What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

BGDrew said:
I heard BG threatened every AD’s family pets to get them to defect.
Click to expand...

What did BG tell NMU? You'll smash our face into a car windshield, then take the AD's mother out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again?
 
manurespreader said:
Same here. I really enjoyed listening to Ryan Johnson. He sounded intelligent.
Click to expand...
He certainly did. He's definitely done his research into the jerseys. I would love to be able to do similar for NMU, but just haven't committed some free time to start. Collecting game worn jerseys has been fun, but I don't know if I could bring myself to flip jerseys like he does. About 80% of my collection are jerseys I would never want to move, the rest are jerseys that I'm not tied to fully, but they still mean a little bit to me and I wouldn't want to move.
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

MavHockey14 said:
As a college football junkie, I am in love with Tuesday Night MACtion.
Click to expand...

So YOU'RE the lone viewer outside the footprint of the teams playing that night!! You should send your demographic info to ESPN; I bet they'd customize their commercial programming to suit your tastes.
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

purpleinnebraska said:
I think everyone is somewhat disappointed in these events, but I'm not sure what we're supposed to do. In Kato's "regular conference," 2 teams just dropped football. One of them was St. Cloud, which has well over 10.000 students. Sports are expensive, and at our level, there's no great payback. No 50,000 seat arenas, no multimillion dollar television deals, no jerseys on sale in a Minneapolis Wal-Mart. I'd hate to see any of the other 3 schools lose their hockey program, but I'd hate it even more if we get dragged down with them, when we could have saved ourselves by getting out of the WCHA.
Click to expand...
Ummm... aren't you setting attendance records? and record gross revenue from ticket sales?
And BG, ok and I'm kind of ok with this rivalry, I mean BG does **** but what happened to Miami state teachers college?
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

manurespreader said:
Ummm... aren't you setting attendance records? and record gross revenue from ticket sales?
And BG, ok and I'm kind of ok with this rivalry, I mean BG does **** but what happened to Miami state teachers college?
Click to expand...

Our attendance records are in the 4500 range for average. At $20 a ticket, that's certainly not making us rich. If you're not NoDak or the Gophers, or someone with a good TV contract, you're scraping to get by. Add in trips to Alaska and Alabama, and it's a tough go. We're committed to D1 hockey, but we're not going to let it become a money sinkhole.
 
purpleinnebraska said:
Our attendance records are in the 4500 range for average. At $20 a ticket, that's certainly not making us rich. If you're not NoDak or the Gophers, or someone with a good TV contract, you're scraping to get by. Add in trips to Alaska and Alabama, and it's a tough go. We're committed to D1 hockey, but we're not going to let it become a money sinkhole.
Click to expand...
You do know the Alaska schools pay the vast majority of the costs for those trips right?
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

<iframe src="https://anchor.fm/chasingmacpod/embed/episodes/Episode-10-Hello-Darkness-eabni1" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
  • Bemidji State Review (2:40)
  • WCHA vs Top 6/Bottom 4 (9:16)
  • WCHA Top 6 analysis (14:57)
  • MTU Recruiting News (31:14)
  • Ferris State Preview (40:00)
  • WCHA Predicitons (46:24)
  • Questions (47:42)
  • Johnson’s Jerseys Discussion of non-MTU jerseys (53:51)

Next week Geof said he'll join us...right Geof?
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Sure. You just gotta get me early in the week (heading out of town ... no escaping it).

GFM
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

RaceBoarder said:
Since you are a fan of Auto Racing, think about it in the context of that:

You have your top teams like Mercedes, and Ferrari. ( Top of B1G, NCHC, HE in our case)
You have your Mid-tier teams like Red Bull and McClaren (Mid B1G/NCHC/HE, Top WCHA/AH)
You have your F1 Field Fillers like Haas and Alfa Romeo (Mid & Bottom of WCHA/AH)

In racing, at no point has Mercedes been tasked with keeping Haas around for the "good of the sport". There is a reason privateer teams weren't able to survive past the 1990s. NCAA Hockey is at a similar point. You have your "factory teams" with mega budgets leading the pack while the bottom of the field is trying to get the same end result with just 25% of the factory teams' budgets. Yea, Minardi had a following and it was a cool story when they ran well (think RIT or Bemdji's Frozen Four), but for the most part, they were an after thought.

NCAA Hockey is following the same evolution that Auto Racing has seen over the past 40 years. You either have money or you don't and you have to pay to play. Unfortunately the teams that you are seeking charity from are also the same ones who are having difficulty staying afloat as it is.
Click to expand...
Except in F1 Mercedes and Ferrari are going to be slowed down so they can't spend. In other words, giving up money to the smaller teams.

I get that everyone needs money and there isn't any extra but you have to play against someone. I just hate watching what's happening like in slow motion.
NCAA is pursuing all these high profile colleges and giving lots of publicity to the high profile teams while at the same time the programs who need help get nothing.
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Open question — worse UAH team: 2013-14 or 2019-20?

GFM
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Right now, PWR:

Minnesota State is at 3
NMU is at 16
Bemidji State is at 20
Michigan Tech is at 29

So right now, from here, it looks like NMU, Bemidji, and/or Tech go on one hell of a run to get three teams in. Because I'm guessing the only way the WCHA even sends two is Minnesota State and a tournament champion not named Minnesota State?
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

Here is a theoretical question. Let's say it's two years from now and we have some new league that some of us are in. Let's say further Alaska has these financial problems straight, ( well I can dream) and they now only have 1 school playing hockey, Fairbanks. And let's say They petition the new league for acceptance. What happens then?
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

manurespreader said:
Here is a theoretical question. Let's say it's two years from now and we have some new league that some of us are in. Let's say further Alaska has these financial problems straight, ( well I can dream) and they now only have 1 school playing hockey, Fairbanks. And let's say They petition the new league for acceptance. What happens then?
Click to expand...

who the hell knows but 1 team seems to make a huge difference but that depends on what else happens. Has St. Thomas filled that role? has a school like Simon Fraser added hockey? Maybe some eastern D3 schools add hockey and join up with Simon Fraser, UAH, UAA and UAF in a east/west league? idk
 
Re: WCHA 2019-20 season: We Can Do Better Than Two Bids and a First Round Exit

I don't like to see teams get pushed out and left dying on the vine (John MacInnes' ghost won't sleep well) but I don't see the Severed Seven taking in UA* without major changes. It would blow up their whole idea of blowing up the WCHA to get away from those three.

Unless, of course, it was their intention all along to push UA* to give their teams the resources and support necessary to compete at a level above 45-60 in the NCAA. And also the opportunity to get away from the current WCHA administration.

Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top