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The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

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Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

I know the Northern Sun, the conference BSU's D-II teams are in, runs a free feed at least during the football/volleyball season for all games. Not sure about the winter sports though.
 
Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

A little bit more has come out regarding UAH and the WCHA. As of right now, a few non-conference match-ups are slated against New WCHA teams.

LSSU is to travel non-conference to UAH next year. Unless UAH is accepted into the WCHA, then they travel to LSSU.
NMU has a non-conference match-up scheduled against UAH next year. No word if it's the same setup as LSSU.
 
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aparch said:
A little bit more has come out regarding UAH and the WCHA. As of right now, a few non-conference match-ups are slated against New WCHA teams.

LSSU is to travel non-conference to UAH next year. Unless UAH is accepted into the WCHA, then they travel to LSSU.
NMU has a non-conference match-up scheduled against UAH next year. No word if it's the same setup as LSSU.
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Given that we have these "if" stipulations, I think that it's safe to say that there are at least two nWCHA schedule breakdowns for 2013-14, one of which has UAH as a member. :)

GFM
 
I would enjoy a non-conference series at UAH. Our guys already fly 2/3 of the way across the continent for half the season...might as well go somewhere warm.

(Of course, I would also enjoy it as a conference series).

aparch said:
A little bit more has come out regarding UAH and the WCHA. As of right now, a few non-conference match-ups are slated against New WCHA teams.

LSSU is to travel non-conference to UAH next year. Unless UAH is accepted into the WCHA, then they travel to LSSU.
NMU has a non-conference match-up scheduled against UAH next year. No word if it's the same setup as LSSU.
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Bumping because the WCHA member schools are to meet this month to discuss the rather large horse in the room. And I'm hoping for some news to come out (at least a little) in regards to other 2013-14 issues.
 
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I believe the WCHA meetings are January 16-17. Huntsville will formally submit an application to be a member of the league. It will take 75% of the league, or 7 out of 9 members to vote yes. Hopefully the decision doesn't drag on too long after the meeting.
 
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aparch said:
Bumping because the WCHA member schools are to meet this month to discuss the rather large horse in the room. And I'm hoping for some news to come out (at least a little) in regards to other 2013-14 issues.
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Blue is a nice horse. :)

GFM
 
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aparch said:
Bumping because the WCHA member schools are to meet this month to discuss the rather large horse in the room. And I'm hoping for some news to come out (at least a little) in regards to other 2013-14 issues.
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That will be a change - usually it's an elephant. :p
 
Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

We'll know more by the 17th (next Thursday).
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/01/fate_of_uah_hockey_program_cou.html

UAH President Robert Altenkirch will join Brophy to make the school's presentation at the convention. League representatives are scheduled to meet Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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That would be Wednesday January 16th and Thursday January 17th. A vote (I've heard) has been scheduled for Thursday.

From what I've read, most (if not all) coaches are supportive of having Alabama as a conference member. It's just decision time for the Athletic Directors and Boards of Control for the Universities that control the travel finances that need to decide if this additional trip is feasible. And, while it's still an "unbalanced" schedule, ten seems to be less unbalanced than nine teams.



My wish: Is that in the next week every sports writer, fan, or person connected with Atlantic Hockey, Hockey East, Big Ten, and especially the "National" Collegiate Hockey Conference shut the * up about "how the WCHA needs to do this for the GOOD of college hockey." I really don't see how adding Notre Dame to Hockey East was for the good of college hockey. The B1G breakup could have been handled with better tact (spend a few years doing like the Ivy's perhaps?). Atlantic Hockey, with some teams dabbling at saving the CCHA (which would HAVE been for the good of college hockey) then retreating quickly to the safety blanket of the AHA didn't help. And let's not forget the 800 pound gorilla in the room who decided that if we're going to have to travel to sh*tholes to play teams, they'd rather play in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Oxford, Ohio instead of Anchorage, Alaska or Houghton, Michigan.

But let's discuss how a gutted conference needs to add an outpost school "for the good of the sport," shall we?



I can't wait until next week to make UAH a solid black color on my graphic map on page one.
 
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aparch said:
I can't wait until next week to make UAH a solid black color on my graphic map on page one.
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Not nearly as much as I do. This decision isn't to be made for the good of college hockey: it has to be made for the good of the WCHA and its member schools. What I think it will come down to is this: do we deliver on what we've discussed with the member schools individually in terms of what our facilities can and cannot do, what we're willing to do for road travel, and what we're willing to subsidize for travel to Huntsville? I think that our willingness to do that, on the record, in front of everyone, is what cements the decision in everyone's minds.

I rather expect that all member schools have had enough conversations with us—including our president with all of the other presidents, who are of course the people that make the final decision—to have a pretty good idea of what we're going to offer and whether or not that's appealing to them. We'll make our pitch, they'll hear it, and then they'll have a chance to discuss it as a group, which they haven't had to date.

