The Sicatoka

Now it's July 1.

Look who's meeting again. http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14640396.htm

That, in my opinion, is still crap. Did the NCAA ever put that "June 1" date officially out to the membership? The on-line wasn't updated. Was it put out another way? If not, the old date (Sep 1?) should be used until the manuals are updated and distributed to members.

Of course they do. They are west of Buffalo (or is it Newark that's the benchmark, I forget). Grambling. No, Southern. No, Grambling! No, Southern! ..... Back to point: There will be future conference shake-ups. The Horizon took some very quiet and unexpected actions this week. 'Why?' is the key question. What do they know or forsee? 'star2city' took his estimation and speculation on the answer to the question. Isn't speculating 90% of this board's charm?

My 2004-05 manual says the eight-year thing was eliminated.

The logo has four feathers. The NCAA is all over the College of William and Mary for just two.

From the Commodore interview:

True. The way that group put it out there in their statements gave the odor of an intented disenfrancisement by naming a group who should not be allowed to vote. I should have been more specific.

So that means he's "Jon" and you're "Garfield"? Let me sum up how I see the BSC on May 23: No quorum = No action.

On: 1a) I doubt the Federal BIA will ever let a casino be built near GF. There won't be an election; however, 1b) The folks trying to disenfranchise anyone are wrong. 2) The council elections date is (de facto) set at state level (see "82SiouxGuy). Blame Bismarck. 3) How come Fargo never gets bashed as "anti-student"? Or Moorhead? Didn't the former Fargo chief of poh-leece there have something called "The Party Patrol" where he'd put cops on overtime on weekends just to bust up parties and roust houses around the NDSU campus and apartment neighborhoods? And Moorhead has doubled weekend patrols around MSU-Moorhead and Concordia campuses. They're crackin' down big-time.

Didn't I tell you it's coming. I'd say yes, definitely. Now that's just plain crazy-talk.

From this past thread to getting a 7-0 vote of confidence. http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14609499.htm

The NCAA changed the rules in the middle again? Nope. Too easy.

No, the thread title drips with irony. "Genious [sic]" indeed. Pure genius.

What's become of those harsh rules is that (in many, not all cases) the schools that don't have much to lose in a transition are going DI; of course, many of those schools are the last ones that should be moving up. Examples? Pick your favorite recent jump "DI" commuter school with a smaller fan base than an NCC school, a broken overall school budget, and an athletic budget smaller than Augustana's. Alternatively, if you do have something to lose, meaning you probably are better suited to move up, you'll be hesitant to move up because of what you may lose. I wish the NCAA rules "were to become less mercenary and more educationally rational." If the NCAA is all about student-athlete opportunities, explain to me why a school deciding to change levels to be more with peers is forced to have a generation (meaning five years) of student-athletes with no post-season opportunities. In summary: I said it three years ago; I say it today: The NCAA system is broken.

What that says is that he faces, on average, and with some rounding, 36 shots per game, saves 33 of them, and 3 get by. GAA divided by "non-save percentage" is shots faced per game. "non-save percentage" is "1 minus save percentage". Your better question is "consistency": Does he put up a shutout on 36 shots one night and and then let in 6 or 7 on 36 shots the next? (Jake Brandt had that problem one season --> shutout, then give up five, GAA 2.5). That's what simple GAA and save numbers don't show.

Stark as that is, the population positive really isn't as positive as once was. "Fargo's role as people magnet declines" Bismarck (Burleigh Co.) is adding more than Fargo/Cass. Grand Forks "holding serve" doesn't looks so bad in comparison to the rest of the state.

The point that wins my attention --> Roebuck is "unqualified" for the MBB job by the standard being used. There is the best complaint with the process to date. The "my guy wasn't picked" stuff sounds hollow compared to pointing that reality out.

As were mine. I'd love to see all of the other factors that we don't see (DI/DII concerns? finances? salary? NCAA sanctions with logo?) that got us here, but I'm not going to get the pitchfork and torch out and storm Hyslop .... yet.

No, I agree with much of what dlsiouxfan says. But, let's give the VB coach a chance to coach a game before she's hung out. Let's face it, over the last three years Moorhead State has as good or better VB than any school (DIs included) in the region. It's sick; it's sad; it's accurate. Basketball? They haven't picked anyone yet (and intentionally left the door open as I see it). I don't see what people in the decision-positions see. I have to trust them until it's overt that they've erred.

The irony just drips from that.

That paragraph is hard to read. Here it is broken into bullet points:

I feel sorry for my alma mater in this: When it was RT as the AD (with final call), he went to Kupchella and Harmeson (three!) and they together decided to stay internal and hire a hockey coach --> UPROAR! Now Buning as the AD (with final call), forms a committee of three and they go external to hire a coach --> UPROAR! The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'll give it this: I'd rather have passion and uproar from the fans over the process than complacency.

Gee, with all of the "insider" stuff and questioning of process and implicit "no confidence" vote to anyone that would come in, I know I'd be excited to come into this situation. If you have a problem with something you won't solve it here; go to the source and deal with it head on.

I'll bet the same way until he has cash and conference well understood (in hand?).