UNDBIZ

UND football can afford knee braces. They want to give the donors something tangible they can look at and say "hey I helped pay for those." As for the REA scoreboard, it's paid for with REA money pilfered from UND. UND has no say in how the money is spent after the REA takes it.

http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=113183 Brad with some info on the new scoreboard and ribbon board at the end of the blog.

http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=113183 Surprised there's still no Hawk's Lounge or Hawkey Grille....

And beating D1 ndsu still hurt UND's D2 playoff chances.

Sac st on the road should be tougher than the griz in the alerus.

I like the helmets as they are...

The N and D in the logo would look pretty goofy in that case.

Ketteringham seems to struggle with the corner fade route. The throw to Wanzek in the SHSU game was also pretty bad, just got lucky.

The porta potty lines were a solid 30 deep. I went into the Alerus convention area to use the bathroom.

Mississippi Valley State??

I'd guess the University simply spends less on sports than it would if those programs hadn't been cut.

Typically, REA returns between $500,000 and $1 million of UND's money to the school each year. If REA didn't take the $3-400,000 of football revenue, I'd anticipate they would simply return $3-400,000 less to UND each year....

1. UND football doesn't recruit against Big Sky teams. UND recruits against MVFC teams, most if not all of whom offer FCOA and pay their coaches more. 2. Volleyball is well-funded and has very nice facilities relative to our conference opponents. But yes, culture certainly matters most.

I prefer "returning"

That was WAY back in fall 2011

Guessing they'll go widescreen rather than square. Curious if they can use the current frame without significant alterations? And if there are significant alterations, does the logo lose grandfathered status?

I wonder how they'll manage to keep the Sioux logo on the bottom....

I'm guessing he agrees with you, but is pointing out the REA has power ($$) to do much more than this.

But Bremer is a donor

Yep. There are definitely better ways UND could've spent the money diverted from the university into the REA (more urgent needs could've been addressed), but can't deny that it's better than having it sit in the REA's bank account earning 0.05%. Very good for REA and hockey.

Also, great to see renderings that attempt to follow a collegiate gothic style.

Very nice. To those constantly disparaging the current administration, see that their plans go beyond demolishing campus.