$200: the final straw for this Gopher alum & lifelong fan

[alchemy2u]

We have no NIL... we can't compete... THEIR COLLECTING NIL FROM THE STUDENTS.. HOW DARE THEY

What is your point? I doubt that the students that are paying this fee were the ones that complained about no money for NIL. Maybe they should charge a NIL fee to the GHer's that complained about not having enough NIL

 

[alchemy2u]

However that person is paying for college. Usually loans. The cost of in state tuition this year is ~18,600. That doesn't include room/board, supplies, etc.

That's ~74k for 4 years, double for out of state tuition. This is $800 over that same time for this. It's 1%.

How many other pointless fees and things students don't want to and shouldn't pay for are wrapped into these egregious tuitions? I'll bet a lot more than $800 over 4 years. This is a drop in the bucket.

For someone who bitches all the time about needless state taxes, you sure are willing to spend other peoples money on things that are important to you.

 

[swede2]

Valued at more than $500?!?!?! No way!!!!


Yes, St. Thomas is a model exemplar in all things. After all, they have an unbelievable endowment of ~$700M and raised ~$125M last year. Meanwhile, our comparatively paltry numbers are a ~$6B endowment (4th largest in the Big Ten) and we only raised the meager sum of $392M last year. We really have a lot to learn from them.

Keep pushing that agenda, though.

I'm no Tommy but I will say those are impressive figures for a school with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,000 when compared to a school with an undergraduate enrollment of 40,000.

 

[alchemy2u]

It’s partially what prompted reply. Having spent 20 days between Tennessee and Georgia, I was shocked how wrong I have been. (Call it Mn bias). Traffic in Atlanta is brutal brutal but their ability to support what they they have for public school facilities with Georgia Tech, Georgia, Georgia State and Kennesaw State so close to each other amazed me. Especially their athletic facilities. Lake Point area 23 miles north near Marietta, amazing youth facilities like we do not have.

Lake Linear. Amazing. (Comparative to Lake Minnetonka including the cost unfortunately)

Tennessee is more where I’d live with the number of lakes and taxes.

My opinion of how superior we have it has changed.

Go ahead and send you kids to a public school in the South for a year or two and then bring them back up and see how far they are behind. Go ahead and try to support your family as a Police Officer or Teacher in the South. I lived in the Atlanta area for about 4 years, no thank you.

 

[GopherWeatherGuy]

For someone who bitches all the time about needless state taxes, you sure are willing to spend other peoples money on things that are important to you.

Have 1% of tuition already wrapped up in loans go to my favorite schools athletic programs or watch 10% of my bi-weekly paycheck be wasted by fraud and money laundering as long as I lived in Minnesota.

Pretty easy choice there.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Go ahead and send you kids to a public school in the South for a year or two and then bring them back up and see how far they are behind. Go ahead and try to support your family as a Police Officer or Teacher in the South. I lived in the Atlanta area for about 4 years, no thank you.

Had family in the atl can vouch

 

[WoodburyTim]

Have 1% of tuition already wrapped up in loans go to my favorite schools athletic programs or watch 10% of my bi-weekly paycheck be wasted by fraud and money laundering as long as I lived in Minnesota.

Pretty easy choice there.

Why does it have to be either?

 

[GopherWeatherGuy]

Why does it have to be either?

It shouldn't. But unfortunately this is the price of competitive college sports now. Even though our donors have grown, we are still in the bottom 1/3 of the B1G.

 

[State of Football]

Go ahead and send you kids to a public school in the South for a year or two and then bring them back up and see how far they are behind. Go ahead and try to support your family as a Police Officer or Teacher in the South. I lived in the Atlanta area for about 4 years, no thank you.

Mine are about to be done and have had a good education here thanks to where we live.

 

[MaxyJR1]

 

[Pompous Elitist]

It shouldn't. But unfortunately this is the price of competitive college sports now. Even though our donors have grown, we are still in the bottom 1/3 of the B1G.

There’s really no defensible reason for the department staffing costs as % of revenue; I’m willing to entertain some arguments.

Coyle’s AD cookbook is getting dog-eared. Way to fleece the kids.

 

[Mr. 131]

It’s partially what prompted reply. Having spent 20 days between Tennessee and Georgia, I was shocked how wrong I have been. (Call it Mn bias). Traffic in Atlanta is brutal brutal but their ability to support what they they have for public school facilities with Georgia Tech, Georgia, Georgia State and Kennesaw State so close to each other amazed me. Especially their athletic facilities. Lake Point area 23 miles north near Marietta, amazing youth facilities like we do not have.

Lake Linear. Amazing. (Comparative to Lake Minnetonka including the cost unfortunately)

Tennessee is more where I’d live with the number of lakes and taxes.

My opinion of how superior we have it has changed.

It would be incredibly easy for you to head to google to see where Minnesota ranks in quality of life, health outcomes, education, fortune 500, recreation, parks etc. The list goes on and on.

Every state has their struggling areas, and we def do, but your initial assessment of Minnesota drips with propagandist dog-whistle talking points.

 

[mggoph]

It would be incredibly easy for you to head to google to see where Minnesota ranks in quality of life, health outcomes, education, fortune 500, recreation, parks etc. The list goes on and on.

Every state has their struggling areas, and we def do, but your initial assessment of Minnesota drips with propagandist dog-whistle talking points.

Yes it does, and it's trending down. Maybe others are too. But this is the wrong board.