It ended when I went 1-3 in the final game loss to the Bengals. How is your 3rd string blocking dummy career at Dartmouth coming along? Your latest tally for calling posters "jerks" is now 23. Such a pompous individual.
No record of you ever playing for Griz against Bengals or anyone.
Montana basketball will never sniff the level of financial resources that GCU has..never.
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What does financial resources of the university have to do with raising private NIL money? GCU does not fund their NIL pool, it comes from private donations. Yes, Colangelo is a big donor. But UM has Dennis Washington and several others. I get tired of the negativity and "we can't do it" attitude of so many posters. We just lack a vision, and an advocate driven enough to make it happen. I'm too old to undertake the effort, but it could be done. Who is in charge of alumni fund-raising at UM? Dos anyone even know?
Negative Nellie. We don't need billions. 250K per year would do itI believe Jerry Colangelo was at the game. It takes more than vision and financial commitment. GDU and Gonzaga are private universities; Montana is obviously public and under the state. Completely different governance. Neither are dependent on their states for money, nor are they controlled by their states.
GCU has been a for-profit university. It has converted back to a non-profit, but the federal government (DOE) still considers it for-profit for various purposes.
"Grand Canyon has spent years trying to convert from a for-profit to a nonprofit institution. The university became a for-profit in 2004 in response to financial difficulties and saw its enrollment skyrocket thanks largely to its online programs. Oct 6, 2023"
"Grand Canyon University, a private Christian institution classified by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) as a for-profit institution, received over one billion dollars in federal student subsidies in fiscal year 2020-21, the most of any U.S. higher education institution.
It’s not the only for-profit institution to benefit from huge taxpayer subsidies. Of the 20 colleges receiving the largest amount of federal grants and loans for their students, eight were for-profit schools, according to DOE."
This 2016 article has a lot of background info as of that time. https://bleacherreport.com/articles...secret-to-rapid-division-i-basketball-success
And, again, neither GCU nor Gonzaga have football. "GCU president says adding football would take away from other programs"
GCU president says adding football would take away from other programs
Grand Canyon University president Brian Mueller says GCU probably won't establish a football team due to what it could cost other programs.
Montana hoops will never be Gonzaga hoops. If Montana had a handful of billionaire donors especially interested in athletics, things could be different, at least in some respects.
They will never sniff the level of possible NIL money either. Your assumptions are false. Reality is not negativity or a lack of vision.
Your "reality" is not mine, nor that of others. Stay negative if you want.
If it were 'reality" you would spring to action instead of pretending.
GCU doesn't have fball. It is really hard to fund a fball team to success at a 1AA level school and raise millions from from that said school for just hoops. They money is going to go to fball a majority of the time. If there is an example of a non power 5 university with fball that has done what Zags and now GCU are doing we would love to know.
"pretending"? What am I pretending about dude? I've already said two things in this thread, so I'll remind you so that you can stop trying to be "right". Number 1: I will donate a significant amount to a fund dedicated ONLY to providing NIL funds for the UM basketball program. But that fund doesn't currently exist. When and if it does, I'll donate.....Number 2: I am 74 years of age, don't live in Missoula full-time, and don't have the energy or location to champion this effort. There, does that explain the "pretending" thingy for ya, or do you still have the need to be right?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. It doesn't take "millions", and not a single dime comes from the school. I stated in a previous post the monetary slots for signing NIL players. What is so freakin difficult to understand? Some of you posters need Ned the 1st grade reader. Jeeeeez!
You can allocate where/who your NIL donation goes to. Get in contact with Marcus Welnel and he can talk you through it. I would love to see our bball NIL grow.
It's time to punt this idea Thirdandlong. It's ain't happening otherwise Travis would he doing it.
I know what 2 players who transferred to West Viriginia got this past season. $500,000 and $350,000 plus cars and off campus housing.
NIL comes from donors who would likely otherwise donate to the school. So, NIL reduces what the school would otherwise get. Not necessarily dollar for dollar. I have first hand information on this concern from people associated with the UM athletic department. I know what I and others in my family have done. Modest donation to NIL. Same and most going to the school.
