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Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

joecct said:
Interesting. Women's programs are a boat anchor, aren't they? tOSU is hampered by lots of seats and too little fannies.
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Yeah, woman's hockey is extremely difficult to make profitable. Explains why neither Michigan or Michigan State have woman's teams. These numbers explain (in my opinion) why the B1G schools were anxious to form the BTHC. The TV contract will bring a lot of much needed revenue to programs like OSU that is hemorrhaging money on their hockey programs right now.
 
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Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

FlagDUDE08 said:
Just so long as the popularity of the National Sport of Canada (read: it's NOT hockey) doesn't then force Johns Hopkins and Hobart to move to D-I, just like they did with Georgetown in squeakball.
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Since 1994 it has been Hockey and Lax. Lax is the national summer sport, Hockey is the national winter sport. Lax was the one and only prior to 1994.
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_facts&lists/symbols.html
 
Nothing like seeing the writing on the wall. Talk about a buzz kill. Thanks for the exhilarating snow shower, though. Economic reality.
JDUBBS1280 said:
Seeing as though, under Title 9, adding a men's hockey program means a school would also have to add a woman's program (though doesn't have to be hockey), I don't think we'll see any other school add a program anytime soon, if ever. Considering only one of the six B1G schools (Minnesota) made money off their hockey programs last year (largely because of their nation's best TV contract), hockey isn't the easiest sport to turn a profit on.

http://mnhockeycentral.webs.com/BigTenNumbers.JPG

(Credit to GPL for putting this table together)
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Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

joecct said:
Two factors:
(1) Until the other B1G schools see that ice hockey is a money maker, they'll stay out of it. A school needs a 5K capacity ice rink AND money for two programs (men and women).
(2) Unless E$PN and the BTN start generating (more) obscene cash flows for the B1G schools, they'll be stuck at 6 for the next 5+ years.

ND will join the B1G when the NBC contract stops paying off and there is a playoff system in the FBS schools.

Amazing how it is all tied to the money. And we thought it was education!
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So if Notre Dame woods decide a play Beeg 10s football et basquetballs eet wood suddenly be a victory for ejacation? Huh?
 
Jacques "Rabbit" Poriveau said:
So if Notre Dame woods decide a play Beeg 10s football et basquetballs eet wood suddenly be a victory for ejacation? Huh?
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Mais oui mon frere. Wen da qaterback from de Etat de Carolina Nord went to Weesconsin instead of dat factorie de football Auburn, vous regardez l'eddicatin. Dat dere B1G do tink dat eddicashun, she is bigger dere dan dat SEC or Grande Est.

But l'argent is still tres important, d'accord??
 
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No, Champaign doesn't have a hero with Pegula-sized pockets, but $15 million for a new arena is intriguing.
[video]http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?96468-University-of-Illinois-plans-for-new-Ice-Arena-in-Research-Park[/video]
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

joecct said:
Mais oui mon frere. Wen da qaterback from de Etat de Carolina Nord went to Weesconsin instead of dat factorie de football Auburn, vous regardez l'eddicatin. Dat dere B1G do tink dat eddicashun, she is bigger dere dan dat SEC or Grande Est.

But l'argent is still tres important, d'accord??
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So waht you saying is you dont ave de ansure pour me. I didint tink you wood seeing ow dum you originale poste was.

Why you dont trying again, eh. If Notre Dame not joining da Beeg10s is all bout money ow wood ND joining da Beeg10s be some step in da name a ejucation?

Ou was I rite when I readed you original poste et tot you was to dum to ave ze intelligente tot on dis?
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Jacques "Rabbit" Poriveau said:
So waht you saying is you dont ave de ansure pour me. I didint tink you wood seeing ow dum you originale poste was.

Why you dont trying again, eh. If Notre Dame not joining da Beeg10s is all bout money ow wood ND joining da Beeg10s be some step in da name a ejucation?

Ou was I rite when I readed you original poste et tot you was to dum to ave ze intelligente tot on dis?
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As alter egos go, you, sir, are no William Regal or Blinky the Wonder Chimp. I suggest going back to the drawing board.
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

unofan said:
As alter egos go, you, sir, are no William Regal or Blinky the Wonder Chimp. I suggest going back to the drawing board.
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Eh mon ami lets ave a race. I ed back to zee ow you say drawing bord et you try pull dat giant stick outta you butt et we see oo get it done furst, d'accord? One teep, come down offa you i orse furst, cuz dat could be one nasty accidente from way up der...
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Bump.

These announcements seem to have been glossed over. Haven't seen a peep about it in the forum since the very recent groundbreaking announcements.

Original announcement (from 2007):

http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_a659dba3-86c1-50af-9c9c-ad8a14dcc175.html

Recent announcement (October):

http://journalstar.com/news/local/g...cle_f1637b62-92ec-5b13-8e33-dccd88ee14e2.html

Even more recent (November):

http://www.newsnetnebraska.org/news/breslow-ice-center-expected-for-2013/

Now, I'm not saying at all that the University of Nebraska is going to take their club team and go D-1. Everybody seems to "know", somehow, that they can't, won't, couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't etc., etc., etc.

However, for somebody that professes no interest in doing so, doesn't it strike everybody as a tad odd that that a brand new hockey-only facility is now going to be built on a quadrangle that includes Memorial Stadium, Haymarket Park, the currently under construction Pinnacle Bank Arena (which supposedly will have ice making capability good enough for ice shows, but, not for hockey), and now, this new hockey onlyfacility? Or the timing of all this?

I realize that the Husker club team plays in Fremont, NE, but..................

How hard would it be to enlarge this facility, one wonders? How convenient that it's being built with dual rinks so that a future choice between Olympic sized ice and NHL sized ice could hypothetically be made.

If the University of Nebraska is *not* interested in D-1 hockey why do things keep happening down in Lincoln that would seem to have the potential to be contradictory to that supposed stance, I wonder?

I don't care about the first link 4+ year old article saying there are no plans for NCAA hockey there. That was well before the Big 10 hockey conference came to be and before Nebraska joined the Big 10.

To me, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck................

"Yeah, we don't have any interest in D-1 hockey. Oh, these two facilities being built as we speak where it could be put if we did? Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Might have a point there. The michigan AD in a speech about a month ago said point blank that they were going to add lacrosse.
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

I hypothetically mentioned Nebraska on a different forum not too long ago and I just about got my nuts ripped off. Hmmmm:rolleyes:
 
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I was an UNO fan, I would be really worried that UNL would tell Trev Alberts to shut down the hockey team in Omaha as a "Cost Cutting Measure" so that the squad in Lincoln could scoop up the talent there. :mad:
 
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