Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

[manurespreader]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I believe next year's GLi will have BG or might be the year after. Don't count on any changes to the in Michigan or close by format. We make more money on in state or ohio schools. I have no problem with WCHA teams as long as they are not hurting us. I'd say add in Miami, but the coach is not the most friendly type. He's kind of like a western version of Rand Pecknold and I don't think they are interested in coming anyway. Ego issues.
Also, if we don't play the big, who do we play. The NCHC. To heck with them.
I think trips to the east are so expensive that it makes scheduling them difficult.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I believe next year's GLi will have BG or might be the year after. Don't count on any changes to the in Michigan or close by format. We make more money on in state or ohio schools. I have no problem with WCHA teams as long as they are not hurting us. I'd say add in Miami, but the coach is not the most friendly type. He's kind of like a western version of Rand Pecknold and I don't think they are interested in coming anyway. Ego issues.
Also, if we don't play the big, who do we play. The NCHC. To heck with them.
I think trips to the east are so expensive that it makes scheduling them difficult.

What good has playing the Big on 2 for 1s done us? I would not be opposed to continuing to play Michigan in some fashion but it should alternate years with when we play Michigan in the GLI semifinal. I suggest MTU try to schedule with UMD, Wisconsin, UNO, Notre Dame, Western Michigan and eastern team...or find a way to get permanently invited to the Arizona tournament.

 

[tape]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I just saw the new Huskies logo on Uni Watch. As an outside observer from Lowell, I really like it. It's sharp and modern without being excessively modern or cartoony. I think it's a big improvement on the one it's replacing.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I just saw the new Huskies logo on Uni Watch. As an outside observer from Lowell, I really like it. It's sharp and modern without being excessively modern or cartoony. I think it's a big improvement on the one it's replacing.

Thanks, appreciate the input. It seems like most outside observers who have commented like it more than most of the students/alumni of MTU. I like it better than piano dog, be interesting to see how it looks in person.

 

[manurespreader]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

What good has playing the Big on 2 for 1s done us? I would not be opposed to continuing to play Michigan in some fashion but it should alternate years with when we play Michigan in the GLI semifinal. I suggest MTU try to schedule with UMD, Wisconsin, UNO, Notre Dame, Western Michigan and eastern team...or find a way to get permanently invited to the Arizona tournament.

Well agreed to a certain extent.But... If we play too many games in the lower our fans will not show up as they have this year. So i'd agree.... play the Gli, add in a team, say WMU, BG, and sometimes another WCHA team or Notre Dame. 2 games.
Play at MSU or Michigan every other year depending on the Gli match ups. so that's a total of 4 games but not every year.
add in Duluth every other year, so home every fourth year,... or... do a home and home every other year which I like better.
On the odd year, go to a tournament. so that's 6 games, and you have some flexibility to add an eastern trip every so often or a Notre Dame or UNO.
But the key is getting a 1 for 1 from the B1g. I don't know if Wisconsin will do it either but that would give you a 3 year rotation.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Well agreed to a certain extent.But... If we play too many games in the lower our fans will not show up as they have this year. So i'd agree.... play the Gli, add in a team, say WMU, BG, and sometimes another WCHA team or Notre Dame. 2 games.
Play at MSU or Michigan every other year depending on the Gli match ups. so that's a total of 4 games but not every year.
add in Duluth every other year, so home every fourth year,... or... do a home and home every other year which I like better.
On the odd year, go to a tournament. so that's 6 games, and you have some flexibility to add an eastern trip every so often or a Notre Dame or UNO.
But the key is getting a 1 for 1 from the B1g. I don't know if Wisconsin will do it either but that would give you a 3 year rotation.

I don't think any of the B1G schools are interested in 1 for 1s with MTU...all the more reason to move on.

2017-18 should be an interesting season, from what I've put together. MTU will be at the 2017 Icebreaker in Duluth along with UMD, Minnesota, and Union (those 2 games are exempt). Plus they travel to both Alaska schools so they'll be able to schedule 12 NC games if they want to...8 of those are already accounted for with the GLI, Icebreaker, and home series with Wisconsin and Arizona State. The Huskies already play LSSU 4 times that year in-conference so they won't be adding those games for easy travel NC games, etc. (This is all assuming the rotation doesn't get tweaked from what its been for years)

 

[Wi.Huskies Fan]

In short, yes, location is an issue for any team that thinks they are doing Tech a favor by coming to Houghton. I'm sure you could find any number of teams that you DON'T want to play who are willing to make a trip to Houghton. (AIC is the most recent that comes to mind.) The trick is getting teams you WANT to play to come to Houghton.

For Eastern teams a trip to Houghton is just like a trip to BGSU.... plus another 12 hours of driving each way.

Ryan J

Planes do fly into CMX (Houghton County Memorial Airport). How would it be a 12 hour drive. Can't a connecting flight be made from Chicago to Houghton?
Just wondering.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Planes do fly into CMX (Houghton County Memorial Airport). How would it be a 12 hour drive. Can't a connecting flight be made from Chicago to Houghton?

I think it was Damon that told me story about one of the teams driving to Houghton from out east and the bud driver stopped at the same branded hotel in Houghton Lake, MI and no one realized that they still had over 6 hours left in the bus...after they started unpacking the bus when the desk person couldn't find their reservation...

 

[Wi.Huskies Fan]

Western Michigan ? they have a hockey team ?? NCAA?? are you sure?

Agreement! Good comment!

