The Sicatoka

So, on a board on a site called "SiouxSports.com", that features primarily Sioux Hockey and Sioux Football, you wanted to know if there were primarily Sioux fans. As Bill Engvall would say: "Here's your sign."

Shantell Rivard has experience as a Division I head coach. Doesn't that mean she has the best resume on campus? What if she applies?

Maybe some day Don Lucia will end up coaching beyond the second level and in the NHL. I'm sorry; I couldn't resist.

I think Cratter was merely pointing out the eerily strange similarities in posting styles between this and this.

Lube job and rotate the paws? How about Roger Thomas sits down with someone, explains the formal process he has to go through (being a bureaucratic institution like an American university there must be one), and we get the story straight once and end all this rumor and speculation.

"The bottom line is that they're saying they have a good candidate or candidates on campus." Lucy Ganje? Then again, I know of a UND employee who is (a.) a guy who played hockey at his collegiate alma mater, (b.) good with the media and PR, and (c.) familiar with the program ... but his office isn't in Hyslop or REA, but it's close. ;)

Glad to see you snapped out of your "Craig Dahl moment" there.

His official title is reported as "Associate Head Coach". That is the same title Dave Hakstol had under Dean Blais.

I caused it by losing that information in the shuffle. Sorry.

Upon further review, they did.

ScottM used a phrase like "transparent process" earlier. If they did put out feelers we'll never know because that's not transparent. A national search would be. Instead we're left to wonder what really was the process. I don't want those types of questions swirling around a new head coach. The job is tough enough without them.

If Hakstol is the best man for the job, of all the possible candidates, after you look at them all, including possible surprises, which there always are, so be it. The internal hire approach will leave too many folks open to question. But let me be clear: If the job really is his, I hope Hak shuts us all up (or would that be has us all cheering?) in April.

I forgot to mention the name of this approach: Don't ask, don't know.

In a Leinenkugel's fueled haze last night, I came up with a couple of good reasons why you should ALWAYS open a position like this externally: What if (and I did say "if") this former UND national champion or this person with ties to the team had shown some interest in the position (for whatever personal or professional reasons that we may have no idea about)? Remember, I did say "if" and a big if at that. Say it's completely impossible? Haven't NBA or NFL coaches made the pro to college move? However, unless you open it up you'll never know. DISCLAIMER: I posted this same thought on USCHO as well.

Even with Blais' endorsement, Hakstol will have to fight this perception (and I use that word because I hope it's not reality). Hakstol, because of the internal hire ... : Shortest. Leash. Ever.

That story is a total jumble: OK, so no national search or no decision on that yet? Sure, UND prefers to hire from within and I prefer winning PowerBall tickets .... And no national search yet list Midwestern candidates? Midwestern? No John Marks? I'm siding with PCM on this one: This looks like UND open position standard operating procedure. They'd be crazy not to look.

John Marks Ho-o-o-o-old it. If I read Marks' and Hakstol's HockeyDB.com biographies correctly, Marks was Hak's head coach in the IHL for two seasons at Indianapolis.

Of the names being tossed about only two of them have won championships as head coaches, and only one of them was at a level higher than NCAA play: Steve Johnson, in the USHL John Marks, in the ECHL

He (and Grant Potulny, and other collegians for that matter) attended a Senators development camp last summer as well.

sioux_goo, You need to understand something fundamental here: Credibility doesn't come about just because you say it should be. Nameless sources doesn't add to it. Attacking those who dare question you and your "inside" knowledge doesn't add to it. Credibility comes when reality comes to pass that matches the statements that were previously put forth by you. Your "their (sic) is my validity!!!! all you doubters!!!!" statement based on "a source inside REA" means exactly zilch until 30 days pass and TB is gone (or is not gone) or you roll out hard evidence one way or the other before then. People reading this board have no way of knowing if you are real or a poseur claiming great inside knowledge. Until then, the doubters have fair reason to doubt. Want to erase the doubters? Show the hard evidence or name names. Please don't consider this as "ripping" you. I'm trying to help you understand why many folks tend to be skeptical of the things you're putting forth.

It'd be a stepping-stone position for him! KG for GC then HC!

Karl Goehring for head coach! ;)

If they were smart ... ... rather than the traditional netting hung straight down from the rafters they'd run the netting from the top of the glass to the bottom of the electronic ring. The upper deck folks would have a minimal sight-line impact and yet the lower bowl and suites would be protected. You think the lawyers are causing pain now? I can't wait for the first case of indoor fireworks to start one of those nets on fire.

" ... established a conference in D1AA* ... " * that should say "for football only". What about the other 15 sports?

RT or Dr. K. And .... ?