The Sicatoka

Here's another scenario: What if the Florida Seminoles say "aye" but the Oklahoma really did say "nay". Or if Chippewas in Wisconsin or Minnesota say "nay" but others say "aye"? Who do you listen to ("respect") and who do you not ("dis"?).

A construed right to exclusive self-portrayal by you for you about you will disallow and nullify my enumerated right of free expression. Ah, conundrum. And the "free expression" wins except in cases of the extreme or direct physical danger. "ScottM" addressed the "extreme" already.

For example: Capital One credit cards. The pillaging hoard of what looks to be Huns and Goths and Vandals. The University of Idaho Vandals. Don't say all the Vandals are gone. There were a Germanic tribe. Who knows where the bloodline is today. PS - The UND "Pillaging Hoard" has a nice ring to it.

But you should be horribly upset by that. You keep telling us you're a veteran and the "Fighting Cavalry" would be "hostile and abusive" to veterans, and stereotypical as well. For the same reasons "Sioux" upsets you, as a veteran, "Cavalry" should upset you. PS - I didn't think we'd seen you hold back yet.

This one is easy folks. If "Fighting Sioux" is "hostile and abusive" replace the name with the name of the greatest enemy of the Sioux. Not only would you be protecting the Sioux you'd be "hostile and abusive" to their greatest enemy! Double win, right? University of North Dakota Cavalry. Chants of "Go Sioux!" made them upset. Chants of "Go Cavalry!" should make them happy, right? And thus we've shown the name-change "logic" doesn't pass muster.

Hello and welcome to today's class. I'm "The Sicatoka". I'll be giving today's lecture on civics and government as your normal instructor is preparing to take the others "to school" on these issues in the near future. First, let's clear up some misconceptions about "rights." Some of you have foolishly begun to believe you have rights that don't exist. Let me summarize these pseudo-rights, and why you are wrong about them. 1. There is no right to exclusive self-portrayal. To believe otherwise is to believe that only Democrats can tell you about Mr. Clinton and only Republicans can tell you about Mr. Bush. 2. There is no right to not be offended. Someone will always find something to be offensive to them. I know someone offended by Cheerios. No, I'm not kidding. 3. There is no right to respect. Respect is a strange quantity. You have to give it before you have any given to you. You have to earn it. It's not guaranteed. However, moving to rights we all have, under the US Constitution, we all are guaranteed equal protection under the law, and guaranteed freedom of speech. How you use them is up to you. The right to free speech trumps psuedo-right number 1 in every case. Imagine a world where you could only hear one side of any story. Pseudo-right 2 is covered by "equal protection" meaning we'll all be offended by something some day. I'd be offended if there wasn't something offensive out there; that'd be a pretty boring world otherwise. See? Equal. As far as respect, unearned respect is just that - unearned - meaning it's worthless and hollow. To demand (unearned) respect rings even more hollow. Your assignment is to go and actually read the First Amendment to the US Constitution. That's it. Questions? No? Class dismissed.

Seminoles, Utes, and Chippewas press for the survival of their namesakes. The Sioux? Nope. Who's out of touch. (<--- Note that's not a question.)

Reading UND's appeal they've sent some not-so-subtle messages of what would come after this.

Before it was money, now it's governance. Gee, the Superconferences wanting to bolt from the NCAA and form their own organization because the NCAA isn't treating them the way they feel they should be treated? Where ever have I heard that concept before? Hmmm..... Regret indeed they may.

Where do you get this stuff. Fabian's work ethic and total student-athlete performance makes him a role model if nothing else. I believe it puts him on an inside line to an "A". My wildcard for an "A": The two-time WJC participant and silent hockey-assassin Rastislav Spirko. All he does is do his job. And when's the last time he went into the corner and didn't come out with the puck? Plus, he could cuss out referees in his native tongue and they'd never know!

A tribal college in South Dakota that declared bankruptcy.

I once heard a very wise man muse that, "Some of the biggest bigots I've met are the 'anti-bigot' bigots." Quite.

Where do you get this stuff.

The NCAA has opened up a rat's nest for themselves, again. The worst possible offense according to them is "stereotyping via a mascot". They gave FSU, with that very offense, a pass.

Late August plus six months equals late February. There's not much adding one defenseman, who hasn't played in a year, will do for a team's fortunes at that point. I suspect a medical hardship year is in Robbie's 2005-06 future. Welcome to 8 defensemen: Smaby, Radke, Chorney, Jones, Lee, Finley, Alexander, and Marvin.

Both ran red. And that's not just overall, but in nearly every EADA subcategory (see above).

The 2004 EADA data shows that both athletic departments ran red ink for the fiscal year. Only two subcategories of how EADA breaks the data down (or is it how it's reported to them) had black ink: Mens sports other than FB and BB at UND (think "hockey") Revenues: $3,840,395 Expenses: $3,379,348 Net: $461,047 Womens BB at UND: Revenues: $537,421 Expenses: $513,088 Net: $24,333 The only data I can find out there for NDSU is the FY 2002 data (from the CLS report) and UND's (projected) FY 04 budget. There NDSU donations (assumably Team Makers) were listed as $1,028,000 and the Fighting Sioux Club was listed as $1,468,811. But those numbers don't matter in this context. The EADA numbers are the final budget numbers for each school for that year. However, EADA doesn't list the breakdown of revenue sources (meaning tickets, donations, etc.).

Is the "JBB" here the "JBB" we've come to know and love so much in this forum?

For the record, FY 2004 EADA (http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/Search.asp) data: Football Revenues Expenses Net NDSU $1,309,531 $1,553,273 $243,742 UND $1,316,666 $1,485,800 $169,134 Why bring up budgets? Because you can't play the games if you can't pay the bills. I'm sure there is some "Enron accounting" on both sides. (I guess only the government can get away with that.) But both are public schools that have made claims and statements about budgets and budgeting in the past. Let's get it all out onto the table and see who's where fiscally and what one can learn from the other.

Mr. Kojich is the new guy in media relations at UND. Guess where he came from. (It's not FSU, but it's another member of the 18.)