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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2023-2024

robertearle said:
I saw in the news yesterday that the men's basketball team announced the annual game vs Marquette will be at the Kohl Center Saturday Dec 2nd.

So, my 'favorite' weekend is setting up to full capacity, after a year of sanity: Basketball at the Kohl Center sometime Saturday, women's hockey hosting Duluth Friday-Saturday-Sunday, volleyball hosting first weekend of the NCAA volleyball tournament (maybe Thursday-Friday but more likely) Friday-Saturday, and the Big Ten football championship game televised Saturday night. Men's hockey and women basketball still unknowns.
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Typically that game is played during the day, women's hockey could get the Saturday night slot or afternoon if they play BB that night.

Are you enjoying your trip to Turkey?
 
Timothy A said:
Typically that game is played during the day, women's hockey could get the Saturday night slot or afternoon if they play BB that night.

Are you enjoying your trip to Turkey?
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Other years, the basketball game has had a noon start, with enough time to do the switch-over from men's hockey at 8 PM, women at 4 PM or some such. We'll see.

Eight hour time difference to Turkey. They've played two matches so far, both played in the early morning - 3 or 4 AM CDT - LONG before I'd be awake. But both were streamed onto the internet, able to be downloaded afterwards. Both a single non-moving camera, maybe a cell phone. But good enough to see what happens, who played, what the substitution rotation was, etc. Tomorrow a match being played in Slovenia. And then on to Italy.

Bad news yesterday that one of the starting 'outside hitters', Sarah Franklin, has a relatively unusual shoulder injury that might well keep her from playing at all this year. They have enough depth to 'absorb' the loss and be OK, but it sucks for Franklin.
 
The Wisconsin State Journal posted some excellent photos from the White House visit.
On a separate note, is Maddi Wheeler the most under-the-radar first-liner we've ever had?
 
Gargoyle said:
The Wisconsin State Journal posted some excellent photos from the White House visit.
On a separate note, is Maddi Wheeler the most under-the-radar first-liner we've ever had?
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I think Sam Cogan is the only other one that comes to mind in terms of impact without notoriety. Maddi's a classic glue player that every team needs, and seems to be good for a half-dozen huge plays a year (the dime to Sophie Shirley for the second goal against Minnesota in the semis comes to mind immediately)
 
Gargoyle said:
The Wisconsin State Journal posted some excellent photos from the White House visit.
On a separate note, is Maddi Wheeler the most under-the-radar first-liner we've ever had?
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Yes, her and Cogan are right there.

Kronish will play professionally in Sweden next year. I believe Posick and Pettet are or have played there in the past.
 
Timothy A said:
Yes, her and Cogan are right there.

Kronish will play professionally in Sweden next year. I believe Posick and Pettet are or have played there in the past.
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Mauermann, Posick, and Pettet were on the same team last year. I followed them on twitter (although the Swedish was a problem!).
 
Major potential crisis.....as of 7/1, volunteer coaches are eliminated, but they added a 4th paid coach. I always assumed Greenhalgh would simply become the 4th paid coach. From Madison.com:

"Volunteer coaches have made big contributions to Badgers teams, but the landscape is changing for some of them.

Mark Greenhalgh has been part of five NCAA women's hockey championships in 16 seasons as the volunteer goaltending coach at UW, and all five came with different goalies that he tutored. Four Badgers goalies have made Olympic teams during his tenure.

But the NCAA's elimination of the volunteer role and the uncertainty of UW's usage of expanded paid coaching positions has raised questions about his place with the team going forward.

"That's one point in which it is a gray area and there's been examination of what that looks like for us," McIntosh said about former volunteer coaches. "We're trying to figure out what that looks like."

They have seen this coming for many months, but they haven't figured out what it looks like yet?????!~!?????!!!! Watts a joke. The incompetency of the UW Athletic Dept is astounding in regards to how they handle hockey.
 
Timothy A said:
Major potential crisis.....as of 7/1, volunteer coaches are eliminated, but they added a 4th paid coach. I always assumed Greenhalgh would simply become the 4th paid coach. From Madison.com:

"Volunteer coaches have made big contributions to Badgers teams, but the landscape is changing for some of them.

Mark Greenhalgh has been part of five NCAA women's hockey championships in 16 seasons as the volunteer goaltending coach at UW, and all five came with different goalies that he tutored. Four Badgers goalies have made Olympic teams during his tenure.

But the NCAA's elimination of the volunteer role and the uncertainty of UW's usage of expanded paid coaching positions has raised questions about his place with the team going forward.

