The Sicatoka

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Missed FG, season: O/U 3.5 Missed EP, season: O/U 1.5 Blocked kicks by UND (punt or FG or EP), season: O/U 3.5

Wins -- O/U 7.5

Point of order: Your "CUSA school" announcer has never announced a conference CUSA game and his CUSA school isn't CUSA until 2023. Details matter. Meanwhile our television announcer gets stolen away to do national broadcasts for CBS Sports.

I wonder if Tommy will ever publicly allude to his ability to illude defenders to allow him to elude sacks. I wonder if Tommy will ever publicly hint at his ability to trick defenders to allow him to escape sacks. (That's what happens when mom had an English degree.)

The pick lists: 2022: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/143p8uRk2ajt4YCZ_Xx1z3rdKeNcOXj-KK4cirID5rro/edit#gid=1466169803 2023: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w4Zo5azvRWMiuN4Puxj5aRRhwOGmt-DENEsRapKxmfI/edit#gid=1466169803 I doubt any 2022 inbounds are going to change this late (unless they have USHL options). The 2023's however ...

... but I believe they did not get the Fargo bid ...

We'd be guessing by perceptions. I'd love to be able to ask Maag and Zavalney.

Brian Shawn was NDSU's TV voice from 2012-2021. I'd be OK if he brought that kind of run with him.

Are there any categories besides "blue chippahs" and "grindaz"?

Josh Billings, an American humorist of the nineteenth century, warned us about gfhockey ... "It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so."

Fargo radio is figured out, just not announced. I'd hoped for a solution that would get UND on radio towers in Tioga and Grand Rapids, MN*, also, but alas, the more things change the more they stay the same. *One Fargo radio group has that.

More, including the actual findings report, on the Michigan situation. https://www.therinklive.com/mens-division-1/big-10/myers-for-those-who-know-mel-pearson-the-michigan-hockey-report-makes-one-wonder-why-and-how-we-got-here

I want to win the toss at Nebraska. Go from there. First things first; win the next play.

That was tough ... https://www.bek.tv/overtheair

Well, if we're doing the random guess the lines thing ... my theory is always "getter-setter-shooter", but start with centers. And when I say getter-setter-shooter no player is 100% any one of those, they all have a little of each but are better at some things than other. So, centers: Jamernik, Schmaltz, Costantini, McLaughlin, Ness. Yes, I put Matteo back to his natural center. Compared to a year ago that's an embarrassment of riches at center (because Senden can play it also). Now start surrounding them (and what they are) with what they are not, meaning ... Jam with Senden and Hain (Senden gets, Jam sets, and I hear Hain likes to shoot ...) Schmaltz (setter) with Gaber (shooter) and Caulfield (decent getter) Costantini with James and Portz <-- lots of speed in that group McLaughlin with Blake and Kunz <-- not a fan of two freshmen on a line, not at start of season Ness with Albrecht and Stinden/Mongomery <-- last year's third/fourth line this year's fifth? Probably won't see those right away. True freshmen at center in October is not common. There are going to be battles for ice. My biggest concern: Jam and Schmaltz need to get even better at draws.

Yes, but that's not in the same realm as a "We need to start paying out NIL ..." statement.

With the addition of a GF license, BEK's OTA coverage of ND is pretty solid. I wonder if Midco and BEK could swing a deal.

Stunning that the U Michigan Regents are putting up with this from the AD and hockey coach.

Only Frank Mazzocco knows ...

Would it be wrong for me to muse that UND should be all over Michigan's recruits in light of the Pearson fiasco (see non-UND hockey thread).

It's literally top administration versus athletics.