UNH Wildcats - '10 Playoff Edition

[massattack49]

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I thought the best goalie in hockey east could save you from an Atlantic Hockey team.

 

[UNHhockey29]

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Don't kids living on the same floor of a dorm talk to each other any more? I never had to look far to find compadres for a road trip! If you had a car, even if it was a bucket of bolts, people found you.

Ok, I did this my freshman year and it really wasn't the safest thing looking back but I did what ever I could to get to games (still do). The students not knowing about how to get tickets or the fact that our team has road games isn't new. It was like that when I went to UNH.

 

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

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There are no student discounts for road or tournament tickets at UNH. Luckily, I was able to save a bit this season from some complimentary player tickets and carpools. One step in the right direction from the athletic department promoting these trips actually did come this week, as they sent out an email to season ticket holders (but not students) letting them know about a hotel group rate.

Expecting students to pay $82 for the package or $45 for a session is absolutely ridiculous!! In the other thread I've already voiced my opinion on how the games were over priced for the general public. Absurd to think many students are going to pay those prices.

 

[Carmine Scarpaglia]

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Expecting students to pay $82 for the package or $45 for a session is absolutely ridiculous!! In the other thread I've already voiced my opinion on how the games were over priced for the general public. Absurd to think many students are going to pay those prices.

Totally agree.

 

[Darius]

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I thought the best goalie in hockey east could save you from an Atlantic Hockey team.

He didn't get a lot of support, but I suspect Foster is thinking he should have stopped 2 or all 3 of those 94 second goals. Similar saves kept the 'cats in games all year.

 

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

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Ok, I did this my freshman year and it really wasn't the safest thing looking back but I did what ever I could to get to games (still do). The students not knowing about how to get tickets or the fact that our team has road games isn't new. It was like that when I went to UNH.

Wow, surprised to hear this. Usually I had plenty of guys from the dorm that I played pick up hoop or intramurals with to select from. Never had to worry about any safety issues. You already knew folks well enough to determine if you wanted to hang out on a road trip with them.

And it's baffling to hear this don't know there are games or how to get tickets stuff. You're interested in the team, you get a schedule early in the Fall (the wallet sized one handed out all over Durham, or today print one from the Internet, etc.) and you kept it all season. You learned how to get tickets. You learned about playoffs from the upperclassmen. You knew the regular season was followed by playoffs (HE today, ECAC then) which was followed by the NCAA tournament (which was only four teams then). And there wasn't a tenth of the communication vehicles that are available today! Not too difficult to do when you're truly interested.

 

[FRICKER]

UNH Wildcats - '10 Playoff Edition

RIT making the run they are making is why they play the games and don't just hand out trophies!!! I know Wayne Wilson from the time he was an assistant under Buddy Powers at Bowling Green, and he, like most assistants, don't get anyway near the credit they deserve for the hours & hours they spend on the road recruiting. Regarding Scott Borek & Brian McCloskey, I've known both of them from their Brown days when I was with the Compuware Junior "A" team, and there are not two better recruiters I know of. They helped Bob Gaudett re-build Brown, Scott did the same thing at Colby, and they are "good people". You don't have the track record UNH has had through the years without doing a lot of things right. Could they have done things a little different or better? Sure, but don't think Dick Umile and his staff were't grinding it out tryig to find the path to the Frozen Four. My kid
(or grandkid now) can play in Durham any time!!!

 

[UNHhockey29]

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Wow, surprised to hear this. Usually I had plenty of guys from the dorm that I played pick up hoop or intramurals with to select from. Never had to worry about any safety issues. You already knew folks well enough to determine if you wanted to hang out on a road trip with them.

And it's baffling to hear this don't know there are games or how to get tickets stuff. You're interested in the team, you get a schedule early in the Fall (the wallet sized one handed out all over Durham, or today print one from the Internet, etc.) and you kept it all season. You learned how to get tickets. You learned about playoffs from the upperclassmen. You knew the regular season was followed by playoffs (HE today, ECAC then) which was followed by the NCAA tournament (which was only four teams then). And there wasn't a tenth of the communication vehicles that are available today! Not too difficult to do when you're truly interested.

