The Sicatoka

Dean Blais was a Gopher. Two UND titles later we all overlook that.

In this case the ‘boy ain’t wrong.

Chaves needs to use that FCS pedigree to fix the glaring issues.

If you look for NSIC coaches you start at MSUM or UMD, not Minot or Mary.

Chaves has seen what it takes to win an FCS title within the last decade. He'd better have a list, a list with phone numbers.

I wanted DeBoer over Muss.

Special teams has cost us dearly at least twice this season. And again we're facing injuries which I believe is strength and conditioning related. At a minimum those must be addressed. But there's a deeper issue and it's been mentioned here: There's no will to defeat an opponent. I see three levels: winning, defeating someone, and humiliating someone. It's like the coaches are afraid to win, much less defeat someone. And I'm not saying humiliate, I'm saying defeat. Defeating someone is going out and scoring one more time to put a game out of reach. It is not sitting back and relying on your defense to run out a clock, and that is just trying to get the win. And just trying to win means you're accepting the real possibility you'll lose. Bubba's a nice guy and he's fixed a lot of what was wrong with the program, but I believe he's at the "Duluth" point again. He and his staff won't take the program any further. The personnel are there; the foundations are restored; but whatever "it" is to get the program to the championship level "it" just isn't there with this staff.

I said it then.

I'm sure it came to you as you woke up bleary-eyed one morning and saw ... Sad thing is that's probably the best thing you've ever woken up bleary-eyed to.

1A. Think: Fort Wayne or WIU. Either of them go and the BB autobid goes. 2A. Yes. * 3A. Greed and egos are involved so sooner than later. *OK, OK, my assessment is Chaves left EWU for Grand Forks so "not" for EWU. Weber I don't know much about.

I was still in, didn't realize it, and didn't pick Round 3 ... < facepalm > ...

Anyone know where I can send a few bucks so they can have appropriate models around the new building model?

I stand by the following statements: 1. The Summit is one school away from being in trouble with its BB autobids, and that one school is any one of about four schools. 2. The split between haves and have nots in the Big Sky is bad and will only get worse and will probably contribute to fracture (see: WCHA realignment as example). 3. Something will give, or break, or change, and western conference realignments will occur, primarily affecting football.

Where's the website with the fly-through Flash video?

Sanford built the 10 story mega-structure where it is to head off a West Fargo hospital.

That's a lot of Legos!

After how many beers?

I'd give Ms McGarry much more credence if she'd spell out her specific concerns with President Kennedy. Until then I'll thank her for her opinion and weight it accordingly, namely, as an opinion without enumerated issues behind it.

Grimaldi is in; he's played 2 so far for NAS. Wolanin is in; he's appeared in 1 so far for OTT.

That, frankly, is the best data point you've been able to point to, namely, why are all of these making the same noises at the same time. Quite the curious coincidence if it is.

867-5309? They seem more the 634-5789 type ...

I can understand SV's vision of better western alignments by academics via athletic conferences. It makes sense. For example Idaho >>> SUU academically. And SV is correct in that presidents make the decisions and ADs are directed to act and may not always be in the know until directed. All that said, 'paw is correct in the assessment that there are a lot of moving parts here and no seals have failed*. Allow me one observation of my own: If the northern tier of the BSC were to jump to say an FCS Summit you'd need an emissary, a bridge between the western group (UI, UM, MSU, EWU, WSU) and the Summit group (UxDs, xDSUs, UNO, DU, **). That bridge? Well ... seems to me that UND's AD is formerly the AD at EWU. *That's a way of saying nothing has leaked so far. **See my post on p199 of this thread saying this group would need one more BB-only school to make 9FB/12BB.

I wouldn't say a new "dead fish wrapper" but if the news sources (local radio stations and weekly news papers) from Devils Lake to Bemidji and Roseau to Hillsboro banded together like the NewsDakota does for the Carrington, Jamestown, Valley City, Oakes part of the state I'd say they have something. http://www.newsdakota.com/

Looking at it again it seems the 90 yard run by 33 was a “paint run”: if he’d have been covered in paint no Sac players would’ve needed to wipe their hands.

Talk about a win where the coaches have yelling material for Monday. Yeesh. And this getting by despite special teams must change.