The Sicatoka

Assuming @MinnesotaNorthStarhere is the same person as on USCHO, and I do believe this to be the case based on his registration here, I have terrible news. Apparently he passed away due to a heart condition. Requiescat in pace MNS.

Can we do a real search where "while at UND" is not a de facto requirement on the resume? Or if that requirement will always be ... an option.

Money (new FBS TV deal and expanded FBS playoff all coming in 2025) makes schools and conferences do curious things.

People are moving south out of the old "rust belt". Those areas of KY and TN are getting a lot of those transplants.

One more thought: Time and again I've said it takes 30 points ante to win a MVFC game. If your plan isn't to do 30+ don't get on the bus.

Intelligence only works on other intelligence. The AI found none to connect with inside the referee's helmet.

Missed this rumor: Middle Tennessee State and Western Kentucky are claimed going to the MAC. That would kick C-USA down to three (FIU, LaTech, UTEP). C-USA would need the four (Liberty, NMSU, SHSU, Jacksonville State) just to maintain a pulse. Under that (C-USA 3 + 4) scenario, C-USA almost has to figure out how to get back to a viable number. A northern branch of seven or so to make 14 in the conference would get C-USA off life support.

Someone said conference losses of 6, 7, 3, and 4. The players were close but not prepared completely. Frankly ... that is on the coaches. Yes, yes it is.

Between the fourth down in your own end call v. NDSU, the continual lack of clock management, the terrible situational awareness (not realizing it's 4th down in the last home game), and this disaster, ... It's time to move on, because the game has moved on from the head coach.

Jerseys? Terrible. They look dirty. Nike Black Ice where are you ... Team? Give a two-goal lead again. How about show up from the start! You won't have to chase the whole time. The team I saw Saturday night looked like a team with new faces and little chemistry yet: passes don't land, little touches are off speed or not expected. And no one goes to the net. All that screams out as a team that needs to gel and find an identity. Add in a very quick PSU team that seems to have scouted UND's standard plays very well and it's not a great formula for a young team.

The Sicatoka is not real; it is an artificial intelligence, so it is and was everywhere ...

About as many as you see on those current Tue/Thu football games.

Trying to track ... only noting conferences with changes ... Big 12 Subtractions: Oklahoma, Texas Additions: BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston Future look (12): Baylor, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia SEC Subtractions: none Additions: Oklahoma, Texas Future look (16): Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt American Subtractions: Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston Additions: Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, Texas-San Antonio Future look (14): Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Navy, North Texas, Rice, SMU, South Florida, Temple, Texas-San Antonio, Tulane, Tulsa Sun Belt Sun Belt subtractions: none Sun Belt additions: Southern Miss, Old Dominion, Marshall Sun Belt future look (13): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana, Louisiana-Monroe, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Texas State, Troy Rumor (10/29/21): Add James Madison Conference USA C-USA subtractions: Alabama-Birmingham, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, Marshall, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, Texas-San Antonio. C-USA additions: none C-USA future look (5): Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, UTEP, Western Kentucky Rumor (11/2/21): Add Liberty (indy), NMSU (indy), SHSU (FCS), Jacksonville State (FCS) No changes: B1G, ACC, PAC-12, MAC, MWC.

Dare the Montanas/Idaho risk not making a move if the Dakotas did.

Anyone know if Chaves went to Nashville? Would've been smart to go and try to meet some of the folks at Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro*). MTSU with LaTech, FIU, UTEP, and WKU are the dying embers of C-USA. Yeah, they're going after NMSU, Jacksonville State, Liberty, and Sam Houston. But should C-USA look to bolster, creating a northern tier/division would be a future lifeline. *Drove through part of the MTSU campus the other day on the way to some little town, Lynch-something, vague recollections of what's there.

If Bill Chaves is as was advertised, yeah, the home front ain't looking so great right now, but there is opportunity to create the "western MAC". It would take someone with connections to both the Summit/MVFC and the northern tier of the Big Sky.

Geography says the northeast. It also says not in C-USA. They're looking south and closer to what remnants remain.

Tell him Bryn Chyzyk played here and that he'll fit ryght in.

ORD is in the middle of the rain event that was in eastern ND yesterday.

No ... we'd play Team X and the winner would play in Fargo.

WALSH That should ring some road trip to Maine bells.

OK, I'm going to be the wet blanket. Pass. It looks right out of 1970. <-- Not compliment.

Who knew Evander Kane posts here.

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Domed field.