A lot of the revenue goes to Fargo and then to NDSU if the Griz merchandise is purchased at Scheels, and I love Scheels in Billings as a shopping destination. It just isn’t the best place to buy Griz gear if you want to support UM instead of NDSU.
Irrespective, the license revenue goes to UM.
Baseball is fun to play especially pitching but it is boring to watch unless you are drinking beer at the game. I found relief pitching to have a lot of similarities to long snapping in football. The play started with me so I wasn’t relying on anyone else for my success and I wasn’t out there for a long period of time but was very involved in the play when I was in the field.
Thx. Off the “charts”, I assume?
Scheels in Billings is about half and half Griz and Cat gear. 10 years ago it was almost exclusively Griz gear though.
I agree with much of what you said. But improving the music isn’t going to do any of the things others have suggested. The crowd is great at Griz games. Way better and louder than in Bozeman. UM is an exciting game day experience. Advertising and NIL doesn’t come from people or kids who would enjoy better music. Big NIL comes from a smaller group who are like me and don’t care about the music. Many are in the boxes and canyon club and can’t hear or don’t listen to much of the music. The ones on the sidelines aren’t there to listen to the music. I can’t imagine advertisers gear their advertising to the music.
Their location in Billings is the best one in Montana by far. It is comparable to locations in bigger cities. Billings as a town probably has more Cat fans than Griz now especially with the Dowlers being stars on the Cats and Junior Bergen no longer being on the Griz. It is crazy to me that we didn’t have anyone from Billings West on the team this past season. Billings West probably had the most players on the Griz from any high school during Bobby 1.0.
MV teams and CW is not padding. They are better than some conf teams. CW brings in huge net revenue.
It wasn’t Colt’s party. He was on team charter going home. The Griz program is strong and going up now. Hauck and Haslam are leading that. Funny that you want to makes changes which will lead to a decline. You are a weird thinker.
So that means we should be happy, because the status quo is pretty good? UM should be striving to improve and expand in all regards. Being happy with the status quo because it’s “good enough” is how the institution keeps losing ground to our neighbors to the East.
Students hear the music. Prospective students hear the music. So do kids and parents who will eventually make decisions about which team they will support and where they or their kids will attend school. Some of them become big donors. Kids in middle school in high school that might become talented football players also hear the music. It’s one aspect of the program that can be changed very easily to improve the overall experience, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with football.
No, UM constantly strives to get better, make improvements, add facilities, improve fund-raising, increase NIL, be more and more successful on the field, etc. UM has been doing that for decades. People like you want to dismantle what we have and get rid of the leadership that has been key in all those things. Off-base, complainers, weird. People like Kem and I want to support the team and program and keep the momentum going. It's interesting how many of your types were Stitt supporters, when the program went backwards more than it ever has since Read arrived.
None of the largest donors, almost all of whom I know, care about the music. I don't know the Washingtons.
Kids who might attend UM most certainly go to the games, as do their friends and families. I didn’t say that music is the key to success. This is evidenced by the fact that I didn’t say it.
Then how have we fallen so far behind? It’s not just Stitt’s fault.
Fallen behind what. We won 13 games. Made the semis. Will be ranked no. 3 in the nation. We're in the championship game on 2023. Won the conference in 2023. Beat 4 MV schools this season. Have done better against the Dakota and MV schools than the Cats. The Cats have gotten better; the Griz haven't fallen behind. UM should have won the first Cat game this season, if not both. Congrats to the Cats. They have done well in most years in the last decade. I'm fine with that. But they don't have as good of a stadium, attendance, game-day atmosphere, season tickets, etc. They have had problems with coaches and players off-field and on-field.
