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Just a ridiculous talent. What might have been.

Forecast is looking excellent. Hope the students are out in full force and the Alerus is rocking. Take care of business at the Potato Bowl and then worry about the next game.

Hope the voters don't confuse the 1-0 North Dakota team with the 0-1 team from North Dakota....

Interesting article from ESPN a few days ago. Surveys sent to 351 D-1 college basketball coaches in August about COA and potential impact. 136 responded. Those that responded included whether their school would be participating, though it wasn't clear if it was for the upcoming year only or the school's current stance on it. Below is a list of Big Sky/Summit/MVFC of interest that responded and their answers: Cal Poly - Undecided Denver - Yes, amount unknown Idaho State - No Illinois State - Yes, $3,010 IUPUI - No Indiana State - Yes, $3,846.15 IPFW - Yes, amount unknown North Dakota State - No Northern Arizona - No Sacramento St - No South Dakota St - No Southern Illinois - Yes, amount unknown Southern Utah - Undecided Youngstown State - Yes, amount unknown

And they put the plan together in 2 days!!

With the exception of any games on Root I believe.

Roger Goodell continues to look like a complete joke and Tom Brady's suspension is overturned. No surprise considering a multi-million dollar report came up with nothing other than bad science and the NFL continues trying to play by its own rules that it makes up as it goes along.

To top it off, NDSU also announced they will be fully funding baseball, men's golf and men's track, which they had not been previously doing. The gap between those two numbers is only going to increase.

And that 50% is only for the first three years...

Really? That's pretty strange since UND announced in April that they would be paying it to M/W hockey players this year and are actually already making the payments. Well at least we know that Faison offered the courtesy of letting others in the conference know about UND's plans Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall Kolpack having anything similar in his articles about NDSU. Wonder why?

Maybe FargoU should have spent money on a Director of Clock Management instead?

Fixed your first two for accuracy's sake. As for your third, I don't think it has that big of an effect. The rest of the Big Sky is mainly competing against each other and minimally against PAC-12 and MWC, who they weren't typically winning battles against anyway.

Because Rob Port happened to come across a 4-5 month old letter and thought it would be make for a good headline that would generate page views.

I don't know the exact Title IX position UND is in, but scholarship wise, but from what I can tell, UND offered 5 men's S&D scholarships and 11.82 on the women's side. Baseball was at 6.34 and women's hockey was at 18. Ballpark, the S&D teams operating expenses were $314K for men and $452K for women (though I think that includes scholarship costs). Total of $766K. Baseball was around $513K. Women's hockey was a lot... Take these with a grain of salt as they are not all "real" costs as far as I can tell so cutting them doesn't mean that there would be an actual dollar to go towards something else. That being said, there is some merit to them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but not all of the sports sponsored by the Summit are actually required core sports, correct? I think softball would be the only non-required one in the Big Sky off the top of my head.

Looks to me like the guy is offering to license his logo's out. Not sure he can prevent UND from actually adopting Roughriders as a its mascot nor does it appear that is what the intention of what his letter was.

Sports sponsored by Big Sky: Men's Football MBB Golf Tennis T&F CC Women's WBB Golf Soccer Softball Tennis T&F CC Volleyball UND Sports not sponsored by Big Sky MH WH Baseball M S&D W S&D

I definitely get why Dozier wouldn't have wanted to give up a year or two but I'm not so certain the Twins are going to save much if anything. I guess they know for a fact what Dozier will cost the next 3 years instead of dealing with arbitration but it just seemed like a somewhat poor decision by them. Even Dozier and his agent admitted the deal was not normal.

Can they count and do so securely? Then they are perfectly fine for doing the job they were hired. We are well past the market research stage. Though I did get a chuckle out of the Surveymonkey thing.

I worded it poorly when I said buying out any of his free agency, I should have said getting team options on his first year or two of free agency, which is almost always how those deals go. But the point still stands, why buy out the rest of his arbitration years if you literally gain nothing from it? That is typically the trade off made in those situations, the player gets some security knowing that they have a long-term deal through their arbitration yeras, the team gets the advantage of having a club option on the first year or two of free agency.

You'd think, but the failed to do so with Dozier and skipped out on buying any of his free agency years.

Bump....

So jokes about head shots and injuries is OK but ankles are off limits. Glad we've cleared that up.

Thought the same thing when it happened. QB goes down to slide and the LB'er put his head down, leading with it. Montana's QB was lucky he slid low enough and to the side and only took a shoulder to his head instead of a helmet.