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Not sure why you'd exclude Valley? Solid course and closer to half of Grand Forks than King's Walk is. I don't think there's near the appetite for a 4th 18 hole course in town when you count Valley and Grand Forks Country Club. The changes to Ray Richards aren't significant enough to make that big of a difference to go from "legit" to not. They aren't turning it into a par 3 course.

I don't see shortening Ray Richards changing the golf "landscape" in the Grand Forks area a whole lot. Two 9 hole courses that are shorter and absolutely perfect for plenty of people along with 2 public 18 hole courses (King's Walk and Valley in EGF) plus a private course. Fargo has four 18 hole courses (Edgewood and Rose Creek in Fargo and The Meadows and Village Green in Moorhead), two short 9 hole courses (Osgood, par 33 and Prairiewood, par 32) and a par 3 course (El Zagal) plus two privates. If you wanted to count Oxbow as a third private course, I guess you could if you wanted to extend out that far. Don't think I missed any of them. Roughly twice as many courses available for a population quite a bit bigger than 2x.

Add Brady Lee to that list as well.

Pretty sure this was happening.

Heard similar things. Staff is expecting big things from him.

Compared to what "agents" are taking, if it is 5% to run operations, that would be well below market. Pretty sure they also charge any fees to the donor on top of the NIL to the player, so the player isn't taking a cut in what they get. It is somewhat semantics at that point, but the business is paying, not the player.

What fees are being taken out? Last I heard they were pretty minimal.

I'm not blaming the student athlete for this assuming that they put in effort and did what the staff asked of them in their time here. Not everyone develops into what is hoped.

Kind of amusing that Oregon St is the only actual Pac-12 member in the wrestling conference. But yeah, the Big12 basically told those four teams they were welcome to find a new home. They haven't treated them like actual members of the conference for years. Basically it was an affiliation that allowed them to participate in the conference tournament.

They weren't even having duals against all the teams in the Big12.

Not going to argue the impressive part but it is amusing how Zeb Noland and Quincy Patterson get skipped over quite frequently.

Yeah, but that isn't what you originally stated. No one has confirmed whether the multi-year part is accurate or not. I would guess it was at least a 2-3 year deal from the beginning though. Things are definitely being run as if he has a contract through at least next year. While still not common, it is not unheard of for a coach to go into the last year of their contract either. Pretty sure MBB just made it to the conference championship game with a coach who was in the last year of his contract.

All of that is a completely different situation than "he doesn't have a contract".

So he's coaching for free? Those 7 wins don't sound so bad anymore...

When Armacost isn't satisfied with what he's seeing and hearing. Despite some programs definitely not where they need to be, I think we're a long way from that.