NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

No complaints here, I"ll be hitting the road early Thursday morning driving 800 miles from Colorado Springs to St. Louis to support Colorado College. Which means I'll be driving through the entire state of Kansas!! If you have done that before you know what I mean. If you have not, no words can describe!

Go CC Tigers!!

Worse than driving through all of PA and the north part of Ohio?

 

[dave29]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

No complaints here, I"ll be hitting the road early Thursday morning driving 800 miles from Colorado Springs to St. Louis to support Colorado College. Which means I'll be driving through the entire state of Kansas!! If you have done that before you know what I mean. If you have not, no words can describe!

Go CC Tigers!!

I feel your pain! Hopefully you won't be doing it alone.

 

[Showstopper]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Thank you to those who responded to my first post. I enjoyed watching BC in the Frozen Four in 2007 and from what i've seen since on TV they've only gotten better. Certainly from the descriptions of CC and what i've seen of them, Michigan, and UNO it should be a fun two days.

CCtig, I feel for you in regards to driving through KansASS. Have a safe trip and hope to see you there.

 

[5thYearFreshman]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

I've driven most of the way through Pennsylvania in one shot and I have driven all the way across Kansas. Kansas has no trees, no large towns west of Wichita and the weather is commonly severe in the summer. I'd rather pull my fingernails out with pliers than drive across Kansas

 

[streaker]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Dude...I'm on your side. I think the UNO poster who joined in February and thinks he invented vulcanizing the puck is misrepresenting the fan base and you're rightly calling him out for it. At some point we need to start acting like we've been here before and let results, rather than misty-eyed reverie about 2000, do the talking.

Sure we hate Michigan. But I like you.

It'll be a great game.

Chalk it up to old age. I apologize, Rick.. just don't get the hating, especially at Mavpuck. It's not like we'll ever see UNO like Ohio State or MSU or Notre Dame, no matter how many times we get beat or how successful UNO's program is. Wasted energy, IMO. That goes along with the act like you've been there before stuff. I respect you, your program, but to be honest, the meter's pretty low with your fanbase that seems to go out of the way to generate the same old bit about us. Yet, everyone I've met in person seems to be okay.

Like I said to other UNO noobs, keep writing checks your program doesn't have deposits to draw from yet. Respect is earned and Friday will go along way towards that. Agree, it will be a good game, but we're rather shorthanded for a team full of NHL draftees. Not sandbagging, but losing a top forward and now, a top four d-man is going to dampen our confidence. We'll see what we're made of and we'll see what either goaltender will do to be the difference, because I DO think that will be the difference. Peace.

 

[streaker]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Yes, let's learn some, shall we?

"A media spokesman for Tom Jacobs, the NCAA Director of Championships, said that the reason the Regionals have not been at Yost has less to do with the offensive language than the fact that having the game at Yost gives Michigan an unfair competitive advantage."

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/fans-athletic-dept-begin-dialogue-hockey-chants

Keeping in mind, other schools like Minnesota and Colorado College have been allowed to host regionals on their home ice since then.

Don't forget about UND, too. Twice I believe, and once against us.

 

[SJHovey]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

If other schools are still allowed to host regionals at their home rink...then yes, we are being punished.

Also, I seem to recall making road trips to Bridgeport and Albany in recent history... .

I am not feeling sorry for you. If you , as a Michigan fan, drove to every single regional (all 20 of them) that Michigan has played in (including this year) since 1992 you would have driven 14,164 miles (round trips).

UND has played just over 2/3 the number of regionals during that same span, yet we've had to drive 25,812 miles. That's an average round trip of 708 miles for Michigan versus 1844 for North Dakota. You guys have been on exactly two trips in 20 years that were at least 1844 miles, and that's our friggin' average trip.

Let's be blunt. Michigan fans were spoiled by about 10-12 straight years of playing within two hours drive of your campus. I would be too, but welcome to the real world of college hockey.

 

[CCtig]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

I feel your pain! Hopefully you won't be doing it alone.

