The Sicatoka

Five straight national titles in FCS gets you lots of recogni .... never mind.

Before Taylor arrives Dorn and Ruley are untouchable in NDSU Athletics and NDSU WBB and VB are the unstoppable force in the region (there, I said it). Taylor arrives, womens programs are no longer the focus, NDSU WBB and VB prominence (dominance) falls. And the shine is off Dorn and Ruley. By the time Taylor goes, Ruley is out of NDSU Athletics and Dorn has been suspended (aka: both reassigned, as I originally stated) and Dorn is well on the way out the door at NDSU. Taylor put all the eggs in the football basket and moved along anyone or anything (Ruley, Dorn, WBB and VB) that didn't fit that vision.

Amy "resigned" like any coach "resigns" when they've fallen out of favor (cough-quit or-cough), and ends up (reassigned) out of Athletics. Lynn ends up suspended (that's "reassigned" to the extreme) and gone shortly thereafter (yet takes another job in college athletics?). Both were golden pre-Taylor and not in NDSU Athletics after. That's what happened.

Maybe; however, when Taylor left town Ruley and Dorn were both either gone or well on their way out of NDSU Athletics as well. Strangely enough, Dorn landed an athletics consulting gig across town shortly after 'retiring'.

Ms. Ruley lost the WBB coaching role to a fundraising role outside of Athletics. Ms. Dorn was suspended and then allowed to resign (see UNDBIZ post). I'm not sure how that is retaining power and status.

Did those women lose power and status during the Taylor tenure? The word you're looking for is "environment". That's the word OCR uses.

If "Fighting" is a problem, we'd still have a problem.

Truth is, I can't find Amy or Lynn on here: http://www.gobison.com/staff.aspx?tab=staffdirectory

Givin' them the third prong, eh?

Where Taylor goes, high ranking women in athletics disappear. Happened at NDSU; happened at Iowa. It may be purely coincidental. Is Taylor cause or effect? We don't know. But it is surely coincidental.

My apologies. I forgot NDSU is proud of how womens athletics was treated under Taylor's tenure. NDSU 2014 numbers: Campus whole: 57% men Athletics (participants): 65% men Athletics (unduplicated participants): 69% men Athletics scholarships: 61% men

When I first saw a new ND plate my reaction was that someone had seen an actual ND plate and by memory recreated it at home with MS Paint and their printer. "Let's see, kind light blue fading to golden tan to a dark bottom edge. Three numbers, three letters, 'Peace Garden State', toss in a sunset and a baffled looking brown wool cow and ... print." Add some cardboard and lamination .... VIOLA!

Given what I know and what's reported at Iowa, the patterns seem rather coincidental. Beyond that, I make no claims to know others' personal beliefs.

Somewhere between Navy and Iowa on Gene Taylor's resume.

UND has 10 mens and 11 womens.

MIN's collapse is not the worst in the NHL so this season. MIN is in a three-way tie five points behind the second Western wildcard. MON is tied with PHI, and behind CAR and PIT six points behind the second Eastern wildcard. I'm trying Wild fans ...

It's all about The Benjamins.

You're confusing Chicago State (holding nose from stench) with the University of Chicago (the AAU member and former member of the B1G).

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. They got experience.

Undoubtedly. But, they will gladly and surely do whatever to "tier below them" to make their own lives easier. If that's change the FBS rules to make more "G5/tier below" teams to make guarantees cheaper, I could readily see that. Plus, it waters that "tier below" down to make the P5 appear all the better.

So a female AAD and a female coach are long-time partners in the department. This Gene Taylor fellow shows up in town and those two are suddenly no longer "golden children" in the department but pariahs that need to be fired or reassigned. I swear I've heard that somewhere before ... but it wasn't Iowa ...

Adidas owns CCM (skates) and Reebok (hockey gear). Do Nike or UA have hockey gear or skates? "Department wide" means covering all needs and all accepting the outcome.

Azithromycin? Is that near Pebble Beach ... or Shinnecock?

Pass.

Golf clap? Do you get that from playing too many bad holes?