The Sicatoka
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@SchlossmanGF: DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED.
@SchlossmanGF: BU and BC have got on a plane 3 times for a regional in the last 13 years. The teams lost by four goals in 1st rd each time.
@chnews: Recent committee member: "Was shocked at how they did it ... Supposed to protect the #1 seed with #16 and #8 for 2nd round. Didn't do it."
I'm not sure which of those three factoids/statements disgusts me most.
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Single game tickets for the Midwest Regional in Toledo, OH are $45!
They're trying to cash in on "Our Lady of the Glittery Bonnets of South Bend" and "The Brotherhood" being there.
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First, what a poor topic line. Why not "Property Taxes - Why so high?"
Some context of what you're talking about (without having to click a link) would be nice.
Second, a tax rate is just that, a tax rate. You have to also figure in valuations of the properties. Then you can determine revenues generated.
Yeah, in ND it's 1.42 percent of home value, but what is the average home value?
If it costs $100k per year to have a county sheriff, but your county property values are very low, you need to have a high tax rate to raise the $100k when compared to a county with high property values.
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Pondering this further, many of us remarked last year that UND had a HC, an associate HC, and an assistant HC (and Breitbach was an assistant coach).
The associate HC is now running Champions Club. The assistant HC is now the new DC.
Could Breitbach be looking to see his title changed to assistant head coach?
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Really are you 12 years old? If I had a AD that looks yours I'd stay away from things like this.
Uh, isn't the board you normally haunt famous for their look-a-likes thread, for example: http://www.bisonvill...rd-Look-A-Likes .
Put another way: Dan, your house is glass, put down the rock.
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Please follow link and read. (No need for me to re-post a re-post of a post.) The idea of a new tier in DI football has been put out by Nick Saban and Karl Benson (Sun Belt Commish).
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Back to the larger point:
In NCAA play the pace of play ... slows .... way ..... way ...... way ....... down (because of their different TV timeout standards compared to regular season play).
I think that hurts deep teams that rolled four lines all season.
In NCAA play you can get away with "two lines and a spare forward" <cough-Duluth-cough-2011-cough-cough> and can drop down to five defensemen earlier than usual.
Will Hakstol make that adjustment this year?
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I think Gaarder, Rodwell, and Mitch Mac anchor a fourth line and simply look to forecheck and not get caught up ice. No goals for, no goals against.
Why not take the whole leap ...
St. Clair Gaarder Caggiula
Pattyn Rodwell MitchMac <-- in this scenario I'd sit MitchMac for Jim
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Final Massey Ratings for the season are out.
http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=chw&sub=NCAA I
1 Minnesota
2 North Dakota
3 BU
4 Wisconsin
5 BC
The 3 OT game should've been a NC game and not a quarterfinal.
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... who is the moderator, ...
I am.
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He (Don Adam) also said, "You guys will love it, I won't be on the ice anymore."
Holy crap! I think I just agreed with a call by Don Adam.
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I'll say it again: I believe three tiers of DI football are on the horizon.
- today's BCS conferences
- the rest of BCS plus the top of FCS
- all the rest
Were something like that to come to pass, I think you'd see the 15k requirement dialed back to about 10k for the middle tier (or a hard 35k requirement put in to play in the top level).
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Interesting statement from Faison:
Geography played into both (GSU, ASU) schools’ favor – something that NDSU and UND do not currently have going for them. Faison could only guess that the Mid-American Conference may be a possibility should the day come.
“From a financial standpoint, it’s a significant investment,” he said. “At the same time, I can see the benefits of FBS.”
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So it looks like the NCAA "gamed" the system again.
"Well then, I guess there's only one thing left to do."
"What's that?"
The greatest victory is achieved by defeating your opponent at their game, by their rules, on their field.
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I was talking to a friend about this earlier and mentioned to him that the "West" regional is further East than the entire WCHA conference (who is only providing 6 of the 16 teams!). It is just ridiculous that it is a requirement that the regional sites are not allowed to be at campus sites.
I don't think that teams and fans from the East get how badly the teams out here get shafted with travel and thus fan support. Could you imagine the outcry from all of them if the regional sites were like this:
Northeast: Detroit
East: Grand Rapids
Midwest: Minneapolis
West: Denver
for even one year, yet this is pretty much what happens to the Western teams on a yearly basis?
No, no. To your time zone point, why not ...
Northeast: Chicago (host: Wisconsin)
East: Minneapolis (host: SCSU)
Midwest: Denver (host: USAFA)
West: San Jose (host: UAA/UAF)
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Never thought I'd accuse anything associated with USCHO of this, but I think they are overthinking the brackets. I'll bet right now their "not adjusted for attendance" brackets are closer to actuality than their adjusted versions.
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What I find interesting right now is that Jim's "after Thursday" simulations have UND looking at:
#5 2.8%
#6 9.9%
#7 27.2%
#8 22.1%
#9 21.7%
#10 13.3%
#11 3.0%
#12 0.0%
Tournament invites: 100.0%
But the actual PWR on Friday morning has UND at T-10 (#11).
That says more than likely UND will move up in PWR over the next two days by going home, staying healthy, and getting rested.
Here's hoping the rest of the games at the Final Five go at least as long as the UND/UM womens game last weekend.
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I don't see a similar fate for this years squad.
This squad needs to figure out that it is acceptable to come out and kick the opponent in the "cup" and then step on their throat in the first 10 minutes in the game.
There is no shame beating everyone 6-0 or worse.
Quit trying to play close games.
Put them down.
Hard.
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Perhaps this loss is a blessing in disguise. The team gets to heal up all the while letting the sting of this loss galvanize the team to push for a national championship. There are enough seniors on this team to turn this into a motivation rather than turn into self destruct mode after a loss that should've never happened like a young team might.
Denver had success with a similar final five failure maybe we can do the same.
Duluth, two years ago, lost their opener in St. Paul, was written off for dead, and three weeks later was back in St. Paul and beating Michigan on a Saturday night.
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Williams is out of the game (took boot to head). It's 5-2 Wisconsin to start the last period.
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We have an early leader for most annoying commercial during the Final Five: the Great Clips ad (guy in Venus fly trap) is old already.
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And now the purple cows take a dumb penalty.
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Has anyone scored four in fifty minutes against Wisconsin this year?
2013 NCAA TOURNEY - 2 wins to the Steel City
in Men's Hockey
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"DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED."
Run the math on that:
Denver to Manchester is 2000 miles. If DU will travel 400 miles more that means 1600 miles is the baseline for comparison.
1600 miles / 13 years is an average of 123 miles per year.
Put that in perspective: Over the last 13 years, on average, what BC has had to travel is the equivalent of Grand Forks to Bemidji.