The Sicatoka

You can have the Bally's announcing crew from Saturday. I shut down the audio. Learn the rule book M77. But thanks for not before now. Having your stick "returned" in your home rink is absolutely hilarious. Why is it UND2 and UND3 (the HEA and ECAC grad transfers, you know, the 'soft' leagues) are the two who know how to deal with M89? UND2 gets full marks for putting him in the blue paint grave yard with the hit captured on Twitter. UND6 was flat bad Friday; I'm liking what UND2 did Saturday. If the call on UND25 is a major, there should be 3 or 4 majors called in every NCAA game. If we see Minnesota again, it won't be on a glacier. < evil grin spreads across my face >

So go read the box score.

I thought North Dakota was in Minneapolis.

It was their Stanley Cup.

Point of Order: a reference to "on the back end" is a reference to the defensive corps. Boisvert is a forward. I suspect you mean get him into the bottom six forward group*. Then again, you may have meant McInnis and the reference would be correct as he's a defender. *I see hockey moving from a 6-6 forwards mindset to a 9-3. You need scoring from a heavy third line. TBL has shown this formula works.

A lot of football yet to be played. Who had USD over SIU? Learn from the loss but don't let it fester and compound.

Massey has UND at 15 and ACU at 43 this week.

Fix the mistakes. Win the games you're supposed to win. Focus on this game as that's all there is. Control what's yours to control.

If you have Twitter, ping https://twitter.com/pirps19 (Mike Prpich). He's had a couple sweet outdoor rinks for the kids. He'd have good advice.

That being ...

Why? For what end? It goes in the box score.

Can I get a review of the review of the review before we review it?

We took all our bad mistakes for a season and packaged them in one game. Glad that's over with.

Hypothetically, ... Say we get to "week last" and SDSU and SIU are each sitting at 0 or 1 loss. They're in. Say UND is 7-3 (losses to Neb, SIU, SDSU) and NDSU is 7-3 (losses to Ari, SDSU, SIU). When UND wins and is 8-3, and NDSU is 7-4, will those same folks be chirping the same "only get 3 teams" noise? Summary: Those folks are running an agenda. Here's hoping it backfires badly upon them.

And that's exactly what he should, namely, "shake babies and kiss hands" with both the hockey and football attendees. Edit: I listened to the noted podcast. Chaves went the Friday hockey versus Holy Cross, flew out Saturday morning to PIT, caught a ride from PIT to YSU with the AAD (CFO) who always goes with FB, and flew home with the FB team. Today (Fri) he's riding to MSP with AAD EM and coming back Sat morning for football. And somewhere in there he found time this week to tour UND with his senior in HS son*. *I strongly recommend administrators at UND do this periodically. It's really easy to miss what is happening outside your domain unless you take time to go and look around.

Too early for line charts yet? Interested in who is in and out and who the extra skater is (D or F).

Not until Motzko touches the side of his nose and nods as the B1G refs skate by.

I just looked up DeRidder's MSU career stats against Minnesota ... How 'bout that football game tomorrow? Some stretch of good weather we been havin', no?

BYOK. (bring your own Kevlar)

Good news: SDSU's RB1 and RB2 were pretty beat up after the NDSU game. Bad news: SDSU's TE1 is back.

Now class, what did we learn from this? That at least one goalie (OK, two, because the "goalies" won) and Schmaltz and Kunz are on the trip.

You referenced Lucia already. Why you repeating yourself?

The NCAA Transformation Committee's next significant date is Oct 26 when the DI Board of Directors meets. https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2021/11/3/division-i-transformation-committee.aspx I'm perusing their latest minutes and trying to read the tea leaves. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaaorg/committees/d1/transform/Aug_Sept2022D1TR_Aug30Sept13Sept20Minutes.pdf I think they're trying to toughen up what being "Division I" means, but any substantive action they take will surely gore somebody's ox and will be challenged. Times like this I do miss "SiouxVolley". He spoke "NCAA" and "administrator" much better than I do.

So ... the Twins and T'pups problems ... or are we not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

Rest 'em all. Leave 'em in Brookings. It'll be fine.