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  1. The Sicatoka
    Well, if it's NDSU's it involves a car and a park in Omaha ... feel free.
  2. The Sicatoka
    If they can't separate personal likes and feelings from objective reviews of pros, cons, costs, benefits, they are unfit for the committee and unfit for leadership. If they are there as advocates they should be removed.
  3. The Sicatoka
    Track, football, and soccer have a pretty solid resolution now with the HPC. Tennis is in good shape with the agreement to use the new tennis facility in Grand Forks. Baseball is already gone. I'd say softball should be very wary give their facility was rated the same. I'd say swimming should be wary as their facility need should be near the top (bottom?) of the list now as well.
  4. The Sicatoka
    That committee was neither formed by Athletics nor by Kennedy. That committee was formed by the University Senate, the same University Senate that passed resolution after resolution against the old nickname. Need I say more? Again, I say my hope is that Kennedy is taking all this under advisement. (That's the PC way of say, "I'll pretend you have a voice and make you feel important, but in the end I'll do it my way because I'm the one truly tasked with the power and responsibility.")
  5. The Sicatoka
    I won't rip on "renting". I may be looking at buying a place out of state and just renting in ND. What I will say is this: Lead from the front. If you expect your people to do something you should be there doing it first. If that's not happening that's what I take issue with.
  6. The Sicatoka
    Given that, the move by Idaho (no SJSU games) is absolutely inside-out; overall, they're good for 2020 now, but now short two games in 2019.
  7. The Sicatoka
    Is (again, I don't know, someone will inform me) 2020 is a 12-game year? If it is, it looks like Idaho would be set perfectly if they had 9 conference games in 2019 and 2020. And that's not a hint; just an observation.
  8. The Sicatoka
    Regarding Idaho and dropping the SJSU series from 2019-2022: Here are Idaho's future non-conference opponents: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sun-belt/idaho-vandals.php Assuming an 8-game BSC schedule, they'll need three games in 2017 and 2018. They have them. In 2019 they have two still (after dropping SJSU). If they're in the BSC, that's 8 games for 10 total. Why'd they not try to keep the at SJSU game? In 2020 they have three still (after dropping SJSU). Add 8 BSC and that's 11.* *Is 2020 a 12-game season by chance?
  9. The Sicatoka
    What gives me hope in all of this is that the final decision maker is a former CFO of a Fortune 100 company. In his letter he asked Faison and Brekke to "provide the approximate cost of each program and the attendance numbers". http://www.grandforksherald.com/sites/default/files/KennedylettertoIAC.pdf If that doesn't scream "CFO doing cost/benefit analysis", what does. But he also says in his letter he's doing this once during his tenure. I expect him to go well beyond what has to be done right now, and instead go into the realm of making sure there are no more issues down the road. Like I speculated before, the non-BSC core sports (outside MH) should all be concerned: WH, MS&D, WS&D, Soccer, Softball.
  10. The Sicatoka
    You only have to meet one of the tests ("prongs", there are three) to meet Title IX. As far as having "matching" sports, where's the women's football or wrestling teams at NDSU or SDSU? That alone proves you don't have to have the same sports for men and women. Where UND runs the risk is the opportunities and interests aspect of Title IX. Has WH created enough interest that it'll be tough to drop. Then again, same could be asked of any sport.
  11. The Sicatoka
    Well, this thread has been quiet for a while. I guess I'll pull the pin and roll my own flash-bang in to so see what scrambles around. My scenario plays off SV's: First, have UM, UI, MSU, and UND do the friendly takeover of the WAC (SV's "BSC/WAC schools swap") to get the magic wand to make FBS schools. But to make that work you'd really have to make the next major move, namely, collapse the western part of the Summit/MVFC: WAC Mountain: UM, UI, MSU, (two more west FB schools), Denver WAC Plains: UND, NDSU, SDSU, USD, (one more east FB school), Omaha There it is: 10 FB (FBS), 12 BB. Half the schedule is by bus. Strong rivals and strong schools. This group would become the west's answer to the MAC. And yeah, I'm the guy who used the phrase "lots of moving parts" before and this is a ton of them so I plainly admit this is out there. I just had to see how much this shakes the internet. PS - I'd lobby to move the NCHC's administration into this "new WAC" administrative structure to save costs. (UND, DU, and UNO are NCHC core schools.)
  12. The Sicatoka
    Lay out the facts and the associated dollars (aka red ink) and most people will get pretty pragmatic.
  13. The Sicatoka
    I just re-read Kennedy's letter looking for something else, but this just really struck me: "... I intend to determine this fall the sports that will be sponsored, and this will be definitive for my period of service at UND." Like I said above, he's going to do this and do it once. I won't be surprised if he goes past what he needs to be make sure this is "definitive for (his) period of service at UND".
  14. The Sicatoka
    Not that long ago, I had a chance meeting with Phil Harmeson (yes, I know some of you just broke out in hives). We chatted peripherally about this. Schafer was still acting and beginning to talk about budgets at UND. He said when he was Acting AD and the DI transition moves were in motion he called a meeting of the entire Athletic Department. He claimed to me that at that time he told the 21 sports in the room that 21 sports was a DII model and not sustainable in a DI world. He claims to have told them back then to look around the room and in five years about five sports won't be in that same meeting. Well ...
  15. The Sicatoka
    I get the impression that Kennedy is going to do this and do it once. Given that, stop thinking in terms of "$1.4 million"; think in terms of long-term vision and sustainability and success.
  16. The Sicatoka
    Technically, three. Doesn't soccer have lockers in there also (besides VB and WBB). Then again, about soccer ...
  17. The Sicatoka
    Just being the devil's advocate: Green Bay loves football, but UW-Green Bay doesn't sponsor it.
  18. The Sicatoka
    A left tackle will tell you blocking a right defensive end pass rusher is a skill. That's what you meant, right?
  19. The Sicatoka
    Journey to the century mark.
  20. The Sicatoka
    This is from the GF Herald article about the new Midco deal. Are there any tells in there? Are there any options if say something were eliminated?
  21. The Sicatoka
    Instead of impressions or interpretations I like to go to the source. Here's what Kennedy has tasked the IAC with, to be complete by November 1. http://www.grandforksherald.com/sites/default/files/KennedylettertoIAC.pdf So, given that, here's what stands out to me: He specifically mentions NLI day on November 9. What sport(s) sign on that day? That may be a "tell" in itself. He wants the cost of each program and the attendance. I see a former Fortune 100 CFO doing a cost/benefit analysis right there. He has a hard end date - do this by November 1. Do it, do it, done. What a concept.
  22. The Sicatoka
    Hawk sounds.
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  24. The Sicatoka
    I'm just anti-third down.
  25. The Sicatoka
    Cheapskate. You could endow a couple scholarships too.
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