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2019-20 Michigan Tech Season Thread. Broetzman has us off to a Bliss-ful start!

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The 2017 WCHA Championship game will be on the Michigan Tech Huskies YouTube page at 5pm tonight.
 
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Lost_Husky said:
Why because of the NBA G league poaching a few basketball recruits?

Personally I think the NCAA hockey model is moving along. (It is concerning what is going on with UAX schools and how the rest of college hockey is more or less letting them die on the vine while they swoon over ULI, St Thomas speculation, Illinois flirt job, Oakland, and other yet unknown schools.) Two NCAA coaches are now head coach in the NHL and more and more players with NCAA commitment/ice time are being drafted and playing in the NHL.

For hockey things ebb and flow if they prefer college, major juniors, or international. I'm with you that I think for the sustainability of the league and players/potential players, the NCAA route gives them the most chance at professional hockey and professional life success.
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The NBA thing is actually pretty big. Between the NBL and this USNTDP sound-a-like, plus the removal of the restrictions that lead to one-and-done, I think that the NCAA's role as a tastemaker for big-time NBA prospects under age 20 may be gone. [As a Duke fan, this is my concern, Dude.]

I really believe in the NCAA model as a complement to junior hockey. It's a lot like HS draftees vs. college players in baseball, except the NCAA has more leverage in baseball about guys leaving.

GFM
 
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gfmorris said:
The NBA thing is actually pretty big. Between the NBL and this USNTDP sound-a-like, plus the removal of the restrictions that lead to one-and-done, I think that the NCAA's role as a tastemaker for big-time NBA prospects under age 20 may be gone. [As a Duke fan, this is my concern, Dude.]

I really believe in the NCAA model as a complement to junior hockey. It's a lot like HS draftees vs. college players in baseball, except the NCAA has more leverage in baseball about guys leaving.

GFM
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Yes, it is a big issue for NCAA Basketball, but they survived before the one and done rule. Not everyone is going to skip college. There are enough players to go around. Maybe we won't be seeing the best of the best on a college court, but we sure see a lot of good ones. (BTW, I won't be shedding any tears if Duke loses a recruit to a pro/developmental league. Ever since Christian Laettner all the way through Grayson Allen, can't stand Coach K (he is just as corrupt as John Calipari), and having to listen to Dicky V and other talking heads blab on about Duke makes me turn off whatever I was listening/watching. In the places NCAA hockey is popular, it doesn't matter they don't get all/most/some of the draft picks. People are fans of the sport and school. If any impact this will have, it will hurt the smaller budget schools. Instead of having an extra star guy slip to them. They will have have to make due without "that guy".

The NCAA will always be a compliment because of the extra rules/requirements (being a student) associated with it.

Could the reason baseball has more control is they are dealing with an overall lower level of skill players than hockey?
 
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Two Tech recruits drafted in the USHL Phase II Draft:

Round 8 - #116 - Green Bay - Charles-Edward Tardif
Round 9 - #126 - Des Moines - Evan Orr
 
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The head of CMU was interviewed on the radio yesterday. He said: Are you going to have classes in the fall.... Maybe but not in the same way. we'll do some distance learning. how much, we don't know. Will students be in the dorms, some will. but really we don't know. Will staffing be cut. We've had a lot of retires but might have more cuts, we don't know. Will tuition go up. Not at first. Do you expect enrollment to decline? a little bit, but not too much.
 
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redwing61 said:
Schedule is out. https://www.michigantechhuskies.com/sports/mice/2020-21/schedule

Non-conference series
Michigan
@ Clarkson
GLI
Arizona State

Not hosting Bowling Green or Alaska. Not traveling to Ferris State or Lake Superior State.

Also not leaving the U.P. the entire month of February.
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I won't argue with a trip to Houghton in late October! Hoping fans can attend games at that time.

It is a nice February schedule for Tech to pick up a lot of WCHA points.
 
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Lost_Husky said:
That's going to hurt.

One would assume they would do everything they can to maintain their MAC and NCHC requirements.
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Coach Murray took a voluntary 25% pay cut. Football will get hit hard all over the MAC. You have to wonder if students will be showing up on campus in late August. It's not all that far away any longer.
 
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manurespreader said:
Coach Murray took a voluntary 25% pay cut. Football will get hit hard all over the MAC. You have to wonder if students will be showing up on campus in late August. It's not all that far away any longer.
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Bowling Green's president announced that BG is planning to open their campus to students in the fall with the idea of being flexible all summer to adapt their plan as needed due to the Covid-19.
 
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Hockey John said:
Bowling Green's president announced that BG is planning to open their campus to students in the fall with the idea of being flexible all summer to adapt their plan as needed due to the Covid-19.
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I can see that and several downstate Michigan universities have announced their intention to open. However, you have to wonder if you are a student, are you ok with sitting in some lecture hall with 200 of your closest friends from all over the country? I wouldn't be. Now I could see, if a vaccine is available By late fall, vaccinating the team and then letting them play, but there has to be students or the NCAA will not allow sports.

And if they do open, are students going to be punished for not attending class? Plus, how are the dorms going to maintain distance, I mean you have to eat at some point right?
 
