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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2025-2026

Ooftah said:
I'm referring to the NCAA and, for the Super Bowl, the NFL. Similar things could be said about the IOC with respect to preparations for this past Olympics. If you are putting on a big show, don't skimp where the quality of play and player safety are affected.

What I recall is that the opponent relied less on speed than the Badgers and therefore a poor ice sheet worked in their favor.
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The NCAA also doesn't have the resources that people assume they do. The various NCAA tournaments are its only major source of revenue, and most of them lose money. 60% of that money gets distributed to schools and the NCAA has no control over how it is spent. The College Football Playoffs, which is far more lucrative the the D1 basketball tournaments, have no actual connection the the NCAA. All of the other revenue generated by "NCAA" sports goes directly to the schools.

The only overresourced entities in college athletics are the members of the Big 10 and the SEC, plus a few other universities. Even there, most of the revenue is taken by a small number of schools.
 
Jeepers I never thought I'd see the Badger men play better defense than the Badger women. I'm proud of the boys. The future looks very promising. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.....
 
I see the post by Kennedy on X but no mention of UW being the likely destination - where did you see that piece of info?

Would be a huge get - Mossey is widely regarded as the top 2009 D.
 
Timothy A said:
That guy was so far in over his head. He made so many mistakes, what a dumbass. Good riddance.
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My niece's husband was a walk-on on the football team his freshman year, the same year McIntosh was a freshman. He likes to say that his job at practice was to get off an Aaron Gibson block, and go tackle Ron Dayne, and that's why he only lasted one year (it's not, but it's a good line.)

I asked him how the starters treated the scout team, the practice guys, and he said they were fine; no looking down on them, etc., everyone on the team was "on the team".

So given that, I feel a tiny bit sorry for McIntosh not working out. But Lord, he needed to go!
 
robertearle said:
Chris McIntosh leaving his job as AD.

Speaking for friends who were members of and who know members of the track team alumni: "Oh HELL YES!!"
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We can thank the B1G for applying the Dilbert Principle, promoting incompetent employees into higher-level positions that limit the damage they can do in their current jobs.
 
Ooftah said:
We can thank the B1G for applying the Dilbert Principle, promoting incompetent employees into higher-level positions that limit the damage they can do in their current jobs.
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Omg I loved that book! The place that I worked at when I read that I felt like I was living that book. Completely bonkers. Really sad Scott died a few months ago.
 
This is going to seem totally random, because it pretty much is. And it's going to take a while to get there.

Back starting in 2016 and running a half-dozen years, there was a Canadian TV show called "Letterkenny", about a small town in Canada and the people who live there. Rapid-fire dialogue, very rude, a good amount of swearing, etc etc. I can see people bring put off by that part, but otherwise quite often quite funny. Two of the characters were hockey players, just out of high school. playing for the town's team. A lesser character was an older player on the team named Shorsey, and the scenes between Shorsey and the two other players were nothing more than utterly filthy dialogues of insults from Shoresy to them about their mothers, to which they would response 'Eff you, Shoresy".

So when Letterkenny was over, they spun off the Shoresy character to his own show of that title. He's moved to Sudbury, where he plays "Senior whale-shit hockey" for the Sudbury senior team. Same sort of thing, rapid dialogue, rude, swearing, etc etc. I only got around to starting to watch "Shoresy" a few weeks ago; am currently in "season 4" (a season is only six shows of less than a half-hour).

But in the episode I just watched, Shoresy has had to retire because of concussions, has been talked into being on a hockey-themed internet streamed talk show, and is bemoaning having had to shoot an episode of that show with Tessa Bonhomme and two other actual Canadian women broadcaster whose names I didn't recognize, to another (much younger) male who had been on the show. Shoresy says "Why am I on TV arguing with Sean Avery, and trying to be an expert on women's hockey?" And the other guy replies "You ever heard of Presley Norby?"

And then nothing more. The dialogue goes somewhere else, and at least in episode 3, Norby is not mentioned again. I don't know if she'll get mentioned in the next episodes. And this was all produced back in 2024-25.

It was quite startling. And puzzling. Anybody else watch "Shoresy" or know anything about Presley Norby being mentioned, etc?
 
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Milwaukee Journal has an article this morning saying that all the winter sports coaches received their annual contract extensions. Retirement to the ranch waits at least one more year for MJ.
 
I am current on all episodes of Letterkenny and Shoresy including the season that dropped on Hulu in February. I have been binge-watching for the most part and have missed all references to women's hockey. Sorry I can't contribute to the Norby conversation. For those of you who care, it looks like there will be a Shoresy Season 6. The show hasn't jumped the shark yet but it's hard to see how they keep things going.

Some might be interested to know that Jacob Tierney, the executive producer of Letterkenny and the first two seasons of Shoresy was also executive producer of the more recent, well-received series, Heated Rivalry.
 
Timothy A said:
Robert, what are your thoughts on the b18 volleyball tournament?
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It's been talked about for at least a couple years now, and the concern was always what effect a conference tournament would have on teams playing a bunch of VB right before heading into the NCAA tournament. Would three or more matches tire them out, and hurt their performance in the NCAAs, etc. But the SEC held a conference tournament last year, and went on to have a good NCAA overall, so that kind undercut that argument. Since then, everyone pretty much expected that B1G would follow suit with a tournament. And they're doing some interesting things with the scheduling to mitigate the potential for wearing out the teams with too much VB in a compressed period of time.

Up til now, the regular season was 20 matches, played over ten weeks, so two per week/weekend. Common for teams to play Friday/Saturday, or Friday/Sunday, and often with minimal travel in between; that is, Wisconsin might play at Northwestern on Friday night, then Illinois Saturday or Sunday. Of someone might play at Wisconsin Friday, then at Minnesota Saturday or Sunday. But a couple times through the ten weeks, somebody will play on a Wednesday night - and be featured on BTN - then play only once Saturday or Sunday.

But even more so when they went to 18 teams, a 20 match schedule was 'clunky', because it meant playing all 17 other teams once, but three teams a second time. So they kind of solve that AND mitigate the "lots of VB in a compressed time" problem by cutting the regular season to just 17 matches, once per team. And cutting the ten week schedule down to eight weeks, instead of nine, as one might have thought they would. Guessing a little here, somewhere in the eight weeks, everyone will play three times in that week, Wednesday and then Saturday and Sunday. But then when the tournament comes, it gets played Friday-through-Sunday, rest day Monday, and 'final four' Tuesday and Wednesday. That Wednesday will be the night before Thanksgiving, meaning they'll have the whole of Thanksgiving weekend off leading into "Selection Sunday" for the NCAAs, and the two teams that played for the championship will have at least until the next Thursday (or Friday) for their first NCAA tournament match; a full week off (or more for the two that lose in the semis) between the end of the B1G tournament and the start of the NCAAs.

Downside for us is only eight or nine home conference matches, instead of ten.

It will interesting, and probably good for TV ratings, etc.
 
Any word on where Bickett’s new home will be? Is Wisconsin done with the transfer portal nonsense for this offseason? Has the Mossey mention with respect to Wisconsin panned out?
 
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