I didn't really want to be the one that started this thread.
It's a tad embarrassing to admit to the world that these are easily the most important games that UNO has ever played in the history of the program in the regular season. In fact, nothing else even comes close. I mean, not even remotely close.
On the opposite side of that ledger is North Dakota where that isn't even close to being the case for them and who understandably farts in our general direction because it is for us and, they probably will laugh at us about it.
Worse, ticket sales for this upcoming weekend, to date, are nothing like what you'd expect them to be given the import of these games. I am hopeful for good sales this week as well as a good walk-up (the weather will be great, by January standards, in Omaha) but, as things stand right now we aren't looking at much more than 8,000 to 9,000ish for these two games based on the tickets sales, currently, on Ticketmaster. There are still some decent seats available in the lower bowl on both nights, even. Tickets sales have not yet even been opened up beyond the normally curtained off part of the CenturyLink Center. Worse, my guess is that there will be, as has always been, a significant North Dakota presence in the building. I mean, when UNO played Denver at home a couple weeks ago there was a pretty surprising amount of Fighting Sioux gear in evidence during that series (apparently, nobody in North Dakota has been throwing it away, despite the NCAA's wishes).
Coach Blais has turned up the rhetoric a lot, for him, for this series:
http://www.omaha.com/uno/boone-first...6dd4267b0.html
This is a great quote from him:
“This is the greatest time I can imagine — with UND coming in two weeks and who they are, and us having two weeks of preparation waiting for them,” Blais said. “We’re waiting for them.”
Any North Dakota fan who thinks we "tied" them back on 11-28-14 in Grand Forks (and I have had the "tie thing" thrown in my face here in the forum) better look at the current standings because that game is currently the difference in NCHC standings.
A split is the minimum I'd live with here. We're about to find out just what, exactly, all our freshman are made of. And, Ryan Massa.
Both games are on national television.
In the UNO arena thread, in response to another UNO fan asking me about discourse I have cited in it over the unhappiness within our fanbase about things in the program (almost 100% related to the new arena) and not related to the team, itself, I'll address, sometime this week, the issue of why UNO attendance is the worst it has ever been at this point of the season despite UNO being off to what is easily the greatest start in the history of the program and how they have managed to P.O. fans, right in the middle of building our new arena, even.
Still waiting to see or hear the first commercial on radio or television here in Omaha about next weekend's games.
Yeah, we're a hockey school.
It's a tad embarrassing to admit to the world that these are easily the most important games that UNO has ever played in the history of the program in the regular season. In fact, nothing else even comes close. I mean, not even remotely close.
On the opposite side of that ledger is North Dakota where that isn't even close to being the case for them and who understandably farts in our general direction because it is for us and, they probably will laugh at us about it.
Worse, ticket sales for this upcoming weekend, to date, are nothing like what you'd expect them to be given the import of these games. I am hopeful for good sales this week as well as a good walk-up (the weather will be great, by January standards, in Omaha) but, as things stand right now we aren't looking at much more than 8,000 to 9,000ish for these two games based on the tickets sales, currently, on Ticketmaster. There are still some decent seats available in the lower bowl on both nights, even. Tickets sales have not yet even been opened up beyond the normally curtained off part of the CenturyLink Center. Worse, my guess is that there will be, as has always been, a significant North Dakota presence in the building. I mean, when UNO played Denver at home a couple weeks ago there was a pretty surprising amount of Fighting Sioux gear in evidence during that series (apparently, nobody in North Dakota has been throwing it away, despite the NCAA's wishes).
Coach Blais has turned up the rhetoric a lot, for him, for this series:
http://www.omaha.com/uno/boone-first...6dd4267b0.html
This is a great quote from him:
“This is the greatest time I can imagine — with UND coming in two weeks and who they are, and us having two weeks of preparation waiting for them,” Blais said. “We’re waiting for them.”
Any North Dakota fan who thinks we "tied" them back on 11-28-14 in Grand Forks (and I have had the "tie thing" thrown in my face here in the forum) better look at the current standings because that game is currently the difference in NCHC standings.
A split is the minimum I'd live with here. We're about to find out just what, exactly, all our freshman are made of. And, Ryan Massa.
Both games are on national television.
In the UNO arena thread, in response to another UNO fan asking me about discourse I have cited in it over the unhappiness within our fanbase about things in the program (almost 100% related to the new arena) and not related to the team, itself, I'll address, sometime this week, the issue of why UNO attendance is the worst it has ever been at this point of the season despite UNO being off to what is easily the greatest start in the history of the program and how they have managed to P.O. fans, right in the middle of building our new arena, even.
Still waiting to see or hear the first commercial on radio or television here in Omaha about next weekend's games.
Yeah, we're a hockey school.
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