The Sicatoka

http://www.keloland.com/news/article/sports/sioux-falls-sports-authority-waits-on-ncaa-bid-announcement There's something to this ...

I still say DU's players are waiting to see what Monty does.

But I thought the Summit is the NCC 2.0. MVC == Summit 2.0 == NCC 3.0 ? I was told there'd be no math.

He's made donations in the past. Five-figure range. There's beaucoup difference between five-figures and seven- or eight-figures.

You assume that's how the conversation went. I assume otherwise.

If you had $60 million, would you make this investment? Even if you had a kid on the team? From TheSchlossBlog: So, Mr. Chipman, a businessman, called. I have nothing but supposition here, but I suspect the conversation went something like ... MC: I heard you cut women's hockey. That doesn't make my daughter or me happy. Why'd you do it? MK: The State is cutting our funding 20%. Women's hockey lost $2 million last year. We have to balance all the department budgets. MC: How much? MK: About $2 million of loss. MC: So is there anything that can be done? MK: Well, if we had a $60 million endowment the program could self-sustain and be ... MC: How much? MK: $60 million. Just make the check out to the UND Foundation Women's Hockey endowment. < dial tone >

(I also put this into Schlossman's blog post from today.) A simple $60 million donation to seed a women's hockey endowment and the problem is solved. I'm surprised Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany aren't lining up to do that. They've said their Olympic programs would benefit. Call it the NEWTDP: Northern Europe Women's Teams Development Program. Problem solved. What? No calls from Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, or Berlin asking where to send the check? Strange.

Now we align! Thanks for the hard work on that one.

Hefeweizen, bitte!

Sidebar: This is how reporting is done. The MFP guy is reporting something coming to him second hand; but, he still gives attribution to legitimize the claimed statement. The MFP must be a "boutique" paper.

So many forget the days when the 6000 seat Ralph had maybe 3000 in it.

I listened to a lot of NHL Radio on SiriusXM yesterday (don't ask). One dude's comment really struck: "STL is playing with a Chicago Wolves guy on just about every line."

It's the yellow bucket Goldie Gopher carryover --> yellow buckets == bad.

I'm all messed up. Here's what I have for player points affecting the game: Eaves ANA 2 Fowler ANA Getzlaf ANA 2 Kesler ANA Perry ANA Marchand BOS 1 Stafford BOS 1 Giordano CGY 1 Campbell CHI Kane CHI 1 Keith CHI 1 Panarin CHI Schmaltz CHI Seabrook CHI Toews CHI 1 Caggiula EDM Draisaitl EDM Klefbom EDM 1 McDavid EDM 2 Granlund MIN 1 Parise MIN 3 Suter MIN 2 Weber MON 2 Kreider NYR Karlsson OTT 4 Turris OTT 1 Crosby PIT 5 Goentzel PIT 5 Kessel PIT 3 Schultz PIT 1 Burns SJS Schmaltz STL Tarasenko STL 2 Backstrom WAS 3 Carlson WAS 1 Chorney WAS Oshie WAS 4 Ovechkin WAS 2 Shattenkirk WAS 1

First: Mankato is a DII (Northern Sun bus league) playing just DI hockey. It's much easier to manage costs. Next: Folks should take heed.

And mine is that the other aspects are so objective that either you meet it or don't. The fuzzy, open to litigation angle, is always "equity" so that's where the challenges come.

Most Title IX suits go after the Participation angle. Why? It's the "squishiest". The other two (financials, opportunity) are pretty objective. https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Final Athletics Fact Sheet.pdf

Me (to siouxforce19): Weltanschauung? siouxforce19: Schadenfreude.

I barely hit save and Rasmussen scores for CHI. I should've given the boys the C note to go out on the town with earlier.

Change "Wild" to "Blackhawks". Change "$20" to "C note".

Um ... Yeah. Uh-huh. Sounds right so far. Sure. Uh-oh. Gulp. Facepalm.

Butcher, Janssen, Marcinew, Romig, Ritt, VanVoorhis, Cowley, Ogard. <-- They lose a big group of seniors including a Hobey winning defenseman. Honestly, I suspect if DU has early departure motion it'll be late (as in after Montgomery makes his decision because his name is coming up in a lot of NHL talk).

Heathen.

Regarding Title IX, you only have to meet one of the three prongs. UND appears to be going for pure equity (prong 1)*. You can try to prove (sue) UND is failing another prong; however, by meeting one of the three you've met all of Title IX. *NDSU appears to use prong 3 - opportunities and interests.

Wanna keep women's ice hockey?