The Sicatoka

St. Mary's of CA versus MSU-Mankato: a game of evenly matched teams. Too bad we will never see that game because St. Mary's has dropped football.

Huh? Do expand please.

So the conference that one of NDSU's 16 intercollegiate athletics programs is in is already losing a team, in less than a week after inception. No announcements yet on conferences for the other 15 of 16 programs.

Gonchar's a Bruin. Parise's rights stay with NJD. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=74738

Yeah, but AIB has the advantage that they carry their sticks with them all the time and their guide dogs growl at and scare away the defenders.

I don't think "O & M Sioux" can lay claim to eastern-most. Doesn't a someone have a "SiouxFanInBoston" handle?

I don't see the Miami Hurricanes football program looking to recruit just Floridians. And just because a guy is a "local" doesn't mean he's the right fit for a program.

Question: If the Sunbelt really is shopping for future I-As, wouldn't they be smart enough to shop for DI-AA schools that already meet the DI-A attendance requirement? DI-AA teams that averaged more than 15000 in 2002: Jackson St. Delaware Montana Southern U. Florida A&M Youngstown St. N.C. A&T McNeese St. Alcorn St. Citadel

The RPI is a purely analytic tool that gives a rating that is based solely on: - your winning percentage - your opponent's winning percentage - your opponent's opponents' winning percentage The PWR is another purely analytic tool that compares each team to every other team (individually) based on: - comparison of RPIs - head to head record - records against common opponents - records against "teams under consideration" (meaning with RPIs over 0.500) Poke around some of the information that is available here and you can learn more. Is it a perfect system? None is. Is it better than the rest out there? I'd argue yes. PS - I watch the KRACH rating system most because I believe it does the best job accounting for unbalanced schedules (better than RPI). Some argue (and I believe rightly so) that KRACH ratings should replace the RPI in the PWR overall calculations.

That would mean hairless rodents. Who do you send after them? This guy?

Apparently the simple reality check needs to be rolled out in front of some of you again: The only 'poll' that matters is the 'pole' you raise a championship banner on.

Uh, guys, insipid and juvenile things like that are a double-edged sword.

I remember this hockey weekend in "The Joe" back in 1987 ... and against the defending champion Michigan State no less for the last game. It ain't all good but it ain't all bad. And quit talking hockey in here or you'll tick off some of the folks.

It's the surfer-dude spelling of it dude.

I think you mean the WCHA tries to maximize $$$$ by having Goldie play FRIDAY night no matter what. That really has hurt some teams in the past (having to turn around from 7:00 pm Thursday to 2:00 pm Friday games just so Goldie is on in prime time).

Here's USCHO's current version of Bracketology. They update it Wednesday of each week. The easiest way to explain it all: The six league tournament champions get auto-bids. The ten highest PWRs without an auto-bid get selected. Beyond that, read the linked story.

Hey, the last recruit to finish second in BCHL scoring and go to UND isn't all that bad of a player.

Moving to the corner in the lower bowl makes sense. However, I'm not so sure that they'd want to put students right next to the South Club Room (306). Wouldn't leaving the upper "as is" and moving the students in the lower to the corner give the students more seating choices (side vs corner) also?

Let's see here .... holding UAA to one goal at Anchorage or holding one of the nation's top offenses and power plays to two goals (and just one power play goal) on the weekend. The voters will foul that up I'm sure.

As evidenced by this weekend, the perms must go. The solution for the Disciples of Goldie is clear: straight razor ---> clean, hairless scalp. PS - That includes the coaches. PPS - Now watch. That'll work for them and it'll be all my fault.

Does anyone have the photo that ran in Sunday's Duluth newspaper? It's a picture of a Geisler hit on Zach Parise (a no call). Geisler - left his feet - had both gloves to the mask/helmet. PS - It was not the only bad "no call" either direction on the weekend. Both teams got away with a few. I was just surprised they'd run it given the NCAA's "special attention to hands to the head" enforcement this season.

First round: 10 at 1, .... 6 at 5. Final Five (all games at The X): Five surviving teams seeded 1 through 5 based on regular season standings. 5 at 4 Thursday night. Thursday winner plays 1 on Friday (time TBD). 3 at 2 Friday (time TBD). Friday's losers play Saturday afternoon. Friday's winners play Saturday night.

Your angle and mine were very, very similar. I was the goal judge on that end. Kidding. Jake's head moved in a strange way with the swing. He couldn't have seen it coming and have ducked. So why'd his head move? If he didn't get hit he picked the best time ever to drop/hang his head (and get missed). Luckily, nothing came of it either way. More importantly, we need to teach Smaby to break sticks down over the crossbar and not across the pipes.

Uh, then why did Jake's head snap forward? It was (luckily) a glancing blow.