[Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card]

BTW, I am sure that you are as outraged as the writer of this post at the NAIA football ranking of our beloved Dickinson State Blue Hawks, who have the best record in the NAIA but are nonetheless ranked twelfth and will, thus, probably not host a playoff game. The ranking of NW Iowa, who (if memory serves correctly) has lost two of its last three home playoff games and has lost two of its last three games against Dickinson State, including one of those home playoff games, is particularly galling. They will probably end up with a home playoff game despite these realities. Don't get me started . . . .

[As our younger son used to say when he was little: "Dad, when you say 'don't get me started,' it seems like you are already started." Smart kid, that one.]

Wait, weren't you at Wyoming, or was that mini?

BC

BC: We were in Wyoming for eleven years--ten and half of which were great. Mega (Mini's older brother) played football there and is still there, in graduate school.

Now I am back in my home state of North Dakota, at Dickinson State, trying to help out at Dickinson State, my undergrad alma mater (which is also Mini's alma mater, and my dad's and both grandmother's, so it's our family school).

Not that you asked, but Mini went got his MBA from UMass, which has the nation's leading sports management program, so we are now big college hockey fans. Our family has two Final Fours we care about deeply (one of the frozen variety). We went to the Frozen Four in Buffalo a couple of years ago. For a while, I thought Mini was going to provide the family with its first "we were there" national title, but our family pattern held as UMass lost in the final game.

Mini is now pursuing his PhD. To protect his reputation as one of the greatest Stanford subway fans ever, I won't tell you where. But I can assure the Cardinal fan base that he is still all in for the Cardinal, even if that means rooting against his current school.

Mini might be Tara's biggest fan. He has convinced me of her elite status. I was thinking about this recently: I believe Tara is my favorite national level coach of my sports fandom. I tend to concentrate more on players than on coaches, but when I think about coaches, Tara is at the top of my list.

[Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card]

BTW, I am sure that you are as outraged as the writer of this post at the NAIA football ranking of our beloved Dickinson State Blue Hawks, who have the best record in the NAIA but are nonetheless ranked twelfth and will, thus, probably not host a playoff game. The ranking of NW Iowa, who (if memory serves correctly) has lost two of its last three home playoff games and has lost two of its last three games against Dickinson State, including one of those home playoff games, is particularly galling. They will probably end up with a home playoff game despite these realities. Don't get me started . . . .

[As our younger son used to say when he was little: "Dad, when you say 'don't get me started,' it seems like you are already started." Smart kid, that one.]

Wait, weren't you at Wyoming, or was that mini?

BC

BC: We were in Wyoming for eleven years--ten and half of which were great. Mega (Mini's older brother) played football there and is still there, in graduate school.

Now I am back in my home state of North Dakota, at Dickinson State, trying to help out at Dickinson State, my undergrad alma mater (which is also Mini's alma mater, and my dad's and both grandmother's, so it's our family school).

Not that you asked, but Mini went got his MBA from UMass, which has the nation's leading sports management program, so we are now big college hockey fans. Our family has two Final Fours we care about deeply (one of the frozen variety). We went to the Frozen Four in Buffalo a couple of years ago. For a while, I thought Mini was going to provide the family with its first "we were there" national title, but our family pattern held as UMass lost in the final game.

Mini is now pursuing his PhD. To protect his reputation as one of the greatest Stanford subway fans ever, I won't tell you where. But I can assure the Cardinal fan base that he is still all in for the Cardinal, even if that means rooting against his current school.

Mini might be Tara's biggest fan. He has convinced me of her elite status. I was thinking about this recently: I believe Tara is my favorite national level coach of my sports fandom. I tend to concentrate more on players than on coaches, but when I think about coaches, Tara is at the top of my list.