The Sicatoka

How do you budget when you have no idea where you need to travel in a year if you're relegated (or moved up)? And what'll your revenues be if you move up, or worse, down? It's a great thought experiment but few presidents and ADs play on that section of the risk-reward curve.

You lost me right there.

Is it wrong for me to wish the HC wasn't the tallest person in that photo shoot?

Flying Soicer? < said in my best Curly voice, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk > Oh ... Spicer.

I keep Singleton on my Excel notes sheet but I'm certainly starting to question it.

UND Census Day 2023: 14,172 (+296); up about 2.13%. Increases in new freshman, new transfers, new grad students, total undergrad, and total grad. NDSU Census Day 2023: 11,952 (-290); down about 2.4%. New freshman down 11.9% from last year. Congrats UND. You got after it; now keep after it. Disclaimer: Thanks to @Teeder11 for the raw data. I just compiled it into one post.

Recruiting is more casino than science at times.

Fall 2022 (NDSU): 12,242. Fall 2023: 11,952. Down 290. Yikes. And under 12k. This puts them back to 2003-ish numbers, ... two lost decades. https://www.ndsu.edu/data/enrollment/annual/ The nasty in there is freshmen down 11.9%. Makes one wonder if UND's approach (Nistler, Education, Union, new housing, then athletic facilities, call it "student body first") was better than shooting $50M at an NDSU FB facility and still not having raised the $25M to get $75M from the State to replace the NDSU Eng'g building.

Credit hours enrolled. But you need students to take the credit hours so it aligns fairly closely.

C'mon @Teeder11, you know when it comes to good news about UND, ForumComm has a strict don't ask don't tell policy. To balance it out they have a strict do ask do tell policy for good news about NDSU. The reporting on this by ForumComm is the answer.

With the "last 17" disclaimer, and recruit reputation, no. Actual on ice ... we shall see. Other "hot runs" were - Parise -> Toews (give or take a year or two) and - building the 1980 and 1982 rosters.

Cook (current NDSU) has some significant issues to take on, foremost being budget shortfalls and declining enrollment. Additionally his predecessor (Bresciani) was against on-line classes so that area is presently a weakness also.

I don't see: Panzer, Klee, Singleton*, or Schultz. Jubenvill, Ausmus. Beyond "goaltenders 2 and 3", we might have the 26 man roster for fall 2025. *at this point, zero expectation to see him

I’d go with the 37 minute old tweet from Zellers saying UND.

Think of it as scoring a TD and casually handing the ball to the official ... been there before. Not overhyping it. Personally I believe it's a test of ForumComm: they love to hype anything good for NDSU and no one else.

Yesterday was census day. Only VCSU has reported publicly so far. https://ndus.edu/download/846/academic-calendars/20493/academic-calendar-2023-2024.pdf @Teeder11 speculated that UND may go low key in announcing.

I'm sure NDSU and UND are in a game of stare down chicken. And I'd think the NDUS system office would want the data out also. So we're left with ... Closing note: I'm going to listen to this now.

Drive to Watertown or Sioux Falls?

Yes they did. I wonder how many are folks that finally recognized it's cheaper to just go to VCSU than get your Elementary Ed degree from NDSU, pay more, and find the granting authority is not NDSU but VCSU.

In one play the trajectory of the _____ season changed radically. (a) NYJ (b) CLE (c) all the above

For a cookie store? Or are they going to be the bakery for other storefronts in the region?

But you can't get behind and need to make no unforced errors. You can't run and be chasing the score.

Two plays Saturday could've changed sideline demeanor (and attitude matters): - make the first EP (7-7 is better than 7-6) - make the INT and easy TD (would've "tied" game at 14)

BGSU was starting to get it together as a program. This is a setback.

Hit a police dog with a pipe after swinging an axe at people? https://www.am1100theflag.com/news/regional-news/68228-cass-county-mn-sheriffs-k9-officer-assaulted-by-crime-suspect You just assaulted an officer (K9 or not) with a deadly weapon. If I'm a K9 cop and you do that to my dog you have a 40 caliber problem coming your way.