The campuses had 2 weeks to identify the line items to cut from, seeing as they only have 2 lines, that wasn't real difficult or involved. The only decision was whether to cut building maintenance or something else. I'm also looking at the guidelines he sent out right now, and although they do not specifically state to make deep ongoing cuts, they certainly don't say the opposite. Accelerate ongoing efficiency efforts, examine academic courses, and evaluate faculty course loads certainly sound like items that may have an ongoing effect on the budget to me, and go figure, they also sound like what UND did. UND also used the budget issues as an excuse to nix programs that have been on the chopping block for a decade.
As for the rest, I've never said UND didn't have a steeper hill to climb from the start due to Kelley's mismanagement.