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I corrected your statement. Title IX is about equitable opportunities, not how many. The NCAA is the one that mandates n sports to play in Division X.

Say it a couple-thirteen-fourteen more times and I may believe you.

I'm not sure how the current ratings work. In the past wasn't it: E - Could have your beer with you in batter's box and on base paths. Any defender could have beer with them. D - Could have beer with you in batter's box and running to first but not on other paths. Only OF and cornermen could have beers. C - Had to leave beer with base coaches before batting; timeout to transfer beer from first to third coach allowed. Only OF could have beers.

By level, no. But would they sandbag their way through a tournament bracket?

Why is that link suddenly "Access Denied"?

I suspect one particular Russian will go.

Gary always put together a team full of ringers and sandbaggers.

Leadership. Ownership. That PCM guy used to quote Napoleon in that, "The moral is to the physical as three is to one." For those of you that don't understand that, confidence and believing is three times as important as skills and tools.

There's a lot of work to be done between here and there.

I was pondering the very same point. It's a very interesting trial balloon to float out there, and yeah, I just called it a trial balloon. My rough look at the 2015 numbers say you can cut "WIH" or "M/W S&D and M/W Tennis" and get to about the same $1.2-1.3 million. But, imagine if cutting the last group cost an extra $600k (4 x $150k) penalty. More interesting is that it's Douple and the Summit. There's some history there about statements coming, or not coming, out of those offices.

Can't claim it entirely as mine. A former poster here brought the concept to me.

It's the curse of the warm spring weather. It's the curse of the cool spring weather. Pull no punches? I believe there's something "in the room" that's bugging this team. They need to fix it or work it out.

I'd say Jost was gone except for one thing: the missed games. That exposed that Jost is smaller and could use one more year to build the body. Note that the injury came after the grind of many hard games in few days. That's the way the pros run.

Won't disagree with you. I was just looking at necessary winning percentages (0.667 < 0.750), not who's on the schedule.

You touched on another issue. Too many guys are playing "out of position". Tyson Jost is a machine, but he's a freshman and under six feet tall. Right now he should be the #2 center on the team. It feels like everyone is shifted up a role from where they should be. I suspect that has to do with all the early departures last spring.

BC and Lowell do home and home Thursday and Friday. USAFA hosts Sacred Heart Penn State is at Michigan State Ohio State hosts Michigan Wisconsin is at Minnesota Cornell hosts RPI Notre Dame is at BU Providence is at UMass Vermont hosts Merrimack SCSU is at DU Omaha is at UND

My take on Jim's updated end of season forecast. The target line is PWR13 or better. Wisconsin and Ohio State are in better shape than UND. They need 4 of 6. UNO is in the same place as UND: 3 of 4. BC and Vermont and USAFA are hurtin': They have to win 2 of 2 to be at 13. Notre Dame and Cornell and Providence can go 1 of 2 and still be PWR13. SCSU can go 2 of 4. PSU has to go 3 of 6. DU, UMD, Harvard, UMn, WMU, BU, Union, and UMLowell all appear to be safely in.

That's out of date. The updated number is that UND must win 3 of 4 remaining regular season games to stay PWR14 or better. http://collegehockeyranked.com/forecast/pwrbywins/ There's no margin left.

He doesn't look a day over 159.

100% agree. I don't see UND going below 16.

Nope. Win this shift.* That's all there is. *That's a rip-off of the "make 'em snap it again" of the UND Football defense mantra.

I know he haunts here, so I'll quote the "Let's Go DU" blog from October 2016: https://letsgodu.com/2016/10/06/state-cuts-will-likely-impact-summit-league-membership/ That says seven total: MBB, WBB, plus five is seven total.

Because the UND men's team is paying the whole bill for the use of REA for everyone: them, women's hockey, MBB, WBB, VB, and soccer (locker rooms). Moving women's games to Purpur would ADD (not save) expenses to an already RED by $1.4 million women's hockey budget (again, they don't pay ANY facilities charges now). The city wouldn't let them use Purpur for free. If you want the women in a smaller venue with NO additional cost it's the REA Olympic rink.

Boeser had the advantage last year of everyone focused on Caggiula and Schmaltz. It gave him lots of free space. Now that he's the center of attention, with less time and space, it's had an impact on his game. If I were The Cou, I'd take a good hard look at that. He should be more dominant. It might be injuries; it might be he's being shut down. The 11 sophomores and 8 freshmen have talent. But when they're playing against upperclassmen all the time it's tough to show it. The current seniors are Ausmus and Matty Rinks. The juniors are T Poolman, Cam Johnson, Pogo, Simonson, and Olson. Sorry, I'm not seeing a whole ton of leadership out of that crew. Yeah Gage, I said it. That too is leading to struggles. Who'll I miss? If Tucker and Cam go, definitely. I'd miss Pogo, but I believe a healthy JJ can be that power forward.

First, it's here somewhere but the Summit League requires MBB, WBB, plus just five additional sports. Next, Melvin, eight years? Wha-cha talking about?