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UNH 2025 Offseason: Where in the World is MS7?

TheGrouchyCat said:
The summer BBQ should be interesting. It always feels like a haphazardly planned event, a duty call mandated by the powers that be to check the box by engaging with the STH.

For the third summer in a row, I'm sure that we'll hear how important the upgrades are and that fundraising is ongoing but no tangible milestones will be disclosed. Mike Hickey will pontificate about the need to support MS7 and to donate generously facilitate a return to our former glories. He will wax poetic about the herculean efforts of Souza to right the ship whilst chosing to ignore the fact that the STHs have politely turned him out to pick at the charbroiled and inedible burgers shuttled from Stillings Hall.

MS7 himself will mumble through 72 seconds at the dais before escaping through the back staircase to avoid the calls for his firing and a hastened return to Wakefield.

And, despite all of this, no fan will walk out of the Whit any wiser about the state of the upgrades, know what players will actually be playing on the team in 25-26 or if there is an actual plan to right the ship.
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I hope you guys band together as your here in this forum and make a stand at this...be vocal..call the AD and her cronies on their bullshit! If together as a group you basically shut the donation $$ faucet off you can force change.
 
Sparkee said:
UNH was very, very remotely competitive last season. So book your tickets!
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I'm going to suggest to Mrs. Grouch we go visit her father back in Michigan right around this time. I get brownie points and will eventually get around to telling her, sometime in Oct or November, UNH just happens to be playing
MSU while we're there and it be criminal not to support our team.

But, family first....lol
 
TheGrouchyCat said:
I'm going to suggest to Mrs. Grouch we go visit her father back in Michigan right around this time. I get brownie points and will eventually get around to telling her, sometime in Oct or November, UNH just happens to be playing
MSU while we're there and it be criminal not to support our team.

But, family first....lol
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Just give him a surprise she doesn’t know about that he opens in a thoughtful father in law card when you first eat dinner there… tickets beside yours. Your wife can’t be mad if Dad is happy! 😃
 
TheGrouchyCat said:
Unfortunately, MS7 has signed a financial agreement as well and is on board, God help us all, for another two seasons.
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So, I guess that we have concluded that MS7 is not on three one-year contracts, as originally suggested on our threads, with an opportunity to terminate his contract this spring or next spring? Woe is us.
 
Snively65 said:
So, I guess that we have concluded that MS7 is not on three one-year contracts, as originally suggested on our threads, with an opportunity to terminate his contract this spring or next spring? Woe is us.
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Classic overcommitment by an AD who knows little about the A, would rather delegate the D, and prefers to focus on compliance issues and junkets.
 
FDNY99 said:
I hope you guys band together as your here in this forum and make a stand at this...be vocal..call the AD and her cronies on their bullshit! If together as a group you basically shut the donation $$ faucet off you can force change.
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But, we are a mere half dozen or so discontented fans, against over 5000 oblivious STH’s who apparently have been perfectly happy with the UNH product on the ice for the past decade.
 
Snively65 said:
Ok, so about 500 STH’s and about 4500 TH’s per home game. If that total were cut in half, say down to about 2500, I think that ~$750k loss might grab someone’s attention. Then, again, maybe not, when considering the admin will be shorted about $25 mil by Concord this year.
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If they lose $750K it will definitely grab someone's attention after that $25 Million cut from the state.
 
FDNY99 said:
If they lose $750K it will definitely grab someone's attention after that $25 Million cut from the state.
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Ok, so now we need to incentivize 2500 TH’s not to attend home games at the Whitt, but instead attend away games at Tsongas, Lawler, and the three schools in Boston. How do we accomplish that?
 
Snively65 said:
Ok, so now we need to incentivize 2500 TH’s not to attend home games at the Whitt, but instead attend away games at Tsongas, Lawler, and the three schools in Boston. How do we accomplish that?
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Let’s tackle this problem one step at a time. First, we need to devise a plan to keep people from wanting to go to home games. My first thought is skunks. Skunks can really ruin almost any scenario if you can provoke them and get them to piss everywhere. So trap all week, then release all at once around the arenas but many in the parking areas. Then from far enough away shoot them with BB guns. It won’t be lethal, but will literally piss them off. If done enough over a long enough time it will ruin the fan experience and nobody will want to go.
 
FWIW most skunks hibernate in the winter, so you've also gotta fool the suckers into thinking it's warmer out than it really is ...
 
Chuck Murray said:
FWIW most skunks hibernate in the winter, so you've also gotta fool the suckers into thinking it's warmer out than it really is ...
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Ok, but smell is still the way to go. Maybe use Liquid Ass fart spray. If enough of you spray it throughout the stands it is bound to be miserable for everyone. Specifically target the broadcast booth because they can’t really leave the broadcast. They will feel compelled to stay regardless. But if you can get them to crack you can take down the broadcast even. Spraying it into the scorekeepers box area would also be disruptive.
 
Sparkee said:
Ok, but smell is still the way to go. Maybe use Liquid Ass fart spray. If enough of you spray it throughout the stands it is bound to be miserable for everyone. Specifically target the broadcast booth because they can’t really leave the broadcast. They will feel compelled to stay regardless. But if you can get them to crack you can take down the broadcast even. Spraying it into the scorekeepers box area would also be disruptive.
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You're on to something.

The UNH Hockey program does stink. Its odor of failure has permeated every aspect of the program, repelling recruits, fans and donors alike.

But, like the cow and pig farmers who get used to the d'eau de manure and are oblivious to the stench of their surroundings or themselves, our AD fka SB and coach go about their day to day business like everything is normal and smells like roses.

But, to the outsiders whose nasal cavities are working normally, they know what sh!t smells like.
 
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Snively65 said:
Ok, so about 500 STH’s and about 4500 TH’s per home game. If that total were cut in half, say down to about 2500, I think that ~$750k loss might grab someone’s attention. Then, again, maybe not, when considering the admin will be shorted about $25 mil by Concord this year.
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You're thinking like a private businessman. Government is the opposite. There is no profit motive. Just look at our national debt. Government is all about meeting legal requirements re: spending and then distributing the rest of the money to those best positioned to help the ways and means politicians politically. Nobody in Concord has any interest in season tix, etc..

Classic example. UMass football. It went from DIAA to D1A in 2012 when there was no public demand for it. Why? It was a huge increase in expenses without evidence that revenues would follow. UMass chancellor said it would increase UMass image nationally. Silly. No facilities, infrastructure or consumer demand. Interesting that Bob Kraft was a benificiary (or thought he was) by having Gillette as UMass "home field". That's how boondoggles like UMass football happen. That's government. A small group of influential people wanted it done and it happened. They create a narrative when questions get asked. That's government. The money is always there, the key is who gets to decide where it goes.
 
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If UNH hockey disappeared few people in Concord would care. There's a nice narrative that could be sold to the public that the state simply is cutting back and club hockey makes more sense. Of course, a narrative could also be sold that college hockey is New Hampshire's flagship sport and it's imporant to compete and that a $100 million new facility makes a ton of sense because it will not only host sell out hockey games, it will create good constructions jobs and also 40 - 50 other consumer events per year such a concerts, etc... that will offset revenue.

Government money is being thrown around ALL time time. The special interest group works with the the politicians to create a narrative. Most importantly, the special interest group and the pol have an understanding how the deal will help pols in Concord.
 
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