The Sicatoka

I know in college teams bring balls to the game, but I thought in the NFL there are no "team" balls just game balls. Is that not the case?

Seattle's various post-game interviews can make even the greatest Brady-haters Patriots fans for a game.

I may be wrong with this, but I believe in the Cherski era NCAA players only played for THREE seasons as freshmen were ineligible for competition.

Yup. They were missing about 8 points from the first quarter. You give me TDs; I give you FGs; that's a trade I'll always make.

The Tundra

I believe a UND womens player did it last season.

One trick pony knows one trick.

Jason Ulmer pulled off an "Ulmer" one night v. DU: 3G - 3A - 6Pts.

You doggin' me?

The UNDergroUND. The GroUND RoUNDers. The HoUNDs might be acceptable. We could use a McRuff the Crime Dog looking mascot.

Rephrasing the same question: What are the Purple Eagle's team colors ... hmmm ...

Some obvious names: Brendan O'Donnell Rocco Grimaldi (last March v. Wisconsin) Matt Frattin and Jason Gregoire (same game) in WCHA playoffs in 2011 Brandon Bochenski had a four goal game (that counts ). Dave Kartio scored four in one game in 1968. (The free, downloadable UND Hockey media guide is a good resource.)

You went to see "teh hockies", any kind of "teh hockies", and you admit to it publicly? They'll take your Bisonville password away for this.

I am best looking to the blind.

Hoe. Lee. Crap. It's really gone off the rails when Johnboy seems the rational one.

Only if you sealed the envelope with "spirit fingers". What are those?

That would work to get us through the first three bullet points of my list. The NCAA surely does not want that dominating the college sports politico-chatter. Instead they'd rather say ... "Don't look at how we wrongly strong-armed Penn State and they're now fighting back. Look over here at how we can strong-arm UND and get away with it!"

I'm hurt deeply. I'm not sure I'll ever get over it. . . . . I'm over it.

Yup. The NCAA Football economic* model (only) works because of donors (specifically, tax deductible donations to the schools earmarked for football) and the subsidies from the school for athletics. An NFL developmental league would have neither of those. *OK, OK, ... the entire NCAA athletics economic model with rare exceptions.

Why would it? It has one now, subsidized with public funds, and without the headaches of direct ownership. It's called "the NCAA".

Sooner or later ... we'll get around to it some day ...

He's back. Not sure if he's looked here yet.

Ask the "man on the street" in the major media markets and they don't know the difference between UND and NDSU any more than they know the difference between NDSU and SNHU. Actually, more may have heard of SNHU than NDSU or UND.

There's no story until UND releases it. Why? Private, contract negotiations (legal under ND open records).