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UNH 2025 Offseason: Where in the World is MS7?
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Oh, Elwood. What NH hillibillies like you don't understand is responsibility. UNH is a state school. The taxpayers are responsible for it. It's a bit silly to expect private donors from Massachusetts (that's Buford's plan) to fund the UNH hockey program. BTW, where did the $6 million in state money come from to couple with the 4 million Key Auto donation for the "likely never to happen" renovation plan from 2023? You made it clear such contributions from Concord are, you know, impossible. Until they aren't
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Question: when did you sustain the catastrophic head trauma that led you to the above anti-logic train wreck?? TDL/Key Auto Group has made noises about their $4M "share" of a so-called "renovation". To date, there is a fluorescent sign on the exterior of The Whitt bearing the name of TDL's primary business interest ... and that's all there is, skippy. Now that Concord is cutting the USNH budget ... if indeed a $6M share from Concord ever truly existed in the first place, you can bet your bottom dollar Concord will claw that back from USNH (who'd gladly hand it back over to reduce further budgetary carnage) since it hasn't been expended. The KAG sign hardly costs $4M, much less $10M (probably $4,000 tops w/labor). If any of that Concord money was real, they would have started the project well over a year ago, as an incentive to attract further donations/investments towards the total $16M price tag. They didn't. QED.
But still you have this bizarre notion that all someone has to do is go schmooze a couple of prominent pols in Concord, and make it rain. In fact, IIRC I think you were going to make some of those visits yourself, and show us how easy it is. Looks like you struck out, eh slugger??
Now, as far as getting money from out of state private donors goes, buckle up slappy 'cuz here's the funny thing ... money knows no artificial boundaries, and perhaps the most prominent private donor in the long history of another state school (in this instance, UMaine) not only was very generous to his adopted home state's flagship university - despite not even being an alum - he also was generous to other schools and projects, including UMass Amherst and Rollins College (Florida), and also picked up a chunk of the Boston Red Sox along the way.
https://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/chron... addition to distance-learning,3, Wigdor said.
Harold Alfond Obituary (2007) - Portland, ME - Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
View Harold Alfond's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
In the meantime, TDL has enough dough to have bought his own private island lair just off downtown Portsmouth, is running a primary business worth in the tens of millions of dollars (at least), and just bought the most expensive real estate parcel in the entire state basically on spec with $9M he found between the couch cushions. He's already established his willingness to be one of those elusive private donors to make up some of the funding shortfalls from Concord.
Then there is the case of Joe Faro, another UNH alum whose personal net worth from his Tuscan ventures in food and real estate (Tuscan Village Salem NH) is comfortably in the 9 figure range, and is probably a little younger than TDL, but also a little more wealthy. And finally, there is Sal Lupoli, and while others have pointed out he is a Northeastern grad, he is basically a "brother from another mother" with Faro, as paisan entrepreneurs raised in the Merrimack Valley but with deep business and personal ties to southern NH. Lupoli transformed the desolate stretch of abandoned mill buildings in Lawrence MA into his own 9 figure wealth, and is only a couple of routine approvals away from moving forward with a $600M project to revamp Hampton Beach's Casino property.
And with MA's "Millionaire's Tax" shedding tons of wealthy former residents to the more favorable tax situation north of the border, we are only scraping the surface as to possibilities of private donors in the near future. And with most Merrimack Valley communities in MA being far more conservative on the whole than their government-loving brethren further south (including you, potty), they will find a better fit here than with the total mess going on down in Boston.
Whether you make your fortune schlepping cut rate shoes, new and used cars, or hustling pizza slices into transformational real estate ventures, your money has no attachment to schooling or residency. Just look at Harold Alfond. If it can happen in Orono ME, no reason it can't happen in Durham NH.
Robert Balin
Active member
Jack Cronin from Princeton is transferring to UNH out of the portal. Missed last season with injury in 2023-2024 had 11 goals and 8 asst in 26 games.
