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Well. This whole shitshow goes to show that the IAC should be dissolved. What was part of their recommendation for keeping all sports and womens hockey again? Renegotiate the contract with the Ralph? L.O.L....

Have you seen the football locker rooms and meeting rooms?

Completely disagree. It's because its too hard to get drunk in the student section now days.

Admittedly, I never had the privilege to see a game there. Just looked through the glass to the lobby after it was closed.

To clarify, I meant that football would have been more popular with students than it currently is. Wasn't claiming that it definitively would have been more popular with the students than hockey.

Would it, though? The place was a dump. We wouldn't have the same quality of recruits coming in, and with worse teams, it is unlikely that the thing would sell out every game like the Ralph does. Without the Ralph, football could also have been more popular with students, as they wouldn't have be comparing it to the Palace that the hockey arena is. Football would have less competition for people's ticket budget.

And this doesn't even count food and drinks, right? Which UND gets none of?

Football does generate revenue, but the Ralph takes over half of it, apparently.

Both FB and MBB have such a low budget they they lose assistants to peer institutions (FB 1, MBB 2). How can you honestly expect them to compete if they don't even pay their coaches enough to stay at UND, and not move to another school within their own conference? How would hockey do if we lost someone like Brad Berry to Duluth before Hak left?

Are you saying und would be better off without the Ralph? I dont think anyone is going to agree with you there....

Id think the NDSU field would be full length and width, at 85K square feet. It will probably end up being a better facility for football only. Our field is not truly 120 yards. We have to put up cones for our end zones in front of the actual "end zone", because the tracks cuts half of it off. Separate tack and football facilities are the way to go. SDSU and UND both have 300ft tracks, but SDSU can probably actually use their end zone. My guess is ndsu gets something like this:

"Source and Availability of Funds (including FF&E): Private funds pending this request for authorization and up to $8,000,000 in funds from the sale of excess property." What is the excess property? The hyslop? Would UND "buy" the space from the athletic department?

I feel for Kennedy. He drew a bad hand by coming in and immediately facing huge budget cuts. His removal of buildings that we have no use for, and no money to maintain, should be commended rather than admonished.

http://jlgarchitects.com/projects/gfk-4th-street-development?category=housing Did this project ever get shovels in the ground?

Why would we add women's hockey? Nobody cared enough about it to go watch....

http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2018/05/und-chooses-leaders-for-college-of-business-public-administration-and-center-for-innovation/ "Amy B. Henley, currently executive director of MBA Programs at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, has been named the new dean of the UND College of Business & Public Administration (CoBPA), and Amy Whitney, who now serves as director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Massachusetts’s Clark University, will join the University as the next director of the Center for Innovation, according to DiLorenzo."

Off topic here, but it kind of goes to show that schools don't have to spend 50 million plus for a decent sized arena. This is a temporary arena that seats 6,500:

No. Moser is Charlie. Here is the full clip:

Yes please. Sounds like a run blocker.

Ummmm WHAT!? That is not very inclusive, and I think it's a terrible idea to only give one race of hawks the opportunity to represent our school.

Anything near the Alerus Center. My Place is new and cheap.

Looks like a great FCS stadium. Can't believe that only seats 9,700! Rendering shows what an expansion would look like:

The bird costume is going to cost 4 million????????!! What a waste.

What does Pearson offer that UND can't do itself? How many more online students is this deal going to get UND? Is this worth giving Pearson over 50% of revenues? What expenses does Pearson have to pay that benefit UND? Does anybody have experience with how exactly Pearson operates in regard to a deal like this? Are current programs that are offered online affected by this deal or only new ones? "The point of teaming up with an OPM like Pearson is largely to take advantage of the company's expertise in marketing and student recruitment. Holm said the company also works with faculty members to work their curricula into digital formats that Pearson has found to work best with online students."