The Sicatoka

The black jersey they wore in St. Cloud nearly a year ago: (yawn)

Question: Which has a better chance of "gating" its expenses: soccer or lacrosse? I'm interested, if a sport were added, in adding sports that have a chance at paying their own freight.

Who knows which way facts and figures will sway people. What I see is this: Dale Lennon, Head Football Coach and Danny Gagner, Student-Athlete. The FB coach who's been known to favor DI-AA and his star safety. Dave Hakstol, Head Men's Hockey Coach A guy who already is a DI coach. Gene Roebuck, Head Women's Basketball Coach A guy who's already said he'd play a particular DI WBB school. What sport did Ken Vein, President, Letterwinners Association, play? (I don't know.) Folks will see what they want to see in anything. What I hope is these folks (the total list) can take facts and information and come to objective decisions.

Yup, and yup. I don't believe in this climate baseball and softball will ever "gate" enough fans to be self-sufficient (without a domed stadium). I believe lacrosse (in The Al) would stand a better chance.

Got a link to the story? (Try "history" on your browser.)

I was reading "SIOUX ILLUSTRATED" last week, the new BB focus issue. It alluded that Rich was very close to being the all-time wins leader as a UND coach. Is he hanging on to get that and then .... ?

Like 'star2city' said, a couple programs that are sure "red ink" would have to go before lacrosse could be added. I like baseball and softball, but we either need the NCAA season moved to a warmer part of the calendar in ND (not going to happen) or a dome. "star2city" puts out a solid list of pros and cons (at Post 9, above). We have the field resource already. I just believe that lacrosse has a much better chance of making it at the gate than baseball or softball, in large part due to the climate we live in. Field lacross in the Alerus takes weather off the list of concerns. And another excuse to tailgate is never a bad thing.

Kiss of Death.

If UND really did want to completely screw NDSU why'd RT allow NDSU on any UND schedule? Wouldn't that have been the complete job? (That would have made NDSU find even more games in the minor sports: more time, more effort, more travel, more money.) Does playing baseball and other sports align with the "total screw" philosophy? Dare I say "No." Risky considering the positions and statements from Taylor and Ruley to Buning's recent overtures. It may have been purely vindictive reaction from Gene and Amy due to (I'll admit poor timing and thus poor treatment) past events. But vindictiveness is a trait and it can come out post- or pre-. We only saw NDSU's post-. We don't know what they would have done pre- because the bell's already been rung. (Sadly, we got to see RT's pre-.)

Last numbers for limits I have (no guarantees): Mens DI: 9.9 DII: 8.1 Womens DI: 14.0 DII: 8.1 The numbers you list for UND are pretty close to what someone posted here one time.

SiouxMD: Your first "quote" isn't a quote of any UND official. It's the writings of David Dodds, Herald Staff reporter. How much do we trust any reporter (I'm not singling out Dodds in particular, but he gives a simple case study), to get the story correct? Well, let's look at: Uh, no. You are allowed to have one mens and one womens team "play up" in a sport other than football or basketball. Common examples: UND mens and womens hockey; UMD mens and womens hockey; Johns Hopkins (DIII) mens lacrosse (DI). PS - The quote from Boyd I interpret to mean: We haven't decided if it's worth the money to hire a consultant (consultants everywhere just cringed) when we got copies of NDSU's and SDSU's reports for free off the 'net.

I just have to make that list a little easier for the average sports fan to read. Harvard Princeton Texas Washington Wisconsin Yale UC Santa Cruz UMass Georgia Tech Illinois Maryland Michigan North Dakota Purdue UCLA Not too bad of a crowd.

I remember hearing this story, but I don't remember where: Somebody was giving a tour of Staples Center in LA. They were in the underground parking area. The people on the tour pointed to the bling-ed out Porsches and Ferraris and other high-end cars and asked who they belonged to. The guide told them that's where the LA Laker players park. The people on the tour then pointed to another area full of Ford and Chevy pickup trucks and more common sedans. The folks on the tour voiced the assumption that that was were Staples Center staff parked. The tour guide told them, "No, that's where the LA Kings players park."

The term is not "Grand Forkian", but is "Grand Forker." Just ask PCM.

Vaht?

They're adding 3 scholarships per season to the maximum of 18. They're at 12 this season.

http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/whockey/roster.asp An area from Quebec to Minnesota to Colorado to Alaska (including the western Canadian provinces) isn't big enough? Are you saying we should be having Sparky go home for Christmas and watch some pond hockey?

I find Massey Ratings to most match what I see with my own eyes. (Make sure you look at Massey's ratings and not the BCS ratings column.)

That's the essence of my initial "lay low" comment.

Political influence seemed to get FSU on the fast-track to winning an appeal with the NCAA. So where's North Dakota's congressional delegation been on this has been the question some here have asked. Well, that's easy, sort of. The Associated Press says Sen. Dorgan has been taking questionable money and favors from certain tribes. Plus, toss in the fact that Sen. Dorgan didn't recuse himself from co-chairing the congressional hearings looking into the dealings of Jack Abramoff, the man who directed a tribe to make a questionable donation to Sen. Dorgan, and you can see why Sen. Dorgan may want to lay low. http://news.google.com/news?q=Dorgan+Abram...tab=nn&oi=newsr

And Sparky gets no love for his "three-goal" hat trick.

Gee, I thought I read somewhere that Mr. Engelstad died in 2002. Dewey beats Truman, eh? I guess this is still about Mr. Engelstad though. I wonder what it cost Myles Brand to get Schaap to do that.

Basic information. http://www.fightingsioux.com/info/ticket/

(cough) Solen (cough) Sioux (cough-cough). And it couldn't be any more confusing than hearing: "The Mavericks play at UND this weekend." "Which Mavericks? Omaha or Mankato?" or "The hockey team plays the Huskies this weekend." "Which Huskies? Tech or St. Cloud?"

Well-qualified, eh?