The Sicatoka
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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.
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Nope. I was driving at the time. Only had radio for the game unfortunately. (Read your PMs.)
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That I could see easily. Did you guys buy the kegs from Billy and Ted?
Can you move the off-topic stuff to PM? Thanks.
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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.
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Does anyone have an image or video of the catch by Jameer Jackson?
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Maybe....could be .....possible....but then again you don't deal in speculation.
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.
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I think if they're going to change NDSU it should be to "North Dakota's Signature Usurpers".
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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.
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... NDSU's marketing strategy.
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)?
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So a team has a party and that alone is enough evidence to suspend the captians? Makes sense.
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.
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You mean evidence like "it happened at a team party"? What do you do at parties?
Gophers compare their mopeds and their china-doll collections.
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Riding a moped?
Did they revoke his man-card for a month for that?
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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).
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I have been all over the place on this issue, but always seem to come back to somehow tieing North Dakota's past to the present.
Names that could do that..
Roughriders.
Cavalry
Wild Nokotas
Outlaws.
Explorers
Reapers
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Quality, Character win for the UND Ladies against what seemed to be a very defensively sound Weber State team!
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.
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I vote that people stop speculating.
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UND at Weber State comes back to win the match in 5.
UND 23 28 23 25 15
WSU 25 26 25 23 8
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If there were minors at this alleged party, then I think we will know sooner rather than later. I'm guessing citations were issued, correct?
The media reported they found no citations (yet).
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OK. This one has turned personal.
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At risk of repeating myself ...
Personally, I'd prefer to not run with rumors.
The media is on this. The reports are with the proper authorities. How about we wait for the ugly truth from those sources. Thank you.
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Let me try this again... You're wrong tSic...
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
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Personally, I'd prefer to not run with rumors.
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Why do you crack down on the hard partying?
Oh ... I don't know, maybe because bad things can happen.
Ask Connor Reilly:
Reilly tore the anterior cruciate ligament his right knee in an off-ice fall Saturday at a team party, according to two sources close to the situation.
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Again, what does this have to do with class A misdemeanor voter fraud charges filed against 10 current and 3 former NDSU football players?
Their October 2 court date is just around the corner. We'll see how much pleading down comes about, if any.
POLL: Should UND-NDSU Resume the Football Series?
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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.