 

[Wi.Huskies Fan]

The one exception is Western Michigan. The big problem for your ideas on teams with huge fan bases...they have their own tournaments for the most part. I doubt you get BU/BC anymore and neither team traveled that well to the GLI, a third Big Ten team makes no sense for anyone but MTU. I hate the idea of the 4th team being another WCHA team because it has huge PWR implications if we don't get an actual NC game in a NC spot. Notre Dame would be the perfect permanent invitee, or a rotation between them and Western Michigan would probably work the best with the drive a short distance for both teams to Detroit and the fact that it gives the 3 permanent participants a chance to play someone from a 3rd conference...and a good conference too.

EDIT: In other news, maybe my guess on the Mariucci Classic isn't far off and MTU will get invited to Notre Dame's Shillelagh Tournament. That would be a great event to get to be a part of especially if Western is a consistent part of that.

Is UMD locked in every year to a holiday tournament? I can't remember off the top of my head.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Is UMD locked in every year to a holiday tournament? I can't remember off the top of my head.

no but other than Biddy, who among their fans is traveling to Detroit to watch them play?

 

[gfmorris]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Planes do fly into CMX (Houghton County Memorial Airport). How would it be a 12 hour drive. Can't a connecting flight be made from Chicago to Houghton?
Just wondering.

Can it be made? Yes. But small airports use small planes, and you're soaking up a majority of a regional jet putting a hockey team, coaches, and attendant staff onto the plane — to say nothing of the luggage weight/volume allocation. UAH very rarely flies out of HSV for that very reason —*we don't have a lot of big planes coming to town (despite a metro area of 400k), and it's hard to just take one over. (Airlines make money on fluidity and differential pricing.) The only time that I've flown out of HSV with the team was when we made the NCAA tournament.

Cue my story about how Danton Cole plopped down next to me on said flight and asked, "So when are you going to endow the hockey team with $10,000,000 so we can charter flights to our away games and bring in opponents?" It took me a beat to realize that he wasn't kidding.

GFM

 

[Wi.Huskies Fan]

no but other than Biddy, who among their fans is traveling to Detroit to watch them play?

Wouldn't everyone want to watch a college hockey game at a new arena in Detroit. I hear it will be phenomenal once it is finished. Best arena in NHL with all the latest as far as fan appeal goes.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I don't care what impact it has on the PWR- I don't like 2 for 1's. I don't like 1 for neutral site agreements either. 1 for 1 or p off. I have season tickets.

 

[Biddco]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Is UMD locked in every year to a holiday tournament? I can't remember off the top of my head.

No, not at all. They seem to do it every so often. Haven't done it in a few years.

no but other than Biddy, who among their fans is traveling to Detroit to watch them play?

It would be amazing to see them play at GLI.

Also I believe that eventually Tech and UMD will schedule a series each year. It sounds like UMD scheduled things out a few years ahead, then Tech asked about series and they were already spoken for. My only worry about scheduling every year is UMD is locked up with games in the NSCC (which isn't a holiday tournament so maybe that's what you were thinking of) and the Gophers. Sandy might then want to mix up who they are playing each year.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I don't care what impact it has on the PWR- I don't like 2 for 1's. I don't like 1 for neutral site agreements either. 1 for 1 or p off. I have season tickets.

Agreed. We need return trips to Houghton.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Where my smart people at?

So based on this explanation:
The ratings are on an odds scale, so if Team A's KRACH rating is three times as large as Team B's, Team A would be expected to amass a winning percentage of .750 and Team B a winning percentage of .250 if it played each other enough times. The correct ratings are defined such that the "expected" winning percentage for a team in the games it's already played is equal to its "actual" winning percentage.

If MTU's KRACH is 186.5 and FSU's is 95.2 did I calculate it right that according to KRACH, MTU will win that game at a neutral site 66.2% of the time?
Probability of FSU winning is 1/([186.5/95.2]+1)? and MTU is 1 - 1/([186.5/95.2]+1)?

Right?

 

[huskyfan]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

I don't care what impact it has on the PWR- I don't like 2 for 1's. I don't like 1 for neutral site agreements either. 1 for 1 or p off. I have season tickets.

agree.

Congrats to Alex Petan!! that's quite the honor! maybe we are talking about a team of destiny here ....

 

[Crocodile Tears]

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Quick observation on something I noticed from the uniform / logo updates.

Tech may have been teasing the updated script "Huskies" for months and we didn't notice. Watch the hockey intro video on the youtube channel main page. The very end of "Here come the Huskies" they display the updated script with the tail held up tight to the lettering instead of the traditional downturn.

I cant find any evidence of this being used anywhere else until the release of the new identity this week. The player interviews backgrounds, the merch at university images, the logos on the athletics websites, all still hold on to the older style with the drop at the end of the tail. They've been using that at home games all year from what I understand?

 

[Superfly100]

where my smart people at?

So based on this explanation:
The ratings are on an odds scale, so if team a's krach rating is three times as large as team b's, team a would be expected to amass a winning percentage of .750 and team b a winning percentage of .250 if it played each other enough times. The correct ratings are defined such that the "expected" winning percentage for a team in the games it's already played is equal to its "actual" winning percentage.

If mtu's krach is 186.5 and fsu's is 95.2 did i calculate it right that according to krach, mtu will win that game at a neutral site 66.2% of the time?
Probability of fsu winning is 1/([186.5/95.2]+1)? And mtu is 1 - 1/([186.5/95.2]+1)?

Right?

mtu = 186.5/(186.5+95.2)*100
fsu = 95.2/(186.5+95.2)*100