into the fall. I believe his "five years to complete four seasons" clock is running as he was enrolled at UND while he was playing for the FM Jets last year. * Roster --- 15 forwards: Prpich, Stafford, Porter, Fabian, Foyt, Zajac, Spirko, Kaip, Watkins, Kozek, Duncan, Toews, Miller, Martens, Oshie. 9 defensemen: Greene, Marvin, Smaby, Bina, Radke, Chorney, Jones, Lee, Alexander. 3 goalies: Parise, Lamoureux, Walski.