Going with gmf1a and ronmexico!! Come join us Dave!!

 

[kdilks]

I am not feeling sorry for you. If you , as a Michigan fan, drove to every single regional (all 20 of them) that Michigan has played in (including this year) since 1992 you would have driven 14,164 miles (round trips).

UND has played just over 2/3 the number of regionals during that same span, yet we've had to drive 25,812 miles. That's an average round trip of 708 miles for Michigan versus 1844 for North Dakota. You guys have been on exactly two trips in 20 years that were at least 1844 miles, and that's our friggin' average trip.

Let's be blunt. Michigan fans were spoiled by about 10-12 straight years of playing within two hours drive of your campus. I would be too, but welcome to the real world of college hockey.

Why is this relevant? North Dakota is out on the fringe of the college hockey footprint. They only have one viable host site nearby. Michigan is smack dab in the middle, with plenty of viable sites nearby. How much does Minnesota travel, on average?

It's not as much about things being close to Michigan, as things being within the CCHA footprint. I wouldn't care if they rotated in regionals in Columbus or upper Michigan (if a viable site existed). But when your conference hosts a regional, it shouldn't be in a location that's distant for every single member school.

 

[dave29]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Going with gmf1a and ronmexico!! Come join us Dave!!

I wish I could. I will be watching at home and I expect to see all of you on TV Friday night!

 

[Eaglefan06]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Why is this relevant? North Dakota is out on the fringe of the college hockey footprint. They only have one viable host site nearby. Michigan is smack dab in the middle, with plenty of viable sites nearby. How much does Minnesota travel, on average?

It's not as much about things being close to Michigan, as things being within the CCHA footprint. I wouldn't care if they rotated in regionals in Columbus or upper Michigan (if a viable site existed). But when your conference hosts a regional, it shouldn't be in a location that's distant for every single member school.

You do realize that the CCHA chose to host the regional in St. Louis right?

 

[kdilks]

You do realize that the CCHA chose to host the regional in St. Louis right?

Yes, and and the whole point of mgoblog saying to not go is to protest that choice.

 

[Eaglefan06]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Yes, and and the whole point of mgoblog saying to not go is to protest that choice.

No it isn't.

The CCHA is the only conference to get so regularly screwed. I don't think the committee actually cares—if they did we'd have home regionals for top seeds—but on the off chance a St. Louis regional featuring 50 people in an NHL building is the hockey equivalent of Houston Nutt signing 37 kids you should save your money.

That quote directly from the blog hardly says "protest the CCHA's choice."

 

[streaker]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

You do realize that the CCHA chose to host the regional in St. Louis right?

And you do realize who the CCHA Commish used to be, right? Then you would understand the decision by the CCHA to bid /host in St.Louis. This was one of the many gaffes he made. Maybe he thought the CCHA was going to accept UAH and thus widen the regional footprint.

 

[wolverine318]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

waaah waaah waaaaaa!

Sorry, but this sounds a bit like a kid I knew in High School who was angry at his parents for buying him a new Honda Civic. He had already wrecked a Land Cruiser and a Camaro Z28 that his parents had bought for him previously.

First, if you want a Regional in your area, bid on it and win. Not having a local regional is the fault of the people who didn't bid. No one is punishing you for your student section. Learn about the bid and award process for the regionals before making absurd complaints.

Second, no other school has had as many local regionals as Michigan. Sorry, but those are the facts. Almost every other team's fans need to travel for the regionals every year. For Michigan to need to travel occasionally is just a small taste of what the rest of the college hockey community deals with every year - IF they're fortunate enough to make the tournament.

you don't have to be a d0uche about it

 

[J.D.]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

If other schools are still allowed to host regionals at their home rink...then yes, we are being punished.

Also, I seem to recall making road trips to Bridgeport and Albany in recent history... .

Someone please provide some info on this because I thought the NCAA was steering away from on-campus regional sites. I know Mariucci was the last one in 2009 (and Minnesota didn't even make the tournament).

