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UND must have the only arenas with asbestos.

https://goyotes.com/news/2023/2/2/general-usd-athletics-announces-launch-of-goyotes-tv.aspx TV situation was something new for USD.

This. Everyone but ORU and maybe SDSU suck this year. The fact that we have 2 conf wins, given the state of the Summit this year, says a lot.

The city has it on their development projects website. Looks to be about 10k square feet.

You kinda lead me down a rabbit hole, and I cant find where I read it, but it seems a stadium was delayed and they are going to change the plans to make it an indoor stadium, with plans to build it after the hockey stuff is finished. Is George Mason literally a guess, or are you not at liberty to say why you think it's them? Edit: Found the latest update on the Arizona development (from the developers to the county on Jan 30, 2023). Seems like most new info will come out in April. They basically just said they are on track on I'm guessing the

Georgia just announced that athletics generated something like 40 million in profit. Zero reason for them not to elevate their club team. Not sure if this (below) is a new plan or old and abandoned project. http://www.coliseums.com/consulting-projects.html Would be a perfect fit for Miami - Only a little over two hours away. Could be the start of a pipe dream conference: Georgia, Miami, UAH, Tenn State, Lindenwood, Liberty, Louisville, High Point.

Since Arizona's arena looks the same, I'm guessing the floor plan hasn't changed much either. Borderline D1 player facilities, but given the location, workout areas would probably be on campus anyway. Any sign of improvement there would be a tell for D1 imo. It's gonna happen at some point. And they still have the Tucson Convention Center for larger games if they want, similar to UConn. (Source for the image below. Jan of last year)

Awesome! Thanks for posting this. I've been following the updates from the developers on this, and inflation costs were a huge issue. This was part of a giant development and the whole project was reworked once before. I believe other pieces of the project are now a phase two. This latest delay worried me, but it doesn't look like the plans for Arizona's arena was impacted much, which is great to see. This was the design from last March:

Even if Feufung wasn't a threat, all it takes to impact Grand Sky and our drone industry is the perception of a threat. Frankly, I think people were kind of gaslit on Feufung/spying. At this point, it doesn't matter whether they are a legitimate threat or not. I'm also curious what it was that caused the Air Force to finally take a public stance on this. I'd give it two to one odds that the Air Force came out against this publicly for political/geopolitical reasons. If Feufung was a legit threat, I'm sure the feds would have made it known to the Mayor early on in the process. Kinda feel like this spy balloon may be related to this in one way or another as well.

Midco is broadcasting the SDSU vs UND womens game and the NDSU vs USD mens game. All three are at the same time.

This game isn't being televised anywhere.

They're working on it. https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/mcfeely-how-valuable-is-the-summit-league-conference-wants-to-find-out?auth0Authentication=true

TIL Bozeman had a legit D1 level rink not that long ago.. Montana State D1 hockey would have been really cool had they started a program in the 90's. Wonder if they woulda been stranded with the Alaska schools right now or if the conference landscape would have been completely different right now.

Yeah that game was pretty awesome. Something like 7.5K in attendance if I remember correctly. I think pushing the court to one end could work best for size/environment if a curtain could be rigged up behind the scoreboard somehow. Would likely look bad when stored up in rafters though.

Do you remember if the Herald covered this? Kinda want to see if I can find an old article about this. Seems to have been common knowledge. Would also love to see the original plans, and it would be interesting to know if UND had any say in that change.

Location. Oh, wait, looks like he's transferring from the University of Washington, where he's from, all the way down to San Luis Obispo. Also, I said that location isn't an excuse, not that it isn't hard if facilities are in place. UND FB doesn't have facilities in place yet anyway.

You are the one speaking on it as if you know for certain it's fact. As such, if you're actually interested in having a worthwhile discussion, the onus is on you to support your claim with anything beyond an insult.

The REA can also finance the practice facility the same way the Betty was financed.

I get where you're coming from, but college basketball players will be back home within five years anyway, and they for the most part aren't worried about the considerations that families with kids have. Adults with normal jobs benefit from being near grandparents who want to see the grand kids, and can help with daycare, etc. Basketball transfers, specifically, are usually only looking at a few years at most, and many times it's only a season or two. I don't think the two are very comparable. I guess something that is comparable, imo, is moving far away for an opportunity (playing time for P5 transfers).

"WE" weren't only talking specifically about the portal. I wasn't talking to you. My comments were specifically about location, for all types of recruiting. Also, you're upset I quoted you a bunch, but here you are saying that the discussion was only about the portal - you posted about our HS recruiting only 3 hours ago and in the same general discussion. That's why I quoted you! Of course the other Summit schools would look at the same recruits, because they are nearby, we compete directly against each other, and they also live in a cold climate. Location is an excuse for having worse basketball support and facilities than all of the schools you named above except for St. Thomas, which is obviously unique as they are in the Twin Cities. I'd love to see that data that shows location being the number one priority for P5 transfers. If you can't cite your source, please don't insult me and tell me to ask coach about it.

How about you just clearly state your argument and support it with facts instead of wasting everyone's time? This thread is for all recruiting concerning UND basketball, but you think it's unfair to compare ORU's facilities to UND's, because it's irrelevant? Rather than making insults, can you please just tell us what the coaches would say since that seems to be a huge point you want to make?

My point was pretty clear. Read it again if you wish. The context was our location and how it affects recruiting, in general. Notice I didn't specifically mention P5 recruits or quote you. However, recruits commit or choose not to commit for many different reasons, and not all transfers or high school kids are the same. Better facilities do always help though. You said I'm clueless, though, so please correct me if that's incorrect. Oh look, you were talking about us getting HS recruits that aren't good enough - but you said we were talking about P5 transfers (not HS kids)? How about you just clearly state your argument and support it with facts instead of wasting everyone's time? This thread is for all recruiting concerning UND basketball, but you think it's unfair to compare ORU's facilities to UND's, because it's irrelevant? Rather than making insults, can you please just tell us what the coaches would say since that seems to be a huge point you want to make?

Thanks for proving my point.

Facilities and better program support > Location. Location is a terrible excuse. If we had good facilities and we still couldn't recruit, ok, sure, location. Blaming location right now is lame, because the facilities and support that UND basketball has now is basically the bare minimum for a D1 basketball program. Football can out recruit other D1 schools and they have the same recruiting footprint - location isn't what's keeping the basketball program from being competitive. Pretty sure 4-5 guys FROM ND or SD have transferred out of the program over the past 2-3 years, but location...