The Sicatoka

1. If you're watching on Midco now, nothing is changing. No. Wait. You're getting HD next year. 2. If you're watching nationally on FCS, we're sorry, but that three-year deal is up. 3. The new deal is in HD on CBSSN. It's not as many games as the deal with with the league, not UND. 4. Watching on the internet next year, if that's how you watch now or will be watching in the future, will be in HD. 5. All that could change is not known yet. 6. UND knows it's in its best interest to spread the "Gospel of the Green" to the masses. (Yes, Hajdu, you may steal that.)

No Jim, that board was "#2".

Why does this surprise me not.

First, I'm unabashedly stealing most of this information from a source on another board. I believe it is accurate based on my own research. The Forum had a story on if the Summit League will retain the autobid in baseball. According to the story, the Summit League has already entered its grace period for baseball, as the sixth team Omaha is not a DI member yet. What the story doesn't state is that having six members in baseball is critical to the Summit being recognized as a DI conference. As a non-football conference, just like the WAC now, the Summit has to maintain autobids in two men's team sports other than basketball, to maintain its conference standing. To keep an autobid you need six full DI members playing the sport under your conference banner. To stay a conference you need either FB plus another mens team sport or MBB and two other mens team sports. The Summit is right now MBB, mens soccer, and baseball. Lose baseball's status and you could lose conference status in the eyes of the NCAA. The Summit currently has five baseball-tournament-eligible programs in North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne, Western Illinois and Oakland. Nebraska-Omaha won’t finish its NCAA reclassification until 2016. Now imagine if Oakland bolts to a different league (as has been rumored). By not setting whatever bad blood or politics aside, the Summit has put itself in a dangerous position by not getting Northern Colorado or UND (or both) to join as affiliate baseball members. I'll say it again: It's good to be the ones watching and munching on the popcorn this time.

Not really affecting much of anything at first glance, but it seems UMass-Lowell is moving from Division II to Division I and will be joining America East (replacing the recently departed Boston University). UML currently plays in DII except for hockey (Hockey East). http://collegesportsinfo.com/2013/02/13/report-umass-lowell-to-join-america-east/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+collegesportsinfo+%28CollegeSportsInfo.com%29

(The following is a repost of a post of mine from another thread. It seems to fit here again ... exactly.) So if the B1G will only play with themselves ( ) and that screams to me as a step on the path to Saban's vision (bold above). Not playing FCS is a step to creating their own new "top tier" where they only play with each other.

Because all of the other sports at UND that we don't think of at first thought use the Hyslop for practice.

I spell it "lake behind Garrison Dam".

Allow me to say this ... (again) ... Fill The Betty for a few years and then make the decision to move BB to (a) Alerus Center, or (b) The Ralph The Betty is too valuable as a four-court practice facility to start making changes that would affect that.

And who would drive the team bus? Dit-ka?

I was sad when the WAC-4 (Idaho, Denver, Seattle, NMSU) didn't work to grab the northern tier (or east of the Rockies) BSC schools and build from there. Given that platform (WAC) is no longer viable for such a notion, this is the crazy notion I put in a different forum:

When the WAC was still, ... well, ... the WAC*, I said that Idaho and DU should've brokered a deal to bring together the remnants of the WAC at that time (DU, Seattle, Idaho, NMSU) and the northern tier of the Big Sky (UM, MSU, UND, PSU). If that had come to pass it would have been very interesting to teams that could be displaced if the Summit is raided and folds. *and not whatever it is that it has become today

Will the Beanpot final be viewable outside of NESN's area? Any national networks picking it up?

Given that the team left on Wednesday and won't be getting home until Monday, the bye week couldn't have come at a better time.

Kotelnicki would seem to be the logical choice: currently running the special teams, currently running the linebackers (in a linebacker-centric defense). Then you promote Schleussner to special teams coordinator. Those are my predictions.

Is this important to UND Baseball? http://www.wacsports...TCLID=206351462

I guess I knew condors were big, but suddenly I realize how big.

So why'd he (the mascot/bird) go down the tunnel? Did he get an unsportmanlike conduct and DQ (2 and 10) for knocking that guy down?

Tater should start doing his Travel Log "Captain Kirk" style ... "Travel date Thirteen ... Two ... Ten ... the team... is trapped ... by an engulfing storm ... at this strange, alien, place, called ... Sisseton. Supplies. Short. Search party sent out to survey the area. Survival. Unsure." </William Shatner voice>

Having someone tie them covers that issue.

... when the day goes down on Watertown ...

Hotel parking lot ... it can't be any worse than the ice in Omaha.

Someone tie his shoes for him.

Honest analysis: Why were those guys put at risk on ice that Coach Hakstol will only call "playable" in the post-game interviews. Lincoln Coach Johnson told the UND folks he wouldn't put his players back out onto that ice after the USHL game. I question why the game was started. I question why the game was continued after they broke (with a drill) one of the cooling tubes. (It was 3-0 already.) Outdoor games are a novelty show that has lost its novelty. As soon as someone loses a high-value asset (player) because of crappy ice the novelty is done. And really, this generation never really played outdoor pond hockey. This is a generation of rink-refined, indoor only kids.with rare exceptions. Say what you will in response to this, but the weekend would've been a total bust for Omaha (school and city) if not for UND fans (now stuck on I-29 somewhere in SD). The only way the weekend could've gone worse for UNO is if they'd have lost a player on that mess of a "rink". Why say all this? Imagine the tables turned ... We've built multi-million dollar hockey facilities with all the greatest innovations for play and player safety ... so we can play on a slushie, or a bag of wet crushed ice.

Sure am glad this isn't recruiting weekend ...