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  • #16
    Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

    Originally posted by davyd83 View Post
    In a perfect altruistic world, money wouldn't play a part. But, unfortunately, in this day and age that isn't the way it works. Money is why Minnesota and Wisconsin left to play with Penn State and Michigan State. It's why Denver and North Dakota left to play with Miami. They don't get their TV contract playing Alaska-Fairbanks and Lake Superior. Nor does Notre Dame get its TV deal playing NMU and Ferris. They have to play BC and BU. And now the smaller school with far fewer dollars and without a football team that sells 80,000 tickets 8x a year to help support athletics have to find other ways to play D-I hockey and remain solvent. We can talk integrity. We can talk what's best for college hockey. But that is no longer the reality.
    Then we should just dump all non-revenue sports and be done with it (women and men). Jettisoning UAA and UAF isn't going to solve the financial woes of college sports.
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    • #17
      Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

      Originally posted by davyd83 View Post
      But that is no longer the reality.
      So you then understand what I'm talking about. Reality. None of the pigs running these sports programs at any of these schools have any intention to live up to their talk. So since it's all about self-interest then start living up to that and kick UAA and UAF out.

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      • #18
        Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
        Then we should just dump all non-revenue sports and be done with it (women and men). Jettisoning UAA and UAF isn't going to solve the financial woes of college sports.
        But it will fix the nWCHA's problems.

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        • #19
          Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

          I am in no way in favor of dumping anybody. I would hate to lose Fairbanks or Anchorage. Their programs are first rate and the people that are involved with them, from the fans, the players, the coaches, Dave Shyiak and Dallas Ferguson on up are first class all the way. The same can be said for the coaches, administrators and fans in Huntsville. I am hopeful that Huntsville finds a way. But like UAF and UAA supporting their position in their leagues in the past and in the future, UAH will have to find a way to do likewise if it wants inclusion.
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          • #20
            Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH



            Nobody reading this is "Neo" and neither am I.

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            • #21
              Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

              Originally posted by uaafanblog View Post
              So you then understand what I'm talking about. Reality. None of the pigs running these sports programs at any of these schools have any intention to live up to their talk. So since it's all about self-interest then start living up to that and kick UAA and UAF out.
              If all schools are to put their own self interests behind the group's, isn't it incumbent upon UAA and UAF to close down their programs, for the good of the game?
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              • #22
                Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                Just so I get this straight, you are calling for your program and your rival's program to fold to save one team? I guess I could understand the whole "show hockey can thrive in the South" thing to allow for future expansion by saving UAH. (also, schtick? I have honestly have no clue, but I cannot think a rational fan would call for their own program to fold).
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                • #23
                  Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                  I said nothing about it folding. I don't advocate that.

                  What I really want is for the words of the capitalist pigs in charge to match their actions. Enough with the placating and disingenuous crappola coming out of their mouths. Davyd did get it right ... it's about money. And it's clear from 13 years of association with this forum and online in-general and 30+ years as a UAA fan that an equitable situation cannot be achieved and that in my opinion the majority opinion (fans and programs) would prefer that UAA and UAF be booted. So do it.

                  There are options for UAA and UAF to continue playing hockey at the same level they play now. They could severe their NCAA association and seek affiliation with either the CHL or the Canadian Colleges. There is no reason that they couldn't use the same financial models as they use now and it's quite possible that they could do better economically in one or the other of those leagues. But that's not what the thread is about.

                  (edit): Two Major Junior teams in Alaska doesn't sound like a horrible hockey situation.
                  Last edited by uaafanblog; 06-20-2012, 05:15 PM.

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                  • #24
                    Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                    This thread is funny.
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                    • #25
                      Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                      Originally posted by uaafanblog View Post
                      Oh ... so saying one thing and taking opposite action isn't a lack of integrity. Thanks for defining it.
                      classic example
                      Nanooks athletics director Forrest Karr resigns
                      by Danny Martin/dmartin@newsminer.com
                      May 30, 2012 | 5937 views | 11 | 16 | |
                      Updated 11:45 p.m. Wednesday

                      FAIRBANKS - While he was growing up in Waunakee, Wis., Forrest Karr sometimes headed to Marquette, Mich., for skiing or hockey. On Wednesday, the now 36-year-old took a step toward becoming a resident of the city on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

                      Karr was named the athletic director at Northern Michigan University, ending a seven-year tenure as the athletic director at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

                      “I’ll certainly never forget my time in Fairbanks, Alaska,’’ Karr said during a telephone interview Wednesday night. “It’s been a really special special place for me — it’s where I met my wife and we had our daughter,’’ said Karr, who is married to Cara Brunk and they have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Callia.

                      “I met remarkable, inspirational people in Fairbanks,’’ he continued. “The hardest thing about this transition is the thought of leaving friends and co-workers whom I’ve enjoyed working with. I’ll always advocate on behalf of the people of Fairbanks and I’ll always give back.”


                      Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Nanooks athletics director Forrest Karr resigns
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                      UAF made the kind of hockey history on October 10th 2015 that no team wants to claim – the Nanooks became the first NCAA Division I victim of Arizona State.


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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by ExileOnDaytonStreet View Post
                        This thread is funny.
                        Serious Socialist is Serious.
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                        I spell Failure with UAF

                        Originally posted by UAFIceAngel
                        But let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAA
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                        Best sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."

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                        • #27
                          Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                          Originally posted by uaafanblog View Post

                          (edit): Two Major Junior teams in Alaska doesn't sound like a horrible hockey situation.
                          I hate to bring logic into a hissy fit, but WHL teams are even less interested in flying than NCAA teams.
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                          • #28
                            Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                            Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
                            I hate to bring logic into a hissy fit, but WHL teams are even less interested in flying than NCAA teams.
                            Yep. They bus everywhere.
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                            • #29
                              Re: nWCHA Should Dump UAA and UAF and Admit UAH

                              Originally posted by MaizeRage View Post
                              I hate to bring logic into a hissy fit, but WHL teams are even less interested in flying than NCAA teams.
                              It surprises me not that a sniffer of 14/15 year old's jock straps wouldn't understand the thread isn't about that. I made that pretty clear.

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                              • #30
                                Shouldn't you be out combat fishing on the Russian right now?

                                Originally posted by Alaska Hockey View Post
                                classic example
                                Nanooks athletics director Forrest Karr resigns
                                by Danny Martin/dmartin@newsminer.com
                                May 30, 2012 | 5937 views | 11 | 16 | |
                                Updated 11:45 p.m. Wednesday

                                FAIRBANKS - While he was growing up in Waunakee, Wis., Forrest Karr sometimes headed to Marquette, Mich., for skiing or hockey. On Wednesday, the now 36-year-old took a step toward becoming a resident of the city on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

                                Karr was named the athletic director at Northern Michigan University, ending a seven-year tenure as the athletic director at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

                                “I’ll certainly never forget my time in Fairbanks, Alaska,’’ Karr said during a telephone interview Wednesday night. “It’s been a really special special place for me — it’s where I met my wife and we had our daughter,’’ said Karr, who is married to Cara Brunk and they have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Callia.

                                “I met remarkable, inspirational people in Fairbanks,’’ he continued. “The hardest thing about this transition is the thought of leaving friends and co-workers whom I’ve enjoyed working with. I’ll always advocate on behalf of the people of Fairbanks and I’ll always give back.”


                                Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Nanooks athletics director Forrest Karr resigns
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