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  • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

    Originally posted by goldy_331 View Post
    Ronnieb should have said NCAA HOCKEY. FB is different. Big difference being hockey has ~26 players on roster, plays about 23 of them and has 18 scholarships. FB has over 100 at big programs on roster, plays about 60-70 of them and has 85 schollies. Saban, et. al. can stash guys who won't play much for a couple years and have them on roster, can't do that in hockey. The main reason there is parity in hockey and not in FB. Drop the scholly number in FB to 50 and there would be parity in a few years.
    Yes, thank you. NCAA HOCKEY is definitely unlike any of its sports counter parts.

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    • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

      Originally posted by gopher wes View Post
      Disagree. Even at the tail end of the WCHA (for the Gophers) with said teams on the schedule, the attendance was still starting to dwindle. Not as bad as it is now, but it was on the downturn.
      Gopher hockey is going down the tubes!!

      http://www.citypages.com/news/what-h...rogram-7960026
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      • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

        Originally posted by cross cheque View Post
        Gopher hockey is going down the tubes!!

        http://www.citypages.com/news/what-h...rogram-7960026
        Click back a page....
        "It ain't over, baby! And that took only six seconds!"

        USCHO gives me another reason to not do work while I am at work.

        Everything is Hill's fault.....

        "Hakstol you hack!!!!"

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        • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

          Originally posted by gopher wes View Post
          Click back a page....
          They don't teach that in Cow Milking 101.
          "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

          "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

          "Good news! We have a delivery." Professor Farnsworth

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          • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

            Originally posted by gopher wes View Post
            Click back a page....
            Like I have time to read through all of the internet tears and self loathing on your thread. B1G weekend ahead with (19)UMTC v (54)MichSt, make sure you set your DVRs for another hotly contested battle with Sparty and tPride on Ice
            "The man who smiles when something has gone wrong just thought of someone to blame it on." Robert Bloch
            Discontinued Program:http://s.ecrater.com/stores/70443/48...70e_70443n.jpg
            The goofs might suck, but Happy swallows.
            Brooks told me he added something to the effect that, “if you want to go into business, go to Harvard; if you want to be a hockey player, go to North Dakota...”

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            • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

              Originally posted by cross cheque View Post
              Like I have time to read through all of the internet tears and self loathing on your thread. B1G weekend ahead with (19)UMTC v (54)MichSt, make sure you set your DVRs for another hotly contested battle with Sparty and tPride on Ice
              Yes you do. Even though we left the conference, your fanbase still seems obsessed with us.

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              • Originally posted by Tipsy McStagger View Post
                If you read the article, you would see that most of the criticism in it is from former players and NHL scouts. Not sure how you can slide the blame to the author and fans that aren't connected to the program.
                No, the majority of the criticism is from anonymous, unnamed sources he attributes to being scouts. If you look at his Twitter timeline, you can see who he reached out to. Only former player is Budish, and no pro scouts.

                Not to say he didn't reach out to other people by other means, but this guy works for CityPages. Let's be real. My guess is the stuff he attributes to being from "scouts" is second hand information from people who have had a bone to grind with Lucia for 15 years. Just because he isn't an alum.

                The fact that they have won the most games in college hockey, have four straight conference titles, and two Frozen Fours in the last four years has already been touched on, but there are far bigger reasons one should laugh at this article.

                Calling the loss to Union the biggest upset since the Miracle on Ice? Really?

                Saying the Gophers just got swept by Penn State when they blew them out 7-1 on Saturday? Is the author watching games in an alternate universe?

                Including criticism from Oesicki in an article that blasts the Gophers for playing at the level of lowly programs like OSU? Didn't Mark get canned by OSU?

                Including criticism from Hartzel on which players Don recruited when Hartzel himself recruited the Reillys, Isackson, and Rau when coaching the Stampede? Really Kevin. Doesn't have anything to do with your public disdain for a non-alum coaching the Gophers?

                I could go on and on. The Gopher program is a magnet for this crap. It's either idiot fans from other schools with a bone to grind, numb skull Gopher fans who catch two games a year and think that entitles them to rip the team and player when they don't meet their unrealistic expectations, or some half wit journalist looking to create click bait because they're stuck writing for CityPages and their work doesn't get read.

                Foolishly criticizing the winningest coach in college hockey who has made two Frozen Fours in a title game during that time is one thing, but publishing unsubstantiated nonsense (unattributed to a source I might add) about players being "jerks", etc.. crosses a line.

                /rant
                Last edited by mnstate0fhockey; 01-14-2016, 07:30 PM.
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                • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                  Agreed a poorly researched article, And it is true that it is not a new trend that gopher players are stars in it for themselves without the character to play well as a team. And, notwithstanding the fact that one can cherry pick history to make the gophers look like a top team ( past four years but not five and not this year of course). But above all, the most evergreen of all points the City Pages article makes, is that, YOUR OWN MEDIA CONTINUES TO HATE YOU!

