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I think the record is skipping. - "Hey, we got a great young big D!" - "What an unremarkable freshman year." - "Oh my, what a sophomore year turn-around!" - "Why's he leaving after just his junior year?" Dare I say apply those to Commodore, Greene, Smaby, and I'd expect Finley too. To Matt Smaby I say thank you for staying for a junior year (you could have taken TBL's money a year ago) and leading by example and setting the standard for what will be the most capable defensive unit in the WCHA next year. Helping those four freshmen learn and develop, and become four battle-tested sophomores, is more valuable to Sioux hockey than we'll ever understand.

Womens* or mens** basketball offers roughly the same number of scholarships as mens lacrosse (12.6). Nobody questions running a basketball program with that attendance. * DI max 15, DII max 10. ** DI max 13, DII max 10.

And all this comes back to what I've said for quite a while now: Answer "cost" or "conference" and you have the answer.

Second season and 2500 season ticket holders. Looks to me like lacrosse works where there are hockey fans and a facility. Another thought: Using the "25%" figure from star2city and those 2500 Swarm season tickets, that'd give an estimated and scaled 600 season ticket holders for UND lacrosse in season two. Those 600 season tickets would immediately give a higher average lax attendance than UND baseball, volleyball, or womens hockey.

I'm reading that the same way you must be. And the number for 2003 and 2004 picks was 30%. What I noticed is: I think what you'll see is more guys signing before age 22. That gets you a three-year deal.

The NHL CBA: That's a lot of money. Could you turn down a shot at $984,200 (plus 30% signing bonus) for playing a game?

You're in college. Someone offers you a job that'll pay $80,000 (in the AHL) to $850,000 (in the NHL), plus a six-digit signing bonus. How many new college grads make $80k starting (much less that kind of a starting bonus)? I wouldn't blame any college student for taking the money.

I'll take the under.

Folks, it's out there. It's coming. http://www.startribune.com/503/story/351268.html Carve out a niche; find a sweet spot.

I think "USA Hockey" was asking more of a "why is this brought up, I haven't heard a thing officially from UND" than a "what is this/logistics" question. (That's how I read it at least.)

There's a thread on USCHO ( http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=57855 ) about DI hockey players playing other sports at school. The crossover just this year alone between hockey and lacrosse is startling. TJ Fast at Denver Fogarty at Holy Cross (Go Crusaders!) Carisio at Merrimack Boardman at Dartmouth (?) Lovejoy at Dartmouth (?) Karwoski at Yale

I'd assume you'd be correct also as Chay Genoway, Jake Marto, Michael Forney, and Chris VandeVelde signed letters in the early period in November. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/mhocke...RELEASE_ID=4315 The only surprise that I'd expect (and is that really a surprise) would maybe be a goaltender.

http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1316416&secid=3

Same night the Gophers hang their 2006 NCAA West Region Champion banner.

Rosters don't play games. A team with 13 freshmen, 10 of them (all skaters, no goalies) in the regular line-up, has no business winning a Broadmoor Trophy in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, an upper-classman dominated toughest collegiate league in the country. Yet, they did. Rating: Exceeded expectations.

Only if it's a DU waterbottle.

Of course. The difference between force and 'broad comedy' is a tail on a vowel. Horse sense? I'd have Stafford as "gone" before Parise, but that's my horse of a difference color. And look all the good it did for us with Greene, Bochenski, Zach Parise, Bayda, ....

At risk of repeating myself,

A magazine does it their way. Princeton Review has a better one.

" ... a white boy ... "

My 2006-2007 WCHA season predictions: A team will have a returning player on their roster that no one expected would return. A team will be missing a player from their roster that no one expected would leave. Robbie Bina will redefine "untouchable" in a manner that not even Elliott Ness could imagine.

The committee (not task force) is only gathering data. It does not make a decision, or even make a recommendation. It reports its findings to Dr. Kupchella at the end of the semester. Nuances, yes, but that's what the committee's mission is.

But "Warhawks" just sounds so violent. And how do we know some of the Dept. of Defense supportive, "hawkish" members of Congress won't protest?

Or the attitude could be, "UND showed fiscal restraint and patience. We like those characteristics." You speculate. I speculate. Ain't it fun. How did UND "antagonize" the SUs? By staying DII?

Folks, conferences aren't much different from the NCAA: It's all about the Benjamins. You have them (in budgets and facilities) or you don't. The Engelstad Complex is $110 million plus of have. Alerus Center is another $60 million plus of (city-owned, UND used) have.