Well I'm a girl and climbing into a car with 2 guys you don't know to drive to a game at UMass Amherst really isn't the safest thing, but in my life hockey comes first.
Yes I understand how you learn all this stuff. I learned it when I was in high school and knew everything a fan needed to know. Someone stepping onto campus for the first time does not. I've told the athletic department this and they didn't believe at first but even they have admitted that kids just don't know how to get tickets. I don't know how to fix it.

 

[CarlS]

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Not to weigh in here one way or the other, I'll keep my opinions on that to myself, but dover4345 if you are going to call someone out for using a "handle" instead of their real name, you should at least do the same and not use a handle yourself.

And if anyone wants to follow a NH team still in the National tournament my Midget team, the Manchester Flames, leave next Tuesday for the National tournament.

 

[GoUNH]

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I thought the best goalie in hockey east could save you from an Atlantic Hockey team.

I thought Umass was in the top 10?

 

[GoUNH]

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Not to weigh in here one way or the other, I'll keep my opinions on that to myself, but dover4345 if you are going to call someone out for using a "handle" instead of their real name, you should at least do the same and not use a handle yourself.

And if anyone wants to follow a NH team still in the National tournament my Midget team, the Manchester Flames, leave next Tuesday for the National tournament.

Good luck in the Tournament Carl!

 

[[UNH]Rig]

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Wow, surprised to hear this. Usually I had plenty of guys from the dorm that I played pick up hoop or intramurals with to select from. Never had to worry about any safety issues. You already knew folks well enough to determine if you wanted to hang out on a road trip with them.

And it's baffling to hear this don't know there are games or how to get tickets stuff. You're interested in the team, you get a schedule early in the Fall (the wallet sized one handed out all over Durham, or today print one from the Internet, etc.) and you kept it all season. You learned how to get tickets. You learned about playoffs from the upperclassmen. You knew the regular season was followed by playoffs (HE today, ECAC then) which was followed by the NCAA tournament (which was only four teams then). And there wasn't a tenth of the communication vehicles that are available today! Not too difficult to do when you're truly interested.

My freshman year in 2003 at UNH, I stepped foot on campus and had no idea how to get tickets. I knew I wanted to go, but there was no information any where. During orientation I asked and the group leader had no clue. So I asked my adviser during my first meeting with them, and was told "I don't know how to get tickets, you should just ask your RA." Being a freshman I did just that went to my RA who had never been to a hockey game and was a senior, responded with "I don't have any idea, I have never gone, but if you figure it out, let me know I would like to see a game before I graduate." Eventually, I just called the athletic department, and was forwarded around to 4 different people until I hit the person in charge of tickets at the time. I didn't even know that as a student I could get away game tickets until my sophomore year, when the friends I made at the hockey games filled me in. Casual student fans have no clue how to get tickets, or even that away tickets are available.

I remember they had a fan bus to Amherst for a regional and it was from I think Friends of UNH Hockey at the time, and on it there were 4 or 5 students and mainly older fans, I only found out about it from a season ticket holding friend I had made at games. It was never in an email to students never posted about and never advertised in the TNH nothing. The thing about car pooling is that with no discounts on tickets, and no buses to games away it is incredibly difficult to pay for as a student.

On another note, I have been to many games with RTW and 29, if it was not for those two I would not have gone to as many games as I did this year, even though I am not a student any more. RTW, learned how to get tickets the hard way, and is the only student fan I know to make every game this year. I commend him and 29 for making every game this year and admire there dedication for it. And I am hoping for a repeat performance from them and myself for next season. Thanks for the fun guys.

