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UAH Hockey 2012-13: Still breathing

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Fair enough. I can see that. I think AHA does get something from Air Force to offset the extra costs, though I don't know the details. I believe I read it someplace when they first joined. But it makes sense to be willing to pay to offset travel when you get some name teams coming in that you wouldn't do for lesser known entities. For Air Force AHA made sense for a number of reasons competitively and because of their military brethren so they were willing to do it.
 
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Jim said:
Fair enough. I can see that. I think AHA does get something from Air Force to offset the extra costs, though I don't know the details. I believe I read it someplace when they first joined. But it makes sense to be willing to pay to offset travel when you get some name teams coming in that you wouldn't do for lesser known entities. For Air Force AHA made sense for a number of reasons competitively and because of their military brethren so they were willing to do it.
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I trust Adam Wodon's sources. [I'm not an AW fan.]

GFM <-- every day I wake up closer to 1/17 is a good one.
 
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Altenkirch should consider trying to get Nick Saban to join the WCHA presentation.
 
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No home hockey for nine months after today. Ah, independent life.

Oklahoma could probably give Adrian a run for their money.

GFM
 
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Mutha Fucha said:
UAH should go the club route they are a sorry excuse for a D1 team. Barely beating Oklahoma.....wow.
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That is hardly the fault of the players or coaches given what went on there this past off-season. Pretty hard to recruit, keep the decent players you do have, or "attractively" schedule given the way that whole thing played out. Throw in that they are an independent. They deserve a TON of slack.

The NCAA needs more D-1 programs, not less. UAH going by the wayside would be a loss for us all.
 
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Red Cows said:
That is hardly the fault of the players or coaches given what went on there this past off-season. Pretty hard to recruit, keep the decent players you do have, or "attractively" schedule given the way that whole thing played out. Throw in that they are an independent. They deserve a TON of slack.

The NCAA needs more D-1 programs, not less. UAH going by the wayside would be a loss for us all.
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Three years of this. 2009-10 was the last year for the CHA, and our seniors knew that they'd play as independents for at least one season. They could have opted out given that the announcement was made in August before classes started and tried to get another home in 10-11. They stayed, which says a lot for them. Then all the guys that have come since then have known that we would be an independent for an indeterminate period of time. They came anyway. Are they the best players? No, and I think that the results reflect that. But I'm going to cheer on guys who bust their asses out there.

Of course, they didn't bust their asses against Adrian, and that's why they won.

If we get in the WCHA, I figure we're back to .500 hockey after two recruiting classes. I'm hopeful that we'll hear very soon from the WCHA and be able to get six months of recruiting athletes against having a league and a postseason chance for next season. We need at least one goaltender—it doesn't sound like Griggs will come back and play his fourth year of eligibility as a graduate student—and then as much talent as we can bring in regardless of position. We have McKenna and nobody else, but that's pretty normal given our recruiting patterns for the last five years. It's not a short road out of this valley, but it's a drivable one.

GFM
 
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gfmorris said:
We need at least one goaltender—it doesn't sound like Griggs will come back and play his fourth year of eligibility as a graduate student—and then as much talent as we can bring in regardless of position. We have McKenna and nobody else, but that's pretty normal given our recruiting patterns for the last five years.
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Here's a goaltender: Matt Larose committed last month:
http://www.wellingtondukes.com/playerprofile/292/matt-larose
http://ojhlsite.stats.pointstreak.com/playerpage.html?playerid=6413799&seasonid=9434
 
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Here's one of the cooler hockey stories I've read in a long time:

http://www.insidevandy.com/sports/intramural/article_debc186c-5db2-11e2-b026-0019bb30f31a.html

You guys made their entire club careers by giving them a game. To say they sound grateful is an understatement. The didn't care one whit that they got shutout, faced 76 shots, only got 7 themselves, or were -55 for the game and got beaten, badly.

From their web site:

http://www.vanderbilthockey.com/d1dores-is-dead-long-live-d1dores/

Suffice to say it is the first time I have ever heard of a goalie pulling himself out of a game with 11 seconds left in the first period because his lunch didn't agree with him and he started puking right there out on the ice, as Vanderbilt's goalie had to.

Quote of the day, from Vanderbilt Coach Tom Bernstein, “Once you play a D1 team and put up a respectable fight, it is impossible to go back to your normal schedule and look at it the same way.”

Post mortem? Vanderbilt, who was 4-7-0 going into the UAH game, played a two game series the following weekend against Tennessee and absolutely pummeled them both nights, outscoring them a composite 14-5.
 
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I really felt bad for that Keen kid. I tweeted it about it and the UAT club guys chirped me, thinking that I was making fun. Seriously, that was awful for him — imagine the embarrassment.

GFM
 
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This begs the question, would it be beneficial for more D1 teams to schedule these types of teams in exhibition in hope of giving a taste of D1 hockey to potential startups?
 
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Flashy Man said:
This begs the question, would it be beneficial for more D1 teams to schedule these types of teams in exhibition in hope of giving a taste of D1 hockey to potential startups?
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The only trouble with that is that college hockey teams are very limited in number of games as it is, and any club exhibition counts against your limit of 34 (for Ivy purposes, it's a scrimmage, so it doesn't count against the 29). If you were to use it as a tool to promote ice hockey to more colleges, especially colleges that are fully D-I, perhaps allow a one game exemption for a club team?
 
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