Benny Baker

Was pleasantly surprised with both their freshman performances. And as later round draft picks at the time, thought they could both end up as 20+ goal, 40+ point players for the Sioux as seniors. Welp, here we are …

Depends on the sport. Also, Memphis isn't P5 to begin with, either.

Gotcha. Yeah, that aspect makes sense. To your point, there might be higher ROI with billboards than having a Sioux player promoting your sandwiches on twitter.

At the time, Denver Post reported the reason for Gwoz's firing was both lack of postseason success (5 first round losses in 6 season despite 12 consecutive 20+ win seasons) and inability to reach an agreement on an extension.

Isn't there a qui-pro-quo for the business, though? I thought the idea behind Name, Image, and Likeness was that athletes could sell their Name, Image, and Likeness to a business in exchange for money. For example, the Tellmans give $X to the collective so long as Sioux players appear in a Red Pepper commercial; or every Friday night Cameron Berg needs to send out a tweet telling the drunk hockey crowd to pick up a Grinder After the Game; etc.

Right, for sure taxes are getting paid. I guess I was just wondering if Kunz was literally a "private employee" or, more likely, a 1099 independent contractor.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39974973/fedex-pledges-25m-5-years-nil-program-memphis UND's collective is going to need a lot of folks to kick in the $25 bucks a month to compete with some of these other schools. I fear the truth of the matter is that UND does not have a large enough alumni base nor is there a significant enough corporate presence in Grand Forks, North Dakota to enable UND to compete whatsoever in the NIL game.

So w-2s are issued to recipients of NIL funds, and the NIL collectives have to pay payroll taxes?

Things got so “awful”, in fact, that Denver had to fire a revered head coach to get their ship turned back around. Hope it doesn’t need to come to that around here.

Back in 2011, @redwing wrote this blog post on Goons World and it kind of seems like we've been here before. Some of the same themes have reappeared. Well this theme sure hasn't reappeared around UND the last 8 years.

Lol. Besides him, I wonder if there are any other college players born in the 1990s? That is too funny.

Sounds like a team a lot of us around here follow.

I’ve started wondering the same thing.

Berry needs to win an NCAA game before he loses another one. That’s my metric going forward. The 2016 title brought Berry a lot of goodwill and capital. But he’s squandered all of it over the past 8 seasons. If UND is not playing in the Fargo regional championship in March 2025, then it’s time for a change.

But then again, you’re talking about a fanbase that’s never experienced a 20-year title drought before, let alone 3 separate ones, in its program’s history.