{"id":106068,"date":"2016-08-19T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=106068"},"modified":"2016-08-19T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T21:37:50","slug":"und-eyeing-conference-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=106068","title":{"rendered":"UND: Eyeing conference change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102961\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"UNDhawksLOGO\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The University of North Dakota is looking for ways to save money in its athletic department, and it could include a change in conference affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>New school President Mark Kennedy is taking inventory of athletics after the department ended the fiscal year with a shortfall of about $1.4 million. He has ordered a campus committee to analyze several factors, including the number of sports, cost of the programs and the conference landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The Fighting Hawks are members of the Big Sky Conference, which has 11 full-time members and five affiliate members who do not participate in all of the league&#8217;s core sports. The three other Division I programs in the Dakotas participate in the Summit League for most sports and the Missouri Valley Football Conference for football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The University of North Dakota is looking for ways to save money in its athletic department, and it could include a change in conference affiliation. New school President Mark Kennedy is taking inventory of athletics after the department ended the fiscal year with a shortfall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106070,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106068\/revisions\/106070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}