Businesses/Corporations that are UND Sponsers/Friendly

[Oxbow6]

8 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

if titan machinery sat down with und and said we'll do a patch on your men's bball team and we'll give you 1 Milly for it.....you ask if they are "sponsering" any other schools and how much are you paying them and they say we're giving ndac 5 milly for their men's ball team....

what you say to them?

I know what i'd say

If David threw in a lifetime membership to Windsong on top of the $1M....no questions asked!!

[The Sicatoka]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

If David threw in a lifetime membership to Windsong on top of the $1M....no questions asked!!

You know David; I know Peter and Stephanie. I’d never treat them so abruptly as if you did you’d never hear from them again. And Peter serves some fine beverages I’d hate to miss out on. 

[iramurphy]

10 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

if titan machinery sat down with und and said we'll do a patch on your men's bball team and we'll give you 1 Milly for it.....you ask if they are "sponsering" any other schools and how much are you paying them and they say we're giving ndac 5 milly for their men's ball team....

what you say to them?

I know what i'd say

I’d say thanks and work with them to increase their donation. If you interacted with billionaires and multimillionaires you would learn that telling them to “f off”, (or whatever you might say) other than thank you and a willingness to work to grow that relationship doesn’t work. I’ve stated my opinion, it isn’t that difficult to figure out I would take a different approach. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

46 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

I’d say thanks and work with them to increase their donation. If you interacted with billionaires and multimillionaires you would learn that telling them to “f off”, (or whatever you might say) other than thank you and a willingness to work to grow that relationship doesn’t work. I’ve stated my opinion, it isn’t that difficult to figure out I would take a different approach. 

you'd say thanks?

this is why sather has to have a lemonade stand

[Hawkster]

36 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

you'd say thanks?

this is why sather has to have a lemonade stand

With that attitude the gobc won't even donate.   You gotta smooze them.   Thanking them goes a long way.

[southpaw]

16 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

if titan machinery sat down with und and said we'll do a patch on your men's bball team and we'll give you 1 Milly for it.....you ask if they are "sponsering" any other schools and how much are you paying them and they say we're giving ndac 5 milly for their men's ball team....

what you say to them?

I know what i'd say

You'd see what other offers you could find and if the best offer you could get was 1mil for the patch after negotiating, then you crunch the numbers to see if that will move the needle or if it's selling out.

But, apparently if making sound business decisions isn't tenable then I guess telling titan machinery to f off and that you don't want any of their money is one way to go. However, you won't have many advertisers left.

Believe it or not, businesses aren't in the business of making random donations just because of passion or fun. They want a return on their investment. For some businesses, that's actually more important than which team they support.

Having your logo on a basketball jersey that makes the NCAA tournament is a lot more valuable than a logo on a football jersey of a team with two D1 playoff wins.

[Hawkster]

4 hours ago, southpaw said:

 

 

On 7/16/2026 at 8:09 AM, UNDBIZ said:

Former CEO and current board member of the bank is a huge bison booster.  It's more about sending them money than the exposure.

 

4 hours ago, southpaw said:

 

Believe it or not, businesses aren't in the business of making random donations just because of passion or fun. They want a return on their investment. For some businesses, that's actually more important than which team they support.

Having your logo on a basketball jersey that makes the NCAA tournament is a lot more valuable than a logo on a football jersey of a team with two D1 playoff wins.

I'll let you 2 fight it out.   Is it about donating or getting something for your investment?