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Michigan Getting a Women's Team?

Timothy A said:
Does this affect their women's program?
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It will still exist at D1.

The women are still able to get some significant wins each year both in number of wins, and name brand of opponent which probably helps keep the women’s program going.

The women’s program has lately recruited Europeans who then hit the portal so who knows what the long term future is. Maybe gotta go back to those Stoney Creek girls.

I’m just really interested in the long term path for the sport as a whole from youth all the way up. Lots of things don’t look sustainable unless you have a money tree.
 
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Looks like they are getting a team but it's not a NCAA kind. I guess it's easier to get a PWHL franchise than get one of the universities to act.
University of Michigan Regent Denise Ilitch said on her podcast, "I believe we'll be getting a team in Detroit soon, which really excites me."
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Arreis said:
Looks like they are getting a team but it's not a NCAA kind. I guess it's easier to get a PWHL franchise than get one of the universities to act.
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Well, the billionaire Illitch family can MAKE money off of a pro team, whereas they would have to GIVE money to fund a college team. Vultures.
 
LongGame said:
Well, the billionaire Illitch family can MAKE money off of a pro team, whereas they would have to GIVE money to fund a college team. Vultures.
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From my experience with UM it all comes down to money. Their two options are expand the south end of Yost or build a new arena. From what I hear there is if a new facility is built the administration prefers placing both the men and women's teams in it as they baulk at the thought and cost of operating two separate venues if the men were kept in Yost. After the feasibility study was released there was a lot of pushback from the alumni and some of the larger donors against abandoning Yost.
 
So they are going to let the Epstein Class's loyalty to a 103 year old building (that was built as a multi-purpose field house and that basketball abandoned over 50 years ago) trump the benefits of a new building and a women's program? Morons.
 
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