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I'd like to point out that a supporter of NDSU is actually astounded that someone didn't resign for lying or being dishonest. That should be the real headline here. Exactly what is this fiasco and what lies were the SBoHE (which again, is 50% made-up of people with NDSU ties) caught in? And your response proves my point. It is somehow never NDSU's fault even though there coincidentally always seems to be something behind the curtain.

Well it actually has to do more with the location and ease of getting to Brookings (Sioux Falls airport for flying) than anything else, but I'm not sure how you go about fixing that. Averaging almost 1,000 more fans/game doesn't hurt either, though you can point to quality of schedule and success on the court as part of that. Just or comparison, SDSU hosts 2 lower level teams, former Summit member UMKC, Idaho and Murray State for their non-conference schedule (along with a tournament hosted by the new Sandord Pentago). Murray State is obviously an outlier with Nagy being the coach there and without that, they would have 2 D-1 non-conference home games which is exactly how many they had last year plus 4 non D-1 games. The MBB staff is the one who schedules the games, not the AD, though he does have an indirect hand in it through the budget process. President Kennedy has been very straight-forward that he wants an efficient athletic department that is right-sized to be successful at what UND does. MBB should be a beneficiary of that.

Typical. The facts don't back up the talking point so the goalposts move. It has always been that it was the "UND controlled" legislature out to get NDSU but I guess there isn't actually much to back that up, though I don't expect the claim to go away. Right around 25% of the legislature has some sort of NDSU ties as does exactly half of the SBoHE. FargoU has more than enough representation, in fact more so than any other institution in the state, yet they are always claiming they are the ones being picked on. Ever stop to think about why that might be and how it is strange that there always seems to be something to find? Looking the mirror once in a while may be a worthwhile exercise instead of continuing to cast blame everywhere else.

Turned out to be almost as accurate as our hockey connections being able to get us non-conference games in other sports.

I don't know what they have enough money nor do I know what teams are requiring for guarantees. While you have to take a loss somewhere, it has to be a tough sell to pay out a large guarantee when an opponent like UNI only drew 2,300 last year. Even at $15/ticket (which doesn't take into account students and is well below the season ticket cost per game), you're bringing in less than $35,000 gate revenue. Same argument that has been had many times, team needs to win more to get attendance up. Once that happens, you can look at a bump in ticket prices.

Only change on the 2-deep is at WR. Toivonen assumes Georges' spot as the starter at WRZ with Stetson Carr the new back-up, replacing Reed. Wankez slides into the back-up spot at WRZ previously occupied by Toivonen.

Serious question: How exactly is Jones supposed to get teams to come up here with the admitted lack of funding? Teams don't come up to Grand Forks for free and they aren't banging down the door to sign home/home's because most teams can find closer options that cost them less when they have to travel for their half of the deal. UND already has to travel and play money games to help supplement their budget (like most low to mid-majors). They did manage to get UNI to come up last season by doing a 3-1 and even that was basically a favor from Jacobson. With how disappointing that crowd was for a very good opponent, I don't think it is real hard to see where it becomes pretty tough to justify shelling out a bunch of money to bring teams in. Looks like he used his connection to Nagy to get into the Wright State Thanksgiving tournament, so that should be some decent opponents. There are plenty of valid criticisms for Jones but until the program gets more funding, it is tough to use this as one of them. Assuming the Dec 2 game gets signed with the team they were originally talking with, it will be a D-1 school that is familiar to the fan base.

Pretty sage advice considering he barely took any preseason snaps.

That Connor Kupp guy is pretty damn good. Broke the FCS TD receiving record tonight and gets to show his stuff against a young secondary in the Fargoloaf next week.

While I was also a little confused with our CB's playing so deep and think they need to move up some, with Reyes (successfully) playing up in the box so much and causing havoc, I don't think they are going to do a ton of heavy press coverage because there isn't much for deep help over the top.

