The Sicatoka

I thought running to Bismarck and crying "stop the other guy from doing that" was wrong (ala UND-Legislature-DI, or now NDSU-NDSBoHE-Fargo Center).

No WPoS, Fight --> Sioux. Cheap-shot --> Gopher.

What happened to Dr. Chapman's fondness for local control? Shouldn't UND decide what UND should do just like NDSU should decide what NDSU should do?

The NCC release.

jloos: The only connection/similarity between REA and a possible development in Fargo I can find are (a) $100 MM price tags, and (b) Schoen and Associates as architects. But folks always need something to rail on. And someone had better quick tell UND SPORTS FACILITIES, INC. (board members Tom Clifford, Earl Strinden, Aron Anderson) that they don't own the arena.

If there's anything that should be micro-analyzed in that story it's this: What are the points of view of those folks?

Hey guy, The Sicatoka here, to tell you all I'm not here.

I agree with your observation: If the day comes where more than 4000 is consistently needed, put in larger court-end bleachers. You could probably push 5000 then. That place would be bedlam. If the day were to come that you needed more than that, then worry about using The Ralph (the lower bowl there seats about 5500), and The Ralph isn't stinky either.

Don't you love reading other people's mail? Mail call: Big Sky to UND UND to Big Sky And if you thought partisan bickering ended on November 2 .... (darn, jloos beat me to it.)

Touche.

I agree with that much. When the UAlaskas (A and F) came into DI hockey it was on purpose the one went CCHA and one went WCHA. Why? Travel. Two trips to Alaska wouldn't be cheap and wouldn't be easy on players.

U2Bad1: Round numbers, The Betty was about $8 MM. I'm assuming it'd be a public arena and the office/retail and condos would be private. Wouldn't it follow that public dollars go for the public spaces and private dollars for the privately held spaces?

Rivals scheduling in a nutshell (and it was developed by none other than Don Lucia): This approach began in 2002-2003. Each team has a "rival". You play them four times per season (2H/2A). Of each other rival pair you play one half of the pair for four games (2H/2A) and the other half you only play two games against (either H or A). There's one other thing: You play two of the "two games only" teams at home and two on the road. All that gets you to a 28 game schedule: four with rival, six with each of four other rivals pairing. This year's UND schedule: SCSU: H & A (rival) UM: H UW: H & A UMD: A MSU-Mankato: H & A DU: H CC: H & A MTU: A UAA: H & A (These two are scheduling rivals because of travel concerns, namely the toughest places to get to.) Last year (2003-2004) it was: SCSU H/A; UM H/A; UW A; UMD H/A; MSU-M A; DU H/A; CC H; MTU H/A; UAA H 2002-2003: SCSU H/A; UM A; UW H/A; UMD H; MSU-M H/A; DU A; CC H/A; MTU H; UAA H/A (Remember when UM didn't come to Grand Forks?) There's a bigger "rotation" to the whole scheduling process as well. In the 2002-2003 season UND/UM was two games at UM, last year it was four, this year it's two at UND, next year, well, you can figure it out. Heck, I'll take a swing at predicting UND's 2004-2005 schedule right now: H & A: SCSU, UM, UMD, DU, MTU Home only: UW, MSU-Mankato Away only: CC, UAA

I go with "Moldin' Rodents".

Wasn't it $75 MM before? [url="http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index3.cfm?id=76798

Anthony Longe or Anthony Longe.

Team: WCHA home games/WCHA road games Minnesota: 15/13 MSU-Mankato: 13/15 Rest of WCHA: 14/14

Dean Blais 101: "Skate or sit." Dave Hakstol took that course. I'm guessing that explains it all.

CollegeHockeyStats.com says Fabian has played in 4 games this season. The NCAA manual says:

Did someone say "Crookston"? http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/sports/10300108.htm

Hak had a bad record his first year as a USHL coach: He was named head coach of that team after the start of the season and it was a bad team. What's more important to look at is what he did after that season (from HockeyDB.com): - 32-21 - 34-19 The team has a new head coach and doesn't have last year's top three scorers (with Brady Murray's injury). They've played one of the three toughest schedules to date. Yet they're in the top five of the only thing that really matters: the PWR. I'll say it again: The past two seasons the team never improved as the season went along, but the competition did. This team has had some struggles but appears to be getting better week by week. Let's see what level they improve to.