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Dont think its been mentioned anywhere, but Ohio State is planning to build a new arena for the women and men (kinda). Seems to be full on legit practice facilities for the men and women, gameday facility for the women, and the men will continue to play at the basketball arena. Rumors are about that capacity will be about 2.5k. They made an official announcement, but it doesn't sound like the plans are finalized yet.

That includes academics and the new business building, etc. Not what I was referring to. UND used to publish how much the Champions Club earned every year - had a big check and everything. Pretty sure they stopped doing that for some reason.

Straw man argument. Besides, since you didn't have enough money before you won the lottery, DeAnna didn't have your number. You instead donated the money to your church. Why does it matter? Because champions club revenues are stagnant and it allows smaller donors to "buy in". Small donors can eventually become big donors. It's a sign of competence and it helps to create excitement. Because Chaves does not have a track record of success when it comes to fundraising.

Why? https://msubobcats.com/sports/2017/9/20/Facilities-MasterPlan.aspx Does that work for you?

In comparison, this is what UND has https://fightinghawks.com/facilities. Click the one that says master plan and see what happens.

OK.. Where is UND's announcement page? St. Thomas was still a D3 school when UND started fundraising for phase two of the HPC... pretty clear by now that UND's athletics fundraising isn't the example to follow.

Any word on phase two? If shovels are going to be in the ground this spring, we should probably hear something soon.... right? Another example of a fundraising web page which UND doesn't think is necessary for some reason: https://tommiesports.com/feature/lee-and-penny-anderson-arena

I don't think she has any anymore does she? If not, they could still promote the Engelstad Foundation though. I'd like to see Chaves put together a legit NIL deal though - sell jerseys with player names. Fill the ugly gap in the replica jerseys and players benefit... kill two birds with one stone. Completely legal and tons of schools are already doing this stuff. Most schools that UND competes against already have legit NIL deals in place (not collectives) with at least one company.

This is a good point.

All I know is I don't want Chaves hiring the next coach.

Hardly anything was part of your post, to be fair. As I tell my todlers, "use your words".

Please see my last post. UND already looked at it's finances and sports offerings and determined UND can't afford men's golf. NDSU supports the bare minimum non revenue programs. I'll hold my thoughts on the REA, but it shouldn't take a forensic anything to see the problem with golf. The money needed to support the the M Golf operating budget comes from somewhere, right? See where I'm coming from?

Seems UND already did this. https://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/08/mens-golf-program-will-be-reinstated/ "The plan also calls for an endowment that will be required to sustain men’s golf for FY 19 and beyond. The University and the UND Alumni Association & Foundation will establish the long-term funding dollar amount for the endowment, which will need to be fully capitalized by June 1, 2018 for men’s golf to continue."

Can't figure it out. Please explain.

Would be. It's odd that you're so hard on Bubba when he clearly doesn't have the same resourses. You expect him to have the same results though. Maybe Bubba shouldn't be the person you are constantly upset with.

SDSU just hired Robbie Rouse, another former UND RB coach. Looks like UND is planning to pay the new RB coach 45k-48,200 According to UND's 2022 NCAA Financial Report, the Mens Golf coach made 68K. Golf generated just over 7K in contributions and 4K in endowment income. This is for a program that is supposed to be self sufficient. Has UND given any official updates in regard to this? I don't think they have. Seems to me that we don't need to spend other peoples money in order to improve the FB and Basketball budgets. The Men's golf budget last year was $212,737. Edit: Looks like NDSU was paying their RB coach nearly double what we were, as of last year. https://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/31929-future-of-the-und-football-program/?do=findComment&comment=1221092 I think people said Rouse wanted to be closer to home when he left for Cal Poly. Makes me wonder what SDSU will be paying him. Kevin Maurice got a pay bump when he left for EWU as well.

Found the document that made me fairly certain about this. https://ndusbpos.sharepoint.com/sites/NDUSSBHE/Meeting Materials/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FNDUSSBHE%2FMeeting Materials%2F2022%2F2022 Agendas%2F3-22-22 BFC 12-31-21 Mid-Year Report.pdf&parent=%2Fsites%2FNDUSSBHE%2FMeeting Materials%2F2022%2F2022 Agendas&p=true&ga=1

Anyone on the current staff would make sense to me. I don't know enough to say who, specifically. I'm not as smart as most of the people here.

Danny and Rudolph are polar opposites. But ok. Given the timing, Schwenzfeier getting promoted would make sense. If that happens it doesn't mean you're correct.

Are you thinking of the short term funding goal they reached?

When? I haven't seen any evidence of that happening. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary.

Did golf ever raise the required endowment funds or is that where the money for the football coaching staff is being spent?

There is still an opportunity to bring in transfers during or immediately after spring ball. Roster is far from set.

Gotcha. I just found this. Not the most exciting project, but it could also be an arena that the city of Bowie Maryland is working on. They just had an rfp out for the design of a new single sheet arena. The proposed address is 2 miles from a D2 HBCU, Bowie State University. Their proximity to the arena is most likely just a coincidence unless we Bowie State pitching in a bunch of money. Not sure how what the capacity is.

Agree. St. Cloud will likely reduce the size of their ice sheet at some point, and I believe the Gophers are doing so this summer, and New Hampshire is planning to or has already reduced their Olympic sheet as well. When St. Cloud finally does that, I think it would make sense to reduce the size of UND's olympic sheet. At that point, it would also make sense to utilize the extra 15 feet for basketball/volleyball renovations (locker room expansion/lounge areas, etc.).