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manurespreader said:
I can see that and several downstate Michigan universities have announced their intention to open. However, you have to wonder if you are a student, are you ok with sitting in some lecture hall with 200 of your closest friends from all over the country? I wouldn't be. Now I could see, if a vaccine is available By late fall, vaccinating the team and then letting them play, but there has to be students or the NCAA will not allow sports.

And if they do open, are students going to be punished for not attending class? Plus, how are the dorms going to maintain distance, I mean you have to eat at some point right?
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Not just the country also the world.

If I was a healthy student, I wouldn't be worried. Statistically, their risk is very low. The people that should be worried are professors, student interacting university staff, students with preexisting conditions, and the community.

That said, the real issue is schools/universities/dorms are ideal places for coronavirus to spread. Try to do contact tracing on campus. If someone in Wads had it, the whole dorm would be covered/exposed in a matter of hours. This stuff lives on nonporous surfaces (under room temp and no UV light) for days.

The biggest issue, how many ICU patients can the UP heath system handle? Would you want to wait 2 hours to get to Marquette if you couldn't breath? Would Marquette have enough beds because NMU students returning would introduce the same risks. One could argue there should be more medical resources available to help and better treatment protocols to improve survival rate and reduce overall system capacity/improve recovery rates.

Then there is the risk to the economy as well. They can't keep the students away forever (ie until a vaccine is approved and distributed).
 
Lost_Husky said:
Not just the country also the world.

If I was a healthy student, I wouldn't be worried. Statistically, their risk is very low. The people that should be worried are professors, student interacting university staff, students with preexisting conditions, and the community.

That said, the real issue is schools/universities/dorms are ideal places for coronavirus to spread. Try to do contact tracing on campus. If someone in Wads had it, the whole dorm would be covered/exposed in a matter of hours. This stuff lives on nonporous surfaces (under room temp and no UV light) for days.

The biggest issue, how many ICU patients can the UP heath system handle? Would you want to wait 2 hours to get to Marquette if you couldn't breath? Would Marquette have enough beds because NMU students returning would introduce the same risks. One could argue there should be more medical resources available to help and better treatment protocols to improve survival rate and reduce overall system capacity/improve recovery rates.

Then there is the risk to the economy as well. They can't keep the students away forever (ie until a vaccine is approved and distributed).
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Some good thoughts about Tech’s geography. The general population (non-academic) of Houghton / Hancock was fairly old when I attended (long, long ago) and that would be a concern as well.
 
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Redridge said:
Some good thoughts about Tech’s geography. The general population (non-academic) of Houghton / Hancock was fairly old when I attended (long, long ago) and that would be a concern as well.
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Hancock's permanent residents are still predominately older than dirt, probably even more-so than your day.
 
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Info from as far back as mid-April based on an MTU meeting At the time MTU was planning on to be ready for Fall being a mix of online and face to face classes. What will be announced remains to be seen.

The UP geography offers it's own social distancing showing low numbers. Many of the death numbers are due to infections in nursing homes.

Testing is available on campus, literally doing testing of samples in a bio-med lab that was taken over. Emergency locations have been prepped on the MTU and NMU campuses if needed; ie part of the SDC and I believe Yooper dome in MQT. The new hospital in MQT is smaller than the previous one. The old hospital still stands though not sure what is functional. For Tech, the newer hospital with any capacity is located north of Hancock.

Not sure it is pertinent though it is interesting as there are a fair amount of Chinese professors and a couple of hundred Chinese students that attend Tech.

Remember this hit while classes were in session, and even after going online many students both from MTU and NMU stayed on campus or in Houghton. Anecdotally I have been told many students wanted to stay on campus even against their parents' wishes. Since then new cases have dropped dramatically in MI overall and are still mostly in specific high density areas in the state.

I think much still matters on the governor who recently stated there will not be stadiums full of people allowed come the fall.

I've personally noticed a few things if anyone concurs it would be interesting. Though more people are wearing masks, most do not do so properly and many constantly touch and adjust their masks. Driving has gotten worse, I see people not obeying signs, signals or lanes. This does not include speed limits. Even before the gov started opening things up I noticed many things being done, home remodels, lawn and landscape care, much being done via cash only no other record.
 
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giwan said:
Not sure it is pertinent though it is interesting as there are a fair amount of Chinese professors and a couple of hundred Chinese students that attend Tech.
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Considering the US has the most confirmed cases and deaths perhaps you should have worded it thus:

Not sure it is pertinent though it is interesting as there are a vast majority of American professors and thousands of American students that attend Tech.



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MTUHuskies said:
Considering the US has the most confirmed cases and deaths perhaps you should have worded it thus:
Not sure it is pertinent though it is interesting as there are a vast majority of American professors and thousands of American students that attend Tech.
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Also has most recovered, but raw numbers like that don't mean much.
 
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giwan said:
Also has most recovered, but raw numbers like that don't mean much.
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Most recovered is a great statistic. But that is mostly because we have the most cases.

My real point, that I assumed (and wished) I wouldn't have to spell out, is why would you point out Chinese professors and students. What difference does that make?

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