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  1. The Sicatoka
    Got their books? I see they have gymnastics and rowing. I'm guessing it's not hard to fund top tier in those to balance football. Assume Bama is top 10% in FB spending. What's it take to be top 10% in spending on gymnastics or rowing? (Probably a rounding error in the FB budget.)
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    Not a women's sport, but a similar number of athletes. I'd guess VB and softball (and probably soccer too) for them. But "mid level" funding of those sports is relatively cheap (versus top level spending on those).
  3. The Sicatoka
    Completely agree. You and I must be "pull the Band-Aid off fast" guys.
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    Are they in compliance with the law? (I don't know.)
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    I'm stating nothing as fact and made no such statement. I'm saying, based on jdub's posts on tiering discussion, it's pretty easy to use WIH to balance out MIH. Why? It'd be more expensive to "tier" in some other women's sports at UND.
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    I'd say re-read this: http://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/23311-president-kennedy-message-on-athletics/?page=41#comment-891301
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    Show me NDSU's books and I'll probably be able to show you. However, frankly, who cares what NDSU is doing? Are we sure they are doing it right? Are they ripe for a "prong" or "tier" lawsuit? We don't know. < re-read the first sentence of this post here > Somewhere in this I'm sure I've said "Hammersmith" three times.
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    Do soccer or softball have top tier facilities like men's hockey does? What more could be done for WBB or VB on that front? I can't prove it, but I'm quite sure that is a big reason women's hockey gets the prime, top tier treatment -- no additional facilities investments need be made. And facilities (construction and cost of ownership) are a big expense. The example give by jdub spells it out pretty well.
  9. The Sicatoka
    Sure, but what about travel and equipment and other obvious expense equity checks for auditors (or SJWs).
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    Don't confuse the three prongs (comply with one) with tiering. No matter which compliance method you choose you have to follow tiering. Tiering in a nutshell: Just because you have 50%M and 50%W student body and 50%M and 50%W student athletes (complying with prong one), it's not enough. If you have one sport for one sex eating filet mignon and flying first class and using always new equipment and all of the other sex's teams eating Raman and riding buses and using hand-me-downs you're violating Title IX.
  11. The Sicatoka
    It's not just participants but the tiering (see jdub above).
  12. The Sicatoka
    Yup. "Talk is cheap; it takes money to buy whiskey."
  13. The Sicatoka
    Did the coach know the rules and willfully break them? Was the school aware of the actions and allow them or did they take action upon learning of the violations?
  14. The Sicatoka
    We won't know until we find out the decisions.
  15. The Sicatoka
    Who can resist a bird with teeth and lightning coming out of its nether regions.
  16. The Sicatoka
    If you're going to Minot, honestly, I'd say stop at the Grand Forks Scheels and then up to the bookstore and REA. Scheels has the widest selection (and there's obviously more in the GF than Fargo store, and I've been to both). However, there's a couple nice items at the bookstore. The best hats might be at REA.
  17. The Sicatoka
    Was last night glorious? No. But, the folks under the microscope got a chance to plead their case. Would I have preferred it to be less of a spectacle? Yes. But then the accusations of "back room, smoke filled room deals" would be flying about. So which dung display, feces fest, would you rather have splatting about right now: transparency or obfuscation.
  18. The Sicatoka
    Part of the issue is that this situation was left behind by at least one prior administration: When the decision was made to go DI it was clear that a 21 sport department was not sustainable. At that time a former UND Athletics administrator (during the Kupchella tenure) told an assembly of 21 coaches to look around and that in five to ten years about five of them would be gone. Nobody wanted to do what needed to be done. Roll it forward ten years and, well, we're in the process of taking 21 down to 16. Ed Schafer, unlike Kupchella or Kelley, started the process. Now Kennedy is left to deal with the rest of it.
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    Huh-who-wha...? Or do I really want to know.
  20. The Sicatoka
    Call the Hawk a dove all you want, just as long as what it craps out is W!
  21. The Sicatoka
    Isaiah Diego-Williams Kid (or Play?, I get them confused. )
  22. The Sicatoka
    Um ... yeah ... we'd been meaning to talk to you about that ...
  23. The Sicatoka
    It's a witness protection program thing.
  24. The Sicatoka
    80% of their losses come from 80% of their schedule ...
  25. The Sicatoka
    Glad to hear you finally took care of that task for all of October ...
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