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You could make that case; however, you also need to look at tertiary effects. I am unaware of any significant donors or donations to UND because of M/W Tennis players. However, I do know of significant donors due to football and basketball. That tertiary effect must be calculated into the ROI.

UND Womens Hockey IS losing $1,500,000.00 annually. And that's not a real number because they are paying $0.00 for use of REA. (The mens team covers 100% of that expense.) Put half the cost of REA ($2.23M) on the women and that number pushes their number up $1,100,000.00 to over $2,600,000.00. <-- OOPS! That's more than the average FCS FB team. Now, the average FCS team loses $2,500,000.00. The average. Please tell me the number for UND's FCS team so as to make a direct comparison.

Uh, the all bold font? There's no need to shout.

"80 some doctors" ... until you need one.

The "pick your slot" approach would lead to nothing but bulletin board material. "Well, #13 Whasawmattah U, you're up. Which of the remaining slots do you want to play?" "Oh, we're going to take out #1 overall Schreuw U."

The '15 team was a bunch of guys who'd gelled into a team. This group is a bunch of guys still. Bring on the gelatin!

I've said before and stand by it: If there must be college athletics* it should be team sports only. Real team sports. Want to go for a swim or a run** or bowling? Knock yourself out. Have at it. Ask your roommate to play tennis with you.*** A team sport is one where you need multiple players working in conjunction to participate. If you can do what you do as a single competitor, that's not a team sport. Examples of team sports in my narrow-minded**** view? Basketball, volleyball, football, hockey, soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse. Wrestling is not. Participants act individually. Tennis is not. You say "doubles". I say "singles". Swimming? No. And don't say relays. See "tennis". Same for T&F. That's my opinion. Rip away. *I'm still the curmudgeon that would like all sports out of educational institutions, but that's not the world we live in. **I just PO'd siouxrunner. ***That was for you Brad. I know you're reading. ****Yup. I admit that.

We've heard about Illinois state budget issues and normally WIU is brought up. Well, there's this place called Southern Illinois ... Southern Illinois University announces cost-cutting measures in Athletics

It's the NCAA.

Cut both sets. Go to 16 total sports. Fund those at championship levels. Next question.

UND women's hockey started in the 2002-03 season. Mr. Engelstad died in November of 2002. No point; just throwing out random facts.

So you have to reach back to 2001 to prove your point?

Great ambassador for hockey. Terrible form of cancer. That one is unforgivingly evil. RIP Jeff.

#1 seeds (in order of PWR): UMD, DU, WMU, BU #4 seeds (random order): blah, blah, blah, UND UND as host must be in Fargo. They can easily avoid a first-round all-NCHC match-up by sending BU to Fargo.

It's the NCAA.

So which Johnson is Grant Johnson related to?

Big donors want it? OK. Then ....

If you believe that I still have this bridge from my time living in NY that I'd sell you really cheap.

Q: How do you know if a politician is lying? A: Their lips are moving.

The "Moo U" thread. http://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/23247-moo-u-diaries/?page=59

It was, and then Dalrymple showed up with his State budget, and then Bergum to a chainsaw to that.

OK, serious answer? Kennedy is a former R politico. So is Schafer. And Kennedy just seems like a reach-across-the-aisle consensus builder based on his political and academic resume. Ed did the ax man work. Kennedy needed to make nice-nice with faculty after that. What better way to do that than to allow them to "control" one of their bogeymen (Athletics) and take their recommendations so it seems that he respects and values them and their opinions. Instant bridge building. However, going in, we all know what academics do best: Nothing. Their recommendation was cut nothing == do nothing. Between Schafer and Kennedy I suspect they knew that outcome was quite likely. (Worst case: they say "Cut X" and Kennedy is just doing what they told him. Win-win.) So now Kennedy has built that bridge and he's not the man in the black hood (that's now Doug Bergum) doing what should've been done four months ago. Better for Kennedy? He gets to cry "I'm a victim of Bismarck too!" to the faculty ... and they'll buy it. I should've bought popcorn before this one. Then again, I should be selling popcorn in Fargo watching them try to figure out where to find 12.2% ($18M) to cut.

Clean living. Definitely clean living.