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.

Wisconsin Badgers 2020-2021

robertearle said:
I'll be interested to see if Texas can 'reproduce' their Thursday night effort tonight (though I can't say I know all that much about Kentucky; I watched Thursday, but my mind was 'elsewhere'.)
Click to expand...

The best way, in my mind, to beat Texas is hit over their 5 foot 8 inch setter when she is front row. The #1 thing I saw Kentucky was able to do that Wisconsin wasn't was get the ball to their left side hitters to attack that 5-8 setter. She plays taller than that, but still... Kentucky was able to stay in-system frequently enough to get their left sides - particularly Alli Stumler, obviously - the ball where they could hit effectively and efficiently over the Texas setter. Congrats to them, they did what Wisconsin didn't get done.

----------------------

(And one other note on scheduling tough opponents - before the 2020 season was cancelled, Kentucky was booked to come play in Madison last September. That would have been fun.)
 
Last edited:
top cheese said:
how bout moving your discussion to a volleyball forum...
Click to expand...

Men's Hockey has a separate board for D-II/D-III; and yet another board --The Cafe -- for non-hockey topics. For better or worse, the Women's Hockey Board is kind of an all-in-one.

Women's Hockey fans on USCHO are small in number, but we have a loyal group of regular posters. As such, the all-in-one arrangement works well enough.

I see no transgression.
 
top cheese said:
how bout moving your discussion to a volleyball forum...
Click to expand...

LOL.

Well, it's not like we're crowding out that flood of UW hockey news. But point taken. (For better of worse) the "2020 volleyball season' ended last night, anyway.

So we wait for roster news, and schedule news... that might be a while...
 
top cheese said:
how bout moving your discussion to a volleyball forum...
Click to expand...

We're all friends, we can talk about whatever we want :). And it is UW centric, in the hockey offseason. You are more than welcome post a hockey-centric though about the UW women and Robert and I (and maybe others) would be glad to respond.
 
Certainly a prudent move by the Sinners to extend Johnson to the 2025/2026 season...

However, would be interested to hear feedback from Sinner fans who follow both the Men's and Women's programs on the extension of Gra-NOT-o's contract.
 
Last edited:
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Certainly a prudent move by the Sinners to extend Johnson to the 2025/2026 season...

However, would be interested to hear feedback from Sinner fans who follow both the Men's and Women's programs on the extension of Gra-NOT-o's contract.
Click to expand...

Certainly not shocked by an extension being given out. I honestly can't remember when coaches contracts were less than 5 to 6 years.
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Certainly a prudent move by the Sinners to extend Johnson to the 2025/2026 season...

However, would be interested to hear feedback from Sinner fans who follow both the Men's and Women's programs on the extension of Gra-NOT-o's contract.
Click to expand...

???

They won the Big Ten championship, and made the NCAA tournament. You expected them to not extend his contract?
 
FiveHoleFrenzy said:
Certainly a prudent move by the Sinners to extend Johnson to the 2025/2026 season...

However, would be interested to hear feedback from Sinner fans who follow both the Men's and Women's programs on the extension of Gra-NOT-o's contract.
Click to expand...

IDK, it just increases the buyout if they fire him. He rode his NHL first round guys are far as he could. The big question will be can he win without them? Until last year, the answer was an emphatic no. The slice of hope is it looks like they have got the goaltending position figured out finally and the play of the D Corps was remarkably improved with Miller and Kalynuk gone, who are both playing in the NHL now. I'd love to hear the explanation of that. TG has said that they need to change their style of play to be less PSU like and more BSU like. We'll see if that 1) actually happens and 2) works.

With a new AD coming on that there is actually is a little hope that if the lads do struggle over the next 2 years that he has the balls to can him. I certainly hope that the program goes the other way, however.
 
robertearle said:
???

They won the Big Ten championship, and made the NCAA tournament. You expected them to not extend his contract?
Click to expand...

I don't expect anything out of a program I really don't give a crap about and admittedly know very little about. Was just looking for some insight like Timothy A gave.
 
robertearle said:
They won the Big Ten championship, and made the NCAA tournament. You expected them to not extend his contract?
Click to expand...

Objectively, they could not have extended him based on what I posted. It would have made perfectly logical sense to anyone who is familiar with TG's tenure with the program. I think TG would have understood. I hope the next AD is a wise evaluator of coaching talent. The odds are high that they will have to pick the successor to MJ.
 
Timothy A said:
Objectively, they could not have extended him based on what I posted. It would have made perfectly logical sense to anyone who is familiar with TG's tenure with the program. I think TG would have understood. I hope the next AD is a wise evaluator of coaching talent. The odds are high that they will have to pick the successor to MJ.
Click to expand...

Not extending a coach who wins a conference championship would send a heck of a message to the other coaches currently at the school, and to any prospective coaching candidates you might want to come to the school. It would be horrible for 'morale' etc, and bad for recruiting.
 
robertearle said:
Not extending a coach who wins a conference championship would send a heck of a message to the other coaches currently at the school, and to any prospective coaching candidates you might want to come to the school. It would be horrible for 'morale' etc, and bad for recruiting.
Click to expand...

I get it. If Tsipis had won the conference after years of struggle, I would not have extended him either (though both should not have been extended at some point the last 2 years). Once is a possible fluke, twice is a positive pattern. I'm more of a cut throat perform guy, "feelings" isn't high up on my management meter. In the end, everyone is hoping no one gets fired and the cost of the buyout is chump change to a school like UW. Makes for interesting conversation anyway.
 
Timothy A said:
I'm more of a cut throat perform guy, "feelings" isn't high up on my management meter.
Click to expand...
Too bad you weren't in charge of the UW athletic dept. You could have axed that slacker Johnson when his teams were struggling to win a game at the Frozen Four. You could have hired a better coach who would have won multiple NCAA titles (each season). And you could start a new tradition of having the players dump thinner over the coach to celebrate championships. Wonder what that would do to the ice?
 
  • Like
Reactions: D2D
ARM said:
Too bad you weren't in charge of the UW athletic dept. You could have axed that slacker Johnson when his teams were struggling to win a game at the Frozen Four. You could have hired a better coach who would have won multiple NCAA titles (each season). And you could start a new tradition of having the players dump thinner over the coach to celebrate championships. Wonder what that would do to the ice?
Click to expand...

Um, making the Frozen 4 every year is very acceptable. MJ gets a ssssuuuupppeeeerrrrr long leash since he is a proven winner. TG hadn't done jack shit until this year. Anyway, I'm not saying fire TG, just don't extend him. At any rate UW is flush with $$$, so to extend or not extend isn't really all that relevant.
 
It's Friday and you're going to get serious??? I could care less about TG or anything else to do with UW men's hockey. I'm just looking for a way to get UW women back to being a team that the Gophers could beat ~ 80% of the time like before Johnson took over.
 
Why are we talking about the men's head coach here, shouldn't we be talking about volleyball?
 
ARM said:
It's Friday and you're going to get serious??? I could care less about TG or anything else to do with UW men's hockey. I'm just looking for a way to get UW women back to being a team that the Gophers could beat ~ 80% of the time like before Johnson took over.
Click to expand...

Did Frosty get extended?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top