fightingsioux4life

Nice cheap shot. You couldn't stay on topic, could you? Obviously, as long as there are shootouts, I want our team to grab that extra league point. That doesn't mean I like the idea of using them in a team sport. When there is a serious proposal to start using shootouts in the Stanley Cup playoffs, I will be nice enough not to come on here and say "See, I told you so."

I usually leave during a shootout after a non-conference tie; those are meaningless and a waste of everyone's time. My basic point is that the shootout is an abomination to the sport; I don't care how "entertaining" it is. You are reducing the outcome of a team game to a cute skills competition. Unacceptable.

I could live with that. Anything but the infernal shootout; it has no place in our game at any level.

My thinking on the DH is have it in both leagues or don't have it at all. The DH in MLB is like the NHL Western Conference having one set of OT rules and the Eastern Conference having a different set of OT rules. Make the rule (whatever it is) uniform across the sport.

A pretty accurate write-up.

This made me wish they had gone with a full house backfield and run people over by running it 75 to 80% of the time. Throw in some option plays (Studsrud was pretty good with his legs). That would have been more of a smash-mouth offense than what they put our there.

Santiago is a great RB, no question. But all those predictable running plays on 1st and 2nd down, followed by the inevitable 3rd down pass, have killed this team at times. When the fans can predict what the play call is going to be, how hard is it to defend? I am guessing not too hard. You need to have some level of unpredictability to score points at this level. Rudolph doesn't seem to get that. He doesn't have the best talent across the board, not even close. But the cupboard isn't as bare as it was when he got here. Time to produce more points so the defense doesn't have to do everything by itself.

Nobody is "letting others off the hook" for anything. But the fact is Rudolph has not been utilizing the talent he has at his disposal. And people are just sick and tired of it.

Unless the QB is calling his own plays (I assume he is not), the buck stops with Rudolph when it comes to play-calling and subsequent lack of results. The reverse play vs. Richmond was the wrong call at the wrong time and that is on Rudolph. Not on "lack of execution".

I mean someone from the highest levels of the game (head coach, general manager) who has real influence on how things work (or don't work). Never say never about anything. We need to guard against shootouts having any place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Will you say the same thing when someone proposes using the shootout in playoff games? It will happen, count on it.

I was being sarcastic about the "FCS" for basketball. I hope you are right.

I guess if you can't beat the mid-majors in the NCAA tournament, rig the system against them. Why don't they just create an "FCS" for basketball and be done with it? SMH

They will be entering our strength and conditioning program. That will bulk them up.

Hope he has a back-up plan when they screw him out of promised educational benefits.

Why, is he thinking about going Major Junior? (sarcasm)

I subscribe to it. It's better than nothing (barely).

This is the precise reason people shouldn't gather like they did and gawk at the situation. Wild animals are capable of anything, especially if they feel cornered.

My point is that the city does not know how to deal with situations like this. They were making it up as they go along. Either tranquilize the bear or shoot it dead. Have the necessary equipment and supplies on hand so we can deal with it properly next time. It should never have dragged on as long as it did. And people should give the authorities a wide berth to deal with things like this. Generally, bears don't want anything to do with humans, but they can and will lash out if they feel cornered or threatened.

Perhaps we should just shoot every bear or deer or whatever that wanders inside city limits? We need to learn how to deal with these things because it can and will happen again.

Cripes, just switch to a 10 minute overtime, axe the stupid shootout and I think things would work just fine.

Wow, I am surprised that MR. Marcil has allowed that to happen.

But I imagine the Fargo Forum remains as fat as ever. Thus my theory of what is coming.

The end game is clear. At some point in the future, the Grand Forks Herald will be shut down and dissolved. Current Heraldo subscribers will be offered a Fargo Forum subscription, probably a six month "free trial" period to suck people in. UND sports coverage will drop to almost zero and everyone will be subjected to Bison, Bison, Bison 24/7/365. People will soon forget UND has an athletic department. I can tell you this right now: I will never, ever, subscribe to the Fargo Forum. I don't care how many free months they offer. But I suppose all the newly minted Bison fans in Grand Forks will be okay with it.

Just look up the calories on the internet and you will think twice about putting those in your body. I have totally given up fast food for that very reason.