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UNH Wildcats 2010 off-season thread

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UNHhockey29 said:
complaining about a mock turtleneck and a fish is going to get things changed at the Whitt?
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Yet you seem to think making signs and banging a cowbell will create change. LOL. You UNHers are great comedy, I'll give you that.
 
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Onion Man said:
Yet you seem to think making signs and banging a cowbell will create change. LOL. You UNHers are great comedy, I'll give you that.
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Nice job missing the point.

People might argue that it helps the team, but really, people just enjoy the "college hockey atmosphere", and miss it at UNH games. Think of the schools at which people say they enjoy going to games. By and large they have good-to-great atmosphere.
 
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thecomicbookguy said:
Nice job missing the point.

People might argue that it helps the team, but really, people just enjoy the "college hockey atmosphere", and miss it at UNH games. Think of the schools at which people say they enjoy going to games. By and large they have good-to-great atmosphere.
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Certainly winning adds a lot to the experience. Speaking about myself, I could go to the greatest game ever but if my team lost in trainwreck fashion (a la 2007 NCAA Final), the experience is going to suck regardless of the atmosphere.
 
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Slasher7 said:
Certainly winning adds a lot to the experience. Speaking about myself, I could go to the greatest game ever but if my team lost in trainwreck fashion (a la 2007 NCAA Final), the experience is going to suck regardless of the atmosphere.
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True, but you don't necessarily know that you're going to win going in. For example, going to Matthews can be fun when the Dog House is in full effect. I've seen UNH lose some crazy games there, and while the loss was frustrating, it was still a fun time.
 
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thecomicbookguy said:
True, but you don't necessarily know that you're going to win going in. For example, going to Matthews can be fun when the Dog House is in full effect. I've seen UNH lose some crazy games there, and while the loss was frustrating, it was still a fun time.
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I can see going to a random game with no rooting interest and enjoying an atmosphere (say a game at Yost or at Kohl). I cant see going to a BC vs. game at Cornell, watching BC lose and walk out saying "that was awesome", etc.
 
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Slasher7 said:
I can see going to a random game with no rooting interest and enjoying an atmosphere (say a game at Yost or at Kohl). I cant see going to a BC vs. game at Cornell, watching BC lose and walk out saying "that was awesome", etc.
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And I would argue that unless the fans were out of control, or harassed the visiting fans, that seeing your team lose someplace like Lynah, or Yost, or Kohl is more fun/entertaining than watching them lose someplace where there's no atmosphere.

Winning is not the only thing that makes college hockey fun. And it shouldn't be, or else you're going to be disappointed more often than you're going to enjoy yourself.
 
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Slasher7 said:
I cant see going to a BC vs. game at Cornell, watching BC lose and walk out saying "that was awesome", etc.
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I can't see anyone going to a game that involves Cornell and having a good time. If Cornell fans weren't so stupid and annoying, I'd feel bad for them.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
I can't see anyone going to a game that involves Cornell and having a good time. If Cornell fans weren't so stupid and annoying, I'd feel bad for them.
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Good point.

CBG, for the record, I don't agonize over BC's losses like I used to, but it still blows when it happens, especially on the road.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
I can't see anyone going to a game that involves Cornell and having a good time. If Cornell fans weren't so stupid and annoying, I'd feel bad for them.
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Pretty sure we had a good time at the game against Cornell last month (and 2002 and 2003... in fact it seems like Cornell is the only team UNH might actually own in the post season?!)

But the points are all good here... people get a different experience out of the games, and seeing the different arenas, and atmospheres is part of what makes college hockey great... different fans definitely have different expectations. I can understand not being able to enjoy a game when your team loses, and I can also understand being upset your team loses, but having a good time at a road game interacting (in good fun) with the home team fans, or just soaking in the atmosphere..
 
