Dakota Sioux
Wild Time
Says the guy with a Carson Wentz avatar...
Chris Klieman makes more in six months than Bubba Schweigert will make for the biennium. David Richman makes three times what Brian Jones makes. All four of those men are good coaches, but UND skimping on salaries will make it hard to retain their coaches if other mid-majors are looking for some fresh blood and make them equally difficult to replace.
UND's major programs aren't succeeding because of their resources; they're succeeding in spite of them, and they need to really commit to those programs and their coaches if they want to be competitive when they leave the Big Sky next summer. That says nothing of their non-revenue programs, which have dealt with equally-substandard coach pay AND awful facilities, despite UND's athletics programs getting way more institutional support (to the tune of about $2M) than NDSU's.
Shame on you for making me quote Rob Port, but since you asked...
Link (mentioned document is at the bottom of the article)
More than a quarter of the team's costs were scholarships; another $400k+ for coaches, and then $350k+ for travel. No way the school could justify those costs.
As for why other programs can stay afloat, presumably either the institutional support isn't as much of a burden, or they have other sources of revenue to put into those programs (like Wisconsin and Minnesota, which are supposed to get something like $8M more in TV money in 2017-18).
That guy in my avatar happens to be my nephew.