                  No other DI Hockey program can boast this consistent fact... YOUR OWN MEDIA HATES YOU!! L - O - F#$cking L!!!

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                  • Originally posted by wasmania View Post
                    Agreed a poorly researched article, And it is true that it is not a new trend that gopher players are stars in it for themselves without the character to play well as a team. And, notwithstanding the fact that one can cherry pick history to make the gophers look like a top team ( past four years but not five and not this year of course). But above all, the most evergreen of all points the City Pages article makes, is that, YOUR OWN MEDIA CONTINUES TO HATE YOU!

                    No other DI Hockey program can boast this consistent fact... YOUR OWN MEDIA HATES YOU!! L - O - F#$cking L!!!
                    Cherry pick stats? Use the last 5, or this year, and the article is still a joke. Much like your comment that "our media" hates the Gophers. We've gor FIVE D1 teams in state, and not everyone who lives in the Twin Cities is a Gopher fan, Duluth is a UMD fan, St Cloud is an SCSU fan, etc...

                    Tally another in the brain dead opposing fan with an axe to grind column. The only LOL is your idea that the media should be credentialed chearleaders. Are you that fragile?
                    Last edited by mnstate0fhockey; 01-14-2016, 10:44 PM.
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                    • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                      Originally posted by mnstate0fhockey View Post
                      Cherry pick stats? Use the last 5, or this year, and the article is still a joke. Much like your comment that "our media" hates the Gophers. We've gor FIVE D1 teams in state, and not everyone who lives in the Twin Cities is a Gopher fan, Duluth is a UMD fan, St Cloud is an SCSU fan, etc...

                      Tally another in the brain dead opposing fan with an axe to grind column. The only LOL is your idea that the media should be credentialed chearleaders. Are you that fragile?
                      Our own media knows that if they "pick" on the Gophers, they will have rabid fans calling them out. Which means they read the article/heard the podcast. Which means audience, and that is the main goal. Simple marketing.
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                      • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                        Originally posted by mnstate0fhockey View Post
                        No, the majority of the criticism is from anonymous, unnamed sources he attributes to being scouts. If you look at his Twitter timeline, you can see who he reached out to. Only former player is Budish, and no pro scouts.

                        Not to say he didn't reach out to other people by other means, but this guy works for CityPages. Let's be real. My guess is the stuff he attributes to being from "scouts" is second hand information from people who have had a bone to grind with Lucia for 15 years. Just because he isn't an alum.
                        So which is more likely, that this journalist found NHL scouts and Gopher alumni that really don't like the direction of the program, or that he based his article around second hand info?
                        Originally posted by SJHovey
                        Pretty sure this post, made on January 3, 2016, when UNO was 14-3-1 and #2 in the pairwise, will go down in USCHO lore as The Curse of Tipsy McStagger.
                        Originally posted by Brenthoven
                        We mourn for days after a loss, puff out our chests for a week or more after we win. We brave the cold for tailgates, our friends know not to ask about the game after a tough loss, we laugh, we cry, we BLEED hockey, specifically the maroon'n'gold. Many of us have a tattoo waiting in the wings, WHEN (not IF) the Gophers are champions again.

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                        • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                          Originally posted by Tipsy McStagger View Post
                          So which is more likely, that this journalist found NHL scouts and Gopher alumni that really don't like the direction of the program, or that he based his article around second hand info?
                          The latter. Controversy sells.
                          Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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                          • Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                            The latter. Controversy sells.
                            I am sure they are selling a ton of those free papers. The Web traffic must be huge too judging by the 7 comments on the article.
                            Originally posted by SJHovey
                            Pretty sure this post, made on January 3, 2016, when UNO was 14-3-1 and #2 in the pairwise, will go down in USCHO lore as The Curse of Tipsy McStagger.
                            Originally posted by Brenthoven
                            We mourn for days after a loss, puff out our chests for a week or more after we win. We brave the cold for tailgates, our friends know not to ask about the game after a tough loss, we laugh, we cry, we BLEED hockey, specifically the maroon'n'gold. Many of us have a tattoo waiting in the wings, WHEN (not IF) the Gophers are champions again.

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                            • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                              msoh just ignore the morons - you can't argue with stupid.

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                              • Re: Minnesota Gophers Season Thread 2015-16

                                Originally posted by wasmania View Post
                                No other DI Hockey program can boast this consistent fact... YOUR OWN MEDIA HATES YOU!!
                                Is that a fact? I'd like to see how you arrived at that decision. I don't know about other D1 programs and the media's response but with the exception of Patrick Reusse; the Strib, The Twin Cities, Fox Sports, and ESPN radio have all been generally very supportive of Gopher Hockey over the years.

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