Benny Baker

It'll be interesting to see Ryder Donovan's stat line next year whether or not Berry makes room for additional incoming players.

Wow, Gardner.

More akin to funeral attire than business suits these days.

Any chance you can get your boys to adopt this as their mantra for the weekend? We'd appreciate it.

So Stanford's had the most athletic success of anyone despite notorious infighting among alumni, fans, and administration about their school's Indian nickname and logo . . . Hmmm

Yup. And suggesting that internet message board banter is the reason UND does not have successful athletic programs is the most illogical thing I’ve heard this week.

He meant that merchandise sales help fund all athletic programs, not that merchandise sales “alone” are enough to fund all athletic programs.

You tell us.

Right? Now the victims are complaining about REA’s management! Ahahaha.

Actually, I read on here earlier that the football team paid for the hockey locker room renovations and all of the scoreboard. So you need to go educate yourself, my friend.

And UND either failed to renegotiate a favorable contract for itself; or more likely Realized the benefits provided by REA far outweigh the athletic department keeping 52% of ticket revenue for six football games in 2018.

Yes, the news that UND was unable to renegotiate what it claimed to be a favorable contract for itself.

I think I'm following you, but its still not REA's fault that UND perpetually fails to renegotiate a favorable contract.

The bigger crime Bucci should investigate is how the women's team managed to win not a single playoff game in its entire history.

Yes, I am happy UND didn't have to pay a single dime for the REA's $105 million price tag that the Engelstads paid for instead. On the balance, UND saved anywhere from $10 to $105 million by not having to build a new hockey arena, and the impact that alone has had on other programs on campus has been an immeasurable success.

I literally see dozens of posts on here every day contemplating the D-1 facilities arm race and the need for UND to improve its athletic facilities.

Reason: a legal contract. But I'm glad you've now conceded that football ticket revenue does not belong to the football team nor would football ticket revenue have even gone to the football team in the absence of that "legal contract". Are you ready to stop accusing "Chris" from stealing from your football team now?

So hockey should get what the hockey team earns, too? If that's the case, UND is going to lose a lot of other sports that hockey revenue helps subsidize. (Remember: these issues don't exist in a vacuum). And even if the ticket-split arrangement did not exist, the football ticket revenue would not go to the football team anyway; it would go to the athletic department, which then allocates money among the university's athletic programs.

Is anyone preventing a privately funded upgrade of the football team's locker room like the men's hockey locker room upgrade was privately funded? What's stopping siouxperman8's football golf fundraisers from privately funding the football locker room renovation? Geez guys, the Nevada daughter of a 1940's UND hockey goalie can only fund so many athletic initiatives at a publicly funded school in North Dakota.

Good points.

And if Engelstad arena doesn’t exist, the school’s going to need to divert a helluva lot more than $345 per year to the hockey (men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and volleyball) programs just so they can find a place to play. UNDs entire athletic department is substantially better off because of the Engelstad’s and, whether you like it or not, the ticket split arrangement. The folks on here need to realize this ticket split agreement doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

If football needs more money, the athletic department will allocate more funds to it. The athletic department determines how much money football gets irrespective of ticket revenue.

Where do the men’s and women’s basketball teams play? Where does the volleyball team play? Where are the women’s soccer locker rooms? Is Queen McGarry supposed to build her dad’s alma mater a new, free football stadium, too?

Most likely not. Seems like the majority prefer era-specific logos to exclusively the BB logo.

PM me your friend's contact info, and I'll let him/her know . . . .