North Dakota Athletics Town Hall: May 7, 2024

[fightingsioux4life]

Question on horn for goals and Chelsea Dagger.

[SIOUXFAN97]

Just now, fightingsioux4life said:

Question on horn for goals and Chelsea Dagger.

have each player pick their own goal song and you only find out which one it is until they score.....

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, SIOUXFAN97 said:

have each player pick their own goal song and you only find out which one it is until they score.....

Answer was they think it is fine as is.

[Irish]

Just now, fightingsioux4life said:

Question on horn for goals and Chelsea Dagger.

There are bigger issues in hockey than Chelsea Dagger

 

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, Irish said:

There are bigger issues in hockey than Chelsea Dagger

 

Agreed.

[fightingsioux4life]

Discussing uniforms and licensing.

[fightingsioux4life]

Complaints about changes to the Betty.

[The Sicatoka]

1 minute ago, fightingsioux4life said:

Discussing uniforms and licensing.

This is more important that goal songs and warm up music. 

This is merchandise sales (aka revenues). 

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, The Sicatoka said:

This is more important that goal songs and warm up music. 

This is merchandise sales (aka revenues). 

Agree 1000%

[The Sicatoka]

@fightingsioux4life thank you for attending and "post-casting" the play by play. 

Was there a live stream? A replay? 

[fightingsioux4life]

Changes at Betty made to appeal to casual basketball fans. Also to enhance development for student-athletes.

[fightingsioux4life]

1 minute ago, The Sicatoka said:

@fightingsioux4life thank you for attending and "post-casting" the play by play. 

Was there a live stream? A replay? 

Not sure. Turnout is decent.

[The Sicatoka]

Just now, fightingsioux4life said:

Not sure. Turnout is decent.

Found it:
All questions will be recorded and shared at a later date via social media and fightinghawks.com

[fightingsioux4life]

Overall athletic budgets being discussed.

[fightingsioux4life]

Comparisons with other schools not apples to apples.

Budget for FB is on top end of FCS.

[fightingsioux4life]

Our investments have been higher than some peer schools recently; acknowledged that we were behind several years ago.

[The Sicatoka]

35 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

REA relationship described as mutually beneficial.

It lowers UND Athletics front office head count.
REA (not a State entity) can do things UND can not (e.g. quick turn contracting).

I know it's a sore point for some but given all the scrutiny if it wasn't net positive (even a just little) for UND it'd be changed. 

[fightingsioux4life]

Questions about Midco and television coverage.

Midco contract remains the same. Midco says nothing will change with UND coverage.

Midco all in with UND.

[fightingsioux4life]

1883 Collective being discussed.

NIL new concept.

[fightingsioux4life]

Belief is that collective will allow us to compete at the highest level with peer institutions.

Wants to do it the right way with integrity.

[fightingsioux4life]

Closing: People in front office are just as passionate and want to win just as much as fans do.

They don't like losing either.

[fightingsioux4life]

End of Town Hall.

Everyone was polite and considerate.

Good back and forth between fans and suits.

[The Sicatoka]

2 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

Everyone was polite and considerate.

How can that be? This is 2024! 

Oh. Wait. There's still some courtesy and cordial demeanor left, mainly in North Dakota. 

[Nodak78]

14 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

How can that be? This is 2024! 

Oh. Wait. There's still some courtesy and cordial demeanor left, mainly in North Dakota. 

And not anonymous!!!

[Irish]

So - in summary - doodly squat on what we are doing to have our FB and Hockey teams win regional games.