That's a solid (B/B+) pick up. He has two double digit goal seasons in his career with - perhaps - a more productive Harrison Blaisdell type senior season in his future. I'd love another forward with true skill and playmaking ability (Rickwood - NoDak seems to think they're landing him - or a CHLer), but that may very well (most likely) wrap up the forward group...
R. MacPherson - Oliver - LeClerc
Newcomb - Ring - Cronin
Winters - Lavins - Turner
Skrastins - C. MacPherson - Siedem
Walsh - DeTurris - Bradshaw
Not exactly how I hoped it would come together, but that's how I'd line them up for now.
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TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Our AD fka SB to the rescue by leveraging her Princeton influence to Shanghai a transfer to Durham! He may be blindfolded and look like a dazed hostage, but dammit, UNH won the portal!
Who needs Guiliano to recruit?
Robert Balin
Active member
Iv'e said along Grouchy that Souza could have done better, but took an inexperienced Assistant coach before shopping around more
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
As with any hire, you need to find the right person with the right set of skills. This seems like a family affair based on connections rather than competence.
In addition to a high-skill forward, there are still two NH natives in the portal who could make this team better. Defenseman Nate Benoit from North Dakota/Quinnipiac and recent entry Kyle Chauvette, who spent two seasons as Union's starting goaltender.
Chauvette entered on the heels of Michigan goalie Cameron Korpi transferring to Union. His numbers the last two seasons have been just OK, but he'd make for a solid tandem with Jared Whale should the team defense play well in front of both...
Chauvette entered on the heels of Michigan goalie Cameron Korpi transferring to Union. His numbers the last two seasons have been just OK, but he'd make for a solid tandem with Jared Whale should the team defense play well in front of both...
Oh, Buford! Yeah, all italians are precisely alike and are paisans. You know Lupoli and Faro so well! If they knew (doubt they do) that a 64 year old man with child's bowl haircut was on social media speculating that they are good candidates to save UNH hockey and that you are calling them "brothers from another mother", I'd imagine they'd lol. You have no idea how the wealthy think.Question: when did you sustain the catastrophic head trauma that led you to the above anti-logic train wreck?? TDL/Key Auto Group has made noises about their $4M "share" of a so-called "renovation". To date, there is a fluorescent sign on the exterior of The Whitt bearing the name of TDL's primary business interest ... and that's all there is, skippy. Now that Concord is cutting the USNH budget ... if indeed a $6M share from Concord ever truly existed in the first place, you can bet your bottom dollar Concord will claw that back from USNH (who'd gladly hand it back over to reduce further budgetary carnage) since it hasn't been expended. The KAG sign hardly costs $4M, much less $10M (probably $4,000 tops w/labor). If any of that Concord money was real, they would have started the project well over a year ago, as an incentive to attract further donations/investments towards the total $16M price tag. They didn't. QED.
But still you have this bizarre notion that all someone has to do is go schmooze a couple of prominent pols in Concord, and make it rain. In fact, IIRC I think you were going to make some of those visits yourself, and show us how easy it is. Looks like you struck out, eh slugger??
Now, as far as getting money from out of state private donors goes, buckle up slappy 'cuz here's the funny thing ... money knows no artificial boundaries, and perhaps the most prominent private donor in the long history of another state school (in this instance, UMaine) not only was very generous to his adopted home state's flagship university - despite not even being an alum - he also was generous to other schools and projects, including UMass Amherst and Rollins College (Florida), and also picked up a chunk of the Boston Red Sox along the way.Of coursehe did grow up inMaineSwampscott MA.
https://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/chronicle/archives/00/08-11/alfond40.html#:~:text=In addition to distance-learning,3, Wigdor said.
Harold Alfond Obituary (2007) - Portland, ME - Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
View Harold Alfond's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.www.legacy.com
In the meantime, TDL has enough dough to have bought his own private island lair just off downtown Portsmouth, is running a primary business worth in the tens of millions of dollars (at least), and just bought the most expensive real estate parcel in the entire state basically on spec with $9M he found between the couch cushions. He's already established his willingness to be one of those elusive private donors to make up some of the funding shortfalls from Concord.
