The Sicatoka

Seeds? Bids? Money? C'mon man ... it's all about the student-athlete experience. You know that ...

GF Herald has hung around KE McGarry too much. Both think they are president-pickers.

Indubitably. Just the same, I'd like to survey the pollsters with one question: Is your poll ranking how you see the teams rate: (a) today (b) at the end of the season

I thought we we're going to be log-jammed for playing time at defense; instead, Bast and Tychonick being out have made us fortunate to have eight playable defensemen. That said, I was yelling at 20 to turn around (couldn't hear me through TV I guess) just before Saturday's DU goal.

Not to bring up hockey (which means I'm about to ), but in the 20-teens how many #4 seeds (or even last team in) have won NCAA hockey titles. Can you pull off the four (or five) game win streak when it matters.

The 2015 committee foresaw that #6-seed PSU was going to lose their opening playoff game ... so they kept UND out.

Pedigree?

2015: UND beat FCS playoff #6 seed Portland State plus FBS Wyoming; finished 7-4 overall. (Losses to playoff teams NDSU and Montana.)

DU: The UNI of college hockey. <-- It's all about the quality losses bay-bee!

Then again, USCHO isn't much better this week ... 1 Minnesota State 2 Cornell 3 Notre Dame 4 Denver 5 North Dakota 6 Penn State 7 Massachusetts 8 Clarkson 9 Minnesota Duluth 10 Harvard 11 Ohio State 12 Providence 13 Northeastern 14 Boston College 15 UMass Lowell Did all these people miss UND's weekend at DU (win and tie)?

To USA Today/USA Hockey Mag I say ... um, ... no. But at least they got #1 right.

You buyin'? Talks is cheap; it takes money to buy ... cupcakes.

Before this season most of the pundits here had their eyes on four tough games: NDSU, EWU, UCD, Weber. The thinking was UND had to win one of those four games because odds are there'll a loss in the other seven games in the schedule, and that combination makes 7-4. Those 7 FCS wins should get a playoff bid. Well, UND won one of the key four games (UCD). And UND dropped a stinkeroo to ISU; but, UND beat MSU and SHSU, and Poly on the road. Given Saturday's outcome, UND is doing exactly what the pundits wanted: 7-4. The problem is EWU and SHSU and UCD are not as strong as anticipated. Yes, Montana State is about as expected or maybe a bit better. And thus we sit at the mercy of other outcomes. So the solution is clear: Quit depending on strength of others. Quit planning for '7-4' is good enough. Control what's yours to control. Don't plan for good-enough-7-and-4. <-- That is "Loserthink" (c) Scott Adams Go out and win games.

8/12 is better than 7/11; however, 7/11 is better than 7/12. If you schedule that 12th game you'd better be sure to win it.

I think two year's from now he'll be a Colton Poolman type player: Lots of minutes in all situations, and leading a group of young but very skilled defenders. Disclaimer: I've known Ethan since he was in junior high, so yeah, I'm biased.

Should I kick or should I go? https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2017/9/14/16300604/college-football-fourth-down-conversions

Because the NCAA SRS normalizes to the number of games you play. Seven wins against FCS teams is better in an 11 game schedule than a 12 game schedule when normalized. If you schedule that 12th game you'd better be sure to win it.

What I like about Adams is he did the hard work to make himself a better all-around player. It's paying off for him now; it'll pay off for him later.

I see Karl Goehring as the heir apparent. (Sorry Dane, but I do.)

Folks, Massey is analytic. UND went up last week in Massey after a loss because of a good opponent raising UND’s strength of schedule. This week, a win, but overall strength of schedule fell because of the week opponent. Net effect was an overall drop in ranking this week.

To save time, what is the single, as in in one, best argument that gets EWU into the playoffs.

The committee is seeding 2019 teams into a 2019 bracket. Last year should mean nothing this year: That team is not this team. A ‘pedigree’ argument means one has nothing else to use as the case for a team for this season. lf pedigree matters Eastern Kentucky (6-5) should be pleased as their 21 all-time playoff appearances should be pedigree enough to get them in this season.

Yo Tex, a 7-5 EWU would only have six DI wins and their best win per Massey Ratings would be over UND. Pedigree.

Schuster's played in now 2 of 4 allowable games. Skokna has played in 4. Gee was unavailable yesterday. That probably answers that; and, I'll predict Skokna won't dress the rest of the year. My question on RBs is: Has anyone seen Austin Gordon?

I'm waiting for the FCS Massey Ratings to update to get a feel for what truly transpired yesterday.