This trade tells you how close the front office thinks they are. A first round pick and Philly already paid $11 million of the $18 million due to Bradford for the year. If they are as close as they think, that 1st round pick is in the 20's. The conditional 2018 4th rounder turns into a 3rd rounder if the Vikings make the NFC Championship or a 2nd rounder if they win the Super Bowl. Didn't give up any significant pieces and with how some of Minnesota's 1st round picks have panned out recently, I think it's a win for Minnesota, of course that is barring Bradford not breaking. Philly saves a little face, they basically ended up paying $11 million, a 3rd (#77) and 4th rounder (#100) in 2016 and 2nd rounder in 2018 plus likely moving back 10-15 spots in the 1st round in 2017 (difference between where their pick and Minnesota's will be) to move up 6 spots to get Wentz and a 2017 4th round pick.

You won't see it. Branding guidelines are written so that everything has the ND incorporated, it is part of the mark.

Please name all the ties on the SBoHE to UND and then look at the legislature and do the same, then compare for NDSU. The BS talking point that the SBoHE and state legislature is controlled by UND grads is complete and utter nonsense and nowhere near accurate, especially since those with NDSU ties outnumber those with UND ties. Quit repeating the talking points that have no basis in actual facts and take the time to look up the numbers for yourself.

It's tough to tell because the proposal states they will produce and air all home men's and women's game if awarded the football contract, which they weren't. Coaches show was a separate part but included. Doesn't state much on the rest, but I assume it was also included. I'm not sure how Midco's actual contract changed since they didn't get the football contract.

Moving this to where it is more appropriate: Here's what I gathered reading through the information released by KVLY: Neither RFM or KVLY had any media restrictions requested in their bids. The only media "restriction" that WDAY requested was exclusive pre and post game locker room access. So that brings up the question of where did all the restrictions that were put in place (and then rescinded) come from? Judging by the text messages and e-mails released, its a pretty safe bet that it came internally from NDSU for the sole purpose of spiting and hurting FCC for what they felt was an inadequate bid. It is particularly obvious considering that many of the restrictions were directed specifically at things only FCC did. To add another layer, the director of Sales and Broadcasting for NDSU athletics, who would have directly worked on helping pick a contract and coming up with any policies, happened to get a job as the co-host for a radio show on the station that won the radio rights and also would have benefitted immensely from some of the now rescinded restrictions (exclusive access to head coach and unlimited access to assistant coaches during the season being the obvious one). Seems that it would be pretty important for it to be disclosed whether this NDSU employee is also being paid for his work on the radio, because if he is, that is a huge conflict of interest by a public employee. Pretty tough to claim that NDSU is an innocent bystander in this whole media mess when policies that appear to be internally driven were the catalyst for the whole issue. They had no problem getting dirty and playing in the mud and rightfully took a pretty decent PR hit for it.

You are closer than you probably thought. Midco is paying NDSU a guaranteed $37,500 total for 3 years to cover the games.

He could of very well just titled it "Stop me if you've heard this one: NDSU president plays by own rules and thinks they he is above the system"

Interesting take considering that the "naysayers" seemed to be right about Chapman, his goals and disregard for the cost to achieve them. Per Bresciani, they were on the brink of collapse when he took over. While the situations aren't the same, there are similarities.

They have a little under 2 years to get to the endowment number. The plan also calls for an endowment that will be required to sustain men's golf for FY 19 and beyond. The University and the UND Alumni Association & Foundation will establish the long-term funding dollar amount for the endowment, which will need to be fully capitalized by June 1, 2018 for men's golf to continue.

No but 2019 is.

UND only has to meet one prong, not all three. Opportunities and interests only matter if that is what you're claiming as your test (and I think we've figured out by now that you can get those survey results to say what you want...)

You could very well be right but I can't see any reason why Title IX will be the reason.

What part of Title IX would prevent WIH from being cut? There are places to reallocate scholarships any cut women's scholarships to and UND is more than compliant in multiple areas.

I don't disagree but on top of (to my knowledge) the Summit having never turning away a possible member, that sort of demand would actually require some sort of vision on their part. They had an easy fix for their baseball issue fall right into their lap when UND asked to be an affiliate member and took no action, not sure why anyone would think they would start making logical decisions now.

Related to this, any idea what the core sports of the Summit are? I'd be surprised if it isn't at least mentioned.