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NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**

Spartanforlife4 said:
I can’t remember if it was a trial run to bring things back to campus or if it was because literally no one else bid for a midwest region. Either way, might as well flood it with campus bids and force them to choose an arena smaller than 75% of D1 home rinks, which is actually a home rink in itself.
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Given the amount of programs Minnesota and Michigan have, it’s wild that those two states really only have one qualifying building right now- which is Grand Rapids I believe.
 
The last ten or so posts here should have been a two-slide presentation with bullets on why this sucks and what the western teams are going to do about it.

one goddamn qualifying rink in Minnesota and Michigan. Lmao.
 
aparch said:
K-Wings Stadium is *right* up the street and how many regional have been hosted there?
Van Andel?
Every ECHL arena in the Central division?

All location that could suitably host but it's the same sh*t cities.

Maybe the problem is the cost of renting out to the NCAA when the areas will lose oulose ad revenue and beer sales? Or the cost these schools have to incurr?

Wasn't it the CCHA or WCHA that opted to host a regional instead of a school a few years ago? Maybe that needs to be the change to draw more attention?

Or maybe everything in this world is too goddammed expensive and the usual fan bases that could pack for a road trip in a week to see their team just can't afford it anymore.
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Wings Stadium isn't good enough for a regional. Well, I guess it is since we played in a 2k arena in MO this year, but yeah I wouldn't want to host it at Wings. It is pretty old and the area around the arena has little to do.

WMU hosted at Van Andel in the early 00's, but the attendance was terrible. I think one year we didn't have any teams from Michigan, and another was only Sparty. I'm certain that WMU took a loss from hosting it. That said, if we are allowed to host at the new downtown arena, I think it would be a huge success. Particularly with the resent rise in Michigan teams. UM/MSU/WMU/MTU are all quality teams currently, with Notre Dame a 50/50 shot at making the tourney as well. Kalamazoo is so well located it feels like it should be a constant Midwest regional location.
 
Austen Swankler found a new team... in Division III. He's apparently transferred to Chatham.

Goes from a Michigan commit > getting an all-time gift to play in the NCAA > CCHA preseason player of the year > tries to blow up BGSU and goes to Tech > a D3 team that was 11-15 last year.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Austen Swankler found a new team... in Division III. He's apparently transferred to Chatham.

Goes from a Michigan commit > getting an all-time gift to play in the NCAA > CCHA preseason player of the year > tries to blow up BGSU and goes to Tech > a D3 team that was 11-15 last year.
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Goofs around with two NCAA teams then ends up in Erie where he gets chased for doing god knows what, gets a gift from the NCAA, has two incredible years at BG, goes to the VGK development camp last summer and lasts 4 days before getting tossed, tries to blow up the BG program, lands at Tech where he plays 10 games and flunks out, then hits the portal to discover there are no takers before landing at a DIII school in Pittsburgh where he can live at home with mom and dad while gearing up for a possible SPHL career. Or so I've heard...
 
There's only 4 more days for the portal to be open and according to USCHO half of the players who posted haven't landed anywhere.

Do they have to formally rescind within the window, or do they just devolve back to their former team if they go unclaimed?
 
Kepler said:
There's only 4 more days for the portal to be open and according to USCHO half of the players who posted haven't landed anywhere.

Do they have to formally rescind within the window, or do they just devolve back to their former team if they go unclaimed?
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Something like 20% of players in football and/or basketball don’t find a home after entering the portal. Their athletic and/or academic careers just end.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Something like 20% of players in football and/or basketball don’t find a home after entering the portal. Their athletic and/or academic careers just end.
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Are they prevented by NC$$ rules from going back, or did they just burn their bridges so bad they're dead meat?
 
I think the other question to ask is how many of these kids went to the portal after a conversation with the coach where it was made clear opportunities going forward would be limited to nonexistent.
 
TalonsUpPuckDown said:
I think the other question to ask is how many of these kids went to the portal after a conversation with the coach where it was made clear opportunities going forward would be limited to nonexistent.
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So, pushed not jumped. I hadn't thought about that possibility.
 
Kepler said:
So, pushed not jumped. I hadn't thought about that possibility.
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People do forget this aspect of a percentage of portal entries. Could also be their scholarship was pulled for one reason or another.

There could also be purely academic reasons -- they want to change majors which their current school doesn't have, they've graduated and have a year left of eligibility but their current school can't accommodate them for graduate studies, etc. And some of these players are not good enough to grab another spot or teams just don't have room for them because they are not superstars.
 
This news came out of left field. But I guess UST is being serious with their jump and willing to put their $$$ behind the program.

But yea, Mankato has to be big mad over this. They are stuck on Misfit Island for the long haul now.
 
It makes sense since St Thomas is a Summit League school. Join conference-mates Omaha, Denver, North Dakota amid rumors the Summit might absorb the NCHC.

Likely ends any talk of Miami going back to the CCHA now that they’re at ten members. And with all the talk of Minnesota St being left out, BG is there too. They’ll now be the lone D1 school that isn’t with any other D1 schools, separated from their own fellow MAC members.
 
RaceBoarder said:
This news came out of left field. But I guess UST is being serious with their jump and willing to put their $$$ behind the program.

But yea, Mankato has to be big mad over this. They are stuck on Misfit Island for the long haul now.
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It puts the NCHC at 9 teams now. I think it could just as easily be the carrot/rod set in place by the NCHC as *the example* for Mankato to do the same as UST to throw money at the sport.
 
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