The Sicatoka

If I had the reigns, and the roster to do it, only two guys from Friday would dress for tonight: - Phillippe Lamoureux - Eric Fabian The rest can sit. They didn't skate.

You may be in Japan but to see hari-kari tonight you had to be watching the team in green in Mariucci.

In deference to PCM, he quoted the wrong portion of the 35-page response from UND to the NCAA.

Turn up your hearing aids old guy.

Let me make one small statement. Please, please, consider it thoughtfully: UND is using the moniker "Fighting Sioux." If (I said "if") the Sioux tribal committees around the state were to come in with positions in favor (or at least not in opposition) of the name with a "clean up your act*, you're representing us" provision, what would you say then? Remember, the tribal councils have been at UND very recently. (See today's Herald.) Now this. Nothing in this world happens in a vacuum. There are no coincidences. * meaning be polite to others, don't be vulgar, respect folks around you, and conduct yourself in public in a sober manner

PSSSST ..... No, no, NO! Don't spin it that way. Spin it that UND just swept the pre-season pick to win the league. ;) I have to admit I was pretty down on Glas and the lads not too long ago. (I had the fork stuck in them.) This is a start. Are they tough enough to maintain it.

Why not ask this question instead: Why don't we have conference members that could "trade" television feeds? I know hockey trades some of their feeds in exchange for road game feeds (ala Duluth this year). Same could be done in football and hoops. I'm no hoops guy, but I would have loved to be able to watch WBB team go 19-0 last night, except there is no television in Omaha and thus no feed available to be put onto Fighting Sioux Sports Network. PS - I don't think the issue is with Clear Channel ND but with the internet side of the connections only.

$50k is the level of guarantee some top-tier DIIs want to come to GF and play Lennon's guys these days.

Bruce Smith and John Watson rule! Proud to see those deans voting with the student block! I'll have to get my checkbook out and sent Dr. Watson a "note" now.

Why do I just know that Myles Brand and the NCAA Executive Committee had a hand in forming this law?

It's one guy, and if he was seen in Grand Forks there'd stories speculating "why else?" in every paper in the region.

In a vacuum? I'm getting the impression that that is what you believe.

Here's another one for you: I know for fact that Harmeson is in frequent contact with a guy who: (a) is a DI conference commissioner, and (b) does consulting regarding the feasibility of level changes within the NCAA.

And consultants always have all of the necessary expertise and never mess up?

From NDSU's Carr Report Executive Summary:

If you already knew the answer to the "Why four months?" question why'd you ask it?

No, the better question is: Why should UND pay a consultant when it can ignore the advice of a consultant someone else paid for and ignored for free?

You don't? Let me help you. From NDSU's Carr Report Executive Summary:

The same can be said of DI-AA (and DII) football in the view of national media and national college football fans. They don't really even care about MAC or WAC football unless a team is 9-0 or better. All they want is USC, Texas, FSU, and Notre Dame. To the world the rest, all the rest, is, well, minor.

So you'd "show up" and take a banner. Really? Tell that to DI-As without National Championships. There are more without banners than with.

Did you just say that the only "true DI schools" are DI-As? You must have. There are 33 DI schools playing DI hockey, but just 13 of them are DI-A; thus, by your own statement, the DI-As are the only "true DI schools." Are you going to stand by that and go with your admission that NDSU is not a "true DI school" or would you like to retract your statement now? PS - Who wants to tell DI-AAs New Hampshire and Maine or DI-AAAs BU and Denver (not "true DI schools") that they mean less to college hockey than DI-As Army, Air Force, and Connecticut ? NCAA DI Hockey (numbers may be off by one or two schools): DI-A: 13 DI-AA: 14 (not "true DI schools", sorry NDSU, your fan defined it) DI-AAA: 6 (not "true DI schools" either) DII: 20 DIII: 5

As much as I can't stand to listen to him at times, the sports monkey, sorry, director, at KFGO (Derek Hanson?) may have this one right: There are haves and have nots at every level of football. The differences between the haves and have nots in any level are probably greater than the differences between the haves of DII and DI-AA, or the have nots of DII and DI-AA. --> DI-AA Valpariso and DII UM-Crookston (have nots) would be a pretty even game. --> DII "have" Grand Valley would give any "have" DI-AA fits.

Questions: 1. How many DIIs would love to have The Betty over what they have? 2. How many DIs would love to have The Betty over what they have? 3. How many DIs or DIIs have the option of playing at either The Ralph or The Al? Keep filling it for hoops (sorry, not a hoops guy here) and the problem will solve itself: You'll need the space of The Ralph or The Al. For the record (search and look if you like), I too wish The Betty was about one to two thousand larger, but that just didn't make economic sense when you already have the The Ralph and The Al. The Betty is a nice arena and even better practice facility. Be happy or some would say you're crying because your ice cream is cold.

Brothers have played head to head against each other. I'm sure neither got "the time of day" from the other during a game. The WJC is a two-week long game. For those two weeks Jonathan Toews was "Team Canada." Now he's "Fighting Sioux" again.

Someone ask him about the Pontiac he's driving? Or did the NCAA lawyers tell him to "put the shovel down"?