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Programs Starving for a Title

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Bullmoose said:
I will settle for an ECAC tournament championship -- but unfortunately, we have to win a semifinal game first, which we haven't done since a 6-4 win over Clarkson in 1980... :mad:

I don't think we'll win a National Championship in my lifetime...
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Time to step it up! :)
 
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UMDbulldogs#1 said:
Pretty much since the beginning of college hockey.
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Which would be? Early 30's? With the first National Championship game being played in 1948? (if I heard the Frozen Four trivia correctly)
Bullmoose said:
I will settle for an ECAC tournament championship -- but unfortunately, we have to win a semifinal game first, which we haven't done since a 6-4 win over Clarkson in 1980... :mad:

I don't think we'll win a National Championship in my lifetime...
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I thought the very same thing...

And look what happened!
 
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Biddco said:
How long have these programs been in existence?
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Of the ones I've been listing, according to the college hockey archives AND the schools web pages:

St. Lawerence- started in 1925, joined the Tri-State League in 1950
Dartmouth- started in 1905, joined the Ivy in 1933 (and won a lot of championships in those days)
Clarkson- started in 1920, joined Tri-State in 1950 (I suspect that the league formed in 1950)

all three joined the ECAC when it formed in 1961.

So they have been around for a LOOOOONG time. Long enough to give them move over a lot of younger teams.

then again, UNH has been playing hockey since 1925, and joined the ECAC in 1961. So it's been long for them, too.

IMHO, if you have won, ever, that is more recent than these teams. Even if it was 60 years ago. And many of these teams were elite teams back at one time.
 
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manurespreader said:
Didn't Blackbeards ship go down off Providence. That would put you, on the map so to speak.
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That would also explain why our school colors and black and white. And weren't the Dominicans big in Spain at that time? Too bad Seton Hall took "Pirates" before we did...

I should start excavating under Fennell Hall and see if I can dig up some pieces of eight.
 
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drshoen said:
Actually, Clarkson finished 1955-56 undefeated (23-0-0). Because freshmen weren't allowed in the FF at the time, Clarkson decided not to go.
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Not freshman, but seniors who had played 4 years - a no-no to the NCAA.

Clarkson will never win an NCAA Division I title. As TimU has said, the landscape (and money) has shifted too much for the North Country to get a whiff of a NC. So any hope for the Knights to win a national title is firmly in the hands of St. Norbert College.
 
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SCSU was really close to winning an NC... then the ****ing ******** decided it had to be decided by the NCAA tournament and not polls, so we got boned.
 
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SCSU Euro said:
SCSU was really close to winning an NC... then the ****ing ******** decided it had to be decided by the NCAA tournament and not polls, so we got boned.
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You also have a few November championships right?

That is what we had as well, but then we won four in a row to end the season and we got the real thing! I highly recommend!

Sad fact that in the college landscape some teams will never win a title.
 
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Biddco said:
You also have a few November championships right?

That is what we had as well, but then we won four in a row to end the season and we got the real thing! I highly recommend!

Sad fact that in the college landscape some teams will never win a title.
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Even better... JANUARY titles. I think its cause when teams from Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin came to St. Cloud they froze their asses off and quit.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
The three programs you mentioned really are the top 3 in this discussion and probably a long way ahead of everyone else IMO.

I would have CC and UNH tied for first. CC has won two but has a long drought. UNH has never won one which makes the monkey on their back huge but they haven't been as nationally relevant for as long as CC so those things offset and put them at about a tie. Miami is a relative newcomer and is a distant 3rd. Obviously they've been close a few times but they've barely paid their dues when you look at the long-term picture but they will be relevant for quite a while IMO.

Most of the other programs out there that have long droughts are just not that relevant nationally anymore IMO to even put them on this list. Can they realistically do it again? Probably not... but sure anything can happen.

It's pretty interesting though, we had some mild/long droughts already broken in the last 15 years with some real powerhouse programs that removed them from a discussion like this. BC (52 years), MSU (21 years), Wisconsin (16 years), Denver (35 years), and Minnesota (23 years).
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I would agree with you on Miami. I don't think they belong in this conversation. While I would say we are starving for a title, especially after 2008, They have really only been relevant for the last decade. Where as programs like UNH and CC, who you mentioned, have been relevant far longer.
 
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I'd have to think St. Cloud State would be hungry for a title. Just won their first NCAA game after many appearances, and have attracted some real talent in the past few seasons (Nodl, Roe, Lasch, etc). They may be ready to take that next step sometime soon. Also being in Minnesota where other schools, notably Minnesota and Duluth have had at the national level, and the recent FF appearance by Bemidji, the Huskies seem like a team who would be pretty hungry for a title.
 
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