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WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

HarleyMC said:
It's a good thing Sullivan has lots of space for future banners.
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Because being out from under the hegemonic thumb of a couple of Big 10 schools while trying to compete with decades of success (DU, UND, CC) when you make 7 or 8 road trips of 3000+ miles all while listening to every one of those bigger more well funded programs whine about travel is a bad thing.

Listen up you pretentious twat. You came into this thread and continue to make assertions that nobody other than you is interested in hearing. Why? Because you have no real interest in the issue other than to "sound" like whatever it is you are trying to sound like. Or is it just that you see some posters on a forum who are unfortunate enough to follow an NCAA team with a long losing record and figured you could just spew whatever you could in any attempt to make yourself feel superior?

The departure of you and yours is anticipated with nothing but joy from over here.
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

HarleyMC said:
"none of us"? So you're a representative of the "I don't understand big words" contingent?:D You even fail at being a smart***.
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For such a smart-guy you seem to struggle with knowing how literal to take statements made by others.

I hate to break it to you, but your choice in words doesn't pass over as many folks' heads as you hope. Just because most people choose to converse in a more common fashion doesn't mean that they don't understand your unnecessary and painfully transparent usage of a rather particular lexicon on a general discussion board.

But I wasn't even really speaking to that. Mostly just your general attitude.

And thanks for demonstrating so perfectly what I was getting at. Not that anyone needed yet another demonstration.




I'm looking forward to some play-off hockey, especially with it looking like MN will have some muscle to flex this season.
I'm going to buck the conventional wisdom and say MN comes out flying Friday and rolls over UAA. We'll see what kind of fight the Seawolves have in them on Saturday.
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

uaafanblog said:
Because being out from under the hegemonic thumb of a couple of Big 10 schools while trying to compete with decades of success (DU, UND, CC) when you make 7 or 8 road trips of 3000+ miles all while listening to every one of those bigger more well funded programs whine about travel is a bad thing.

Listen up you pretentious twat. You came into this thread and continue to make assertions that nobody other than you is interested in hearing. Why? Because you have no real interest in the issue other than to "sound" like whatever it is you are trying to sound like. Or is it just that you see some posters on a forum who are unfortunate enough to follow an NCAA team with a long losing record and figured you could just spew whatever you could in any attempt to make yourself feel superior?

The departure of you and yours is anticipated with nothing but joy from over here.
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Ahhh....did I hurt your feelings? I'd love for you repeat what you said in your post to me in person. I highly doubt you would ever do it again. UAA hockey program is a historical and unmitigated disaster. I'd suggest you use your blog to level a critique where is it needed.
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

Stauber1 said:
For such a smart-guy you seem to struggle with knowing how literal to take statements made by others.

I hate to break it to you, but your choice in words doesn't pass over as many folks' heads as you hope. Just because most people choose to converse in a more common fashion doesn't mean that they don't understand your unnecessary and painfully transparent usage of a rather particular lexicon on a general discussion board.

But I wasn't even really speaking to that. Mostly just your general attitude.

And thanks for demonstrating so perfectly what I was getting at. Not that anyone needed yet another demonstration.




I'm looking forward to some play-off hockey, especially with it looking like MN will have some muscle to flex this season.
I'm going to buck the conventional wisdom and say MN comes out flying Friday and rolls over UAA. We'll see what kind of fight the Seawolves have in them on Saturday.
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I have no agenda to post over heads here nor do I use a thesaurus. All I know is you seem to enjoy stalking me (Stalker1). Are you a gay guy in your closet or something?
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

HarleyMC said:
Ahhh....did I hurt your feelings? I'd love for you repeat what you said in your post to me in person. I highly doubt you would ever do it again.
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Guarantee that I would say it to you tough guy. With you laying on your back ...

I'd suggest you use your blog to level a critique where is it needed.
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As I've already indicated but you've failed to grasp; it has nothing to do with you.
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

uaafanblog said:
Guarantee that I would say it to you tough guy. With you laying on your back ...


