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Country Club has been full or very close the last 5+ years.

Handling cash is far from free. It's probably a wash or in their advantage in the grand scheme of things.

KW is unimaginative and rounds are way too long if you can get on at all. But it has a new-ish irrigation system, unlimited public water and grass that isn't decades old so it stays in decent shape. Lincoln gets a ton of play and is perfect for what it is. Great for beginners and young kids. Weather this winter messed up some areas in courses in the valley and across the state with winter kill. It is what it is but not a permanent issue.

From what I understand, they are applying for a TIF (which is a tax deferment, not actual cash). I've heard similar arguments as it relates to the city owned Choice Health and Fitness.

If you consider a golf simulator put in as an amenity in an apartment building, yes.

If the building isn't significantly leased up prior to opening and then at above a break-even rate (which is almost always quite a bit higher than 80%) the first few months its open, they are in a lot of trouble. If you're discounting leases early in the process, also a huge red flag. Existing tenants aren't a big fan of seeing that... Not saying they don't offer some early-lease up specials (first and last month free, etc.) but what you're describing isn't how the process works at all.

Any developer who sees 80% occupancy and thinks one or two more need buildings need to be built is going to go broke real fast.

And go where? Maybe he likes and trusts the OC who told him what he needs to work on to win the starting role.

There's no way that's accurate on the Summit side. No clue on the MVC side.

Doesn't change your main point, but anyone who opted in can now allocate up to 105 scholarships.

A few years ago, Minnesota was showing $5 million in excess revenue over expenses before an extra $8 million in outside allocated (government, school, etc) funds. That deficit number is pretty close to the difference. That's for a school with a huge media contract and $135 million in revenue. This is why payment numbers below the P4 level are going to be going to be much smaller.

This is not quite accurate. No school is required to pay anything if they opt-in, it just gives them the ability to do so. I would guess most, if not all, will to some degree. Very few outside the P4 (and maybe even some on the bottom end of that) are going to get anywhere near $20.5 million (or 22.5% of revenue). Not sure if/how the 22.5% of revenue part effects UND as if it is tied to a portion of total revenue, they would be capped at much lower than $20.5 million (which they wouldn't come close to anyway). There are also new increased scholarship limits in other sports that will have to be funded to remain competitive in those sports.

These are the things that help fund UND's athletic department. You can't magically allocate those funds to NIL pool and think things will continue to run with no issue. Again, that's why extra donations to the 701 Awards are important to fill this gap.

The difference is the P4 schools actually have significant revenue to share. Everyone below that level is already operating at a deficit so figuring out how that is going to work within existing budgets is going to be an uphill battle. Which is why donations to the 701 Award fund is going to be important to help with NIL.

B1G?

3 regular season football games and 3 regular season basketball games plus the championship game for each sport on CBS along with whatever a consistent regular-season presence on CBS Sports is. Guessing that isn't going to be a real big contract.

For what purpose? Sac St.'s waiver is likely to be denied as the oversight committee recommended against the waiver. Would be a surprise if the D1 council overrides that. Neither approach seems to be working. Either you are in a desirable location for a specific conference or you aren't...

Trying to build back after the decimation of the flood followed by a decade plus of not aggressively pushing to get new (especially large) employers in town? I think the latter has changed a bit the last few years, hopefully it pays off. This was a large detriment as well.

Not quite, still a chance for someone to step up and save it. TBD if that happens. Tough location on the north end though.

No clue. There are plenty of easier teams than those from the MVFC or Big Sky that P4 teams can schedule but the FCS teams want to play as regional as they can for recruiting and fan purposes. I'm sure there is value in that from the FCS side. Without seeing the contracts, who knows if they are even apples to apples? If it was that simple, why did NDSU agree to only $25K more that they would have got 8 years prior (2020 vs 2028), but still $5K less than Montana State is getting this season when the OU/MSU contract was signed a year before NDSU renegotiated? Shouldn't NDSU have been able to get more for a 2028 game since they knew the "going rate" for a 2025 game? Looks like both USD (ISU) and SDSU (Nebraska) didn't reschedule their FBS games for 2020, however there were already future meetings scheduled between both of them. MSU (Utah) also looked like they lost their FBS games from that year without rescheduling and I don't think UM had one scheduled. Again, this seems like a stretch to be upset about but whatever I guess.

Exit fee is equal to one year of operating expenses, which is typically north of $1 million. Not sure how high it has gotten recently.

Don't know? Seems to be mostly in line with quite a few other Big 12 schools, which was the question. Ndsu got an extra $25k kicking a game out 8 years and are still getting less that Youngstown is this year. Of things to complain about, this seems pretty low on the list

Comparable to quite a few others based on this list. https://www.si.com/college/fcs/fcs-football-news/how-much-are-fcs-teams-getting-paid-for-fbs-matchups-in-2025

They are all listed somewhere around here and all seem to be relatively comparable. No clue what the scheduling options were at the time or how negotiations went. Most P4's are scheduling 5-10 years out and UND already had its other 3 non-conference games for 2025 full and no FBS game in 2025 yet. Its also one of the few "midwest" P4 schools that UND continues to try to schedule and its relatively drivable for fans. NDSU had a similar issue with their Oregon game. Cancelled in fall of 2020, amended the contract in spring of 2021 all the way out to 2028. They got an extra $25,000 out of it so didn't fare much better.

Correct. They amended the date of the game but not the guarantee amount, which is why it is a bit lower than some of the other games. No clue if UND had any negotiating power on that or both sides just agreed to keep it on the schedule later with the same payout. Given UND was still playing spring football at the time and no one knew what was going on, guessing they both just agreed to move it down the road a few years.