Big Sky Commissioner Visiting

[Siouxfan2]

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

If you want to look at athletic budgets in the league and across the nation (state institutions only).

Oh, hey, Sioux...guess what oil prices are collapsing. Guess you can look forward to being a poor rural state again.

Oil will be back some day. In the mean time ND has $18 billion squirreled away in trust funds.

Add at least $7 miĺ to UND for the REA trust.

Weber St can go FBS, but your admin wont.

 

[oldrunner]

Frankly, I know very little about UND. I tried to drive to Super Spoons last year, but couldn't get there from UP Michigan. There was so much road construction and detours that I ended up hundreds of miles away and felt lucky to escape the area and make it back to the safety of the Rocky Mountains. :lol: My only other experience with North Dakota was -60 degree winds coming out of Canada and quick freezing everything in its path. :yikes:

I'm sure that Super Spoons is a great community and that UND is a great school. Probably one of the better schools that nobody has ever heard of. I hope that your aspirations to join the Big 10 work out well for you. At least all of those schools know how to get there. :mrgreen:

With an $18 Billion athletic budget, you blow away all of the G5 schools and should be able to buy a National Championship in any sport you want. :notworthy: :notworthy:

 

[hawkssb04]

Well let's here from those who were there. I've already had a phone call about what was said, but if I were to repeat it, it would be second hand info. That is almost never a good idea. However, I will say that our poster from ND may be closer to the truth than we had thought. The next few years are going to be interesting in the BSC, and the NCAA as well. Weber is well positioned to take advantage of all of the changes that may be coming. It's a great time to be a WSU fan. The Commish and the AD are both concerned about improving scheduling and RPI rankings.

I was told that there were less than 20 people in attendance. However, I did see a lot of WSU fans at the Raptors game. The Raptors were putting a beating on Helena, Montana. It was a great sports night in O Town! :thumb: :thumb:

I went to two Raptor's games this week and also went last night and heard the commissioner. Doug started speaking at 6 and the Raptors didn't start till 7. Could have gone to both. It was a great event to be at and I'd much rather go hear the Big Sky Commissioner, support my institution, and show that my community isn't composed of a bunch of flakes. I'm proud to be a Wildcat and to support my teams, institution, and the community that has built Weber State University. But no, the HELENA HANDBASKETS of the PIONEER LEAGUE, less than A baseball, was more important? You know the Commissioner has spoken to Weber fans twice in 8 years. The Raptors had 7 straight home games this past week. Apples and oranges if you ask me. :roll:

As a Weber State fan, and Ogdenite, I'm going to call out our fans. It made us look idiotic! It was embarrassing that practically nobody was there. Do you think when the commissioner shows up in Missoula that only 15 fans, boosters, supporters show? No...he addresses a packed crowd, a shoal of fans show up to support their AD, school, community, and put their butts where their mouths constantly are (that could be construed multiple ways). Talking a big game, yet they walk the walk. But not here at Weber State. We talk smack and then can't back it up. We hide at Lindquist field instead. We are lucky to have him so close and yet, like Weber State fans, much like a spoiled child, we don't go to hear explanations for why things happen. We sit on this forum and beotch and moan, but when it comes down to asking the tough questions, to those we constantly bemoan, we don't show up.

Well, the commissioner's office is also right next door, so I'm not shocked at all.