Then there is the case of Joe Faro, another UNH alum whose personal net worth from his Tuscan ventures in food and real estate (Tuscan Village Salem NH) is comfortably in the 9 figure range, and is probably a little younger than TDL, but also a little more wealthy. And finally, there is Sal Lupoli, and while others have pointed out he is a Northeastern grad, he is basically a "brother from another mother" with Faro, as paisan entrepreneurs raised in the Merrimack Valley but with deep business and personal ties to southern NH. Lupoli transformed the desolate stretch of abandoned mill buildings in Lawrence MA into his own 9 figure wealth, and is only a couple of routine approvals away from moving forward with a $600M project to revamp Hampton Beach's Casino property.
And with MA's "Millionaire's Tax" shedding tons of wealthy former residents to the more favorable tax situation north of the border, we are only scraping the surface as to possibilities of private donors in the near future. And with most Merrimack Valley communities in MA being far more conservative on the whole than their government-loving brethren further south (including you, potty), they will find a better fit here than with the total mess going on down in Boston.
Whether you make your fortune schlepping cut rate shoes, new and used cars, or hustling pizza slices into transformational real estate ventures, your money has no attachment to schooling or residency. Just look at Harold Alfond. If it can happen in Orono ME, no reason it can't happen in Durham NH.
And to call lobbying schmoozing is a tell that you haven't a clue. Lobbying is about using influence to broker political deals. Massachusetts money ain't coming north of the border to save knuckleheads like you that have no idea how government and private business work hand in hand to build a society. Live free or die! Well, thanks to birdbrains like you UNH is dying.
JB
Desk Chair Coach
You are confused. I have completely bought into your thinking.
Even though you have extremely limited evidence to support you argument. I just touched on it once... WMU recent national champion is now my poster school example. Lawson 40 years old with minor renovations vs Whitt 20 years old with minor renovations. WMU hockey budget less than UNH hockey budget. The gap between WMU hockey budget and UND, the largest in NCHC is much greater than budget gap between UNH and BC. WMU new arena 100% private funded, it is more akin to Tsongas built for City of Lowell than the Whitt and still makes my point. However am going to bow down to your superior knowledge in all thing government funded, business and rich people finance.
In short you are brilliant I am ignorant.
My question: If you are a UNH fan and if lobbying is so easy, I just want to know when you are meeting with the powers that in Concord to get it done.
PS - if you look at my prior posts I have indicated I think education is the best investment in the future (with the exception of do you want fries with that degrees). I am completely in favor of everybody in NH giving an additional $50 a year to be solely used on education, ~$70M. So there are 2 voters in favor Mrs. JB fully agrees, us that as part of your lobbying.
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Under on both. You are losing a lot of D (although a regression from the 20 win season) and your top D would be Fitzy at this point.
Unless the freshman goalie can take over and stand on his head, Whale has his moments that usually result in losses.
And... is there buying from the upper classmen into Souza and whatever grand plan he might try this year.
Oh, Elwood. As befits your, ahem, rather modest IQ, you failed to remember the WMU arena story. It's been discussed and explained already. Hint: private downtown Kalamazoo mixed use real estate development that includes minor league hockey team and other businesses (Kalamazoo Event Center). College hockey is a small part of it.
New renderings for $300M downtown arena cast spotlight on Western Michigan University
New images were released to the public on Thursday, Jan. 25.
www.mlive.com
Let me help you further. Imagine NH minor league hockey team and UNH mens, womens hockey and basketball moving to Portsmouth to be part of a real estate project designed to liven up area of the city (concerts, etc...) Portsmouth Event Center, etc... 700,000-800,000 visitors per year.
I am impressed that you admit that I am brilliant and you are ignorant. I don't agree with the brilliant comment. I am ordinary smart. I also don't agree with you being ignorant, which suggests you have room to grow. Let's just settle on you being less intelligent than most with zero growth potential.
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Interest will be lukewarm. At best.