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A+ human being and selfless teammate who embraced his role. 3rd or 4th and Q was pretty much automatic.

I won't speak on the kids since I don't know them, but anyone who has ever spent time around BB and his spouse would vehemently disagree with a lot of what you just said.

Correct on the FCCU campaign. They asked for a handful of North Dakota athletes to put them in some commercials, billboards and other advertisements for them and paid them through the collective for those. In instances like that, the hiring business picks up the small cost that collective charges to cover their overhead and the athlete gets the full amount. For the second part, that's where 1883 connects with local non-profits, community service organizations, schools, etc. to set up opportunities for the athletes to "perform a service" in return for getting the NIL money, with the amounts varying from player to player depending on what their contract with 1883 states. Plenty of creative ways for them to do things to "earn" their NIL. They are doing this to keep it above board and show something is being done in return for the money as at some point. That was was the original spirit and rules behind NIL and they have been advised from NIL-space attorneys that the NIL Clearinghouse will eventually start looking closer at these deals and make sure that it isn't directly pay for play. There is language in the NCAA settlement agreement about this as well. They are very responsive to answering questions and being transparent about how they are operating if you have questions. I've seen them come speak to multiple groups laying out the above information. Anyone with questions should reach out and they will be more than happy to make sure any confusion is cleared up.

This is fairly accurate. 1883 works with non-profits and other organizations, connects them with a student athlete who then does something with that group to "earn" the NIL money. This lines up pretty well with what the idea of NIL money was for. The other side is that businesses can work with the collective for direct promotional items with certain student athletes if they want as well, which again, would be the student athlete performing in some way to earn the NIL money. Individuals donating to the general fund (or specific sport) aren't going to necessarily see a specific return, however if you contact them, something could like be worked out such as an appearance or something else (cost dependent).

No one else stepped up, which is why two guys who have full time jobs running their own businesses plus other jobs, stepped up to fill the void. I'd highly recommend reaching out to either of them to hear what they do and how much time and effort they put in before ripping them for doing something with their own time. They have been successful at keeping more than a handful of student athletes at UND. And neither of them ask for anything besides doing what you can to support for student athletes. Without them, UND is likely still sitting without a collective. They responsiblity of funding comes from people like those on this board who need to step up with their wallets instead of anonymously criticism.

Agreed. Should be able to find a suitable replacement for 6 and 4 in 20 minutes a game. Showed some flashes but disappeared quite a bit as well. Hopefully he finds a nice role in Omaha and has a good final season.

How many of the facilities UND competes in have been fully paid for by UND? Find some donors and they will find a way to get it done. Money has been invested and they are still fundraising for additional upgrades.

Not going to pretend whether I know that is accurate or not, but is it correct that it is the only grass field? Which is what professionals prefer to play on? What about the rest of the facilities?

The entire field was redone in 2018/19 and their locker rooms are in the REA. Overall, it's not a professional level setup, but "shocking state" seems like we're over-exaggerating just a bit

So you agree the coach went winless in conference play (with one total conference win the last two seasons) and his contract was up and you somehow connect the non-renewal to something else? My guess would be expectations were set before the season on what kind of results were needed for an extension and those weren't met...

If you need to go north of Demers, Columbia will be closed and Washington down to one lane.

Why was he ready to commit if he has no interest in playing NCAA?

Exposure can't be translated into specific dollar amounts to set budgets and pay bills. No argument that it makes the product more available and puts more eyes on it but I believe the NCHC.tv contract was fairly good for UND.

I actually hope that is accurate.

Those would have been my two guesses...