As I've already indicated but you've failed to grasp; it has nothing to do with you.
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:D The blogman has salient hegemonic tendencies.
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

No matter who wins this series, I think Harley and Donald should have a monkey knife fight at the Final Five.
 
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Dirty said:
No matter who wins this series, I think Harley and Donald should have a monkey knife fight at the Final Five.
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In that case, I give up. Donald is right. I admit UAA has simply had the misfortune for the last 19 years of being in a state so, so far away and they have to travel so much and then they get no respect from those other big, mean, whiny teams. UAA is just a fine organization and it's just too bad they are abused the way they are. I see it clearly now. Thanks!
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

HarleyMC said:
UAA has: 1) access to a large recruiting pool of Canadian Juniors, USHL and other recruiting markets exists, 2) showed consistent success as a D1 Independent, 3) a reasonably strong fan base, and 4) more than adequate hockey facilities. Given these factors exist, their consistent dismal record is generally a failure of the leadership to adapt to the unique challenges and forecast investment in the program.

Just think...next year UAA will celebrate two full decades of total incompetence! You could run a special edition blogman! Of course, when the new, downgraded WCHA begins this will all come to an unfortunate end. It's a good thing Sullivan has lots of space for future banners.
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Ok let's tackle these:

1. UAA has access to the Canadian Junior A leagues, most of whom, especially the BCHL, have had a noticeable dip in quality over the last decade for NCAA bound players. Beyond that UAA has almost no access to the USHL, there is some certainly but not as much as other schools that are far closer. We do have NAHL access but that isn't much and we have almost zero access anywhere else.

2. UAA showed consistent success in about a 4-5 year period as a D-I Independent. Before that they were D-II or D-I with not much to show for it. 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92 are UAA's best four seasons. After that it was adjusting to the WCHA, the Talafous mistake and trying to recover from it. I will agree that there is a problem of commitment from the University, but not from the Athletic Department. One of the biggest things that is not understood about UAA is how the University of Alaska system actively subjugates UAA. The system barely gives enough funding for the education of the students let alone the athletic department. And anybody that tries to change things is forced out by the UA Board of Regents.

3. I would not classify our fanbase as strong. It's terrible, mostly because Anchorage is a horrible sports town with a split market. Our attendance is dropping and has been for seasons. But it can be turned around. To me, that'd be a reason to go to UAA. I can be just another random, faceless player at Minny, DU, or even Tech or I can be part of a legacy at UAA. Somebody that helped build something.

4. More than adequate facilities?!? Have you been in Sullivan Arena? It wasn't state of the art in 1986 let alone now. It dull, cramped, has crap facilities. It's probably the biggest problem with UAA and, because of what I said earlier about the UA system, we can't do anything about it.

That's the only reply you'll get out of me. Even the Gopher fans don't like you, funny.
 
uaafanblog said:
I have a long history of discussing the complex set of geographic, institutional and operational challenges that have long contributed to UAA's status at the bottom of the WCHA.


No again. I write a blog for UAA fans. It's about UAA hockey. It's called the UAA Hockey Fan blog. Lots of the above noted discussions have occurred there over the years. So um ... really the last thing needed is to attempt to address some drive-by critique from someone who's first assertions get no deeper than the shallow end of the pool.

No.


Yeah um .... one of the many contributing factors fixes itself after next season; the current and future WCHA are quite different animals. Another subject on which I've expressed myself at length both here and on my blog.


Best of luck in your quest. I'm sure you'll manage to keep lots of fine players from attending UAA with your excellent posts here.
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Please post like this more often.
 
HarleyMC said:
Ahhh....did I hurt your feelings? I'd love for you repeat what you said in your post to me in person. I highly doubt you would ever do it again. UAA hockey program is a historical and unmitigated disaster. I'd suggest you use your blog to level a critique where is it needed.
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Just when i thought you couldnt be more of an asswipe, you go for the internet tough talk. Aren't you, like, 60 years old?
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

Jimjamesak said:
Ok let's tackle these:

1. UAA has access to the Canadian Junior A leagues, most of whom, especially the BCHL, have had a noticeable dip in quality over the last decade for NCAA bound players. Beyond that UAA has almost no access to the USHL, there is some certainly but not as much as other schools that are far closer. We do have NAHL access but that isn't much and we have almost zero access anywhere else.

