The Sicatoka

I get your point 'dub, but, reality is, out here in East Flyover there's only a few teams to play. A bunch of teams from West Flyover are going to end up on your schedule to fill it because they have the inverse problem. So does it really matter if you're a matter of Conference East Flyover or Conference West Flyover?

The curiosity in this is the following: If it really was caffeine why not just come out and say it. The average person would be flabbergasted that the NCAA would take away a season for drinking a freshly brewed pot of Folgers*. Robbins and NDSU would more than likely get sympathy and the NCAA would get scorn (and who's not in favor of that). Heck, if we tested the student body at any university for caffeine during the last three days of finals week I wonder how many would fail in the eyes of the NCAA. But by not coming out and saying "caffeine" it makes me wonder ... is it. All that said, we don't know until someone who knows (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA) says so. *I received no compensation for that name drop. And believe it or not that would get the average person close if not into the NCAA fail category.

UND/NDSU, SDSU/Augie, USD/Omaha <-- there's a tight six pack for a division of a conference. Then again, ... Montana/Montana State, EWU/Idaho, Weber State/Denver would be another reasonably tight six. (WSU/Denver would be flight but it's SLC/DEN.) DU and Omaha have no FB. Pretty sure Augie is going to do something with theirs (Pioneer League?). If that were to happen there's 12 BB, 9 FB. Hmmm, that works really well for scheduling.

When this first broke the whisper mill churned out "they just forgot to put in some paperwork to the NCAA" as the problem. (See earlier in this thread or on other sites.) What that implies is the substance is acceptable under a prescription from a doctor. That's how something disallowed becomes acceptable. The NCAA does offer exceptions in the case of "under a doctor's care or order". Now the story is caffeine. Has anyone ever gotten a prescription for ... caffeine? And, if it is caffeine why not say it and get the sympathy (and scoffing disbelieve toward the NCAA) from the average person who gets through their day with a vente triple-shot espresso. This is where I loop back to ... we don't know until someone with first-hand knowledge of the test results (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA) makes an official statement.

That wouldn't be definitive. A teammate could only report what they observed. Robbins, NDSU, and the NCAA knows what the substance in question is. They have the test report data.

Should NDSU choose to announce any further information about this matter, I can't think of a better week to do it. The football team was in DC; there's a donor announcement Thursday at NDSU (per ira). It would easily be at best third in this week's NDSU news cycle. And third prize doesn't even get you the steak knives.

For my own consistency, until we have an official statement from a party with first-hand knowledge (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA) we don't know that.

Under the assumption you are tacitly stating, namely that the issue is caffeine, and under your implicit claim to know the supplement in question and its caffeine content, and that of Mountain Dew, it is possible given potential consumption times and biologic half-lives. So possible, but many assumptions and moving parts in there. That said ... we know none of that because there are no stated facts about the detected stimulant from any involved party (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA).

Seeing (UND recruit) Ethan Frisch's brother Grant is a sophomore defenseman on the varsity, ... Go Spuds.

Altru has the Mayo relationship. UND Med has the Mayo Cohort. Why not see their Denny and raise them the Brothers Mayo? Has Mayo been approached? Yes, that would be out of character for Mayo; they don't do a lot of "slap my name on" showy stuff.

"Go big or go home." -- SiouxVolley (c) 2019

... to pull in more MSP metro kids. Yes. Who should be upset by this? SDSU and USD. Sanford is building a problem for them in Sioux Falls. Instead I have the feeling they have to sit back and accept it.

If Kennedy went to McGarry and said you can have any single thing under my power at UND changed, at your whim, aside from my removal, I wonder what she'd choose. Her answer would be so telling.

Lots and lots of egos leading to misadventures all around.

Will Augie keep football or will they pull an Omaha and drop the sport? If they keep football, will they move it to the Pioneer League?

We don't have official statement from a source that would have first-hand knowledge (meaning NDSU, Robbins, or the NCAA). Short of that official word we have only claims and hearsay (no matter what one may choose to believe).

Again, we don't know that is the stimulant to have been found at excessive (meaning illegal in NCAA competition) levels.

To this point Robbins' problem has been speculated to be caffeine; it has not been officially confirmed by any party that would have direct knowledge (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA).

Fenton's older brother is on the OL at Wisconsin.

People are focusing on Larson refuting a Robbins claim ("trusted program staff member" vs "student-athlete"). What we're not seeing is that Larson all but affirmed a different portion of what Robbins claims ("student-athlete", "throughout the locker room" full of student-athletes). So, whatever it is (and we don't definitively know what "it" is yet), at minimum Larson's student-athletes have "it" by his word. That would seem to make Robbins' second claim plausible.

Haven't they already? Or is this the final installment?

I write a check for a parent (who's no longer capable) for $6775 each month for their living facility. Then I write checks for medical insurance, prescription meds, and expenses of living.

The budget in the Legislature being proposed by the Governor is $14.2 billion ($14,200 million) for two years. $6,000 million runs the State for 10 months.

That's just short of a decade old. That's from when NDSU players were robbing Best Buy or when NDSU players were faking ballot petition signatures.

Dang. I like Hesham.