 

[whitaker9999]

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Do you guys have any idea if Kessel or DeSimone, or any one else will leave early

 

[UNHhockey29]

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On another note, I have been to many games with RTW and 29, if it was not for those two I would not have gone to as many games as I did this year, even though I am not a student any more. RTW, learned how to get tickets the hard way, and is the only student fan I know to make every game this year. I commend him and 29 for making every game this year and admire there dedication for it. And I am hoping for a repeat performance from them and myself for next season. Thanks for the fun guys.

Thanks buddy. I'm not slowing up next year and there is always room in my car. I'm gonna need road buddies next season.

 

[RockTheWhit]

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Do you guys have any idea if Kessel or DeSimone, or any one else will leave early

I, and I'm sure most other UNH fans, would be shocked if anyone on this team left early for the pros. I Wouldn't be surprised, though, to one of the guys near the bottom of the depth chart look for somewhere to get more playing time.

 

[Got 6 Want More]

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RTW, I'm not disagreeing with you and your point's very well-taken, but I suspect the issue has less to do with organization/getting the word out and more to do with NCAA Watcher's point about UNH hockey not being "must-see" any longer.

RIT was experiencing the high point in the history of their program. When was the last time UNH entered the NCAAs with anything resembling momentum? 2005? 2003? They'd secured one point in the final weekend vs. BC and lost 1-0 decisions two straight nights at home vs. Vermont.

The way the UNH program performs is that they put together very solid regular seasons, which build expectations that are then dashed in the HE playoffs. (Note that there were more rival HE fans on this board who expected a UNH FF appearance than there were UNH fans this past week.)

And this is the problem with the "UNH has made the last XX NCAAs" argument in defending the status quo. It's true, and it's valid, and I applaud them for it, but fandom isn't about stats -- it's about that gut-level enthusiasm that hasn't existed for the UNH program in many years because hardly anyone who follows the team really believes it's building toward something better.

So they enter the NCAAs on a down note every year, usually losing to a lower-ranked team in the HE playoffs, which leaves fans frustrated. So the enthusiasm isn't there for the regionals. Then they lose in the regionals, as they have for the last eight years, and fans' feelings are confirmed. And then the cycle repeats itself the following year. Fewer and fewer fans are willing to spend the time to see the same play they've seen over and over. They know Hamlet always dies in the end and they'll catch it on ESPNU rather than invest the time to see it in person.

(BTW, Dover4345: I think your criticism of Watcher is really unfair. I may be out of the loop, but I don't think he's friends with the staff. He just diligently follows recruiting in the news. And his criticisms of the program have been consistent and logical at least going back as far as 2002, when he was one of the first to lament UNH's failure to turn a Frozen Four, Hockey East tourney-winning season into big recruiting successes -- a failure that has contributed to UNH's decline over the past 6-7 seasons. He was right then and I think he's right now.)

Well, I'd be really happy with it. Making the NCAA's is a huge accomplishment. There is a lot of talent dilution thanks to the growth in the number of D1 teams, NCAA's are losing more kids to Major Junior, and it is hard to maintain a level of fantaticism. Programs that are the only show in town even struggle at times. Don't know if Alfond is still sold out every game, but look at teams such as MTU, NMU, LSSU, SLU, Clarkson, Duluth...it is hard to remain at the pinnacle, just as it is hard to get there.

Cornell the students used to camp out for tickets. DU won back to back NCAA titles not long ago, but I can walk up and get tickets to any game at DU including CC games.

The point is, the program is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing. It is teaching young men about life, hockey and team work, it is winning a lot more than it is losing, it is about the journey. I spend 10 to 15 weekends a year and countless money following SLU without the expectation of them winning a National Championship (although it would be nice )

Bottom line is not wrong to have high expectations, but it seems like some of you have become spoiled. I am happy to support a program that I believe in that have kids that represent the university well, a classy coach and I have fun at the games and with the other fans. If I got all that and a chance to see my team in the NCAA's year after year, I sure wouldn't be calling for the head of the guy that got them there. UNH was not on the map for a while before Umile got there. Umile has turned them into a winner, been instrumental in getting a fabulous new facility and is a class guy.