2. UAA showed consistent success in about a 4-5 year period as a D-I Independent. Before that they were D-II or D-I with not much to show for it. 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92 are UAA's best four seasons. After that it was adjusting to the WCHA, the Talafous mistake and trying to recover from it. I will agree that there is a problem of commitment from the University, but not from the Athletic Department. One of the biggest things that is not understood about UAA is how the University of Alaska system actively subjugates UAA. The system barely gives enough funding for the education of the students let alone the athletic department. And anybody that tries to change things is forced out by the UA Board of Regents.

3. I would not classify our fanbase as strong. It's terrible, mostly because Anchorage is a horrible sports town with a split market. Our attendance is dropping and has been for seasons. But it can be turned around. To me, that'd be a reason to go to UAA. I can be just another random, faceless player at Minny, DU, or even Tech or I can be part of a legacy at UAA. Somebody that helped build something.

4. More than adequate facilities?!? Have you been in Sullivan Arena? It wasn't state of the art in 1986 let alone now. It dull, cramped, has crap facilities. It's probably the biggest problem with UAA and, because of what I said earlier about the UA system, we can't do anything about it.

That's the only reply you'll get out of me. Even the Gopher fans don't like you, funny.
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Thanks for at least rendering something substantive in regards to the problem at UAA. You should start a blog too. Funding is always a leadership issue. I have not been to Sullivan, but Sullivan is "reasonably adequate" and presently functional for college hockey is what I wrote. Of course attendance is going to drop and I suspect the bleeding will not stop until drastic changes are made. This program needs good leadership in almost every area if they want to come out of the cellar bad enough.

BTW, if you are posting on this board to be liked...good luck with that.:D
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

Can't we all just get along and talk playoff hockey? We could be in for a special postseason. Let's enjoy it :)
 
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5RINGS said:
Can't we all just get along and talk playoff hockey? We could be in for a special postseason. Let's enjoy it :)
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+1

Yeah, I'd rather talk playoff hockey about my favorite team than spend time ripping on a school that just so happened to knock my team out of the picture last year. Look Harley, it's not that I don't agree with some of your points, but why do you have to be such a (p)rick about it? :confused:
 
Re: WCHA First Round - Minnesota Hosts UAA (Let's call it the vengeance series)

Jimjamesak said:
Ok let's tackle these:

1. UAA has access to the Canadian Junior A leagues, most of whom, especially the BCHL, have had a noticeable dip in quality over the last decade for NCAA bound players. Beyond that UAA has almost no access to the USHL, there is some certainly but not as much as other schools that are far closer. We do have NAHL access but that isn't much and we have almost zero access anywhere else.

2. UAA showed consistent success in about a 4-5 year period as a D-I Independent. Before that they were D-II or D-I with not much to show for it. 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92 are UAA's best four seasons. After that it was adjusting to the WCHA, the Talafous mistake and trying to recover from it. I will agree that there is a problem of commitment from the University, but not from the Athletic Department. One of the biggest things that is not understood about UAA is how the University of Alaska system actively subjugates UAA. The system barely gives enough funding for the education of the students let alone the athletic department. And anybody that tries to change things is forced out by the UA Board of Regents.

3. I would not classify our fanbase as strong. It's terrible, mostly because Anchorage is a horrible sports town with a split market. Our attendance is dropping and has been for seasons. But it can be turned around. To me, that'd be a reason to go to UAA. I can be just another random, faceless player at Minny, DU, or even Tech or I can be part of a legacy at UAA. Somebody that helped build something.

4. More than adequate facilities?!? Have you been in Sullivan Arena? It wasn't state of the art in 1986 let alone now. It dull, cramped, has crap facilities. It's probably the biggest problem with UAA and, because of what I said earlier about the UA system, we can't do anything about it.

That's the only reply you'll get out of me. Even the Gopher fans don't like you, funny.
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Why do the politicians not use some of the oil money for school funding?
 
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