Joining the Mountain West would run an $8MM - $9MM annual deficit - can we overcome that?

[MontanaGrizSoccer]

just a wild guess, but wouldn't an ordinary citizen be less likely to be able to reach a billionaire than, say, the president of a university, or possibly a university athletic director?

Has anyone within the Dept called, invited them to gameday to see the atmosphere or another lost opportunity.

 

[mthoopsfan]

All of their sons had positive impactful experiences from being in the program and are fairly successful themselves partially due to playing football at Montana. All 3 were walk ons. One led the Big Sky in scoring and was all conference, another got an opportunity with his home town NFL team. The financial advisor isn’t a billionaire but his net worth is somewhere in the 9 figures.

I call BS on the 9 figures. Financial advisors don’t get there and they don’t tell people what their worth is.

 

[AZhoopsMTfootballfan]

I call BS on the 9 figures. Financial advisors don’t get there and they don’t tell people what their worth is.

The financial advisors you know aren’t good enough to get there. Owning equity in a scalable firm leads to 9 figures and even billionaire status sometimes. My guess from being friends with his son is his net worth is somewhere from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000. A financial advisor that I am friends with here in Colorado is over 500,000,000 in net worth.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

They have more leverage than you think.

They really don't.

 

[mthoopsfan]

The financial advisors you know aren’t good enough to get there. Owning equity in a scalable firm leads to 9 figures and even billionaire status sometimes. My guess from being friends with his son is his net worth is somewhere from 150,000,000 to 200,000,000. A financial advisor that I am friends with here in Colorado is over 500,000,000 in net worth.

I still call BS on your figures. Kids rarely know their parents’ net worth. You are full of bad information.

 

[AZhoopsMTfootballfan]

I still call BS on your figures. Kids rarely know their parents’ net worth. You are full of bad information.

You are full of dementia and bs. Never played the game in the 21st century and never even attended UM. It’s no surprise that the FA you know are also not successful. Losers attract losers.

 

[armonte]

This is terrific. Thx, Brint.

I found this to be very interesting, i.e. the requirement: "

• NDSU has to maintain a comparable football budget to other MW schools, if they have a below .500 record in conference they have to raise their budget over the MW average. Right now their football budget is about $7,500,000 where Nevada’s is nearly $15,000,000 - it appears the MW average is around $17,000,000"

Late to the party, are your figures based on last years football ticket sales? IF they do what happens if those sales decline? 10% - 20% would that increase the hole we're in?

 

[p8nted]

We need to tell the BSC to pound sand on this and demand a bigger slice of the pie along with MSU and even Idaho. We're the top brands of the Conference, we should be getting more in general right now and shouldn't have to be a charity case for the other teams, or share in jersey patches equally.

A bigger piece of a very small pie is still not worth much

 

[mthoopsfan]

Late to the party, are your figures based on last years football ticket sales? IF they do what happens if those sales decline? 10% - 20% would that increase the hole we're in?

Brint's figures not mine.

 

[mthoopsfan]

You are full of dementia and bs. Never played the game in the 21st century and never even attended UM. It’s no surprise that the FA you know are also not successful. Losers attract losers.

No BS and still quite on top of everything here. Writing 1 mini-book now, the History of World Civilizations, in readable short bullet point-ish form. Way smarter and more educated than you. That's why I catch you in mistakes everyday. You never played the game EVER. I assume FM refers to financial managers. I was a securities lawyer for 45 years and represented multiple brokerage houses and investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Solomon Brothers, DA Davidson, Piper and Dain. I also represented some Private Equity firms. One of my best friends is the CEO of a brokerage/house investment bank now. I live in Missoula/Polson, was born and raised in MT, am upteenth generation, and my dad played a bit of football for the Griz. What are your credentials? You are younger, inexperienced, don't understand business and have no experience, and clueless. Talk are the loser. That's you.

 

[kemajic]

I also resented some Private Equity firms.

Me too.

 

[armonte]

Brint's figures not mine.

Went to wrong piece, meant it to ask Brint

 

[AZhoopsMTfootballfan]

No BS and still quite on top of everything here. Writing 1 mini-book now, the History of World Civilizations, in readable short bullet point-ish form. Way smarter and more educated than you. That's why I catch you in mistakes everyday. You never played the game EVER. I assume FM refers to financial managers. I was a securities lawyer for 45 years and represented multiple brokerage houses and investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Solomon Brothers, DA Davidson, Piper and Dain. I also resented some Private Equity firms. One of my best friends is the CEO of a brokerage/house investment bank now. I live in Missoula/Polson, was born and raised in MT, am upteenth generation, and my dad played a bit of football for the Griz. What are your credentials? You are younger, inexperienced, don't understand business and have no experience, and clueless. Talk are the loser. That's you.

