UND to cut women's hockey

[AJS]

1 hour ago, cberkas said:

Does the $60 million also bring back S&D?

Don't believe so, think that was strictly Women's hockey.

[cberkas]

22 minutes ago, AJS said:

Don't believe so, think that was strictly Women's hockey.

But wouldn't they have to add back the M/W S&D for Title IX, that's my thought.

[Siouxphan27]

2 hours ago, cberkas said:

Does the $60 million also bring back S&D?

I'm afraid not.  That only works at Duluth where hockey and diving are one in the same.  

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, Siouxphan27 said:

I'm afraid not.  That only works at Duluth where hockey and diving are one in the same.  

Add in Minnesota.

[The Sicatoka]

3 hours ago, SWSiouxMN said:

I'll put myself in the box for that one, but I don't have to like it.

 

[The Sicatoka]

2 hours ago, cberkas said:

Does the $60 million also bring back S&D?

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$60M * 4% = $2.4 million annual budget <-- that's what WIH had been running 

Just WIH. 

[The Sicatoka]

38 minutes ago, Siouxphan27 said:

I'm afraid not.  That only works at Duluth where hockey and diving are one in the same.  

[UND-FB-FAN]

If anyone suggested a different DI university should drop football in order to preserve women's ice hockey, they would be laughed out of the room without an ounce of serious consideration. It is embarrassing that folks think UND and the people of North Dakota should somehow be held to different standards. UND is a "hockey school"? Well that pseudo-title sure didn't improve UND's WIH program's attendance or success, so I too think that descriptor is demeaning and embarrassing. 

People need to move on. UND and President Kennedy made the correct decision. 

[North Dakota]

Why doesn't Mr. Chipman send a check for the $60M? He's supposedly worth $500M. Put your money where your mouth is or shut it.

[VMeister]

14 minutes ago, North Dakota said:

Why doesn't Mr. Chipman send a check for the $60M? He's supposedly worth $500M. Put your money where your mouth is or shut it.

Anyone, alum or not, can call/write UND to bitch/praise anything they want to.

Somehow Chip needs to write out a big check if he wants to voice an opinion?

[The Sicatoka]

Personally, I'd handle Chipman as a businessman --> Thanks for your interest; here are the numbers; would you like to invest in this. Be aware, without further investments this venture will close. 

[Shawn-O]

Chipman's daughter was on the team so I'm going to cut him some slack here.  I really doubt he would have weighed in on the matter otherwise.  

I admire Kennedy more by the day for having made this call, knowing what was coming and who he might piss off.  

 

[darell1976]

I love on Facebook a woman said UND should've kept Women's hockey and not have spent the money on a new medical school. Women's hockey > academics.

[The Sicatoka]

15 minutes ago, darell1976 said:

I love on Facebook a woman said UND should've kept Women's hockey and not have spent the money on a new medical school. Women's hockey > academics.

She'd better hope she never gets sick because I'm not sure a good powerplay cures cancer. 

[darell1976]

41 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

She'd better hope she never gets sick because I'm not sure a good powerplay cures cancer. 

She would have more people in the OR than at the REA.

[90siouxfan]

so is the elephant in the country going to finally be addressed.....

 

as someone fiddled while Rome burned, will USA go down the toilet as everyone watches sports....    to be fair by, by sports I am referring to all activities that people subscribe to in order to avoid the drudgery of their own existence...

[North Dakota]

2 hours ago, VMeister said:

Anyone, alum or not, can call/write UND to bitch/praise anything they want to.

Somehow Chip needs to write out a big check if he wants to voice an opinion?

No but money talks and bull&#036;%&#33;# walks. Or more precisely money pays the bills and pissing and moaning doesn't usually get you very far.

[SiouxVolley]

3 hours ago, 90siouxfan said:

so is the elephant in the country going to finally be addressed.....

 

as someone fiddled while Rome burned, will USA go down the toilet as everyone watches sports....    to be fair by, by sports I am referring to all activities that people subscribe to in order to avoid the drudgery of their own existence...

More broadly, when is the exaltation of victimhood going to stop? That's what today's Humanities professors have been exclaiming for years with their cultural Marxism religion they borrowed from the U of Stuttgart. WIH players still have ample opps in the Marxist / femiNazi bastion that is Minnesota.  Next they will demand a pro league paid for by taxpayers.

It's those Stuttgart scholars who started the nonsense that only people in the majority groups (i.E. Male, white, Christian) can be racist because they were born privileged.  Now whole universities have staff full of that nonsense.  Women, Muslims, and people of any shade of color can't be racist because they are not members of a privileged class.  So WIH is without question a victim of racist and gender privilege according to them.  Someone that claims it is transsexual or Islamic has to be right because they were so underprivileged and always had aggressions against them.

[Wildfan]

5 hours ago, darell1976 said:

I love on Facebook a woman said UND should've kept Women's hockey and not have spent the money on a new medical school. Women's hockey > academics.

Haha. The Medical School even runs on a completely seperate budget than the rest of the U. I heard there were projects cut out due to cuts.

The new building is actually helping alot by opening up the old one to other departments allowing the old outdated buildings to be taken off line/demolished. Deferred maintance were racking up on those buildings, probably at a lower cost per year of WIH tho.

[farce poobah]

5 hours ago, 90siouxfan said:

so is the elephant in the country going to finally be addressed.....

 

as someone fiddled while Rome burned, will USA go down the toilet as everyone watches sports....    to be fair by, by sports I am referring to all activities that people subscribe to in order to avoid the drudgery of their own existence...

Frequent visits to Siouxsports.com will stave off the end of civilization.

[The Sicatoka]

14 hours ago, 90siouxfan said:

so is the elephant in the country going to finally be addressed.....

as someone fiddled while Rome burned, will USA go down the toilet as everyone watches sports....    to be fair by, by sports I am referring to all activities that people subscribe to in order to avoid the drudgery of their own existence...

What you are describing is the "bread and circuses" that precluded the fall of Rome. 

It's been explored more recently as well here: "Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education"

[90siouxfan]

3 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

What you are describing is the "bread and circuses" that precluded the fall of Rome. 

It's been explored more recently as well here: "Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education"

Yes but expanding it to pertain to US society as a whole....    I am way out of my depth here but random thoughts sometimes escape...

[The Sicatoka]

1 hour ago, 90siouxfan said:

Yes but expanding it to pertain to US society as a whole....   

You must've missed where I said "precluded the fall of Rome." 

As I've said to PCM at times: "Welcome to Rome, stand by for the fall." 

[90siouxfan]

So do you have a solution, plan, or just a good seat....  lol

[The Sicatoka]

2 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

So do you have a solution, plan, or just a good seat....  lol

Not to get all Jeffersonian, but, we've lost our virtue. Incremental changes can't restore that. 

"[In a republic, according to Montesquieu in Spirit of the Laws, IV,ch.5,] 'virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. ... Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic; and to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education; ... " -- Thomas Jefferson