The Sicatoka

Who they bring back will be a tell in my mind ... that they really want Wynne. If they are serious ... Armacost, Tikalsky, Marley If they aren't ... Nichols, Staben

Folks are all wound up about one play. A play that will ultimately mean nothing is my suspicion. What folks should be wound up about is a continuing pattern that should be addressed, namely this play early in the 4th quarter: 4th and 7 at UNC, Brady Leach field goal attempt from 46 MISSED - wide left, spot at UNC29, clock 13:38. That left it a 14 point (2 score) game. Hitting that FG makes it 17 points, 3 scores. A make would have driven out any hope from UNC. Instead it gave hope to the Bears and made it a game when it shouldn't have been at that point. A team with killer instinct hits those plays and removes all hope from the opponent. That crushing of any hope of come-back is what I've never seen from a Bubba Schweigert team. I say that because right now the #1 team in FCS has most teams beat in the Monday film session: They know they have no hope.

He was hired as a Toronto assistant over the summer. Rumor during the summer was Babcock was on the hot seat (see: annual summer trips to Phoenix to "talk with" his star Austin Mathews). If anything, Hak was Toronto's insurance policy if Marlies-guy wasn't ready to step up. And remember when Hak was hired by PHI? They left the experienced assistants for the (never before at NHL level) head coach. As far as I can see, for now at least Hak's still in Toronto. Sound familiar? In light of that data, would you like to rephrase that question.

Have they named interim guy yet? Firing Babs was all the talk on NHL on XM yesterday. They speculated the Marlies' top guy would step in. ... yet I see a former Flyers head coach on the Leafs bench ... UPDATE: Marlies guy named ...

Does this make Rieger the ... (I'm going to say it) ... the world's first wing defenseman.

Tom, Tom, Tom, one does not talk about such things lest they grow fangs and turn on you.

Congrats to Rieger on his first career goal, and with that Rieger goal ... then there were two: Caulfield and Frisch looking for "first pucks".

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.