The Sicatoka

Yup.

It's always been that way (ND media centered in Fargo). No mention of a 23-0 team is just plain poor journalism.

I'm rather annoyed that the 0615 and 0715 KFGO sports reports this morning made no mention of "23-0". Come on. No mention? (Glas got quick mention for W number 333.) And Fox News at 9 is no better. "23-0" got mention in a breathless gasp not even at the end of the sports but at the end of the broadcast just before cutting to an "Everyone Loves Raymond" re-run last night. KFGO does Sioux football and hockey so they should know Sioux fans listen and KVRR (Fox) tries to sell themselves as covering the whole Red River Valley. I say let 'em know you're disappointed. studio@kfgo.com (KVRR.com is down so I don't have an email address for you.)

(clearing throat so old-guy season ticket holder can start loud cheer) Whi-i-ite Cloud .... Whi-i-i-i-i-i-i-ite Cloud ... Flush it! (clearing throat again so old-guy season ticket holder can start another loud cheer at some time after doing that first one a couple of times throughout the game to drive the point home) Wipe and flush! Wipe and flush! Wipe and flush!

I thought there were two issues with students: Vulgarity and Obstruction. The University brought out Intoxication as a third. The first two are simple issues of manners and respecting folks around you. The last one is a legal issue, yet UND is trying to deal with it without involving the legal system. That seems rather charitable of UND. You would be incorrect in that last sentence. It is completely illegal for a minor to be intoxicated in the student section of REA. From the ND Century Code (that'd be state law for the non-legal-type folks out there): Now you can probably win some points with me if you claim going to a UND hockey game is a "religious experience", but the state law is clear. If you're in ND and under 21 it doesn't matter where you are, thus, does not hold true if you are a minor.

True, very true. But again referring to the great and wise Ron "Tater Salad" White, a true source of first-hand knowledge on these matters, immediately after he was thrown out of a bar, he was "drunk in pub-lic." (See Diggler's post above.) And he wasn't even a minor. There's a whole other conundrum --> A drunk minor is legal nowhere in North Dakota, "pub-lic" or not. I tried to lead off-suit but you forced me to "throw trump".

If the world really was out to get you, you'd be got already.

I'm pretty sure Kohl Center puts down a layer of thermal padding then a layer of "hard floor" and then the court on top of that. I thought that's what REA does too. The "24 hours to switch from ice to no-ice or vice-versa" sounds more like "NO ice" (as in rip it out or pour a total new surface) not covered/uncovered ice. But it's been more than a day since I drove a Zamboni. Where's the man with the answers, Denny Gunderson, when we need him.

It'll cost about $10 MM to run UND Athletics this year. About $3 MM of that is hockey. Those were "off the cuff" numbers I heard a man in a position to know give one day. I doubt UND's total athletic budget was $3 MM even just 10 years ago.

What he said.

When you consider students have about 2500 seats in the new arena, and consider the "contribution" the general public has to make for a seat, it seems to me like the non-students have more in that deal to be unhappy about.

Can I buy season tickets in the lower bowl for $75 a year? That's a pretty sweet deal this alumnus can't get, but the students can.

For students. In the upper. (Forgive me if $3 is "free" in my world.)

"IMO, residents should be happy they even have season tickets." Students should be happy "residents" pay state taxes because those are a bigger fraction of UND's operational budget than tuition and fees. Now that that's out of the way .... Please lose the confrontational mindset. It doesn't serve either side well.

We have another math problem here. You want 50% of new REA? That's a mere 5703 seats. The students aren't filling the 2200 they have today. Proof? REA/UND are able to sell general admission tickets to the public because the students haven't picked the (free) tickets up.

The Kohl Center, last weekend: Friday night hockey, Saturday noon hoop, and Saturday night hockey.

Various notes (read as appropriate to context and conversation): FIRST: Various "feats of strength"? Are we sure it wasn't "festivus"? NEXT: When is 11,701 people more like 23,402 people? Wisconsin sells a "split" season ticket in hockey. You get either the first game or the second game of a weekend series meaning there is nearly a completely different group of people night to night. Proof? Source: http://www.uwbadgers.com/tickets/mhky/hky_reserved.aspx

See above for reading comprehension help. (Clayton Hoyt didn't need the help.)

Based on this, are we sure NDSU didn't learn how to crank up their football program in the 1960s after watching UND hockey program in the 1950s? As far a "learning from observing", who has the first NCAA titles in the region? Wouldn't they be the one the others watched and learned from? UND has that 1959 NCAA hockey title. Who before that in this region?

To quote the great and wise Ron White, "drunk in pub-lic" is a crime.

Uh, bad-math alert. " ... then 9 percent of students should have the opportunity to sit in the lower bowl at the REA." Uh, no, 9% of the budget does not mean 9% of the student body. 9% of the budget should mean 9% of the seats!. (Seats are what "costs" the budget pays for.) 9% of 11406 means roughly 1027. Half up, half down would be 514 down, 513 up. Uh, the students have 2200 seats right now, with 545 of them down. They're ahead in the lower bowl game if they want to play "9%". Pssssstt --- students, don't play that card. It's a loser.

With NDSU putting money into the BSA that tells me that there isn't a new arena on their short-term or mid-term horizons. That means that Bina's team, oops, sorry, formerly Bina's team, stays in the Benson-Bunker Fieldhouse for the foreseeable. Yeah, renovated locker rooms, but it's still what it is (and that's not very good, especially if there's a chance you'd have to start recruiting against The Betty as a home court).

Yeah, post-season, NCAA tourney, like all of those glorious Bison post-season football games in the Fargodo ... oh, yeah, sorry. I mean like the Sioux in the Alerus Center, you know, NCAA playoffs, post-season.

From: http://www.gobison.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SP...0&ATCLID=227386 What "fundamental philosophical differences" could be so strong, after 11 years in the job, that a coach with that record would resign? Somebody's going to pick up a pretty solid volleyball coach.

Huse is at Montana, and living in his hometown of Missoula.