GFM
 
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The countdown continues. An interesting take on NMU's stance and opinions: http://miningjournal.net/page/conte...uss-travel-subsidy-with-members.html?nav=5010

Interesting tid-bits: Biggest hangup? Travel subsidies. Teams want to know they can get to UAH in minimal hops without it looking like a remake of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. UAH's athletic director retorted that "We shoot rockets into space. We have an airport, an interstate, and a half-million people in the metro area."

I'm pretty sure that was a dig at the rest of the WCHA. Only other schools with an Interstate are BGSU and LSSU. The Alaska Interstates are unsigned, and only partially built to national freeway standards.

UAH will also submit a 10 team schedule matrix. I presume that would be immediately implemented and UAH granted membership for the 2013-14 season. This would immediately lessen concerns by WCHA schools in traveling to Alaska twice a schedule year.


Also burried at the bottom: The WCHA hopes to finalize staffs and budgets; finalize conference tournament plans (expected to alternate between Xcel and Van Andel); discuss standardized web streaming; and a redesigned WCHA logo.

In other words, someone involved with the WCHA is either thinking identically to us in this thread, or they're just stealing our ideas. :P

If it's the latter, where can I submit my resume to Bruce McLeod?
 
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aparch said:
The countdown continues. An interesting take on NMU's stance and opinions: http://miningjournal.net/page/conte...uss-travel-subsidy-with-members.html?nav=5010

Interesting tid-bits: Biggest hangup? Travel subsidies. Teams want to know they can get to UAH in minimal hops without it looking like a remake of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. UAH's athletic director retorted that "We shoot rockets into space. We have an airport, an interstate, and a half-million people in the metro area."

I'm pretty sure that was a dig at the rest of the WCHA. Only other schools with an Interstate are BGSU and LSSU. The Alaska Interstates are unsigned, and only partially built to national freeway standards.

UAH will also submit a 10 team schedule matrix. I presume that would be immediately implemented and UAH granted membership for the 2013-14 season. This would immediately lessen concerns by WCHA schools in traveling to Alaska twice a schedule year.


Also burried at the bottom: The WCHA hopes to finalize staffs and budgets; finalize conference tournament plans (expected to alternate between Xcel and Van Andel); discuss standardized web streaming; and a redesigned WCHA logo.

In other words, someone involved with the WCHA is either thinking identically to us in this thread, or they're just stealing our ideas. :P

If it's the latter, where can I submit my resume to Bruce McLeod?
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The fact that web streaming is on the agenda is awesome. I would gladly pay for package with all the games available.
 
Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

aparch said:
The countdown continues. An interesting take on NMU's stance and opinions: http://miningjournal.net/page/conte...uss-travel-subsidy-with-members.html?nav=5010

Interesting tid-bits: Biggest hangup? Travel subsidies. Teams want to know they can get to UAH in minimal hops without it looking like a remake of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. UAH's athletic director retorted that "We shoot rockets into space. We have an airport, an interstate, and a half-million people in the metro area."

I'm pretty sure that was a dig at the rest of the WCHA. Only other schools with an Interstate are BGSU and LSSU. The Alaska Interstates are unsigned, and only partially built to national freeway standards.

UAH will also submit a 10 team schedule matrix. I presume that would be immediately implemented and UAH granted membership for the 2013-14 season. This would immediately lessen concerns by WCHA schools in traveling to Alaska twice a schedule year.


Also burried at the bottom: The WCHA hopes to finalize staffs and budgets; finalize conference tournament plans (expected to alternate between Xcel and Van Andel); discuss standardized web streaming; and a redesigned WCHA logo.

In other words, someone involved with the WCHA is either thinking identically to us in this thread, or they're just stealing our ideas. :P

If it's the latter, where can I submit my resume to Bruce McLeod?
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No dig, just matter of fact. The dig may be at the perception some may have about Huntsville, Alabama.
 
davyd83 said:
No dig, just matter of fact. The dig may be at the perception some may have about Huntsville, Alabama.
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Also thought there may have been some misconceptions. There seemed to be a hint of backhandedness in there. Just hidden enough by southern charm. ;)
 
Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

In the MJ article, Karr seems to be hedging. I think in this "new" conference, in the economy we're in, with the smaller schools concerned about their budgets, Karr put out enough warning flags for it to be a tough go for UAH getting in. Obviously, I don't know, I'm just guessing.

As a side note: Is the new WCHA logo going to have the small n at the beginning?
 
Re: The New WCHA 2, The Electric Boogaloo (2013-14)

It'll be sad to see the nWCHA teams having to decline NCAA tournament invitations because of the cost concerns of traveling for playoff games. ;)
 
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aygwm2 said:
In the MJ article, Karr seems to be hedging. I think in this "new" conference, in the economy we're in, with the smaller schools concerned about their budgets, Karr put out enough warning flags for it to be a tough go for UAH getting in. Obviously, I don't know, I'm just guessing.

As a side note: Is the new WCHA logo going to have the small n at the beginning?
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My sources say that it will be a smaller W than the old one.
 
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