The Sicatoka

Team left Grand Forks at 2 pm Friday.

You’re not wrong, but is an outdoor stadium with tents for visitor lockers a wonderful thing for players or fans in attendance during a lightning storm?

I can see not wanting a game on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. That said, can we get the faculty to schedule "show up*, sign in, and get 50 points" type exams on the Friday of Labor Day weekend so we have students on that Thursday night. So many of them skip class on that Friday and leave Thursday it seems. *hangover optional

The storm will hit Grand Forks on Saturday and the NCAA will give itself an attaboy for being so wise as to not have the game in a North Dakota blizzard. Forgetting that Alerus Center has a roof, and walls, and a visitor's locker room.

Convenient coincidence.

The alignment of the sun and moon and stars just feels too convenient ...

Yes, SlowHand is an NDSU fan, but I agree with this assessment.

If Skyline is willing to put their name on it ... Chris Helbig.

Link or it never happened.

Oh no, .... it's a motivator.

If a student-athlete got hurt in a lightning storm in a locker-tent, ain't nobody gots enough coverage for the suing that would follow. Nicholls State and the NCAA would be under new ownership.

Beating Nicholls, a first FCS post-season win, would be the program's signature win. And that's the only option available at this time. Focus on that.

Elbonian League.

There's only one game. Pitch a tent and get with the program.

You're saying for that 2017 year, yes? https://fightinghawks.com/sports/football/roster/donnell-rodgers/8608

(1) Alerus Center v. tents (2) and (3) Revenue? Attendance history and potential? 9837 (4) So UND doesn't have a conference ... (5) Sure hope there aren't thunderstorms with lightning when the student-athletes are in the tents with turlets.

The NCAA: We're all about the student-athlete (changing and showering in a tent in the parking lot) experience. What do you bet female athletes would never be expected to change or shower in a tent in a parking lot. <-- mic drop

Honestly, file the protest now. Those facilities do not allow privacy for in-game adjustments and game planning ... unless they make sound-proof tent walls down south.

Private outhouses with the new Montgomery Wards catalog are included, that's how! The fans in the stands just get a tree out back, and a handful of grass.

I agree; but, do you file the NCAA paperwork just in case?

It was 15 but who's counting ...

There's a joke in there somewhere ... Nicholls: That's all we have to spend on facilities. Nicholls: We spent them all on the bid to a field with no locker rooms.

Here's a question that I know the answer to, but I'll ask anyway: Zimmerman redshirted at EWU in 2015. He went to a JC in 2016. He appeared in four games for UND in 2017. He appeared in six games for UND in 2018. He's only appeared in three games in 2019 before he went down with an injury. Any chance he could get a sixth year of eligibility? (I know, I know, slim and none and slim left town. Sixth years are like double-eagles in golf.) That said, it would be nice to have another QB that knows the system next year. Otherwise it's Schuster, Grover, and gut ache.

Or if Poolman is dinged, we need Bast and Tychonick to reappear.