The Sicatoka

Offer it to me and I'd take it. I'd get my hockey jones from the Bolts (UCF to Amalie is 99 miles on I-4).

Nothing personal, but I doubt it. Very, very few athletics programs show a profit, and even fewer departments*. *Meaning actual profit from actual revenues (gate, media, etc) and excluding subsidies (from the school, state, or student fees).

"UND was impatient." - Mike Jacobs 15 seasons. 15 seasons of futility. By comparison, I give you ... Clarkson. They started one season after UND. Though their first 15 seasons they have ... 4 conference regular season titles.2 conference post season titles. 7 NCAA tournament victories*.2 NCAA championships*. *These two numbers could still go up as their 15th season is still ongoing.

WIU is set to fiscally implode. That staves off needing UMKC. Let ORU go back south. (Do they really want Fargo in January?) And that staves off "Greeley". UND-NDSU SDSU-USD Omaha-Denver (easy flight) Montana-Montana State Idaho-EWU There's 8FB, 10BB (7 FB games, 18 BB games). Perfect would be one more FCS and one more BB only (9 FB, 12 BB; for 8 FB games*, 22 BB games). Yes, this is where some bring up UNC and UMKC as the solution to that. *Home/road annual balance.

You were so, so close until you said "Idaho State". The correct response is "Eastern Washington".

Oooh! OOOH! Pick me! Pickme! Conference regular season titles. Conference post season titles. NCAA tournament victories. NCAA championships.

No more ties. If it ties, it dies.

He understands the fundamental concept of "put puck in their net". I wonder if some of our guys understand that concept. And to win, you must put at least one puck in their net. Finally ...

Minn/Wisco or Minn/Wisco/Duluth

Oh yeah? 6-66-1 or 11-101-2 Hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_Fighting_Hawks_women's_ice_hockey

So ... other head coaches could get those players into the NCAAs ... Looking back, the biggest factor to getting UND WIH to the NCAAs was the Lamoureux twins, but even with them it only happened 2 out of 3 seasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_Fighting_Hawks_women's_ice_hockey Facts are pesky things.

I want a double Gordie Howe hat-trick mano a mano.

Stop playing to the level of the competition. Start playing to the level of the abilities. This team can play to the level of top 5 PWR teams (ties with DU and SCSU); it needs to play like that every shift.

My sources tell me both will be playing for their USHL teams (Randklev to Fargo, Frisch to Green Bay) this weekend. Can someone talk to Cary Eades and get Frisch to Fargo so we can watch them both?

I hear they are light and aerie. <-- Does no one get the homophone pun? Where the < bleep > is Mafia when you need him ...

Please continue the March.

Dear Sen. Heitkamp, ... or are you of the naive and fiscally unviable belief ... If it's the latter, you should not be in charge of a nation's finances much less those of an athletics department.

Again, and at risk of repeating myself, this does not scream economic viability. http://www.startribune.com/gophers-women-s-hockey-conference-wcha-takes-unprecedented-turn-toward-crowdfunding/435628563/ From the link: Crowd funding and losing $2 million a year.

All snark aside, in under six months UND (sans FB and MIH) will be in the Summit. The Summit not meeting the requirements I posted above costs a little thing called "an autobid".

The best solution involves fixing the Gary Bettman problem. After this year's rating debacle you have to think NBC (who has Olympic and NHL rights) will be begging to get the pros to Beijing. And this probably exactly what Bettman and the owners wanted.

So who'll get to 30 first? The New York Yankees or Grand Forks Central.

We've been too short on the bench to institute "skate or sit". It needs to be.

Grand Forks Central hung number 27 last night. Redskins. Maroon and Grey. Knights. Central wins because they are Central. North Dakota should take note win because they are North Dakota. It ain't the nickname; it's the effort.