UND Tennis

[Shawn-O]

Chaves rolling up his sleeves and spinning up a women’s bowling program.  

[The Sicatoka]

Tennis is moving from the spring to the fall and a lot of schools are dropping it because they don’t have the resources to facilitate that sort of move.

[Nodak1883]

Also let's be real here, it's not like Tennis has been at UND for the past 50 years. Back in 1990 UND had cut Men's Tennis. They only brought it back in 2012 with the move to Big Sky Conference as it was a core sport for the conference. And now let's ask, why would we join a conference with a core sport that we don't have or could support? 

Let's be real here, we can blame Chavez all we want about how he has managed Athletics at UND both good and bad, but when you're basically given a mess on a platter because previous leaders and administrations basically decided to spend money likely crazy and not plan all that well for future. Go back to when the REA was being built, if we had administration back then that had a vision and plan, we could have made the entire area the athletics hub for UND with Tennis Courts, Softball/Baseball diamonds, etc. Instead, we have an area that is only used during the fall/winter seasons. Nothing is really going on around the REA during the spring or summer as those sports were off campus at the time. And it's only been part of the overall campus plan since 2016 to try and bring athletics back on campus. 

Again, not defending Chavez one bit here, but you can't blame him when he's basically having to clean up 20+ years of mismanagement and missed opportunities for athletics at UND. 
 

[gfhockey]

24 minutes ago, Nodak1883 said:

Also let's be real here, it's not like Tennis has been at UND for the past 50 years. Back in 1990 UND had cut Men's Tennis. They only brought it back in 2012 with the move to Big Sky Conference as it was a core sport for the conference. And now let's ask, why would we join a conference with a core sport that we don't have or could support? 

Let's be real here, we can blame Chavez all we want about how he has managed Athletics at UND both good and bad, but when you're basically given a mess on a platter because previous leaders and administrations basically decided to spend money likely crazy and not plan all that well for future. Go back to when the REA was being built, if we had administration back then that had a vision and plan, we could have made the entire area the athletics hub for UND with Tennis Courts, Softball/Baseball diamonds, etc. Instead, we have an area that is only used during the fall/winter seasons. Nothing is really going on around the REA during the spring or summer as those sports were off campus at the time. And it's only been part of the overall campus plan since 2016 to try and bring athletics back on campus. 

Again, not defending Chavez one bit here, but you can't blame him when he's basically having to clean up 20+ years of mismanagement and missed opportunities for athletics at UND. 
 

What opportunities has Chavez given us. 

[SiouxFan100]

I will not miss UND tennis. Barely knew it existed.

[GeauxSioux]

Chavez didn't make this decision in a vacuum.  I am sure that the folks at Twamley were very involved, not just because they are dropping two programs, but they are dropping below 16 total.