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A smaller varsion of this, with seating accessed from the upper level that slopes down toward the court, starting from the right side of this picture. Sloped seating would maybe stop 8 ft above bb court, so people in the restaurant at court level could see/hear the arena interior/atmosphere to some degree, perhaps with a rail or tables/booths near courtside. During games people could gather down there similar to the bars at hockey. REA would operate it. Restaurant kitchen could also be used to make meals for team. Somehow work to make it compatible with student meal plans in some way if possible during weekday afternoons.

If that wasnt an option, and without any consideration for bb, it at minimum seems to be time to shrink the ice sheet, regardless, now that SCSU is finally shrinking their sheet. That would save 15 feet in the space adjacent to the locker rooms - could use the additional room to expand team locker rooms or lounge areas or weight room, potentially. Fixed seating in the betty will hopefully be planned in conjunction with the practice facility. Perhaps a second entrence and a legit bar/restaurant connected to club seating. Could be great for hockey/vb/bb pre game and watch parties and the REA could perhaps run a few blackjack tables to help pay for financing.

Same

A bike bridge over the train tracks near the NE corner of Ray Richards would allow easy bike access to UND from the core of grand forks. Could help with traffic/parking to some degree. There would be a bike path from the ralph, following the coulee past the dorms, all the way to the Columbia mall.

The extra media space, if still a thing, could go above the suites.

Was curious about that. What a shame

Dreaming again, but Dorton arena, right next to the hurricanes arena and North Carolina State's campus would be really awesome if it were to be renovated for hockey. It used to be home to an ECHL team apparantly.

Just dreaming, but I wonder if this arena is large enough to fit a sheet of ice?

The school is really terrible at fundraising as well.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/puck-academy/the-future-of-college-hockey-YnHKhfQRm45/?t=1754#1754 30:25 mark

Below is from 2025 NCAA reports for FB and MBB and Hockey Ball State FB 0 BB 22K EMU FB 24K BB 56K Miami FB 0 BB 22K Hockey 25K BGSU Zeros NDSU FB 140K BB 14K Omaha Zeros SDSU Zeros SIU FB 0 BB 57K USD FB 57K BB 79K (326K all sports total) Missouri State Zeros Kennesaw FB 1K BB 67K

UND is doing more Alston payments for basketball and football than most MVC and MAC schools that I've the numbers for so far. Nobody, including Big Ten schools, have shown any institutional NIL payments for fiscal 2025 fyi (will prob start appearing on 2026 reports).

Omaha is building a basketball practice facility https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2025/12/regents-approve-67.5m-privately-funded-capital-projects-at-uno-for-omaha-athletics.php

Oh my mistake. Anyone know who is calling the Spengler Cup games?

It's so cool how different the game presentations are in Davos vs in the US. Also, does this broadcasting team do ESPN's NCAA regional games? I think the color guy is granato? They are a good pair imo.

Have been loving the youtube easy access!

I'm in MN with a 2 yo 4yo and 6 yo and never thought for a second we'd be able to take advantage of any daycare funding from the govt. Dissapointing to see there has bee so much fraud. Especially because I just got a letter from MN stating that they are going to claw back a property tax refund that I claimed in 2023. Just depressing.

I thought espn+ had streaming rights? Anyone know why games arent appearing? Am i wrong?

All Americans who come back to college automatically make the team.

After success of 4 nations was hoping theyd get these games on a legit tv network so media talks about it. Would help with attendance imo

My guess : https://business.okstate.edu/departments_programs/watson/watsons.html https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnysBPiTPl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Not sure if these are the same but at 15:10 he Sean Hogan said they did a feasibility study on the East Coast with a suitable arena close by. Not sure if it's the same school or not, but he also said (at about 30:20) that a major donor who was interested in college hockey reached out to him about a week ago - I think they may be different situations based on the context of the interview. Interview is a week old.

Perhaps the choice could have been not to sign the settlement agreement, but once the settlement agreement was signed and UND didn't get approval, we would lose out on the opportunity to host post season fb games, and UND wouldn't have been able to host post season hockey regionals either. I agree that UND should have fought harder, and I think the Pres at the time was happy to retire the logo, but after a certain point, there's nothing that can really be done about it and the President at the time is now gone. You choose not to support the University now, because of the poor leadership of a a president two decades ago? I just don't get the logic there.