Rebel_Sioux

So you want the school to fund a sport that has a large roster, lots of equipment and, as you pointed out, lots of traveling. Sounds like that would be more expensive than S&D to me.

I feel for the recruit but if she's really as good as she claims her chances of playing D1 hockey are hardly "slim to none." Other teams will offer her a scholarship, if not this year than next.

It's really a shame it came to this. Realistically we were a coach away from a championship team with the players we had. Idalski not getting canned or resigned at the end of the year raised some pretty major red flags.

I just want to break from hockey and touch on swimming and diving for a moment. I question how much they'll really save on this. Yes you don't have to be the coaches or the travel cost, but they'll still have to maintain the pool for students. It just seems to me that they're transferring the costs to the facilities and academic books. Plus they have historically been a pretty good team. It would have made more sense to cut softball or tennis.

Hockey is our sport and if it were up to me, women's hockey would have stayed. Our swimming and diving teams are pretty good really an I would have kept them as well. I would have personally cut: soccer, tennis, softball and golf. Not if that would work financially or per scholarship rules but 3 of those sports don't even have on-campus facilities and the official soccer field is pretty sad. That being said, I don't blame Kennedy for his decision. He was put in a tough spot I respect that he made the decision base on pure numbers. If people want to be mad, they should be mad at those in Congress who didn't plan ahead for a budget shortfall. The state should have funded building repairs when it had the availability to do so. Cuts may have still been needed, but with better planning we may have been able to avoid cutting some, if not all, of these sports.

I wonder how many sioux players I can get onto a team...

I'm pretty new here too. All I can say is don't worry about it too much. Aside from a few Big trolls, everyone on here is pretty nice and you will pick up on things pretty quickly.

I've heard this so much from Big Ten fans. They seem to forget that ND has played Hockey East teams all year and thus have a good pairwise...that may not hold true if they were in the Big Ten.

That is one such roadblock yes.

*sigh* seeing the AF team do so well this year makes me wish they would just trade spots with Huntsville. It makes sense regionally and would make the WCHA stronger. Alas there are roadblocks to such a move.

Well...I guess I'm cheering for a NCHC match up now.

Money is transferrable. If they tie the money directly to academics, the money that was originally tied to that academic bill can now be used for anything else.

It's always bittersweet to see players leave early.

Well I expect BU-UMD players to be pretty tired considering both games went into OT.

Facebook group I'm in. Used to be for the old WCHA fans to smack talk each other. Never updated the name.

I think I know all 4 of them.

Yeah...based on our success in basketball, football and volleyball it really seems like our recruiting is hurting across the board. <-sarcasm

UMD needs to win...I can't stand Big Ten fans.

Doesn't the top seed get to pick their game time?

I apologize all. I was at the doctor with my daughter for the first period and a half...1-1..then I went to work where we have cable 3-1...I come home 3-3...if I had only been responsible at work...

I wonder if George Gwozdecky is on any teams radar this year or if he's more or less retired at this point.

1. Air Force...I'm in the air force so... 2. Western Michigan...keep it in the NCHC. 3. Michigan Tech, got to love the old WCHA 4. DU, same as 2, only I dislike DU more 5. UMD, same as 2, normally they'd be higher but as previously mentioned, they were brutes this year. 6-11. Which ever team has the fewest title wins. 12.Notre Dame...first they go Hockey East and now Big Ten...jerks. 13. Minnesota..I was born and raised there...and my brothers went there so I'll throw them a bone here. 14. OSU, down with Big Ten 15. PSU, their team lead to the WCHA falling apart. The jerks.

Are you trying to set a record for down votes?

Made a different bracket online with my brothers. In either case I predict an NCHC champion.

That article neglects BC. Them winning would hurt Ohio St and Providences chances too.