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Having your compliance department knowingly ignore violations, especially when there are external factors that you can't control, is not a characteristic any of the leadership at UND is going to tolerate. Just my opinion from interactions I've had with people in those positions though. Again, I think this is a non-issue if the transcripts never get in front of the compliance department. But they did and here we are. However, based on today's ruling on Texas Tech's QB, you could probably just sue the NCAA and get everything waived, but that speaks more to what kind of mess things have turned into than anything.

UNDFootball360 will have Schmidt on the podcast to go over. The kid's transcript getting to the compliance department and getting flagged seems to be where the issue popped up. How/why that got there seems to be the bigger question. Whether everyone is doing it or not (they are), can't put the compliance department in that position. Them not doing their job can lead to much bigger problems that are much bigger than the nothingburger that they agreed to.

Good effort. There was no investigation. UND self reported and turned everything in themselved. Let me know if enrollment is going to be the same number for the fourth year in a row or if ndsu is going to pretend to start monitoring their Title IX compliance. If every school who did anything remotely in the realm of what UND admitted to, the whole membership of the NCAA would be in violation.

Could you imagine paying that bill and not getting anything in return? Even one of their mouth pieces thought it was crazy that Sac St would agree to that sort of deal. And then NDSU goes and does the same thing while writing a huge check on top of it...

Don't know much about the SD schools, but the North Dakota schools isn't really surprising. UND made some hard (and some unpopular) choices during both rounds of budget cuts in the last decade and in the process, right-sized a lot of things to prepare for future growth. NDSU opted to kick the can down the road and not do a whole lot of adapting. Enrollment trends seem to indicate UND made the correct moves.

A lot of good info already touching on some of the differences and accounting for athletics is mostly a questionable exercise where you aren't comparing apples to apples. The below is from the most recent EADA info: UND at least makes an effort to try to balance out their spending on men's and women's, particularly on the scholarship side. UND enrollment is 51.8% M / 48.2% F, unduplicated participation is 53.2% / 46.8% and financial aid is 53.6% / 46.4% NDSU enrollment is 49.8% M / 50.2% F, unduplicated participation is 63.8% / 36.2% and financial aid is 62.2% / 37.8% (before additional football scholarships). UND also spends about $3 million more on women's sports than NDSU does (for a variety of reasons), but also offer more individuals opportunities to participate, which drives a higher cost that needs to be subsidized as they are mostly non-revenue generating. Some others who have better knowledge of it than I do can elaborate on how (un)serious NDSU actually takes their Title IX compliance. After some less than positive press, the Fargo media had their practice and other access cut. Things fell in line after that and haven't changed.

They did. They just lie and say they had the exact same number as last time. "Totally, trust us!"

They already fund their athletics at the expense of their academic side (see $10 million bailout a few years ago). Wonder where the money actually goes....finding some extra students to pay under the table to get their enrollment to be the exact same every year?

The Big 10 grant of rights is through at least 2036, so not sure how that would work...

Spending money on football that UConn doesn't bother with. Are those numbers for NIL or total basketball budget? Something seems off either way because UM spends more than $4.5 million in total on basketball but if UConn paid $34.5 million for their roster, they didn't get their money's worth...

Unfortunately that is where the money is and they are trying to make a one size fits all policy so there is less ambiguity for lawsuits. While I don't think it would happen, it probably also gives a little more merit to Buccigross' comments a while back that NCAA hockey could split off in some shape or fashion.

Such a lazy take. Compare MBB budgets between the conferences. Would guess MBB is the sport that most, if not all, of the MVC schools spend the most on

I'll give you the REA, but UND still pays to use it, very far from free. UND's rent also paid for the Betty. What was the final breakdown on the cost of Albrecht field? No argument it was a generous donation and led to action to get it built but pretty sure it was a fraction of the cost.

This isn't accurate. I'd probably give you the Alerus Center at "just rent".

Agreed, the original 18 was a really fun course. New 9 has come in pretty nice the last couple years as the trees have grown. Like it a lot more than I used to. Guessing cost + space is why they didn't do a completely new 18.