Re: UAH Hockey 2012-13: Still breathing
And if you knew that there were shuttles lined up to go next Friday, would you be surprised? Because there are. There's also a ton of other things. It's part of Homecoming, which happens next weekend, and oh by the way, the shuttle buses are prepared to move people from campus to hockey and back to Spragins for Midnight Madness later that night. Dr. Brophy's attitude is that we can and will do all of that in one night.
And again, 30 people on short notice with one email is better than you might think—that didn't go out on Facebook or Twitter because it wasn't that crowd. I was afraid that we'd have ten with such short notice. Most of the key people in the program were there in terms of people who give money or time. You would've felt right at home in that crowd.
When it comes to attendance: it correlates to winning, strongly. We had a dip after we went Division I because we weren't thrashing people at every turn. That was the first year of my undergraduate career, 1997-98. It felt like we were going to see a win every time that we walked into the building. Now it feels like we don't have much hope of doing so. Six wins in two years will do that to a fanbase. Also, your notes of a decrease as time has gone by is accurate—but again, it ties strongly to winning.
As far as what we're doing with the WCHA visit, we're packing people in to see the games. They read the boxscores like the rest of us, so we're doing the smartest thing we can do: tell everyone about it, open up the entire building for free, and work in-arena stuff to have people fired up and excited about the visit.
I acted injured because I don't have time for your crap-on-everything mentality. I don't know what the BLC has done to wound you; if you had a problem, you knew how to find me. I'm quite sure that you have my number, because it goes in every email. In fact, I think that we've talked on the phone before. But rather than bring up your concerns in ways you know how, you decided to blast the program at a time that it didn't need blasting. As a result, I blasted you. You noted that I probably shouldn't have, and maybe you're right. But I would prefer not to be butt-hurt over past problems and would rather consider those as ways-we-can-get-better reminders and not things to be complained about endlessly just at the time that we need to be united most.
I notice that the Chargers are playing Alabama this weekend.
What kind of team does Alabama have? Do they have as hard a time finding opponents to play them as UAH does?
They have an ACHA D-3 club team that our guys should club repeatedly.
The last time we played an SECHC team was Tennessee in 2008, and the boys pulled up on them very early. And yes,
the Wyatt Ruseell.
GFM <-- invited James to the emailing list and hopes that was okay.
