fightingsioux4life

If we don't raise coaching salaries for FB and MBB (and eventually WBB), those programs will not be able to retain quality coaches and therefore, will never reach their full potential. Something we could do a better job of if the REA contract wasn't so skewed against UND.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Great post.

Let me make this abundantly clear: The days of UND being able to focus on hockey and nothing else are over. They ended the moment we became a Division I school. If we want to go back to that, we should drop back down to Division II and join the NSIC. Otherwise, this mentality needs to end. Now.

To answer your question, 50-50 should do the trick. Subtract expenses from revenues and split what is left over 50-50. And get the FB revenue out of the equation; what does the FB program and the Alerus Center have to do with REA and BESC?

So your Darwinian model of an athletic department is to have programs compete against each other for survival until only one is left? This is the most asinine thing said on this issue so far. Most programs lose money. So they are subsidized by the revenue sports. UND has Men's Hockey. NDSU has Football. Duke has Men's Basketball. If you are against welfare, then you are against intercollegiate athletics as a whole.

Blais had never been a head coach at the Division I level before he took over in Grand Forks in 1994. The rest is history.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

The gift was delivered back in 2001. It isn't like we are getting tens of millions of dollars from them annually.

She needed to lie like a rug to the Heraldo to make that point?

You think Grand Forks could support an AHL team? I am thinking not.

I am expressing my feelings regarding her spoiled rotten entitled attitude. She acts like everyone works for her and owes her everything. She obviously did not learn much from her dad about treating people right and being an honest broker in business. I stopped calling her a princess when some people complained, so I switched to using MISS instead of Ms. I suppose I could just drop it altogether.

Not. Gonna. Happen.

That is my point. She is being completely unreasonable because Kennedy won't roll over when she snaps her fingers. And that isn't going to change. How can Kennedy work with someone who runs to the media and lies through her teeth? She is not an honest broker. If we are going to cave into her every whim, we might as well make her de-facto President.

REA is NOT going to "shut down". They need us to fill that arena to make money to keep up with maintenance, utilities, etc. And your canard about an AHL team coming in and adopting the Fighting Sioux name and logo is not going to happen either. This is the logical result of a rich heiress being stood up to for the first time ever by a President with a backbone. Nothing more, nothing less.

The problem is that your hero MISS McGarry doesn't seem to want to do that either.

I am simply stating facts. Facts that people didn't want to talk about for years until the current kerfuffle sprung up last week. No gift is ever 100% positive, there are always some negatives. Ignoring those negatives is foolish and pure wishful thinking. If UND isn't getting a fair shake from the four (?) different boards that govern REA, then it needs to be addressed. We finally have a strong President that won't roll over every time he is ordered to. Kennedy is doing his job as President of UND. You cannot demand a strong leader, then complain when he does his job. Make up your mind.

That is a straw man argument. Nobody is going to make that claim, much less myself. UND and Grand Forks has benefited greatly from REA and BESC. But these buildings were built to serve the interests of UND, not the other way around. And that is something that MISS McGarry doesn't seem to understand.

So that means she gets to run UND from Vegas through her REA employees? And that gives them a license to treat UND like a red-headed stepchild whenever they want? Sorry, that is not acceptable. REA was a magnificent gift to UND. But it is a double-edged sword as well. Since 2001, everything has revolved around what REA wants. Heck, I am surprised they didn't try to quash the move to Division I because it would take attention away from hockey. An athletic department, much less a University, cannot operate successfully like that. I saw this coming years ago, but was shouted down and told to shut up when I said anything. What say everyone now?

Didn't her contributions run through 2011 and stopped after that? Once donors start implementing extortion, it is time to cut them loose.

She has stated in public that she doesn't care about UND all that much. She is not a strong candidate for giving in the future. So we should stop catering hand and foot to her.

MISS McGarry is going to do this anyway. She has said she doesn't care about UND like her late father did. She went out of her way to point out that her dad was an alumnus of UND, but no one else in the family is. What makes you think she'll give us more money in the future? Let's tell MISS McGarry to take her pompous, arrogant, entitled attitude back to Vegas and focus on potential donors who actually care about this place.

Here is my question. If UND had been receiving 50% of all revenues from facilities, tickets, concessions and apparel, where would our budget situation for athletics be? I say much better than it is now. That arena is a big cash machine. And UND should start getting more of the revenues from it.

If this is the case, we may as well name Jody Hodgson the A.D. and MISS McGarry the President and move on from there (sarcasm). Perhaps we could build a throne room, complete with a throne for her to sit on as she barks out orders to people (more sarcasm)? A wealthy heiress living out of state who has publicly stated she does not care all that much about UND cannot be allowed to run this institution from a distance. It is highly unlikely MISS McGarry will ever give large sums of money to UND in the future, so why cater hand and foot to her every whim? We should work harder to facilitate mutually beneficial and mutually respectful relationships with alums who are successful in their professional lives and want to give back to the school that helped them get there. That will make this a better place, not throwing roses at the feet of someone who obviously doesn't care if UND succeeds or not. A gift with strings attached is not a gift.......it is extortion.

For the record, I do NOT have "multiple logins". I am NOT DaveK. I have no aliases that I use to pretend to be someone else. What you see is what you get from this UND supporter.

And you said MY comments were "demented"? Look in the mirror buddy. And if you really plan on taking money from the Champions Club, you are hurting the student-athletes that play on these teams that we cheer for. But you have your nose so far up MISS McGarry's a$$, you can't see that.