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Onion Man said:
Yet you seem to think making signs and banging a cowbell will create change. LOL. You UNHers are great comedy, I'll give you that.
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I wasn't talking to you but when did I say I was making great change by putting signs up on the glass or having a cowbell? Pretty sure that would just be staying the same and not making change.
 
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It's pretty obvious that replying to trollers is a no-no. I'm amazed that some of you continue to do it (unless this is the way you get your jollies). Ignoring BC fans is pretty obvious, but why would anyone want to reply to a Brown fan? Or for that matter, Bill B?

I'm going to break that final rule just this once. Bill, you are not a UNH fan. In fact, since you never have anything good to say about UNH, I'd be willing to bet that you don't even go to games. Somehow you have dubbed yourself as the chief of the fashion police, going on endlessly about Umile's mock necks. Not sure why anyone cares what you have to say. Frankly, you are an embarrassment. Why don't you just go away. Please.
 
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Post lost to unstable wireless. :mad:

I personally never have "fun" at a losing game, regardless of site. However, some losing experiences are more ... shall we say, palatable, than others. Those depend on the atmosphere of the arena. In some cases, it also depends on the presence (or lack thereof) of student fans. VT, for example, was a nice experience for me. It was UVM spring break at the time. :D At Providence, just this past season, I met two charming boys who cheered for New Hampshire, but were truly Providence fans. They knew about the game, and they were genuinely interested in the play on both sides of the puck. They were a pleasure to sit with - especially after the one with popcorn wiped his greasy paw prints off the glass.

I won't go into the away games that were not so fun for me, partly because they included a weekend in Maine and a trip down to Merrimack, and partly because I still get ticked when I think about how people think they can treat others, just because of the different sweaters. Call security on me, why I oughta... your mother was a hamster!
 
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On sort of related notes...

1) Scott Sicko turned down several NFL teams including the Pats and the Cowboys. The articles report he decided if a team valued him enough to draft him he would try his hand at professional football. Otherwise he was going to grad school and moving forward with his life. If I had his talent I think I would at least try a year of training camp / practice squad with a team that has a good record with undrafted players. However, you have to respect his decision to not roll the dice with his body and go for his Masters (in whatever). Clearly the student athlete in this case got the most out of the educational opportunity.

Edit - Here is the time union article - http://blog.timesunion.com/mcguire/in-a-stunner-scott-sicko-says-no-thanks-to-nfl/7547/
Edit - Peter Kings article is better than the times union. It takes up 80% of the 2nd page of his 6 page column. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/peter_king/04/25/draft/1.html
Edit - Sicko apparently decide Tuesday not to have doubts down the road about what if and signed with Dallas.

2) Last year UNH finish second nationally for Div I NCAA schools in graduation rate of athletes. I don't have the article in front of me but two numbers were presented 97% and 95%. I think the school finished at 95% for all athletes with the football team at 97% (but it could have been the other way around). Number one nationally was Navy. Either graduation rate is way above the general student body average, good for all of those UNH student-athletes.
 
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Clark-Hislop-Cox said:
I still believe that fans and players enjoy watching instant replays. Here's a way to upgrade the spectating experience at both the Whit and Cowell Stadium:
http://www.daktronics.com/Company/NewsReleases/Pages/NorthwesternStateUniversity.aspx
http://www.daktronics.com/Company/NewsReleases/Pages/CentralMichiganUniversity.aspx
If small colleges in Louisiana and Michigan can afford 21st century scoreboards, then I'd like to see UNH look into it.
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Central Michigan has a 28,000 student enrollment, while Northwestern State (according to the parent of a NW St. softball recruit) is a WELL funded athletic department. I would love a Daktronics video board too, but just sayin...
 
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UNH is looking into it though. The amber board was supposed to be a video board but they just didn't have the funding. I had heard (and this is just hear say) that the Whitt is supposed to get seamless glass on the sides and a video board in the near future, but I'll believe that one when I see it. I could see the seamless glass going in first though.
 
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