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Assuming no show-stoppers, it should all be up tonight... this weekend at the latest.

I would guess the results of this are different now than in Oct. or Mar. I bet it underrepresents students and fans of other teams because we're out-of-season for hockey.

Thanks. I should note, there's a lot happening behind the scenes on the site over the next day or so, causing it to be down a little bit (mostly in the evening / night). It's not all bad, in that if you catch it down, you get a sneak preview of the future

Effort to settle nickname fight draws criticism

I've been watching this with fascination, as Jamaica is one of our favorite vacation spots (we go every other year, or so, and were actually considering going this weekend as recently as a week or two ago). Having been there shortly after the devastation of a glancing blow from Ivan, I can say with some certainty that Jamaica is not prepared for a direct hit. They simply don't have the infrastructure and everything is built to minimum necessary standards. I'm somewhat disappointed in the news coverage so far. No one seems to have cameras on the ground in Jamaica.

Ok, this made me laugh. Pie-eyed on pizza

Not saying he's not objective (I happen to think UND is a pretty good pick), but d2football's new NCC columnist is another UND grad. From d2football.com Staff

The tiers are just a mechanism to give general rankings of the bottom 50% of schools, without the absurd specificity of saying UND is #153 and NDSU is #154 (or vice versa). Tier 3 = everyone between 25% and 50% on their ranking system Tier 4 = everyone between 0% and 25% on their ranking system

The most amusing sideplot to the USNWR rankings recently has been lower- and mid-tier liberal arts colleges trying to protest being ranked and stop supporting the ratings, yet continuing to brag about their position. Colleges struggle to quit rankings habit

While charging the maximum possible for a seat seems to be the way to maximize revenue, I think it can be self-destructive in the long run (see my previous rants about REA's frequent willingness to trade customer goodwill for $5 in revenue). Having Sioux athletics become the sole purview of the region's wealthiest 10,000 people isn't in the best interests of the community or UND. Moreso than other schools, UND is faced with the challenge of having to pay a lot of its bills on a national scale but sell its tickets into a lower cost-of-living populace. I think that gives it different obligations, as paying $1000 for a booster club membership isn't as easy for a middle class family in N.D. as it is in Falls Church, VA. In addition to the priority system, I would like to see a small number of good seats and a larger number of mediocre seats put in a season ticket lottery. By knocking a 12-seat row or two out of the top FSC sections, you're only pushing FSC boosters 392-412 back to 413-437 in terms of seating preference. The recipients don't get to keep the seats, they just won the right to pay face value for them for a year in a lottery. I better stop now, as I did just NetFlix Manchurian Candidate on Saturday and have developed a particular caution about revealing leanings that may be perceived as... egalitarian.

If you follow a link to a thread (from a post, another site, or a Google search), the link could contain the instruction to view the thread in that "outline" format. If you're logged in at the time you follow the link, your account keeps viewing the Board in that mode until you switch back. Annoying, and probably a flaw, but not big enough for me to do something about it myself.

The board actually supports a few different viewing modes. You're currently in the one called "Outline". Just click the word "Options" in the upper right of a thread and choose "Switch to: Standard" under "Display Mode" to get the threaded view you're probably expecting.

Amen. Which reminds me, wait until you all see the new SiouxSports.com. Less than a month away. The new logo has a higher approval rating than the President and Congress combined. Gratuitous change for the sake of change.

I appreciate the real-world example. My concern is precisely that. If I'm continuously engaged in big political fights with you, I develop a predisposition to negative emotional reactions to your posts. When I see a post from you in the football forum, it's tough to shut off my politically formed opinion of you and restart from a neutral baseline. As a Bison fan, you face a somewhat similar problem here. Some people classify you as a Bison fan, so approach your posts with a predisposition toward hostility based on previous interactions with Bison fans (even if the negative interaction wasn't with you, specifically). I'd be reasonably nervous about having people start labeling themselves with even more divisive labels.

If I may interrupt the "blame whatever politicians I don't like"-fest, here are the victims those politicians are using as pawns: Victims in Minneapolis bridge collapse

Despite the consensus so far being against, I can explain why I've forbidden it in the past. Everyone here is a Sioux fan and for the most part we manage to get along talking about our team. Disagreements may form over whether to canonize or fire Hakstol, but it rarely leads to true personal conflict between people. If people used this community to debate politics, I think it would be much more likely that someone would develop a real personal dislike for someone else, based on political arguments. My fear is that such conflict would make it tougher for them to have a civil conversation about Sioux hockey, and that the political debates and conflicts would seep into and harm the community in its discussions about the intended topic, your UND Fighting Sioux.

There are actually six games on Aug. 23: 7:00pm ET Virginia St @ Carson-Newman 6:00pm ET Bowie St @ Glenville St 7:00pm CT Central Missouri @ Mankato 7:00pm CT Humboldt St @ North Dakota 7:30pm CT Arkansas Tech @ NW Missouri St 7:00pm CT NW Oklahoma St @ SW Oklahoma St Bowie St @ Glenville St seems to get the award for first game of the year.

Sorry, the current policy is no strictly political threads. However, I'd certainly be open to a discussion on that policy, in light of this forum having become more of an "anything goes" water cooler, if anyone would like to take it up in the SiouxSports.com Administration forum.

You're all lucky that the Caps got a new logo, and that I felt the need to make sure everyone knew about it. There are new jerseys too. I'm not completely sold, but I like that they're trying to get back to their roots. I miss my old avatar, it was like looking in a mirror (with some extra hair squiggled on the top).

Sorry if this was already in another thread, I didn't see it. Many remember that the SD Board of Regents was very concerned about SDSU's D-I transition monetarily impacting the rest of the school, so put in place some rules to assuage those fears: The "you must have a conference affiliation" rule was never enforced, but the financing rules have been quite strict, preventing SDSU from accelerating it's scholarship growth at the same rate as wealthier partner, NDSU. No more. SDSU now gets to use institutional funds to catch up. SDSU Can Redirect Money - Argus Leader A cynic might point out the coincidental weakening of this rule, hypothesized to have been created to discourage SDSU, with USD beginning its exploratory year.

While we often discuss who our new peers are and who's being added to DI/FCS, it's sometimes worth taking a look in the rearview mirror to remind ourselves why we're on this road. Institutions approved for D-II membership And the new class:

I saw just this weekend that a Wisconsin State Senator ran over his granddaughter, killing her. Toddlers, cars bring tragedy - The Capital Times

For the record, calling someone a bitch or prick isn't allowed either. However, someone slipping an insulting name into the middle of an active debate is a lot harder to catch in a timely manner than a post or thread that's entirely smack. We try, and we do respond to reported complaints.

All is well here, thanks for asking We made it out to the ocean last weekend for just one night, and have reservations at a different beach for a weekend later in the summer. But the most summery thing I've done so far this summer, by far, was trading in the tired old convertible for a shiny new convertible. So now we mostly try to come up with excuses to drive when the weather is nice enough to go topless

Welcome to the board, Ryan. Though starting new in a 250 post thread is undoubtedly a bit daunting, you can see the Herald article on that topic and subsequent discussion of it a couple pages back in this thread. Glad to have you aboard.