The Sicatoka

College aged kids consume. (Hey, guilty as charged in my day.) The behavior pattern of drinking to excess and possibly causing self-harm*, if happening, must be addressed and quashed. That's what my concern is. *Blacking out due to intentional over-consumption is the definition of causing self-harm. You aren't supposed to intentionally shut down your own central nervous system.

Uh, you answered your own question right there. UND Administration is serving notice that the attitudes toward alcohol overconsumption must change.

If, as speculated here, people needed medical attention, in a word, yes. Alcohol usage has both acute and chronic deleterious effects on athletic performance. http://espn.go.com/special/s/drugsandsports/alcohol.html

Knowing Teeder his hint will be: Check about 1:45 pm. You know Teeder, he's just an oily ham ... he'll tell you something's coming but not exactly what.

That's illegal also, and an even bigger risk to people around them. We can set expectations. We can deal with those who fail to meet expectations.

Grand Forks/UND student in 2011: http://www.kfyrtv.co....asp?news=56063 Fargo/NDSU student in 2012: http://www.inforum.c...icle/id/375270/ That's called "the Montana problem". No. Wait. That's called "the Boston University problem". No. Wait. It's both.

I just saw it on the WDAY/WDAZ sports. I think that was intended for the pylon and Jackson intercepted it.

Why is this a big deal? How soon they forget: http://www.nytimes.c...&position=&_r=0 It's not like the days where it was "a couple beers" some of us remember. Today's students on just about every campus in America drink to obliteration and beyond, to the point of passing out. (I have college-aged relatives that tell me about the attitudes and actions and I'm simply taken aback. These people are putting their own lives at risk and think it's acceptable behavior in civil society.) Given the choice of headlines between "Faison suspends ... " and "Player found dead" I'll pick Faison sending the message. Every. Time. Melodramatic by me? Re-read the link.

If it was 500 yards and 40+ points, yes. The yards are still up too high, but Sac only mustered 13 points (and 6 of those were garbage time). The defense is evolving; it still has a way to go but this week gave me hope that they are going the right way.

Uh-uh-uuuhhh ... {wagging finger back and forth} ... No bringing up hockey or else we get to ask why NDSU just complains about hockey and never gets in the game.

It was a good day for me: I had a Bison buddy tell me that NDSU/PV would be the biggest blowout of the day. Even though PVA&M has an 80-game losing streak in their history I still took the wager and picked "Big Red" to win by more than NDSU over PV (sorry fellow BIg Sky members). I've never been a big Huskers fan, but they got one for me yesterday.

Nope. I was driving at the time. Only had radio for the game unfortunately. (Read your PMs.)

Can you move the off-topic stuff to PM? Thanks.

Oh. That stings. That hurts so badly. Or not. Hey, this team this week on NDSU's schedule, do they also have an 80-game losing streak in their history like PVA&M? Now to point, what would be worse: Losing the "Bison" name to NCAA zealots or being forced back to "North Dakota Agricultural College" by the Summit League? There's the better comparison.

Does anyone have an image or video of the catch by Jameer Jackson?

Who speculated? I responded to speculation with a simple "Do you know it has? Do you know it hasn't?" type response. Let's get this back on point: Apparently there's an issue large enough, serious enough to: - suspend all four captains, including the previously untarnished Corbin Knight* - cost Kristo an extra game - put some additional guys out for the second game of the season (three of those four are of age) - put the entire team on notice - put the entire team in a weekly class and as a bonus, some more members of the team are waiting for their MIP citations on Monday apparently (and assumably more team discipline). Those are not measures taken lightly by the University, nor by the State. That's a lot of extra work for a lot of people. No one forced a drink into the hand of any of those guys. (If they did that's a whole other problem and should be crushed with even more vigor.) Worse? Just the week before two guys on the team had issues (Senkbeil, Parks). Yet these guys had a party where all this happened. Hakstol had put the guys on notice; heck, he suspended Senkbeil from the team for two weeks, Yet, the message didn't get through to the team. So I don't blame Brian Faison one bit for apparently going 'Cool Hand Luke' on the team: "What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, ... I don't like it any more than you men." *Why would you tarnish the previously unmatched reputation of that guy? Surely not just to "one up" NDSU. They included Knight in the discipline.That alone says there's a significant problem.

I think if they're going to change NDSU it should be to "North Dakota's Signature Usurpers".

Folks, it's a different time and a different place. We're living in a world where behavior of college athletes is rightly under scrutiny. Look at the mess at BU. Look at the mess at Montana. Look at the mess at NDSU. And then look at the complete mess that is Penn State. That's problem one. Problem two? The studies are out there: booze thrashes your physical skills, and that's long after you've sobered up. Remember our "Saturday night home game funk" a while back? I was pretty sure I knew what the issue was. I'm more sure now. So if the team went too far I'd rather see Administration deal with it with a loud, clear message, before someone gets hurt. And to those of you who said "Why not punish Hak too?" ... uh, do you know that conversation hasn't been had as well? I would not surprise me in the least if Hak had an uncomfortable chat with Faison and Faison's boss.

Does it involve not playing UND to prevent the possibility of an NDSU loss to UND (and the "emperor has no clothes" dialog that would follow)?

Depends. Did the coaches set down a "no parties" edict that wasn't followed? We don't know; we can only speculate with the little that we actually know. That's why I'm saying wait for the whole ugly story to come around.

Gophers compare their mopeds and their china-doll collections.

Riding a moped? Did they revoke his man-card for a month for that?

A North Dakota class A misdemeanor is punishable with a maximum penalty of one year imprisonment and/or $2,000 fine. Supposing the impacts of potential imprisonment for NDSU players, although more likely far-fetched, is not beyond the realm of the possible outcomes. And yes, the NDSU fiasco has everyone on watch: Faison and the recent UND Hockey incident, and I'm guessing it also impacted how Minnesota handled their over-the-weekend issue involving their hockey team (and losing a player for the season due to injury).

Reapers

I view it one other important way: They learned something last Thursday v. MSU, namely, you can come back from down 2-1 on the road and win. It was a tough way to learn it, but they did.