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Lmao. $5 million to the NCAA. $12 million to the MWC. That's before recurring increase in fees. No details on revenue sharing yet. Plus any buyouts to the MVFC for leaving on short notice and to prevent having to go to the FCS teams thru already have on the books. Then add in Title IX compliance. No wonder Cook negotiated this on his way out. Masterfully played by the MWC to basically auction off a spot in the league. Looks like they let Ndsu outbid Sac St. $10 million more than NIU paid a year ago. Gloria did well for the conference. I know it's been allegedly said that it's being covered by private donations but the statewide budget cuts that are coming this cycle are sure going to be entertaining.

Most of them aren't giving back and the ones that who are aren't doing it in any sort of manner that moves the needle.

This actually is pretty accurate. Subsidies are having to make existing schools whole due to a declining media contract. MWC is throwing things against the wall (huge entrance fee, no media rights for extended periods) to see actually how desperate Ndsu is. And they are going along for the ride. Nothing says "we really want you" like taking a prospective member to the tool shed. Still a little skeptical unless the financial side is just absurd against a new member given the MWC media contract was just signed and it wasn't great. Unless any new prospective member will not receive money until the next one is negotiated or something similar. Or their entrance fee covers whatever they might get down the road, basically making it a neutral financial impact for everyone.

8 figures upfront plus huge cost increases to move out of your recruiting area and play late night games in different time zones while you don't have a president and the state is looking at 10% cuts across the board due to declining oil prices. What could go wrong? Also, I'd be curious to see the AG's opinion on how working through a mediator somehow negates having to comply with open record requests. At least claim you can't disclose ongoing contract negotiations.

Haven't they been doing that for quite a while now? Not sure how it would be remotely sustainable but I guess their President is all in on going FBS and is, at least allegedly, putting money where his mouth is.

Big enough of a deal that it matters on the recruiting side. Opens up some more recruiting in Texas and the Chicago area. Media deal is going to be subsidized by the exit fee pot just to get it to be where it previously was, so that isn't sustainable. There isn't going to be a whole lot of options that are going to bring at least $3.5MM in value to the media contract, so any addition makes the pie even smaller. Seems reasonable that they aren't going to be hesitant to expand unless needed and if they do, it would be for someone that isn't going to add a huge cost burden on flying sports teams halfway across the country.

Based on the interest she had when she announced she was playing basketball for a year, I'm going to disagree on this comment. Even if it takes a while to dust off some basketball skills, she's been starring at a top P4 level program. Can't teach that athleticism.

B1G has gotten what they wanted out of a Rutgers. They aren't going anywhere even if they continue to be a doormat.

The solution is to build a practice facility. I thought the previous set up was fine. The current set up is fine as well, though others feel differently and I see their point, though again, think it is fine. However someone decided they needed more seating (fair for some games and other events). I specifically asked someone within the athletic department why they did what they did and was told they wanted more seating while not hindering any practice space. I don't know what the cost was, what the budget was, who wrote the check or what other options were explored. Only that there were two primary objectives and they were both met. My invite for facility planning meetings must have gotten lost and I'm not a Seating Management Expert, so I don't know what the other viable options were. Do you have insight to that you can share? Would UMKC's solution work at the Betty? I'm open to actual conversation on it beyond constantly hearing that the seating is too far away.

It did, but they wanted to increase the amount of baseline seating. I didn't have a solution. Also didn't know that there was an option that one person could remotely move significant amount of seating without damaging the floor. And I'm still not sure if that was a viable option for what they did. The easiest option would have been to do nothing.

Intriguing. Looks like the height is probably similar but maybe a couple less rows? Wonder what the cost of that would have been but that's the kind of solution I was curious about vs complaining about the same thing over and over

Besides what they did, what would alternatives be? Not sure how much larger they make for portable bleachers that are more work to drag across the floor and set up? Not disagreeing on the new setup being less than ideal but honestly curious what other realistic options there were.

They also have a separate practice facility and don't have to move bleachers to make extra space. It's been explained plenty of times but figure out how to get a practice facility done and they could do some good things on the ends. The current set-up was the only way to add more seating on the baseline and still be able to use the entire space.

Doesn't open until first week in February.

Assuming that falls under the REA/Betty not directly the athletic department. Though they would see the offset on increased tickets if that does actually hold true. Do think that concession for MBB/WBB/VB should be less than what is charged at the REA though and be a little more family friendly.

Ben Newman took the fall for that.

Maybe 1 stays and 1 transfers?

Specifically states that who had reached out to him since entering the portal.

Did Miller recently tweet it?

Eye test says it was absolutely a huge difference.

What's door 3?

Didn't happen. But to be fair, sasn't seemed to hurt the ag college.

How much money do you think they would make? Because I'm guessing you are overestimating it significantly. Maybe a one-time bump when they brought it back but it wouldn't be a sizable revenue stream in perpetuity. Fan base just isn't big enough. The top P4 schools get 10-15% royalties at best and it is mid to high 7 figures. I bet you could look back at old reports and see that UND made a couple hundred thousand at best in their top years and that might be generous. That's all moot since it isn't going to happen because they would have to spend whatever they make to cover legal fees just to fight a battle they already lost.

What benefit does UND have to open that can of worms again? I don't see a net positive in that.

To clarify, he's a Grad Assistant for Facilities and Gameday Operations, not the volleyball program.