The Sicatoka

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.

Anyone have a stamp? I need to mail the "Congratulations on being #1 in an ends-in-"r"-month!" card back to Don Lucia and company, along with a "Virg Foss Award" self-nomination form. It's called "re-gift-ing!"

The gamesite. It says 8343 permanent seats but PSU lists 10024 for the game against NW Missouri.

Patience. Wait for it.

(from the GVSU v. UND press release with a couple key updates)

Let me sum this thread up: - Potulny and Irmen are good players - Minnesota is playing well right now, in months that end in "r" (Sioux fans have seen that and know what can come of it.) - The important months don't end in "r" - Winning in ends-in-"r" months is the fast track to a Virg Foss Award Now play nice with each other.

One more time: It's not in Dale's office.

In a word, that's wrong. There was statewide coverage on the Fighting Sioux Sports Network.

Yuck! Dog water!

No, Dr. Phil was up being interviewed during Friday's first intermission. Oh, you mean the TV "Dr. Phil", not Dr. Phil Harmeson, UND's NCAA faculty athletics representative.

As a matter of fact,