Yes, and and the whole point of mgoblog saying to not go is to protest that choice.

It comes across that you're angry at the NCAA when your issue is really with your own conference.

And you do realize who the CCHA Commish used to be, right? Then you would understand the decision by the CCHA to bid /host in St.Louis. This was one of the many gaffes he made. Maybe he thought the CCHA was going to accept UAH and thus widen the regional footprint.

Just curious, are you saying this because you think he had an anti-Michigan bias or because he was simply incompetent?

 

[SJHovey]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Why is this relevant? North Dakota is out on the fringe of the college hockey footprint. They only have one viable host site nearby. Michigan is smack dab in the middle, with plenty of viable sites nearby. How much does Minnesota travel, on average?

It's not as much about things being close to Michigan, as things being within the CCHA footprint. I wouldn't care if they rotated in regionals in Columbus or upper Michigan (if a viable site existed). But when your conference hosts a regional, it shouldn't be in a location that's distant for every single member school.

St. Louis is in the WCHA footprint?

I don't like holding regionals in far flung areas either. On the other hand, the NCAA has decided to try to do this to expand college hockey's base, and I think it's silly for Michigan fans to boycott it to show their distaste.

Even though Michigan is more centrally located in college hockey than UND, it's not like either school is on the east cost where everything is 2 hours drive away. The two western conferences have a lot of area to cover, and it seems to me the occasional NCAA trip Michigan is forced to take more than 2 hours from Yost is part of the price of playing college hockey, and playing in the West.

As for Minnesota, they've had to travel an average of 1037 miles to their regionals.

 

[kdilks]

No it isn't.



That quote directly from the blog hardly says "protest the CCHA's choice."

Technically it's a combination of the CCHA choosing to put in a bid there, and the committee for accepting it. But you wouldn't be hearing complaints (at least not the same complaints) if this were at Joe Louis, the Palace, Yost, Munn, Van Andel, K-wings stadium, Fort Wayne, United Center, Nationwide Arena, Schottenstein Center, Toledo, etc. Keeping in mind, most of these wouldn't just be good locations for Michigan (who wouldn't necesarily get placed there unless they were hosting, see 2009 where we got Bridgeport when Van Andel was a site), but also for Notre Dame, Miami, Michigan State, Western Michigan, Ohio State, Bowling Green, and Ferris State

 

[streaker]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

Just curious, are you saying this because you think he had an anti-Michigan bias or because he was simply incompetent?

The latter. He didn't do enough to promote the other conference members and rode the media gravy train that Michigan and MSU provided, until recently that is. Believe it or not, there were some schools in the CCHA upset about UNO bolting and some of the reasons why directly related to how they perceived they were treated in comparison to Michigan and MSU.

I'm not sure what his personal stance was on the UAH debacle, but the P.R. was horrible. Then this whole thing, now, smack in the apex of the college hockey season. I can't blame him for allowing the BTC to steal the spotlight during the CCHA tournament, but it figures, especially when Miami claims their first ever conference tourney title.

I think that he missed the boat in a few areas, but it had nothing to do with how he personally feels about Michigan.

 

[wooderson]

Re: NCAA West Regional - 3/25, 3/26 - BC, Michigan, UNO, CC

I am not feeling sorry for you. If you , as a Michigan fan, drove to every single regional (all 20 of them) that Michigan has played in (including this year) since 1992 you would have driven 14,164 miles (round trips).

UND has played just over 2/3 the number of regionals during that same span, yet we've had to drive 25,812 miles. That's an average round trip of 708 miles for Michigan versus 1844 for North Dakota. You guys have been on exactly two trips in 20 years that were at least 1844 miles, and that's our friggin' average trip.

Let's be blunt. Michigan fans were spoiled by about 10-12 straight years of playing within two hours drive of your campus. I would be too, but welcome to the real world of college hockey.

Not a lot going on today up in North Dakota huh???