Making a public announcement has two immediate impacts.
First of all, it invites the powers in Bismarck to crawl up the ass of the Administration with the intent to scrutinize and deny any extra funding the University might ask for. For ANYTHING. The reasoning? If you are that flush with cash, don't come knocking on our door.
The second effect is to further destabilize the Summit. Sort of like burning the lifeboats.
So yeah, a public announcement could hurt.
So posters are channeling someone else now?
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix.
If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
I know you're young and idealistic. Apparently you don't understand politics and money.
Sending a signal that we have tens of millions of dollars to direct toward a move will definitely result in even chillier responses to funding requests.
In case you missed it, we are in the process of mending some broken relationships in Bismarck. You also might consider the economic news. I thought you studied business.
College of Business Alumnus
NDSU already gets screwed by the State who cares
NDSU needs to SOLICIT the Mountain West. Dean/Matt needs to take 4-5 people out there (Burgum, Hoeven, Scheels, Sanford) and Pop in a 10 minute video of our gamedays, our gametime atmosphere, our talent in ALL sports.
CMON people... this is the TIME! it is NOW!
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?