I wonder, what would it take to make some of you happy.

 

[scoreboard]

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Wow, surprised to hear this. Usually I had plenty of guys from the dorm that I played pick up hoop or intramurals with to select from. Never had to worry about any safety issues. You already knew folks well enough to determine if you wanted to hang out on a road trip with them.

And it's baffling to hear this don't know there are games or how to get tickets stuff. You're interested in the team, you get a schedule early in the Fall (the wallet sized one handed out all over Durham, or today print one from the Internet, etc.) and you kept it all season. You learned how to get tickets. You learned about playoffs from the upperclassmen. You knew the regular season was followed by playoffs (HE today, ECAC then) which was followed by the NCAA tournament (which was only four teams then). And there wasn't a tenth of the communication vehicles that are available today! Not too difficult to do when you're truly interested.

It is disappointing by the lack of student involement come tourney time (both HE and NCAA). But, I think times may have changed. When I went to UNH the Athletic Dept made tickets easily accessible to the students. For the ECAC games at the old Garden, students received a lot of the tickets and there was a major student block at the arena. Now you don't even see a student section at regular season games in Manchester. UNH would be wise to follow the lead of BU who always have an impressive student section at tourney games. They did it right at last years FF.

 

[Jacques "Rabbit" Poriveau]

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The point is, the program is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing. It is teaching young men about life, hockey and team work, it is winning a lot more than it is losing, it is about the journey.

Bull, intramural ockey or volunteering down to da YMCA can do dat jus as well et a hole lots cheeper mon ami. If we jus trying to raise de nice young mens den go get some camp cownsler et save da $300k we paying Dicks Umile every year, eh.

I not paying 50 to 100 bucks to go a game just to see if da boys can all get along. Et I don't tink d'university dropped $25M on da Whittemore Centre just so 20 kids out of 11,000 could grow as mens, mon dieu.

 

[Darius]

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Making the NCAA's is a huge accomplishment....There is a lot of talent dilution thanks to the growth in the number of D1 teams, NCAA's are losing more kids to Major Junior, and it is hard to maintain a level of fantaticism....it is hard to remain at the pinnacle, just as it is hard to get there.

...the program is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing. It is teaching young men about life, hockey and team work, it is winning a lot more than it is losing, it is about the journey.

...some of you have become spoiled. I am happy to support a program that I believe in that have kids that represent the university well, a classy coach and I have fun at the games and with the other fans. If I got all that and a chance to see my team in the NCAA's year after year, I sure wouldn't be calling for the head of the guy that got them there. UNH was not on the map for a while before Umile got there. Umile has turned them into a winner, been instrumental in getting a fabulous new facility and is a class guy.

Right on!

 

[Jacques "Rabbit" Poriveau]

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For those who haven't noticed:

"Carmine Scarpaglia" from "Southie"
"Nick Papagiorgio" from "Yuma, AZ" and
"Jacques 'Rabbit' Poriveau" from "Moncton & Paris"

are all the same person who is allegedly a BC "fan".

Whenever you read one of his posts in the future (whichever name he uses), you'll know it's from one diminutive fellow who:
(1) Despises Coach Umile
(2) Derides UNH Hockey and any other program which challenges his sense of BC superiority and
(3) Sadly, can not simply enjoy BC hockey or college hockey in general.
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Hey, dat mite be you bestest poste evure mon ami. Acorse it not ard when almost all a dem is worthless garbage et at least dis one maked me laugh.

You cant no ow rong you is. If you reelly knowed who dos tree people is you absolutely couldn't be more rong, et I mean dat liturally. Da people on ere who reelly do know who dem tree is must be laffing da jewels off.

Why you not going back to whats you do best, telling boring turty year old story ovure et ovure again et giving Dicks Umile his rub down pour da day.