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Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
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Puck Swami
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
I might go to the Women's Championship Game as an add-on, but probably not the women's semis. Six hockey games in one long weekend is asking a lot of even the die hards....
I might go to the Women's Championship Game as an add-on, but probably not the women's semis. Six hockey games in one long weekend is asking a lot of even the die hards....
bronconick
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
I wouldn't exactly call the women's basketball tournament "strong".
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncw/boxscore?gameId=294000030
Regional Final Attendance: 2,659.
That's 500 *less* people than last year's widely panned Cornell-BSU final at Van Andel.
They've got a couple hardcore areas in Connecticut and Tennessee that skew things, but beyond that, their stats don't look much different than hockey.
I wouldn't exactly call the women's basketball tournament "strong".
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncw/boxscore?gameId=294000030
Regional Final Attendance: 2,659.
That's 500 *less* people than last year's widely panned Cornell-BSU final at Van Andel.
They've got a couple hardcore areas in Connecticut and Tennessee that skew things, but beyond that, their stats don't look much different than hockey.
Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
Agreed. Instead of having 2,500 in a 3,500 seat arena, you may have 4,000 in a 18,000 seat arena. Maybe they could find a smaller arena in the same area, but I don't think you'd attract too many people to it. Maybe if the women's game was Saturday at noon with the men's at 6 or 7...I just don't think there's that many crossover fans from men's to women's hockey.
I might go to the Women's Championship Game as an add-on, but probably not the women's semis. Six hockey games in one long weekend is asking a lot of even the die hards....
Agreed. Instead of having 2,500 in a 3,500 seat arena, you may have 4,000 in a 18,000 seat arena. Maybe they could find a smaller arena in the same area, but I don't think you'd attract too many people to it. Maybe if the women's game was Saturday at noon with the men's at 6 or 7...I just don't think there's that many crossover fans from men's to women's hockey.
The Hallucination
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
I would combine the venue, but maybe not the ticket packages- perhaps just give men's FF ticketholders a discount on the women's package. I've never been to a women's FF, but would enjoy it, especially if the Badgers were there- however, traveling to two FF's in different places in the same year is unlikely for me, and I always attend the men's FF, so if the scheduling could work to put them in the same venue or even just the same city, and over the same several days, that would be cool.
I would combine the venue, but maybe not the ticket packages- perhaps just give men's FF ticketholders a discount on the women's package. I've never been to a women's FF, but would enjoy it, especially if the Badgers were there- however, traveling to two FF's in different places in the same year is unlikely for me, and I always attend the men's FF, so if the scheduling could work to put them in the same venue or even just the same city, and over the same several days, that would be cool.
French Rage
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
Nah, the men's teams would probably overpower the women's teams and knock them out in the first round. Unless you had one bracket be men's and one be women's and the winners meet in the final.
Ohh, I just read the first post...
Nah, the men's teams would probably overpower the women's teams and knock them out in the first round. Unless you had one bracket be men's and one be women's and the winners meet in the final.
Ohh, I just read the first post...
MikeAnderson
Heavyweight Champion of My House
Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
Comparing the ice hockey championships to the basketball championships is ridiculous on its face. The two aren't even remotely comparable.
Compare, instead, something like the soccer championships (which Division I will join Divisions II and III in combining the genders next season) with the ice hockey championships.
Comparing the ice hockey championships to the basketball championships is ridiculous on its face. The two aren't even remotely comparable.
Compare, instead, something like the soccer championships (which Division I will join Divisions II and III in combining the genders next season) with the ice hockey championships.
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Puck Swami
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
The week after the Frozen Four, I'd like to see the NCAA Champion play in another four-team, single-elimination tourney with the CIS Champion, the previous Memorial Cup Champion and the NCAA D-III Champion for the title of North American Champion.
That would be fun.
The week after the Frozen Four, I'd like to see the NCAA Champion play in another four-team, single-elimination tourney with the CIS Champion, the previous Memorial Cup Champion and the NCAA D-III Champion for the title of North American Champion.
That would be fun.
Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
Umm, that's checking from behind. Would that induce a penatly shot?
Umm, that's checking from behind. Would that induce a penatly shot?
WHKY blogger
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Re: Should the NCAA combine the Men's and Women's frozen fours?
Good Idea, but your all missing one big road block. The IIHF..
The Women's Tournament is played when it is because of when the IIHF World Women's Championship is scheduled during the non-Olympic years. Considering its the highest level of Women's play internationally, the NCAA would have a real up hill battle should they try to approach the IIHF about moving an International event..
To move the Women's event later would mean that there would very likely be players and or coaches missing amongst the Frozen Four participants.
Good Idea, but your all missing one big road block. The IIHF..
The Women's Tournament is played when it is because of when the IIHF World Women's Championship is scheduled during the non-Olympic years. Considering its the highest level of Women's play internationally, the NCAA would have a real up hill battle should they try to approach the IIHF about moving an International event..
To move the Women's event later would mean that there would very likely be players and or coaches missing amongst the Frozen Four participants.