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Criticism is fine (when it has substance) but as usual, at the first sign of adversity the fanbase immediately reaches for the pitchforks and torches and over the top comments come flying out. I didn't have a chance to hand out any treats afterwards, I was busy picking up the players who were forced to walk home (half in skates, half with no shoes) on the advice Berry took straight from this thread.

Well at least this thread didn't disappoint. Some of the comments made and bi-polarness shown are off the charts and not in a good way.

The policy actually states that all approvals must be filed in the President's Office. So there should be a paper trail.

Mixed stories but I had heard rumblings she was looking at leaving before or very early in the season. I think Walseth is trying to get "her girls" in place. They currently only have 9 (!!!) players listed on their roster and only 7 really play. One senior on the team and bringing in 7 I believe. So I guess if everyone on the roster and everyone coming in is a a scholarship player, then they wouldn't have anything available.

From what sources?

That was fun. They should do that more often.

You know things are going right when Drick is hitting free throws. Yanku is good. Also appreciate NAU having a good feed (as always) and I forgot how entertaining their announcer is. Benton sighting!

Night and day difference from the beginning of the year. The nice thing is, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Not to say there aren't still going to be some headscratching moments and they aren't going to struggle with teams with good post players, but they are looking the best they have in years. Not to mention no seniors are contributing.

I'm aware, but feel free past the first sentence for my thoughts on the matter.

You are right. Brescaini not following a policy that lists his own office the source of said policy is pretty embarrassing. It isn't necessarily the fact that he did it and it could be defended as legitimate, it is the fact that it is against the policy and it isn't a one-time deal. There is a continuous pattern of being tone-deaf to how things like this appear to the tax-paying public, especially when he's claiming that his University is underfunded and/or broke.

On the same token, maybe you should heed your own advice and don't let facts get in the way offering blind support across the board, even after being given a golden opportunity to learn a lesson about doing so previously. *coughChapmancough*

And making sure to include the 5 years UND was a transitional school playing against full D-1 schools. Still not sure how this proves any sort of point other than SiouxVolley sure knows how to get the FargoU fans going. Everyone already knows that UND has struggled in OOC play in MBB, that is no shocker, but now we know that somehow that is the benchmark for the Summit schools.

And then you didn't answer. So we'll go with the current year. UND's 0-1 record comprising of a two point loss in one of 17 sports really defends your position. Just saying.

4-18? Not following. How is asking the time frame predictable? UND has only played one Summit team this year MBB and couldn't put the game away. Not sure how one game in one sport proves whatever point you were working on trying to prove.

Boring but predictable answer (bonus points for you for knowing FargoU has a basketball team!). What time frame?

Fair point. Just wanted to vouch for him as he proven to have reliable resource in the past.

One other thing in regards to schools "making a fortune" off tuition waivers: the state funding formula doesn't make any differentiation on how much a student pays (or doesn't pay) in tuition so NDSU gets full allocation for the students paying nothing, giving them all the more reason to inflate their enrollment (particularly in grad students, which are worth more) through tuition waivers and collect more tax dollars.

What sport? You realize they sponsor 17 sports (of which NDSU only participates in 12 of).

So NDSU needs to give away full tuition waivers to 1,000+ grad students to teach and apply for mainly non-competitive grants (which are apparently dwindling per the updated Carnegie rankings)? Even if you pull out the $9 million plus that represents, NDSU would still give out more tuition waivers than UND.

If he says it, it likely comes from a solid place.

I'd hope they'd be able bring in more, they gave some sort of waiver to 22.7% (3,414 students) compared to 12.2% (1,911 students). You're comparing an extra 1,500+ students on NDSU's side of the equation. The bottom line numbers show that UND was able to bring in bring in $7.8 million dollars more in total tuition, room/board and fees than NDSU did without giving away that extra $9.2 million dollars. So how exactly is that making a fortune off of tuition waivers?

I thought his resume had a lot to offer as well. Doesn't seem to have the "academic" experience some might like to see but I don't think that's necessary especially given his vast experience in working in higher ed.

Using rough figures, in 2014-2015 NDSU had 32.5% of the NDUS head count (15,066 out of 46,386) and gave out 59.8% of all tuition waivers ($18.1 million out of $30.3 million). UND was at 33.4% and 29.4% ($8.9 million) respectively. NDSU gives at least some sort of tuition waiver to 70% of its international students. 37.5% of their international students receive a full tuition waiver. There's clearly a disconnect somewhere and I don't see an issue with it being called out if it leads to a discussion of what's going on, why and what issues may need to be addressed. McFeely knows that too, he just had to take the opposite side as Skarphol to bring it up.

The RFP is still viewable online.

McFeely was trying to rile people up, which he did. I don't agree with all of Skarphol's comments but to completely dismiss all of his points as "stuck in the 1950's" is flat out wrong.