"That's one point in which it is a gray area and there's been examination of what that looks like for us," McIntosh said about former volunteer coaches. "We're trying to figure out what that looks like."

They have seen this coming for many months, but they haven't figured out what it looks like yet?????!~!?????!!!! Watts a joke. The incompetency of the UW Athletic Dept is astounding in regards to how they handle hockey.
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Hard to imagine it's much of a 'problem'.

From a monetary point of view: "Hey Greenie... wanna get paid $5K for what you've been doing for free?" "Uhhh... OK."

Otherwise, I expect they already had to have some sort of contract or written agreement with him to even allow him into the building and be around the team members, for insurance reasons etc. Maybe because it's a public university, they have to decide on a 'classification' for the position or some such; how 'part-time" to make it, benefits, etc. They also likely have to list it as an 'open position' before they hire Greenie. Red tape.

I wouldn't worry too much.
 
robertearle said:
Hard to imagine it's much of a 'problem'.

From a monetary point of view: "Hey Greenie... wanna get paid $5K for what you've been doing for free?" "Uhhh... OK."

Otherwise, I expect they already had to have some sort of contract or written agreement with him to even allow him into the building and be around the team members, for insurance reasons etc. Maybe because it's a public university, they have to decide on a 'classification' for the position or some such; how 'part-time" to make it, benefits, etc. They also likely have to list it as an 'open position' before they hire Greenie. Red tape.

I wouldn't worry too much.
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"But the NCAA's elimination of the volunteer role and the uncertainty of UW's usage of expanded paid coaching positions has raised questions about his place with the team going forward.
"That's one point in which it is a gray area and there's been examination of what that looks like for us," McIntosh said about former volunteer coaches. "We're trying to figure out what that looks like."

Seems like a giant issue when the AD himself says he doesn't know "what that looks like". For all we know some other school has offered Greenie a boatload of money to defect while UW is clueless. He'd be a prime target for poaching. The the men's side, UND brought in a full paid associate head coach and PSU has posted a full time position. Some other rich western school could offer him 50K+. Crum was making 91K and Koch 121K in 2021 for a reference point. Greenie certainly is worth a fair assistant coach salary. He's also the eyes above watching the flow of the play besides being the best goalie coach in the women's game.
 
Didn’t the men’s team make news with how much they are paying the new coach? It would be an awful look to not find a way to do this right on the women’s side, considering the context of a long time volunteer, recent history of the teams and equality. There are programs that simply won’t have the means… but are we to believe Wisco is such a program?
 
Timothy A said:
"But the NCAA's elimination of the volunteer role and the uncertainty of UW's usage of expanded paid coaching positions has raised questions about his place with the team going forward.
"That's one point in which it is a gray area and there's been examination of what that looks like for us," McIntosh said about former volunteer coaches. "We're trying to figure out what that looks like."

Seems like a giant issue when the AD himself says he doesn't know "what that looks like". For all we know some other school has offered Greenie a boatload of money to defect while UW is clueless. He'd be a prime target for poaching. The the men's side, UND brought in a full paid associate head coach and PSU has posted a full time position. Some other rich western school could offer him 50K+. Crum was making 91K and Koch 121K in 2021 for a reference point. Greenie certainly is worth a fair assistant coach salary. He's also the eyes above watching the flow of the play besides being the best goalie coach in the women's game.
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As I said, my interpretation of "what that looks like" is as likely to do with job classification, etc, within state government classification system as anything else. And Greenhalgh isn't a 'professional coach' like Eaves or Granato, etal, where moving from job to job is part of the deal; he's a lifelong WI resident and a lifelong friend of MJ's who has a 'day job' (that's he's probably getting close to retiring from). I highly doubt he's gonna move to another state and work for another coach.

(Though Arlan's post was an LOL.)
 
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ARM said:
In the interest of offseason entertainment, couldn't you have just told him, "I heard a rumor that tOSU has made him a very attractive offer to become their goalie coach."
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Hide the men, women, children, pets; heck hide everything! Jane's gonna bring calamity to a town near you!
 
Lindsay said:
Didn’t the men’s team make news with how much they are paying the new coach? It would be an awful look to not find a way to do this right on the women’s side, considering the context of a long time volunteer, recent history of the teams and equality. There are programs that simply won’t have the means… but are we to believe Wisco is such a program?
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The equity of incompetence at WI in regards to the 4th paid coach is equal. They have a gaping hole on the men's side too. They have no goalie coach at this point.
 
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