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https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/education/4591940-und-give-honorary-degrees-heitkamp-hamm Smart, at least with regards to Hamm.

The current president is shifting a lot of money into building maintenance.... possibly too much.

I'd say yes, though some may disagree. The majority of the buildings removed were those ugly little apartments on the west end of campus.

Looks like Oliveira is putting up pretty good numbers.

Sounds like the reporters' numbers are likely not very accurate.

Good. Personally, I'd rather see any junior forward other than Smith shown the door than delay Rizzo's arrival though.

Rizzo joining the Exiled One?

I can't imagine we're interested.

Them and Penn State.

Montana being left out now?

Sounds like UND would like to use it as swing space for the next 5-10 years while they renovate Merrifield and a couple other buildings. The current plan is to raze it after that.

PSU - 2018 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 - 2017 - 2 FBS and 1 Big Sky - 2016 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 - 2015 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 ISU - 2018 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 - 2017 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 - 2016 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 - 2015 - 2 FBS and 1 D2 After looking at their prior non-conference schedules, I think fear over the commitment of these 2 institutions to play the second half of a home/home is fair. 2024 and 2025 being 12 game years should hopefully keep them honest though.

I'd say it's an interesting choice for the Foundation to select a person who has publicly vowed not to donate to UND as the luncheon keynote speaker....

Working on finishing 2022 and 2023 schedules now. Would be nice to see Cal Poly, Montana State, or Weber State, IMO. I've been a little concerned that we may be losing out on extra money by signing FBS contracts so far out, but I can see how having those games scheduled frees us up now to schedule way out on home/home games, which can be difficult. They better have huge buyouts on those home/home contracts.

Hmm

I think it's a fair concern/critique. If an FBS comes along with $550k for PSU/ISU/NAU to play them instead, we'd better be getting at least $250k to buy a Pioneer squad.

Montana is coming to GF first, but yeah I noticed that as well for the PSU, ISU, and NAU games. Guessing we were at a bit of a disadvantage in negotiating as these 3 teams seem to have no reservations about just filling their schedules with D2s.

Nice try. I'm not clicking on it.

Why are all the fans dressed as empty blue seats?

https://undfootball360.com/news/und-future-schedule-updates/ Home and home agreements with Idaho State and Northern Arizona.

One thing to help with this issue, if you see a Schloss article on women's hockey, don't click on it. Similar to a McFeely column, he knows he can get a lot of clicks just from people upset about him writing the garbage to begin with.