I last played football competitively less than 15 years ago. You last played football when teams threw for less than 30 passes a game. My education from UM has been just fine. I have a business that allows me to travel between AZ, CO, Billings/Red Lodge and Whitefish. Not enough potential clients in MT to live there full time. Your family member played a little football for the Griz, my family member played in the NFL. You are old and losing it to dementia or Alzheimer’s. I’m adopted but my birth family has been in Montana just as long as yours. My mom grew up in Sidney and Polson. My grandma on my dad’s side was born on Fort Peck and my ancestors through her have been in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana since the 1700s.

 

[AnotherGrizFan]

I last played football competitively less than 15 years ago. You last played football when teams threw for less than 30 passes a game. My education from UM has been just fine. I have a business that allows me to travel between AZ, CO, Billings/Red Lodge and Whitefish. Not enough potential clients in MT to live there full time. Your family member played a little football for the Griz, my family member played in the NFL. You are old and losing it to dementia or Alzheimer’s. I’m adopted but my birth family has been in Montana just as long as yours. My mom grew up in Sidney and Polson. My grandma on my dad’s side was born on Fort Peck and my ancestors through her have been in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana since the 1700s.

Lila waste'

 

[AZhoopsMTfootballfan]

Lila waste'

I don’t know any of the language, like I said I was adopted. I had to look up what that meant.

 

[behappp]

I’m sure they will figure out what to correctly price the tickets. Better competition will increase demand which will increase the price unless the supply and capacity of the stadium is increased to offset the increased demand.

 

[behappp]

I just looked at the kittens attendance figures for the first few games of 2025. Obviously the SDSU game was the most competitive regular season home game yet the reported attendance wasn't much different than Mercyhurst,e.g.
The reasons my wife goes with me to home games is for a lot of reasons but nowhere near the top is the competitiveness of the opponent. And I'd go regardless of the ticket cost raise.
But not sure she would and I believe she is closer to being an average fan than a rabid Griz like I am. $10/ticket is probably fine with her. Not sure $30/ticket would be even if it was against Wyoming, e.g.

Businesses know there is a cost to raising prices.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

I just looked at the kittens attendance figures for the first few games of 2025. Obviously the SDSU game was the most competitive regular season home game yet the reported attendance wasn't much different than Mercyhurst,e.g.
The reasons my wife goes with me to home games is for a lot of reasons but nowhere near the top is the competitiveness of the opponent. And I'd go regardless of the ticket cost raise.
But not sure she would and I believe she is closer to being an average fan than a rabid Griz like I am. $10/ticket is probably fine with her. Not sure $30/ticket would be even if it was against Wyoming, e.g.

Businesses know there is a cost to raising prices.

One thing about the reported attendance in RHS is it's completely made up. They literally just pick a number around 135% of capacity and slap a "7" on the end of it.

 

[mthoopsfan]

I last played football competitively less than 15 years ago. You last played football when teams threw for less than 30 passes a game. My education from UM has been just fine. I have a business that allows me to travel between AZ, CO, Billings/Red Lodge and Whitefish. Not enough potential clients in MT to live there full time. Your family member played a little football for the Griz, my family member played in the NFL. You are old and losing it to dementia or Alzheimer’s. I’m adopted but my birth family has been in Montana just as long as yours. My mom grew up in Sidney and Polson. My grandma on my dad’s side was born on Fort Peck and my ancestors through her have been in the Dakotas and Eastern Montana since the 1700s.

My ancestors on my dad’s side are Sioux Indians, as am I. We have been in Montana and Dakota territories for centuries. You lose. Did you even play high school football. My dad played for BYU. I can tell from your posts that you don’t know much about the game of football. As others have said, you are only AI.
You dont know much. You admitted that you don’t even go to Griz games in Missoula.

 

[AZhoopsMTfootballfan]

My ancestors on my dad’s side are Sioux Indians, as am I. We have been in Montana and Dakota territories for centuries. You lose. Did you even play high school football. My dad played for BYU. I can tell from your posts that you don’t know much about the game of football. As others have said, you are only AI.
You dont know much. You admitted that you don’t even go to Griz games in Missoula.

It went over your head that my ancestors on my dad’s side are also Sioux from Fort Peck so my ancestors have been here just as many centuries as yours. They probably came to Montana and Dakota territories from Minnesota at the same time. I played high school football against future NFL players 45 years after you played. My uncle is in the record books at Michigan State and played 6 years in the NFL. That is a higher level than anyone in your family has or ever will play football.