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UAH Hockey 2013-14: Feeling like a real D-I program again

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FlagDUDE08 said:
I could see banners for 82/83/84, MAYBE the CHA champions ones, but I've always been against participation banners. I personally find them to be dumb. History shows well in your championships.
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That's cool. If say 1994 and 1997 weren't included, or the NCAA mentions in 2007 and 2010, I wouldn't care too much.
 
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UAHStatman said:
That's cool. If say 1994 and 1997 weren't included, or the NCAA mentions in 2007 and 2010, I wouldn't care too much.
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BSU only includes their Conference and National Championships and the Frozen Four from 2009. If the Beavers included all the participation banners, well, they would run out of space to hang banners! :D
 
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beaverhockeyfan said:
BSU only includes their Conference and National Championships and the Frozen Four from 2009. If the Beavers included all the participation banners, well, they would run out of space to hang banners! :D
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Understandable. (And, technically your Frozen Four is a regional championship, so it's not inconsistent.)
 
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I'm ready to roll with Mike. I'm sold.

His point about lacking an identity is a very good one. Our identity these last three years has been the kid getting picked last and hoping the parents don't call him in before dark. Now we have new life. Man, our rising seniors have seen a lot.

I am curious to see how the jerseys look based on what we saw at the post-season banquet. Douglas may have photos of those, but he does like to take the summer off from here.

As for banners, I'm generally for what's up in Spragins Hall, although they include NCAA tournament banners. [Our gym has banners for all 14 sports, conference and national titles.] I understand why we say regionals for our D-II sports, but I think that "CHA Tournament Champion" is pretty obvious for saying that we went to the NCAAs. Maybe I'm not giving casual fans enough credit. That said, no way in hell do we get more banners up in there.

As far as away games go: that's always been something that was left up to the devices of individual fans. I made the drive to Notre Dame when we played there in 09-10, and it's not bad (although I also don't mind driving 12h a day). I'd probably have to get the school involved to pull together trips on a coach. Maybe that's something that we can pull off this year. We've never done it because we don't travel well, but perhaps we don't travel well because we've never done it. I was half of a brain trust that started the first student road trip (it came from a discussion of a few of us going to Detroit before classes started ... then we talked about a van ... and then I said, "What about a bus?" So we did it). The main issue is getting the up-front cost to the company, which last I checked ran $3k. I guess we could give it a trial run early in the year and see if we can get it half full or more. I'll file that away for when I get back to town.

GFM <— supposed to be coming home in a week, but may get extended until right before classes start.
 
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KK is apparently going to coach Minnesota's AHL team. I'm glad that he found something that he wanted to do more than bring our program back from the dead.

GFM
 
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Whoa! At Fairbanks, AK for the last weekend of January and at Houghton, MI the following weekend. The two toughest trips in college hockey on consecutive weekends. Should be fun for the kids though, and a couple weeks of hockey that they'll likely never forget...

edit: and then up to Mankato the following weekend! Hope the boys have signed up for some internet classes. ;)
 
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altazo said:
Whoa! At Fairbanks, AK for the last weekend of January and at Houghton, MI the following weekend. The two toughest trips in college hockey on consecutive weekends. Should be fun for the kids though, and a couple weeks of hockey that they'll likely never forget...

edit: and then up to Mankato the following weekend! Hope the boys have signed up for some internet classes. ;)
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I hope they're flying to Houghton & Mankato!
 
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davyd83 said:
I hope they're flying to Houghton & Mankato!
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If the money's there, they might to Houghton, but they probably won't to Mankato. I wouldn't be surprised if they bused both trips.

Also, the boys played six straight road weekends last year, and GPAs were fine. They even won one of them! ;)

GFM
 
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I wore my BLC polo to work today and got all sorts of looks and had a couple of discussions. Good times.

GFM
 
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I guess that I'm media now, because I'm on Doug Spencer's WCHA press release distribution list.

GFM
 
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beaverhockeyfan said:
The Bemidji Pioneer is taking a look at the new WCHA. First up, the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers:

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/meet-new-wcha-huntsville-rivalry-back
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I think that a lot of fans are really happy that we stuck around, but the support and joy from Beavers fans has been near-unanimous.

I want two signs in the VBC on October 25th: "WELCOME BACK BEMIDJI" and "WE STILL HATE YOU".

GFM
 
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gfmorris said:
I think that a lot of fans are really happy that we stuck around, but the support and joy from Beavers fans has been near-unanimous.

I want two signs in the VBC on October 25th: "WELCOME BACK BEMIDJI" and "WE STILL HATE YOU".

GFM
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Ahhh, Geof, the feeling is mutual!
 
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If Corbett is anything like Frank, he scares me a little going into next year. And in a good way, as far as UAH is concerned.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
If Corbett is anything like Frank, he scares me a little going into next year. And in a good way, as far as UAH is concerned.
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Frank is pretty intense. He's tough, but he's fair and he's honest. His brother Ernie (Tom) is a little mellower, but not a lot. Both are outstanding hockey men and coaches. If Corbett brings a lot of Franks qualities with him, he'll do well.
 
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