(04-05-2018 06:06 PM)professorbum Wrote:  I'm actually an NDSU fan who wishes we'd add hockey and play in the WCHA. I love college hockey and think there's a market in F-M for such a team.

More to the point: UND doesn't seem like a school leveraging their hockey success and money to make the "bigger" sports better.

By that... Oregon's traditional claim to fame has been track & field. The program encouraged football players to double-dip, among other things, plus there's the matter of Phil Knight (who did run at UO) making a crap-ton money by selling shoes and eventually turning some of that back into MULTIPLE university programs (academic and athletic), and voila.

So UND has this amazing hockey arena (been there once). That makes money, it just doesn't make enough of a program until you actually apply the money. Instead, it seems the other programs in that Athletic Department are relegated to lower status (and, to put this another way, Alerus Center needs a much bigger capacity in order to get out of FCS). Solve that problem and they're onto something... they're just not there.