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Second season and 2500 season ticket holders. Looks to me like lacrosse works where there are hockey fans and a facility. Another thought: Using the "25%" figure from star2city and those 2500 Swarm season tickets, that'd give an estimated and scaled 600 season ticket holders for UND lacrosse in season two. Those 600 season tickets would immediately give a higher average lax attendance than UND baseball, volleyball, or womens hockey.

I'm reading that the same way you must be. And the number for 2003 and 2004 picks was 30%. What I noticed is: I think what you'll see is more guys signing before age 22. That gets you a three-year deal.

The NHL CBA: That's a lot of money. Could you turn down a shot at $984,200 (plus 30% signing bonus) for playing a game?

You're in college. Someone offers you a job that'll pay $80,000 (in the AHL) to $850,000 (in the NHL), plus a six-digit signing bonus. How many new college grads make $80k starting (much less that kind of a starting bonus)? I wouldn't blame any college student for taking the money.

I'll take the under.

Folks, it's out there. It's coming. http://www.startribune.com/503/story/351268.html Carve out a niche; find a sweet spot.

I think "USA Hockey" was asking more of a "why is this brought up, I haven't heard a thing officially from UND" than a "what is this/logistics" question. (That's how I read it at least.)

There's a thread on USCHO ( http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=57855 ) about DI hockey players playing other sports at school. The crossover just this year alone between hockey and lacrosse is startling. TJ Fast at Denver Fogarty at Holy Cross (Go Crusaders!) Carisio at Merrimack Boardman at Dartmouth (?) Lovejoy at Dartmouth (?) Karwoski at Yale

I'd assume you'd be correct also as Chay Genoway, Jake Marto, Michael Forney, and Chris VandeVelde signed letters in the early period in November. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/mhocke...RELEASE_ID=4315 The only surprise that I'd expect (and is that really a surprise) would maybe be a goaltender.

http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1316416&secid=3

Same night the Gophers hang their 2006 NCAA West Region Champion banner.

Rosters don't play games. A team with 13 freshmen, 10 of them (all skaters, no goalies) in the regular line-up, has no business winning a Broadmoor Trophy in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, an upper-classman dominated toughest collegiate league in the country. Yet, they did. Rating: Exceeded expectations.

Only if it's a DU waterbottle.

Of course. The difference between force and 'broad comedy' is a tail on a vowel. Horse sense? I'd have Stafford as "gone" before Parise, but that's my horse of a difference color. And look all the good it did for us with Greene, Bochenski, Zach Parise, Bayda, ....

At risk of repeating myself,

A magazine does it their way. Princeton Review has a better one.

" ... a white boy ... "

My 2006-2007 WCHA season predictions: A team will have a returning player on their roster that no one expected would return. A team will be missing a player from their roster that no one expected would leave. Robbie Bina will redefine "untouchable" in a manner that not even Elliott Ness could imagine.

The committee (not task force) is only gathering data. It does not make a decision, or even make a recommendation. It reports its findings to Dr. Kupchella at the end of the semester. Nuances, yes, but that's what the committee's mission is.

But "Warhawks" just sounds so violent. And how do we know some of the Dept. of Defense supportive, "hawkish" members of Congress won't protest?

Or the attitude could be, "UND showed fiscal restraint and patience. We like those characteristics." You speculate. I speculate. Ain't it fun. How did UND "antagonize" the SUs? By staying DII?

Folks, conferences aren't much different from the NCAA: It's all about the Benjamins. You have them (in budgets and facilities) or you don't. The Engelstad Complex is $110 million plus of have. Alerus Center is another $60 million plus of (city-owned, UND used) have.

I didn't think "released" mattered. Wasn't that the case with that kid at Iowa (that wanted to transfer to, I think it was, Indiana)?

It had the effect because Minnesota (pre-Final Five) was the presumptive favorite down the stretch to win it this year.

If she's transferring from DI to DI she'd have to sit out a year.