Cratter

Yeah that's gonna be a cluster

NCHC had the top two teams in the country yet again. Sad reality is no other college hockey conference is even close to competing with the NCHC.

It would cost $200+ Million to build Engelstad Arena today. And US Bank over $1.4 Billion So I don't think $500 million is "US Bank stadium territory."

It's all the Herald. The guy before brad was good too. The guy after Brad will be just as good if not better. Virg, Brad, and the next guy get paid a full time salary to just talk and research UND hockey....thanks to UND fans who pay for the Herald. UND hockey fans can thank UND hockey fans for the great coverage.

Dirty little secret....big companies love regulations...even pushing for them! Increases the barriers of entry for new players/competition.

Take the "zero NIL" with a grain of salt. Put your name on, and run a hockey camp in the summer = $$$ Or any of the other 1000 ways....speeches...like former president's can be big money makers too.

I asked my bff,

Exactly. The "theory" and the "practice" are not aligned. We saw a former UND player transfer and he somehow knows his exact dollar amount already?! How did that happen? Joe Blow from across the country just really liked the kid and thought he could help out his brand?! Lol. You're living in a dream world. NIL is a type of blue ribbon commission that runs parallel to university. The kids are bought and paid for. And when you sit down to offer a kid a scholarship, he'll tell you exactly how much the other schools/collective offered him. And if you'd like to match it. Dane Jackson is the middleman between any collective and the recruit. There's a baseline salary for everyone: Alston, sales of names on jerseys, and a share of donation pot.....Imo try and share that pot pretty evenly. And of course everyone knows they can go out and get their own NIL money anytime anywhere. That sorta goes without saying. That would spark curiosity not controversy amongst players. "How'd you do that? Maybe I should try that."

Wonder how "different amounts of NIL" divide a locker room in today's college landcspe. Everyone with $0 means everyone is equal. Maybe Dane ( i mean cough* non UND entity* cough) should pay everyone equally and if someone doesn't come because they want more money, you instantly know they don't fit. Just gotta think one or two guys making a lot more than the rest of the team might even subconsciously divide a team. Suddenly UND becomes "David" again vs "Goliath".....small teams with little money....against the Big Ten schools with all their fancy money laden rosters! Lean into this culture. It's what built UND into a powerhouse! Small UND vs Big school Gophers! UND: "the leftover players who the Gophers and Michigans didn't want" was the attitude....that national attitude put a chip on UND players shoulders in the 80s and 90s. That attitude won National Championships. Problem is we became too big with the new Ralph and all the Championships. It developed a big target on our backs! And like the Michigan's and Gophers, UND the last twenty years got everyone's A game. Time to go back and reestablish our roots.

IDK, a career focused individual is sorta what I'd like to see in a head coach.

Exact quote. Freudian slip as he stumbled over his words.

"If I was an ambitious guy, I would have left 15 years ago."

I love how a couple key individuals came together and formed a non profit to help UND athletics. This isn't a full time job for them. They are just volunteers. And asking for money like any non profit. People acting like this is a UND alumni association at work. Maybe UND should funnel some money to form another collective with full time fundraisers! It's not going to be easy to suddenly add $500k to $million+ a year to the "donation pockets" of the UND stakeholders.

Going to be fun when a star NHL player goes to two NCAA schools and both get to claim him as theirs.