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Yeah ... a committee, like the last one that had to look at what to do with a fraction of the overall UND budget. You all remember that. It'll be awesome to see the chairs up there lobbying to save their departments.

Based on the response to this thread, I guess I'm not the only person who noticed and wondered.

I love that tactic: You may have the top to bottom responsibility for 12000 people, a quarter billion dollar budget, a billion (?) in assets, but you're clueless when I don't like what you're doing so it's now "mine". I boldly predict the purveyors of that petition would curl up and melt after one day of carrying the responsibilities of running a university.

If there are only "a few" South kids, kind of by definition, yes. I don't know if the "a few" posit is accurate. I do find it believable. I know before Davies opened all of the South boys hockey team lived south of I-94 and all but a handful lived south of 32nd Avenue S (now Davies district).

Wha-a-a-at? Seriously? <-- The %gobc Official Theme Song

So why doesn't he have a personal account and the Official @UNDSID account that he's assigned to run. I'm pretty sure he has a personal email account and his official "@und.edu" email account. Same thing.

I don't completely blame Kennedy for the spectacle. The University Senate whined that Schafer was an autocrat and they weren't involved. So Kennedy involved the USenate, specifically their IAC subcommittee. The IAC decided the public spectacle was a good idea. They sat up front and watched the performances for their entertainment. Any blame goes to Kennedy solely for allowing the spectacle to happen. But if he'd have stopped it, he'd have been declared as another evil autocrat. He gave the IAC and USenate the power. They. Whiffed. His only other mistake was going along with their whiff. But again, if he didn't take their recommendation --> autocrat. Now he can do what he wants because he can say, simply, when I gave you the power you whiffed and now a whiff is not an option.

Change.org petitions: As effective as hashtag campaigns since ... never. Those (I'm resisting the word "kids") ... < ahem > students ... need to understand the following: THMK* has run budgets larger than UND's through fiscal crises and transitions much worse than this. He's a former Treasurer of Federated Dept Stores (think: Macy's) and was rated one of America's Best CFOs. He was the architect of a major corporate acquisition (Pillsbury of Hagen Daas). The man knows how to shape and run a budget. I'm pretty sure the ND SBHE hired him and his experience knowing these issues were on the horizon for UND and the whole of the NDUS. When the budget is a mess because revenues have been cut and you have to lower expenses you don't have a biology professor, who's still trying to understand debits and credits, assets and depreciation, try to straighten it out. *The Honorable Mark Kennedy

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Really? You may have misinterpreted something. The dollars I've seen mentioned are the NCHC exit fee ($1 million-ish) and things like revenue sharing and media rights.

How come when I search for @UNDSID I get this: https://twitter.com/undsid/media?lang=ms Or more specifically, this: https://twitter.com/undsid When did that account morph into @JaysonHajdu ? And why?

Pure speculation, but I wonder if as long as there's women's hockey there's a "hockey beat" and everything else. No women's hockey and Brad has to pick up some other load.

My guess (pure guess): Studsrud (Sr) to this new Zimmerman (incoming transfer Soph) fellow to the HS recruit from Edina Brock Boltmann. That's what it looks like to this casual observer's eye. The wildcard is how is Heidlebaugh progressing.

Nothing gets by Abe Vigoda.

Let me ponder that again ... UND is cutting administrative, VP level, positions.

That's the number. It's in here: http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2017/02/starting-from-the-top/ It's about at the bottom in the bullet points. Now, knowing "12%" is the working number (most common) in that document, it tells me UND had done work already because the number heard from Bismarck (and from Bresciani at NDSU recently) is "20%". Or thinking of this further, $1.3 million is 12% of $10.8 million. But UND's Athletics budget is more like $22 to $24 million. That says some serious work was already done in there to make only $1.3 necessary now to reach the final goals.

A university cutting out administrative positions? < faints >

I need to see the official %gobc meeting minutes to believe it or it's all hokum.

Last I read they don't have all their financing in order yet. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2016/06/17/state-awards-12-million-toward-coralville-arena/86033032/

This is why I'd see UNO being ahead of UMD (if this all happens and it's not UND).

farce, I see UMD or UNO as noise, leverage, pressure, on UND should an offer come. --> "Take it or we'll ... " I just don't see a "hyphen" (UM-D or UN-O) getting in with Big Brother.

Pro tip! Danke!

Is that NCAA tourney/Frozen Four distribution money? Aren't those dollars are normally distributed by conference, not school.

You know, that's a good point. UND risks getting kicked to the curb later on. That's not good. So, I'm adding it to my list of things to negotiate should the opportunity arise. - UND conf home games must be Fri/Sat nights with current game times unless UND (and UND alone) changes it - media rights - "ejection" fee --> UND should have to pay < number > if they choose to leave; however, UND should say you owe us < number > if you try to eject us - NCHC exit fees - revenue sharing

Shoot. I was hoping WDAY'Z Extra or BEK-TV was covering the games. It'd be something to have on the other monitor while hacking away.