The Sicatoka

MBB plus FB or MBB plus 2 men's team sports is the requirement to be a core conference. You must have core conference status to be awarded a MBB autobid. The only thing that matters is that MBB ($$$$$!!!) autobid.

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Not enough. Only three Summit schools play hockey so it wouldn't count as a conference sponsored team sport.

TEAM sports. Basketball, football, baseball, hockey, soccer. What you list are considered individual sports.

I see six centers: Gardner, Bowen, Simonson, Hoff, Jones, Kawaguchi. Gardner and Simonson will be two most nights. Whoever is playing well of the other four at the position will be the other two; however, don't be surprised if Jones isn't one of them most of the time. Remember, Jones is effectively a junior.

SV is correct on the contract language. I saw it. I read it. I can no longer find the link either. It stipulated that if (by name) Montana, Montana State, and North Dakota were not in the Big Sky on the date Idaho was to join Idaho could renege on joining with no penalty and get their deposit back in full. Just those three schools were specifically named.

Seems you missed or failed to understand what SV said: Losing IPFW means losing a baseball and a men's soccer team. That puts each of those at 5 teams in Summit League play. That's not enough conference teams playing the sports to allow for a MBB autobid. See NCAA Division I manual sections 31.3.4.5 and 20.02.5 if you don't believe me. The key is in 20.02.5.2 (b): Lose IPFW and you fall below six in baseball and men's soccer. And thus the MBB autobid goes "poof!".

Those last 21 charter air miles are budget-killers. Oh wait, it's the wrong way! Narrative killer!

Missoula to Grand Forks: 1018 miles Missoula to Fargo: 951 miles Those last 67 miles are budget-killers.

If it turned out to be the west five and east five, well, Missoula to Omaha is about 140 miles different than Missoula to Flagstaff. < shrug > West: Montana, MSU, EWU, Idaho, Denver East: UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Omaha

Are you < bleeping > kidding me? Once IUPUI leaves (expected to happen Wednesday) the Summit is one departure away (in baseball or soccer) from losing its MBB autobid? And in reality, yeah, IPFW is eyeballing the door (and WIU just might be, and ORU might be). Spectacular. There'd better be a plan.

There's even less chance of the xDSUs and UxDs moving down than of the MnSCUs moving up.

I just don't see the MsSCU schools going DI.

We've had teams with Toews, Parise, Oshie, Stafford, Zajac, et al, and they came up empty. We had a team with Boeser on it and came up aces; but a Boeser/Jost team came up short. What I want is a winning team. If it happens to have a bunch of draft picks on it, so be it.

I don't think he's saying anything. Note the words "consider" and "may". He's putting out one plausible scenario based on current motion. Another plausible scenario would be IUPUI moves and that's the end of the motion. YMMV. Personally, I see conference moves like ripples on a pond. The AAC dropped a rock in the middle of the pond ... The AAC picks from the MVC (Wichita State). Then the MVC picked the Horizon (Valpo). And now it seem the Horizon has picked the Summit (IUPUI). What additional bobbing that happens at the edge of the pond is yet to be seen.

The F'Hawk you say ...

Somehow keep Raanta, and then package him and your protected alternate captain and send them off for a first round pick and a D with fewer than 40 NHL games?

The Bread Man (Panarin) and Motte for Saad and a backup goalie? Here are two websites that are going to melt over the next 48 hours. TSN's Trade Tracker: http://www.tsn.ca/tradecentre/trade-tracker NHL Salary Cap Tracker: https://www.capfriendly.com/

If IUPUI to Horizon is true, you have to figure IPFW is now reconsidering why it is in the Summit.

Taking the white stripe all the way around would make the numbers on the back nearly impossible to read.

Everyone just waitagoshdarnedminute here. Valpo. Valpo? All this is about Valpo! You mean the very same Valpo that just gained admission to the much ballyhooed and sought after Missouri Valley Conference*? That Valpo? The Valpo that got a bid to the MVC over NDSU? That Valpo? *not to be confused with the MV Football C.

Meh, that weekend price is "peanut buttered" into my overall season ticket package price.

Yup, this off season WMU is pronounced "whammu!" and that's the sound of them being roster-slammed.

Crap. You're right. That's the "four goalies" season. Given Bast's and Kierstad's recent histories regarding injuries, I'm now thinking they just might go with 9 D on the roster this year.

By my count, those 8 put the roster at 27. I can't recall UND carrying 27 on the roster this century. Chartrand Wolanin Shaw Peski Johnson Poolman Bast Rieger Kierstad Simonson Olson Poganski Gornall Gersich Gardner Janatuinen Jones Yon Bowen Smith Hoff Adams Mismash Kawaguchi Johnson Anderson Thome