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For all of you degenerates reading a football message board during the work day, mid summer, check out this video. This guy doesn't get enough credit for his coverage of FCS football at the national level. Nearly an hour and a half of general FCS football talk. Haven't finished it yet and I haven't heard him discuss UND yet, so I am reserving the right to edit this post and bash him .

You're correct. Here's a link to their schedule: https://midcosports.com/schedule/ To save you a click, screen grab below shows Midco Sports Plus streaming for everything but hockey.

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Considering all the antitrust issues the NCAA has faced, I think it's interesting people completely poo poo the idea of a new fbs conference.

Last year Midco also streamed broadcast and streamed an away game or two that wasn't available on ESPN+ (a seperate UND specific broadcast). I think it was either the Youngstown or Indiana State game. Would be worth to you for sure. Biggest issue will be the UNI game on ESPN3, which is exclusive to ESPN because it's the MVFC "game of the week". ESPN will have exclusivity for that game. MVFC has the worst ever "TV" contract. This is supposed to be the last season of the existing MVFC/ESPN "TV" deal. Hopefully a new one is renegotiated before the season starts. Could potentially be why none of the teams in the MVFC are showing ESPN+ listings on their schedules yet, but then again, that wouldn't explain why the game of the week is showing up for the UNI game. MVFC was on a podcast with Chaves over the winter and she said they were working with Leona to renegotiate the deal with ESPN. Probably talking about for next year, but maybe things change before the last scheduled season of the contract..

The WIKI page that has been used for keeping tabs on recruiting has been broken for some time now. I know that the people who run this site are busy, but is this something that will be fixed or is it a thing of the past? Would be helpful to know because if it won't be fixed, it could be worthwhile for us to keep the first page of a thread updated with all current recruits, for example, if there isn't an alternative solution.

Would be nice, but I'm pretty sure UND is making over 500K from NCHC.TV. Midco has the TV & Streaming rights to everything but streaming for hockey. That number comes from page 26, here: https://campus.und.edu/operations/_files/docs/fy22-ncaa-report.pdf The 280K number, under Not Allocated by Gender, is what Midco paid UND for TV & non-hockey Streaming rights, but with the new contract it has since increased to 500K per year, plus an annual donation of 125K to the Champions Club, plus additional sponsorship spending and equipment investments (such as the set and cameras for the hockey pre game show, and fiber being run out to the soccer field). The NCHC has the exclusive streaming rights for hockey games. 80 or 85% of the streaming revenue for hockey goes back to the schools, based on fan affiliation selected by the subscribers.

Even if games aren't on ESPN+, all Midco games will be on Midco Sports Plus, which is cheaper. And they support UND Athletics more so then ESPN ever has. https://midcosports.com/streaming/

Really a bummer the ATF or whoever shut down the plan for the school to move there.

I was referring to the different forums, like how at this website basketball, volleyball, fb, hockey, etc have their own categories, but I get what you're saying. It's great to see ASU doing well - I think I heard someone within your AD say that you guys had 3 million in ticket sales. You guys are showing that college hockey is viable in the South and it's great to see! Arizona is building a pretty nice facility as well... as an ASU fan, do you think they potentially look at making a move after seeing ASU's success, and would you like to see them go D1? Pretty cool their club team lined up a game against you guys to start off this upcoming season.

I will never understand why big fanbases like yours put up with those paid message boards that only have like one or two topics of discussion.

Rather than Freund? Would you really want a head coach with zero college football coaching experience and zero college recruiting experience?

Argument could be made that NDSU should bump their equestrian team up to the NCAA level. Surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit yet, especially after failing to cut the club program. 3rd prong of title 9.

Now you're just making stuff up. Was always a non factor for ndsu.

Awesome. I heard Mike Snee of College Hockey Inc say on a podcast, maybe a year ago, that they would probably start with a club program, with the goal being to eventually elevate it to D1 if possible. I think as the only HBCU, they may eventually be able to attract some big donors and pull it off.

This is a huge deal. https://undfoundation.org/701-award

I bet you would like a roof like this as well.

Reminds me of Jacksonville State's old plan.

Good point. But if hypothetical money was instead invested in to coaching salaries, maybe we could have kept our rb coach. If we still had our rb coach, perhaps we would have landed the first target that went to Youngstown? Nobody knows.

Now that Kennedy is no longer employed by any university, it would be interesting to listen to an interview with him about this. Would be interesting to hear more specifics about those negotiations...

I understand that the donor can donate for whatever cause they want, but I think its questionable that the usage agreement at the REA went from this: to this:

If UND doesn't have a software program that helps with the analytics and automatically processes this information for them, this would be one place to start. There are programs out there that can help to identify different groups of potential donors, or former donors, or sport specific donors, etc. Are donors who have committed to fundraising drives like the Lets Help Bubba drives on this website being encouraged to join the champions club if they aren't cc members, for example? Much of this could be processed by software, and select groups of people could be sent information that is more tailored specifically to them (former donors, donors that have decreased their donations but still donate, donors that increased donations over prior years, etc.)

Presidents Circle represents total donations in excess of 36 MILLION. By my count, 3644 Members x 10K (minimum total donation total of 10K-99K Pres Circle). Total donations of that level are probably double that or more... "small" donors are just as important as large donors.

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Appreciate the info!