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  • Re: UConn to apply to Hockey East

    But UMass has a great lacrosse team. Surely that would mean they would be great at every other sport, including hockey, right?
    Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010
    The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.

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      Originally posted by schiegs View Post
      So again I ask, are you saying that adding UMass was bad for HE?
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      Has it been any good?
      Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010
      The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.

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        Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View Post
        Has it been any good?
        If by "good" you are referring to record, no. And by that arguement, HE should be made up of BU, BC, UNH, and Maine. They can play each other 7 times each year and call it a conference.

        If by "good" you mean adding the flagship university of an entire state, bringing a few thousand additional fans to the game, and expanding the exposure of the conference to Western, Mass, then yes, they have been good. Same is to be said (even more so) by the addition of UConn.... and they actually have a varsity hockey program at the time of consideration, unlike UMass.
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          Originally posted by schiegs View Post
          If by "good" you mean adding the flagship university of an entire state, bringing a few thousand additional fans to the game, and expanding the exposure of the conference to Western, Mass, then yes, they have been good. Same is to be said (even more so) by the addition of UConn.... and they actually have a varsity hockey program at the time of consideration, unlike UMass.
          Yes, those 3,622 and 3,441 fan attendance numbers from the 2005 regional at Mullins really knocked everyone's socks off with the thousands of fans they brought (I'm being facetious, they were mostly UNH and Harvard fans) via the exposure the league brought to Western, MA. It just blew everyone away I tell ya.

          Being the flagship university in MA (if there is any state it isn't relevant in, it's MA) certainly has helped them win lots of games and has done wonders for this conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
          Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010
          The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.

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            Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View Post
            But UMass has a great lacrosse team. Surely that would mean they would be great at every other sport, including hockey, right?
            Nope, and here's the difference...UCONN has a pattern of success,it's not a one hit wonder. I think national championships in 3 different sports since 2000, multiple titles in mens and womens basketball and a soccer championship, plus the other successes, suggests that UCONN isn't a one hit wonder. It is not unlike Ohio State and Michigan and a few others in knowing how to be successful in multiple sports. I guess we'll see who is right in a few years. If I were BC, I wouldn't be too worried about UCONN either, but I owuld be scared to death that Gene D decides to provide his own special brand of "help" to the hockey team...you guys might be hoping to get into AHA if that happens...

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              So basically, unless teams sellout their arenas, and win the Hockey east conference within the first five years, they are bad for the league?

              Such elitism sigh.

              If Uconn, Notre dame, Umass don't effect in any way your school's birthright to the national title then why do you care?

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                Originally posted by schiegs View Post
                nd they actually have a varsity hockey program at the time of consideration, unlike UMass.
                To be fair, UConn's program is "varsity" in name only.
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                  Yeah, they play on zero scholarships at the moment.

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                  • Originally posted by brassbonanza View Post
                    To be fair, UConn's program is "varsity" in name only.
                    True. But it exists, and that is kind of the point.

                    Frankly, I agree with the notion that UConn brings more potential upside than UMass ever did.
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                      Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View Post
                      Being the flagship university in MA (if there is any state it isn't relevant in, it's MA) certainly has helped them win lots of games and has done wonders for this conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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                      • Re: UConn to apply to Hockey East

                        I hate to jump into a Massachusetts food fight, but didn't we just see Jonathan Quick and the Los Angeles Kings take out the number 1 and 2 seeds in the West? St. Louis in 4 straight I believe. Played for UMass, went to a CT prep school (AOF), both of which got mention on national TV last weekend.

                        Just sayin' ....

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                          Wow... I knew Boston hockey fans were insular, but this is ridiculous.


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                            Originally posted by Lazyking View Post
                            Yeah, they play on zero scholarships at the moment.
                            So? It's not like a college MUST have scholie to be a varsity program or a nationally competitive program. Not that UCONN is nationally competitive.
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                              Originally posted by MattS View Post
                              So? It's not like a college MUST have scholie to be a varsity program or even a nationally competitive program. Not that UCONN is nationally competitive.
                              And Uconn has had guys get signed by NHL clubs.. my point is though that its much more difficult when your a school that gives out scholarships for every other big sport and then go out and recruit guys that better love the school or they can get a free ride at a bunch of schools in the area.

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                                Originally posted by RSTuthill View Post
                                I hate to jump into a Massachusetts food fight, but didn't we just see Jonathan Quick and the Los Angeles Kings take out the number 1 and 2 seeds in the West? St. Louis in 4 straight I believe. Played for UMass, went to a CT prep school (AOF), both of which got mention on national TV last weekend.

                                Just sayin' ....
                                I see your point. So what you're saying is that maybe Hockey East should add Norwich since Keith Aucoin has been doing well in the playoffs as well. Not a bad idea, they're in New England so they're in the footprint. They've won some DIII titles...

                                Not a bad idea...
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