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EZAC??? I think not!!!

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Gotta love people slinging personal insults screaming about others being obnoxious. You just can't make this stuff up.
 
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matt said:
In any case, it's more complicated than that, because I'm pretty sure the Ivies still operate that infernal "Academic Index" to restrict who they can admit. Without the AI, I would expect the main barrier to be financial, not academic.
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When I was in school and dinosaurs roamed the Earth the Ivy rule of thumb was that of every ten blue chip prospects you could immediately exclude nine because they would never be admitted. That was before counting the financial barrier of not being able to offer athletic scholarships.

HYP have been very aggressive about closing the middle class "donut hole" of financial hardship, to the point where tuition costs are significantly less of a barrier now. However, academics will always really cull the herd of recruits -- that's just the nature of the beast. Cornell and Yale have shown it doesn't have to cripple your program. In the past Harvard had success as well, but right now for whatever reason they're a hot mess. The other three programs don't have the same amount of institutional commitment yet, though Princeton seems to be building a solid foundation.
 
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duper said:
So in other words, you're full of malarkey. Pretty much what I thought. :D

Perhaps you have observed a different set of data than me, but I have seen literally no WCHA fans that I would describe as butt-hurt. Meanwhile, I have seen at least five or sic ECAC fans who are working super hard to prove something that makes no difference whatsoever. Given that, as many of you have mentioned, there are MANY more WCHA fans on these boards than there are ECAC fans... :) I haven't even seen any WCHA fans particularly pulling for St. Cloud, other than, you know, St. Cloud fans.
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Here's an example, since you are too witless to learn how to use the search engine. From after Yale beat Minnesota:
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Alright, while I'm totally on the ship of making Gopher fans feel bad, don't try and fallacy this into thinking that the leagues are the same. If the regular season didn't matter, they would start the season in March and just have a tourney style free-for-all. You make it a best of 5 series, and there isn't an ECAC team that beats any of the teams in the top half of the WCHA. They aren't comparable conferences. That's why they give automatic qualifiers. Yale played a one game and done game against a much better opponent and won. Consider it an anomaly and be happy for what it is.
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TYPICAL of WCHA homers, and it wouldn't ever stop, except the league itself is basically ending. Mercy kill.
 
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Gallant Union Goalie 95 said:
I said it is easier to get into a school like Michigan than a school like Union as per the grades you need to get in. An A at Union was minimum 92% and an 80 was a B-!! So yeah good grades at Union would be tougher to achieve
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Isn't this the same everywhere? It was at UMass, Boston College, and is at the Community College I teach at...
 
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jjmc85 said:
Isn't this the same everywhere? It was at UMass, Boston College, and is at the Community College I teach at...
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What's a C at Harvard? I've read newspaper reports that that fine school gives out A's and B's like candy.
 
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The EZAC is having a nice year. It's the moronic fans that think that one year (or even 3, to throw out a number) makes them as good as HE/WCHA on a regular basis.

Too many of you are suffering from what is known as "Jan Brady" Syndrome. Yelling and jumping like Pinocchio "WE'RE A REAL CONFERENCE! WE'RE A REAL CONFERENCE!" makes the lot of you look like babies crying for attention. Celebrate your good year, and if this success continues, respect will be earned as such.

Until then, just smile and hope your conference (if not your team) wins the title.
 
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matt said:
Oh, put a sock in it. You're too lazy to look up the threads, is all. And you're a liar to boot, since that "what I thought" is exactly what you just said were were not thinking.
The WCHA folks on these boards tend to be an obnoxious lot.

Oh, and I will find the post for you, since you too idiotic to use a search engine. I'll find more than a few. It's the rule, not the exception.
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Yes, I am too lazy to go look for the point you want to prove. I said I was curious to see it, not that I wanted to spend 4 seconds finding it. :D
matt said:
Here's an example, since you are too witless to learn how to use the search engine. From after Yale beat Minnesota:
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Originally Posted by dogs2012
Alright, while I'm totally on the ship of making Gopher fans feel bad, don't try and fallacy this into thinking that the leagues are the same. If the regular season didn't matter, they would start the season in March and just have a tourney style free-for-all. You make it a best of 5 series, and there isn't an ECAC team that beats any of the teams in the top half of the WCHA. They aren't comparable conferences. That's why they give automatic qualifiers. Yale played a one game and done game against a much better opponent and won. Consider it an anomaly and be happy for what it is.
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TYPICAL of WCHA homers, and it wouldn't ever stop, except the league itself is basically ending. Mercy kill.
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I find it amusing that you take my apathy for stupidity. I think it says something about you.

Anyway, I have never heard of that poster, which doesn't mean much. Presumably he or she is a Duluth fan, and I don't spend much time in their threads.

Here's something you might consider though: A WCHA fan who makes a point of routinely going into ECAC threads and being an a-hole might just be a troll. Just as an ECAC fan who makes a point of routinely going into WCHA threads might just be a troll. Most WCHA fans (note Brenthoven just before my post here as well as me earlier) recognize that a nummber of ECAC teams have had phenomenal years, that the conference itself had a great year overall, and that it has been much better the past few years than in the past. THAT, my friend, is typical of WCHA fans. However, while the ECAC has had a great few years, they have to maintain that before we will accept them as an equal league. That's just how it is.
 
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Let me sum up this thread:

ECAC has had a great year.
Normally they are not impressive.
They are getting better as a conference but need to keep showing consistency to be taken seriously.

On another note props to Yale for beating both Minn. and UND out west, that is an extremely impressive feat.
Quinnipiac beat Yale 3 times, so how good is this team?
 
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still an empty net said:
Let me sum up this thread:

ECAC has had a great year.
Normally they are not impressive.
They are getting better as a conference but need to keep showing consistency to be taken seriously.

On another note props to Yale for beating both Minn. and UND out west, that is an extremely impressive feat.
Quinnipiac beat Yale 3 times, so how good is this team?
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Yale, or Quinnipiac?
Quinnipiac routed Yale 3 times. None of the games were close, either in play or on the scoreboard.
Yale is 4-0 against WCHA teams, all on the road, with 3 being against NCAA tournament teams. When they play disciplined hockey and avoid dumb penalties, they are very, very good. I was at the West Regional games, and those results were no flukes.
Not that I believe either are particularly better than UM-Lowell or SCSU, but at this point they've both proved themselves.
 
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berbs91 said:
I looked at the numbers and 16 ECAC representatives have more NCAA wins than the Nebraska-Omaha Mavs.

And only Princeton doesn't have more than them.

Nebraska-Omaha is like Vanderbilt claiming they are a good football team, except with inferior academics.
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Nebraska-Omaha doesn't have a football team anymore, or their wrestling team. The dishonorable Trev Alberts called the wrestling team right after they won their third straight NCAA D2 National Championship to tell them and the football team were getting dropped so that UNO could go D1 in everything else. :mad:
 
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