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NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**
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He fixes the cable?
Couldn’t care less. Over the outdoor game gimmick.
St. Clown
Ideas Posted are Likely Not My Own
I attended the outdoor OSU game at nee TCF Stadium, when it was about 3 degrees and a bit windy. The ice was junk, and the players uncomfortable; the game ended 1-0 after an unimpressive game where it seemed like a bouncing puck was the impactful aspect all game. I’m good with not attending another outdoor game.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Schlossman today reports reason st Thomas rushed into nchc is that both st thomas and nchc believed the ccha was 48 hours away from voting to increase fee for exiting the league
apparently now st Thomas believes that the ccha may kick them out a year early and it’s gonna be very difficult to get tommies into nchc a year early
apparently now st Thomas believes that the ccha may kick them out a year early and it’s gonna be very difficult to get tommies into nchc a year early
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Spend a year as an Indy. \_(ツ)_/
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Outdoor is great when it's pond hockey. When it's in a big stadium it's just fake and gross.
They should play one game a year on a pond in Northern Minnesota or Michigan or on Lake Chaplain with no fans. Just put a handful of cameras in the trees (so, can't be North Dakota) and let the kids and the refs alone. It would be the greatest game of the year.
Tell the advertisers and the vendors to get f-cked.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
What? The conference that was formed by a group of schools solely because they wanted to selfishly kill three programs they didn’t like is now being b1tchy with a school that is leaving them? I am shocked! Shocked!
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Three? Who was the third school besides the Alaska schools? Was Huntsville in the WCHA at that time? I'm an Easterner. I don't follow that Western cr*p. LOL
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Yup, Huntsville was in the WCHA. The CCHA was formed solely to cut out Huntsville and the Alaska schools.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Outdoor is great when it's pond hockey. When it's in a big stadium it's just fake and gross.
They should play one game a year on a pond in Northern Minnesota or Michigan or on Lake Chaplain with no fans. Just put a handful of cameras in the trees (so, can't be North Dakota) and let the kids and the refs alone. It would be the greatest game of the year.
Tell the advertisers and the vendors to get f-cked.
I'd PPV that
TalonsUpPuckDown
Roll along you BG Warriors!
I get the sense there is a correlation between distance from St. Paul and the level of ire exhibited over the situation. Mankato fans are beside themselves. Tech fans seem more irritated than anything. BG fans are "meh, they were leaving anyway, it's one less trip to MN for us, whatever."
FadeToBlack&Gold
No Quarter for Fascists
St. Thomas was never staying in the CCHA to begin with, the writing was on the wall the minute they hired Rico. They think they are too rich to be hanging out with the also-ran pubbies.
Rico got bounced from Miami because his teams were unsuccessful in the NCHC. Why won't the Tommies be a repeat?
FadeToBlack&Gold
No Quarter for Fascists
Miami is a football school that managed to make hockey relevant during the CCHA years. Rico obviously struggled to transition that success to the NCHC, I suspect in large part because his usual recruiting pitch to Detroit-area talent of regularly competing against Michigan, Michigan State, and Notre Dame was killed off by the realignment. He has demonstrated that he can coach (though I'm sure the 2009 title game loss still stings a little).
I think the Tommies are considerably better located being in the Twin Cities, and likely enjoy more institutional support than the RedHawks. Selling St. Thomas regularly competing against ND, Denver, etc. is easier to recruits in the most mature, hockey-saturated market in the United States. Could the move still flop? Yeah, certainly. However, I think they've got a good shot at achieving at least a WMU-level of competitiveness in the NCHC.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
I swear some people think it’s like Mac or Carleton and well known. As someone who has lived on both coasts and multiple European nations I feel strongly that it’s not really known outside the Midwest. Where as a lot of rich people on coasts send their kids to Mac and Carleton.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Interesting. I would have sworn up and down that st Thomas was the better known of the three. But still relatively unknown outside the Midwest.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
I did a LOT of college recruiting for 15 years so I am pretty deep into the various schools, their reps, which ones suck for career development etc
last I checked Mac has more kids from CA and NY than MN and Iowa
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
I'd heard of both of them. I'd heard of Augsberg and St. Olaf. I had no idea St. Thomas existed until they went D-1.