Nodak1883

Well, you can thank state budget cuts and the awful position that UND was in financially a decade ago. $500 million in deferred maintenance isn't something you solve overnight and takes years to unwind. And yet, there's still more to be done to help right size the campus to bring that amount down even further across the campus. People want nice buildings, parking lots, etc. but will always balk at the cost of maintaining those same items. If rates for golfing at Ray Richards were raised to actually make the course profitable or at least have a loss smaller than it currently is, people would bitch about the cost of a 9-hole and likely claim "UND try to make money and should just sell the course" or "It would be better if UND spent money focused on academics and not a golf course". Which is why we are here. If the PILOT isn't passed, then the project likely doesn't go through which means that Ray Richards will continue to lose money each year in its current state while UND pays to keep it maintained until the plug is pulled entirely and UND sells it entirely or something. And then people will bitch that "UND shouldn't have sold it but put money into it instead". Rinse and repeat the tale as old as time.

Honestly the nickname issue is a dead horse that people want to constantly bring up over and over again because of "Heritage" or something to that nature. Can anyone actually point to anything besides hockey or Athletics in general that used "Fighting Sioux" as part of the brand identity for UND? I certainly don't remember anything done compared to the level that is the current branding and messaging for UND. The tribes weren't unified in liking it, so who are we really bringing the nickname back for if we went back to it?

I think the current plan given that with Fulton being offline for UND is likely to build a new residence hall not for demand but to replace Johnstone/Fulton/Smith as those are the oldest residence halls on campus. And that's been a talking point through the campus in the past is replacing those three. As it stands now, it would take more money to bring Fulton back online for demand than the cost of actually tearing the building down. It will be interesting to see what comes out for the master plan that is expected to be released in February 2027 of what the goal is.

If you read the article itself, it paints out where the losses are coming from and it's not Chavez's fault this time. It was quite rare for me to see golfers using the course even when I drove by it during the week before Covid and after Covid it's even rarer.

There's still space available on campus to put more items if needed for future development. While the parking lot may have been dumb, the goal of it was to get students who live in McVey and West away from having to park in the Chester Fritz Performing Arts Center Lot to solve the following issues: 1. Students having to play frogger with traffic that could care less about pedestrians 2. People attending events at the CFPAC would have to park areas farther away because the CFPAC had 3 areas in the lot for different on-campus students depending on the residence hall they were in. 3. Due to redevelopment of the east side of campus/core campus, there isn't a lot of parking in general in that area. The CFPAC lot has pretty much transitioned to the lot for commuting students who do buy a standard parking permit. Again, the parking lot may have been dumb, but it solves more issues than you think given the current layout of the campus itself.

Honestly the penalties are pretty minor: One year of probation $25,000 fine A one-week ban on recruiting communications for the football program during the January 2027 notification-of-transfer window A 3% reduction in official paid visits in football during the 2026-27 academic year Three one-week bans on football unofficial visits during the 2026-27 academic year A one-year show-cause order for Stepps, during which any employing NCAA member school must restrict him from communicating with four-year transfer prospects during the entire January 2027 football notification-of-transfer window. One-game suspension for Stepps during the 2026 football season. #3 is probably the worst of the bunch. Travis is a DB coach so I would expect him to be out for the home opener against LIU which fulfils (#7). The unofficial visits likely can be taken during slower recruiting periods or stacked together depending on how they need to be taken (#5). #6 probably won't be hard to work through as it's only one recruiting year. I don't know how often #4 occurs to determine its severity either.

It's also VNL, which for the past 10+ years has basically become a trash tabloid rag for Fargo with what stories they publish.

Based on the photo caption in the article, my guess is somewhere in the industrial park, which is west of the interstate and south of Demers Ave.

Also let's be real here, it's not like Tennis has been at UND for the past 50 years. Back in 1990 UND had cut Men's Tennis. They only brought it back in 2012 with the move to Big Sky Conference as it was a core sport for the conference. And now let's ask, why would we join a conference with a core sport that we don't have or could support? Let's be real here, we can blame Chavez all we want about how he has managed Athletics at UND both good and bad, but when you're basically given a mess on a platter because previous leaders and administrations basically decided to spend money likely crazy and not plan all that well for future. Go back to when the REA was being built, if we had administration back then that had a vision and plan, we could have made the entire area the athletics hub for UND with Tennis Courts, Softball/Baseball diamonds, etc. Instead, we have an area that is only used during the fall/winter seasons. Nothing is really going on around the REA during the spring or summer as those sports were off campus at the time. And it's only been part of the overall campus plan since 2016 to try and bring athletics back on campus. Again, not defending Chavez one bit here, but you can't blame him when he's basically having to clean up 20+ years of mismanagement and missed opportunities for athletics at UND.

Knowing that UND is likely covered at Forward unless someone dips that isn't expected, he might be a nice edition for the leadership core next year. Right now, you would have Dalton Andrew, Anthony Menghini, Cade Littler, Cody Croal, Mac Swanson as your upper classmen of forwards for next year.

Not with NPI now. Wins against bad teams that drag down the NPI would hurt us until it's eventually dropped more than say splitting a series against Michigan. And I think fans would want to see tougher teams and not just the same group of non-conference opponents. I would love to see more season openers against a CCHA team like the Mavs or Augustana over a 7-1 tilt with Manitoba for the 10th year in a row.

UND is still also working on right sizing the campus as well. Some of the bigger items to see on the campus this year are: 1. The bookstore is moving to more accessible location on campus at the Fieldhouse 2. Columbia Hall is supposedly supposed to be cleared out by either the end of the Spring term or during the summer. 3. Obviously phase 1 of the STEM Complex is beginning with the utility work. 4. The med school expansion is having a study done to see it's feasible which it probably will be and be open likely at the start of the next decade or sooner. That would bring the Nursing program up north and basically open up the area between Princeton and Harvard to being re-developed into P3 projects or else. 5. The new Flight Ops building out at the airport is coming together. And UND is going through the campus master plan process again, with a final report due out early next year. We'll have to see what other plans are in store for the campus. It will be interesting to see what NDSU decides with after making the jump to FBS. I doubt being in the Mountain West is going to fix their enrollment issue and they will be spending money there as they won't see anything from the current media rights deal for the Mountain West.

As far as I know, the upper floors of Columbia Hall are basically in a state where the cost to remove them is cheaper than renovation. Not to mention that in order to even get Columbia Hall renovated for apartments you would basically be gutting the entire place which at that point it would be cheaper to just demolish the building.

Okay the replay was terrible, but if the dude was heading out of bounds and would never come down with it inbounds how is that DPI?

How the hell did Tennessee Tech get the #13 seed with how they are playing. Also, how the hell did we get into the playoffs with how we are playing?