The Sicatoka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnRHAyXqYY

Didn't 3 of 4 students on the nickname committee vote to remove that option?

But if you're using money that would go to the program already, you're just adding a step.

What could a newspaper do ... let's see ... They could've gone to the U of Minnesota with their findings directly. They could've launched their own investigation. They still have investigative journalists on staff, don't they? They could've sat on their hands and let others become victims of this oaf.

For UND to average 15000 this season: I saw $35 tickets for a couple games as the highest listed price. For simplicity I'll say 1/3 is $12 (round up). With five home games, a 15k average is 75k total tickets sold. 75000 * $12 is $900,000. <-- That's if some organization bought them all. That's the model Eastern Michigan has used to make the 15k average.

You motivated me. I pulled down the 2015-16 NCAA DI manual (effective 8/1/15). Here are specifics: The rest of 20.9.9.3 goes on to talk about "counting attendance". Specifically, in 20.9.9.3.1.2 there's this:

The Star-Tribune knew Teague was harassing an employee of theirs. They did nothing. And they gave the employee an impossible choice: we screw your career or you screw your career. How nice. The Star-Tribune knew of a problem and did nothing. In this case, doing nothing allowed (enabled) Teague to continue and expand his pattern. Ask yourself this: If the Star-Tribune knew Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders did this to one of their political reporters following the campaign, would they have sat on that?

What year?

This Teague fellow is quite the oaf. http://www.startribune.com/star-tribune-s-rayno-adds-her-own-story-to-teague-scandal/321199871/ I'm not sure if I'm more disgusted by him or by his enablers. Based on the story, I include the Star-Tribune as one of his enablers as Teague was harassing a Star-Tribune reporter and they did nothing: The Star-Tribune, given that they offered their reporter "an action plan", knew Teague was a problem; yet, the Star-Tribune did nothing. That is the definition of an enabler.

C'mon sky, the schoolyard stuff is beneath you. The "you think you're smarter than me" tactic doesn't work after elementary school. I know you have better game than that. Form a logical argument why you think darrell, Hayduke, or I are wrong and blow us up.

I'm with Goon on that scenario: If UND selects a new name, even if the fans don't take to it, the NCAA won't do anything. Why do I think that? Because UND will have done what they can, controlled what is theirs to control.

Another poster (they can "out" themselves if they so choose) pointed this out to me: We're running with an unofficial statement (unvetted by UND attorneys) from a UND official from an unnamed NCAA source. Presumably that unnamed NCAA source wasn't reading an official statement or else that official statement would've been turned over by UND (as they should have a copy from the NCAA). Do we really have anything more than we did two weeks ago?

The Pirates hang 9 on LAD in the bottom of the 7th last night. It was a beautiful thing.

It's August. Someone needs to water the Twins, because they're wilting.

Per the NCAA DI manual (disclaimer: my copy may be a year or two out of date): - FBS must average 15000 in "actual attendance" (gate or tickets sold) once every rolling two year cycle (the "two year" thing is to allow for teams that have a big arch-rival home game every other year) - for a ticket to count as "sold" it must be sold for no less than 1/3 the highest priced regular game ticket

Not that hard to find: http://www.emich.edu/univcomm/releases_archived/103006divisionone.html

Enjoy immortality.

The Bison Turf.

Texts and he resigns? I'd think "sensitivity training" and apologies and public shaming and such, but then I find ... Physical nature? Yup. See ya. Buh-bye. Gone.

OK, so my basis assumption is blown to smithereens.

Under the assumption (big assumption) that my notes are correct: The pipeline has nine forwards in it (Yon, Bowen, Keane, Cakebread, Mattson, Senden, Gerlach, Adams, Mismash). That replaces the nine seniors, juniors, and sophomores listed on today's released roster (Caggiula, St. Clair, Sanderson, Chyzyk, Johnson, Simonson, Olson, Schmaltz, Poganski). The pipeliine has four defensemen in it (Bast, Peski, Evers, Kiersted). There are five seniors, juniors, and sophomores listed on today's released roster (Ladue, Thompson, Ausmus, Stecher, Poolman). Given that, I'll guess Brad Berry's first announced recruit will be a defenseman.

Roll some recent footage:

Isn't that more than enough?

So he's looking to build the Colorado answer to Shattuck - St. Mary's.

Not going to say they are set in stone; however, going after all "human" nicknames, after they couldn't get all the Native American nicknames, is something I don't expect them to try for a couple reasons: - They couldn't get all the "race, ethnicity, or national origin" names because of a few power players, so why do they think they can get "all humans" done? - Going after "all humans" brings in even more power players to the fight against them (and the NCAA hates losing) It comes down to this: the NCAA was tired of hearing the haranguing by a few dedicated career protesters over a couple nicknames so they ham-handedly tried something that partially worked. It hit the little guys. As long as they don't hear those nicknames, and don't hear the associated haranguing, they'll ignore the nickname issue. But as they said, as soon as they start hearing the noise again, they bring the sanctions out again (most likely by some new ham-handed policy).