The Sicatoka

Wes Dorey came in widely regarded based on performance as a junior in Canada. He had a decent career but it never matched the hype and expectations.

I'd love to call Wade Murphy "Wes Dorey 2.0" but Murphy doesn't even deserve that level of credit based on performance. I trust Murphy will land where it makes most sense to him.

With reference to one of those articles and the TR quotes in it, TR also said, “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” Could TR have wanted unification, not separation?

Formally? I'd never expect it. Informally? Amongst the "kinda hip, kinda now, kinda cool, kinda wow" cool kids group, it'll happen in speech and "txt".

Yup. It's one option, the subtle one. The other is less subtle. Signed, The Management

At least one of your Alumni is spending a lot of time trying to convince us (themselves?). Shouldn't NDSU fans be chatting with a threat (the team that beat them last year) than a team that went 5-7 last season?

For the record: Mariucci is a Gopher-lovin' (UND hockey hatin') guy making these statements.

IALTO. Apparently the proximity of NDSU to stock yards on 19th Ave (1.5 miles), the Fargo city dump (3 miles), the Moorhead lagoons/American Crystal beet plant (2 miles), or the Fargo lagoons (3 miles), didn't matter? For comparison, at UND it's JR Simplot french fry factory (1 miles), American Crystal beet plant (3 miles) and the Grand Forks lagoons (4 miles). Both campuses have their "aromas".

Here's a preview of a full story WDAZ will be doing tonight: http://www.wdaz.com/sports/3796691-preview-tuesdays-lisa-marvin-update

If you're going to SFB you're going to SFB. AZA? You'd probably end up going over to Sky Harbor unless you just got lucky and things just synced up (right destination, right flight). LAS would be the best. Do it right and you spend a night in Vegas during the travel.

No, no. A simple gesture.

"It was their Super Bowl."

GFK has more than one airline. You can fly Allegiant to Daytona/Orlando/Sanford, FL (SFB), Las Vegas (LAS), or Phoenix/Mesa (AZA). If you're savvy and creative you can make a hop from there.

I heard the president of FSU talked to the team yesterday about how it's a privilege to play there, not a right. I suspect the team wondered why FSU had the second most important guy on campus talk to them. Jimbo had already addressed the team over the weekend.

I'm sticking with this.

< raises hand > Not me. I knew Muss was a flaky guy from watching him at Sioux Boosters events. The instant he was hired I bemoaned it, and what I knew to be inevitably coming, to those I was with. (I was hoping for Mannausau if they were going to stay in-house.)

I wonder why the four time defending national champions of FCS are concerned at all about a team that went 5-7 last season.

Yup. The key to a Tampa Two scheme is the safeties and the MLB. All are new to the starting role.

Save six key starters on defense: two starting safeties, three season opening linebackers, and an all-everything defensive end.

I stand by my prior take:

Note: I moved this thread into the NCAA News forum because it better aligns with the conversations here.

The MWC and the AAC are the top of the G5. However, the distance from the all-sport FCS conferences to the Sun Belt and MAC isn't that far; and Conference USA is not what it used to be (go look at current membership). Honestly, ESPN won't care about anything below the "autonomy" tier. They'll focus on the NFL and the other pro league (the autonomy tier). The second tier will need the second and third tier sports networks (regional and local) for exposure and money.

Bakken. Oil. United goes to Denver then into Texas (oil companies). That's the answer for Bismarck, Minot, and Dickinson.

I signed him up for "their/there/they're" already. His dance card after that will be: too/to/two than/then affect/effect assure/ensure/insure

Doug's managing 14 opinions in some way or another (the core 11; Idaho but not FB; Cal Poly, UCDavis FB). In a past interview he talked about how an FCS group and an FBS group all under the Big Sky banner would actually make sense from certain perspectives.