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Originally posted by JohnsonsJerseys View PostA: UND
tUMD is Jan Brady per Brenthoven. Whew.... thanks for clearing THAT up.
Best USCHO quotes to date:
"UND/DU will realize that their party sucks, because the easterners only want to drink Zima." - BPH
"It is too bad that aaron marvin was a senior so he can't go after the rest of the sioux". - bigblue_dl
"I would rather play the blackhawks than you right now." - dogs2012
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Re: Debunking the Myth – Who you play has a huge impact on attendance
You have 58 college hockey programs and suffice it to say you have 58 sets of variables that impact attendance.
Clearly who you play on a given night or weekend can have a tremendous impact on both attendance (internet/walk up sales) and revenue.
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Originally posted by Biddco View PostWe didnt give up seven goals.Hollywood Hair Care Tip for Infinity (Directly from Hollywood himself)
when its minus 20 and u have to go outside.. make sure u wear a winter hat as the mohawk does not enjoy the winter weathe(r)
Hollywood Amazingness
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Originally posted by SCSU Euro View PostI really hate to break up this ****ing contest with an actual question, but I guess I've never paid attention to who takes faceoffs at ceremonial things like that... is it always the captain (assuming like 99.8% of teams out there your captain is a skater)? I guess I mean do they always send out the captain or always send out a center or always send out least a forward? Or if a team's got a defenseman who's their captain does he get to take it?Originally posted by mookie1995bc is superior to bu in nearly everything. while it is sad that it has come to it, it's the truth. if bu doesn't like it, improve.
Originally Posted by Dirty
Why is anyone surprised that Old Pio is acting like a grumpy old f^ck? He is a grumpy old f^ck.
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Originally posted by theprofromdover View PostChara, the captain defenseman, takes them for the Bruins.tUMD is Jan Brady per Brenthoven. Whew.... thanks for clearing THAT up.
Best USCHO quotes to date:
"UND/DU will realize that their party sucks, because the easterners only want to drink Zima." - BPH
"It is too bad that aaron marvin was a senior so he can't go after the rest of the sioux". - bigblue_dl
"I would rather play the blackhawks than you right now." - dogs2012
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Originally posted by Dirty View PostA small consolation for you I'm sure given UMD forgot the point of hockey.tUMD Hockey
"And there is a banana running around the DECC." "Well you don't see that every day..."
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Re: Debunking the Myth – Who you play has a huge impact on attendance
Originally posted by SCSU Euro View PostI really hate to break up this ****ing contest with an actual question, but I guess I've never paid attention to who takes faceoffs at ceremonial things like that... is it always the captain (assuming like 99.8% of teams out there your captain is a skater)? I guess I mean do they always send out the captain or always send out a center or always send out least a forward? Or if a team's got a defenseman who's their captain does he get to take it?Hollywood Hair Care Tip for Infinity (Directly from Hollywood himself)
when its minus 20 and u have to go outside.. make sure u wear a winter hat as the mohawk does not enjoy the winter weathe(r)
Hollywood Amazingness
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Originally posted by dggoddard View PostYou have 58 college hockey programs and suffice it to say you have 58 sets of variables that impact attendance.
Clearly who you play on a given night or weekend can have a tremendous impact on both attendance (internet/walk up sales) and revenue.*****
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Originally posted by JohnsonsJerseys View PostThe entire history of UND hockey, I would say that is a fairly large sample. It shouldn't matter what team you use for the analysis because it is a relative comparison between teams that come into a given team's barn. My point is, if the team you're playing matters then I would expect all of the top 20 attended games at UND would be against Minnesota, Denver, Duluth, etc (their rivals). Correct?
The fact that Tech and Mankato make the top five tells me that UND fans will go watch UND play anyone, and that was the point of this post. They don't just show up when a "premium team" comes to town and stay home when they play a bottom-feeder. And while this may not hold true for your team then that means to me that the fans are there to see the visitors, not the home team. Well what kind of fans are they if they are not there to see the home team?
Ryan J"My greatest achievement."
Dirty on getting me suspended from USCHO.
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Originally posted by JohnsonsJerseys View PostFor those of you who still think fans won’t show up unless you are playing a “premium name” team I present excerpts from a North Dakota press release issued today:
“UND's average home attendance of 11,341 fans per game ranked second nationally behind only Wisconsin's 11,772.9.”
“The Sioux played in front of two of the five largest crowds in program history when 12,065 turned out to watch a 1-1 overtime tie with Michigan Tech on Feb. 18, and 12,029 witnessed a 3-0 win over Minnesota State in the regular season finale on March 3. Those two crowds ranked as the fourth and fifth-largest in program history.”
Hmmm... Seems like there isn't any problem at all playing "no-name" programs according to those numbers. If the fans don't show up in your building, maybe they just don't care about the HOME team?
Ryan J
Wow, I would have thought a great team like UND would have sold out every game.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX
The reason for the talent in the west? Because MN didn't rely on Canada.
Originally posted by MN Pond HockeyMenards could have sold a lot of rope
this morning in Grand Forks if North Dakota had trees.
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Re: Debunking the Myth – Who you play has a huge impact on attendance
On a smaller scale, Western's attendance successes and failures, such as they are have been pretty closely tied to on-ice success. By the final year of Culhane's run as coach, we only pulled in 2,613 for MSU, 2,374 for Michigan, and 2,393 for a season average. 7-8 years earlier, both games would have been SRO sellouts at 4,575 and average attendance was usually in the 2,700-3,000 range, if I'm remembering right.
This season, after a trip to the NCAA tournament last year, the average was 3,444. They outdrew that Michigan State game from 2009 in all but one regular season game, IIRC."I went over the facts in my head, and admired how much uglier the situation had just become. Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy".- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
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Originally posted by Biddco View PostI'm just glad they didn't forget in the Frozen Four later that season. That would have been embarrassing!
As for the topic of the thread, it is a very small sample and it's a team that draws very well for every game. It's like saying that Women's hockey attendance is great because Wisconsin's attendance record is more than 10,000. If you look at attendance for less popular teams over the last 20 years I'm certain you'll find a noticeable difference in attendance for games against Minnesota, UND, and possibly Wisconsin vs. attendance for other games.SCSU Hockey: 2001 WCHA Playoff Champions, 2013 WCHA Champions & Frozen Four, 2014 NCHC Champions, 2016 NCHC Playoff Champions
UMD Women: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010
Gopher Football: 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960
Johnnie Football: 1963, 1965, 1976, 2003
UMD Football: 2008, 2010
UMD Men: 2011
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