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That's what I'm thinking. Given that UND has a 4-5 million dollar football budget, you would think they wouldn't be so worried about breaking even for a playoff game. Given that the Canad is also connected to the Alerus center, and that a home game would bring visitors to the city, I'm curious if the Alerus Center and City still require UND to pay rent for hosting playoff games, because the economic impact of a home playoff game would more than make up for waived rental fees at the Alerus, one might think. And it IS a city owned venue.

You can foia pretty much any school. For most states all it takes is an email. Find who to email on their website. here: https://www.weber.edu/legalcounsel/Records.html

I filed a FOIA for UND's bids back in 2019. Below are UND's bids for each round. I didn't publicly post them because I didn't want other schools to see what UND was bidding, but it doesn't seem to matter and the schools probably know anyway. And they can easily file FOIA's themselves. Again, these are from 2019. Pretty sure the "bid" is on the last page, #9, titled "guarantee", which was 75K for the first round in 2019. UND NCAA First Round Budget.pdf UND NCAA Second Round Budget.pdf UND NCAA Quarterfinal Budget.pdf UND NCAA Semifinal Budget.pdf

He emphasized that it "could have" been. Not that it was. 100% SPIN.

Rea, how ya doing? You support und athletics?

Robert Morris apparently looked into renovating their arena shortly before they cut the program. https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/hockey-arena-concept

Was Chaves there?

Pathetic

I believe UND bid about 75K so if the article I linked to is correct and Nichols bid about 80K or more, the person who posted about hotel rooms is full of it.

During the intermission of their first Mens Basketball game, Tennessee State just ran a very well produced 5 minute feature about their pursuit of adding a D1 hockey program. They appear to be VERY serious... even mentioned construction of a new arena and quickly showed a rendering. They have not started their official fundraising drive yet, but given the quality of the video and the apparent passion for this project from their AD, I think they could actually get this done.

Has anyone ever reported the dollar amount teams actually bid for these games? Edit: Found some for Nichols and JMU https://www.houmatoday.com/story/sports/college/2018/11/17/nicholls-makes-aggressive-bid-to-host-fcs-playoffs-for-second-straight-year/8347364007/ https://jamesmadison.rivals.com/news/final-tally-dukes-lose-126k-on-playoff-game/printable

Or Fargo media wants more clicks (and ego boost).

Guy is a clown.

I love the 3-4 defense, but if our D is so complicated that it takes a couple years to learn it, it may be time to re evaluate the strategy here. Find a D that can allow us to take advantage of the portal, so we can fill spots when needed. I really like our Offense right now, so I don't think that should change. With the T portal the way it is today, we don't have a large enough roster to have both a confusing offense and defense, because attrition will kill us with less guys staying in the system long enough to learn the system and thrive. A guy like Buckner should be able to have a larger impact, otherwise I fear we will constantly be rebuilding the D.

Following. Planning on my first rink this year as well.

Anyone else annoyed that so many P5 schools don't have a decent message board? There's paid message boards on websites like rivals and 24/7, but the only topics are narrowly focused on fb and bb. Is there an online community anywhere for ASU hockey fans (other than a USCHO thread)? Just baffles me that schools like UND, NDSU, UNI, SDSU, USD, Montana, etc. all have such quality, free, message boards, but bigger schools have crap, and the crap they do have normally isn't even free.

This is great and all, but It would be nice to see UND do this in the tailgate lot on Saturday, given that there is a family four pack promo for $20....

Scanned. See post 7 of this thread.

We all know this, but happy to see Sam tweet this info out today.

Yeah, the rea signs the contracts with the destination arenas, not und.

That's what companies like the Brandr group are for. https://www.thebrandrgroup.com/licensing

It's tough being a UND FB fan sometimes. Two of my three close UND friends only bring up UND Football when we lose. Or, when I finally get them to watch a game, we choke. We went through school during the transition and the Muss years left a long lasting, bad, impression. We need a win this coming weekend.

Something like this needs to be a top priority and it's 100% legit and aligned with the spirit of the original NIL rules. I hope Chaves doesn't think a wait and see approach is necessary for something like this. UND could sell authentic hockey jerseys with the names and numbers of current players, and they could sell jirts of current players as well. https://frontofficesports.com/college-football-jersey-sales/

This map is wrong. Where the housing market it hot, the map should show red. Where it's cold, the map should show blue!

Do you know where I might be able to find that agreement online?