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It is. It pisses off alumni and donors at schools that cut the programs, it creates title 9 issues, and swimming facilities were huge investments which will still need to be maintained at schools that field the sport. LAX and Wrestling would add millions to athletic budgets of Summit schools, and that would hurt basketball, because the money needed to operate these programs has to come from somewhere - any additional investment should be going into basketball rather than non revenue sports. A Summit League with better basketball (and a highly profitable post season tournament) is what would keep teams from jumping to the MVC/A10. If anything, if we can improve investment in basketball, it could help us to poach select MVC FB schools down the road. Basketball is the main reason schools leave or are invited to different conferences.. Also, the Summit League being OK with DU's sports offerings is likely the only reason they're in the conference. Nice talking with you.

Berry = Lucia

k. good discussion.

Chaves said on his podcast when he first got here that he was planning to have softball play a bunch of games there moving forward. That obviously hasn't happened, but does anyone know the details why? Because he was legitimately excited about this... Does the Alerus charge too much for rent? It seems that NDSU has a way better deal with the Fargodome/Fargo than UND has with the Alerus Center. Probably because the Fargodome was built on NDSU's land... but given that the Alerus Center is City Owned, I think everyone would agree that the entire community would benefit from the Alerus being converted into a softball configuration a few times each spring, right? Would love to see Brandon B. work with UND and the Alerus to get a deal put together (because Chaves clearly isn't one to get anything done).

What do you imagine the upside is in UND Soccer, assuming all things work out perfectly? What I think would happen is we would probably suck, because the program would have poor facilities and it would be under funded. The cost of the program would also erode the budgets of other underfunded Summit sports, and the extra games during the fall would further stretch the time of our athletic department staff, who already have crazy busy fall schedules having to host so many home matches for FB, Basketball, Womens Soccer, Volleyball, Hockey, etc., Where do you see the upside? Seriously curious. Does it make money? What is attendance? How much ticket revenue? Also, can you explain why you think existing league schools would think your changes cause the Summit League to be more desirable? SDSU and NDSU would have to leave the Big Twelve for wrestling. Denver would have to leave the Big East for Lax. In place would be a Summit League conference with a bunch of start up programs? Wouldn't it be better to encourage schools to take the million per year hypothetical Lax budget and put it towards improving basketball? Seriously curious about your thought process and would love to know WHY you think your proposed moves make sense.

Pretty sure it's 100k per sport. Not sure where I read that. Maybe old conference bylaws that were in place when UND joined the conf.

Absolute gold. LOL

Commissioner doesn't have the abilities you think he does. Your plan would prob give reason for DU to bolt, if anything.

The only part of your post that my comment was in response to was the "most insufferable fan base" part. Having a passionate fan base isn't a sin.. agreed. Maybe karma is a better word. A fan base that is unhappy about 7 Frozen Fours in 11 years (i.e. actually wants the coach fired) is, no doubt, insufferable, though. Add to that the nickname voting crap, Sioux Forever, and the people who !@#$ on other UND sports...

There's also a middle ground between doing nothing and NIL collectives. UND is missing out on NIL opportunities that can be mutually beneficial to both players and UND - No reason the Ralph/UND isn't selling shirts or jerseys with both UNDs logo and current player names/numbers.

This is my #1 issue. Team as a whole has been soft and and doesn't seem to have the same passion as Hak's teams. Reminds me more of the Lucia Gopher teams in that respect.

Seems perfect for our offense.

If we're being honest here, our fanbase is probably more insufferable. It seemed that most of the fan base wanted Hak fired after all... this is prob what we deserve.

No offense, but what's the significance of that tweet? What's your point? Person seems like a clown based on their profile pic. Why bring it here?

Kind of surprising since it was all above board... right?

If UND is gonna stick with the NODAK name and continue to use it, they need to drop the diagonal crap on all of the merchandise. Looks absolutely terrible if it isn't on a hockey jersey. Develop a legit script logo for it like Pitt has and go with it. Can still be the Fighting Hawks, just as Pitt is the Panthers. Would potentially help people move on. As it is, UND is selling a bunch of crap Nodak merch and it just feels like an afterthought. Do it right, and mix it in on other jerseys as an alternate.

This is good news because Fanatics has already started working with college fb and bb teams on nil jersey customization.

Doesn't have anything to do with politics, but this past summer Alerus made it's biggest acquisition to date, in phoenix. https://www.alerus.com/newsroom/alerus-completes-acquisition-of-metro-phoenix-bank/ Love how they seem to target snow birds.

Would really feel terrible about that. Therefore, St. Thomas to replace Miami is my preference. Miami would walk away happily without a buyout. St. Thomas being in the league could potentially help to get Midco on to more cable platforms in the twin cities in addition to comcast. CC is kinda lame despite their history and how good they ever become. I like Western in the league over them. NCHC can be Northern Collegiate Hockey League.

Depends on if they will add Mankato and/or St. Thomas and/or drop Miami within the next few years. If none of the above, move to campus sites.

This is exactly my thoughts.

I think the only change from last year is how OT is handled, since OT moved to 3 vs 3. I believe this is what the pairwise would have looked like with last years formula. As of 2022-23, OTs are all 3-on-3, and thus an OT win is only counted as 0.6666 of a win, and 0.3333 of a loss. Change the weightings here as you see fit.

I don't mind the concept of more of an nchc style setup, but you're overestimating on campus attendance.

These high school games are reffed so much better than college hockey is these days... How many 5 min majors would have been called so far this tournament if it was reffed like the NCAA, one or two a game?