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1 hour ago, SJHovey said:
So Brad S. reports that the 2015-16 team with 11 players having played an NHL game is second only to the 1981-82 team with 12.
Whether Cam Johnson would ever get a shot to see actual game action is questionable in my opinion. But I do have an outside candidate from the '15-16 team who could be the 12th.
Chris Wilkie.
WIlkie and Thompson are both still young enough to have an outside chance of getting a few games.
I looked up the 81-82 team and initially thought that there were 13 ex-NHLers. I forgot that Cary Eades didn't get in an NHL game.
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I doubt this will impact FCS football. It doesn't make sense from a financial prospective. Highly sought after FBS recruits will be getting the ad deals, etc... as incentive to go to Alabama, LSU, Texas... I can't see FCS schools ponying up through boosters in a manner that would substantially alter the landscape.
Same for basketball. It will be the same top programs having boosters offering Zion lord knows how much $ to go to their school of choice.
For UND, hockey would be the sport that may be effected. It will be interesting to see how the coaches handle this situation in recruiting.
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3 hours ago, TBR said:
No one in the national media has trouble distinguishing Michigan from MSU, Arizona from ASU, Florida from Florida State. I've never understood why differentiating UND from NDSU is such a challenge.
Neither UND nor NDSU have 5% the national recognition as any of those other school. I doubt many SEC fans could differentiate South Dakota from South Dakota State either.
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The RISP stats were disgusting for the series. 2 of the 3 games the starters gave the team a fighting chance. The Twins just needed one big hit to get things rolling.
Should be an interesting off-season. Position players and DH could be very similar (assuming Arraez will be the everyday 2b), bullpen has some good arms to build on, but lots of questions for the starters.
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11 hours ago, Wilbur said:
5th-6th: Duffy
7th: May
8th: Romo
9th: Rodgers
What baffles me is that this seems so obvious. I can’t imagine any twins fan couldn’t see that outcome coming. Littell, Stashak, and Gibson are so clearly the inning eaters if things have gone to crap. Things hadn’t gone to crap.
Berries wasn’t great, but easily could have given up no runs with a little defensive help. Arreaz catches that blooper to lead off the 3rd.... Why not have Berrios start the 5th after having a great 4th? If he gets in trouble Duffy comes in. The game was a toss-up at that point.
And why not have Gibson pitch the 8th? The game was out of reach. Have him take that inning instead of blowing another arm.
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21 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:
Both managers over-managing.
Yep. 4 earned runs from the two relievers I trust the least. Did any Twins not say WFT when Littell and Stashal were brought in? Just shocking that they struggled...
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38 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Okay, thinking ahead to the playoffs in NY. Here is my lineup if Kepler is healthy.
1. Arraez-2B
2. Polanco-SS
3. Cruz-DH
4. Kepler-RF
5. Garver-C
6. Rosario-LF
7. Sano-3B
8. Cave-CF
9. Marwin-1B
I don't start Cron because he is hurting and I'm guessing off season surgery. Plus I think you need the experience in the lineup.
I could live with that. Good Mix of L and R handed batters.
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Go 7-6 the rest of the way and the Indians need to go 11-1 to TIE. Go 2-1 against the W.S and 3-1 against the Royals at home and somehow avoid any more injuries.
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If Sano comes back and plays at a high level that is going to be a very nice lineup. I assume he'll hit 5th. If the starters keep putting up quality starts to protect the bullpen this team has potential. They could have 8 guys hit at least 20 HRs each (Kepler, Polanco, Cruz, Eddie, Sano, Cron, Garver, Schoop) plus Buxton's speed for the one extra batter.
At least it's entertaining to watch for the moment.
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18 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
She IS right about one thing. Kennedy is NOT committed to the University of North Dakota. Never has been and never will be.
Pretty much any up and coming administrator or coach is going to be looking to move on to bigger and better things. That's just how it is with UND's status. At ANY position at UND there is a bigger and better job out their.
To advance to the bigger and better jobs the coaches/administrators need to thrive. To think that Kennedy isn't committed to UND and doesn't want it to thrive is crazy. He may want that for purely personal gain, but that's no different than a football, basketball, or hockey coach. With success other, bigger, opportunities will present themselves. I don't see begrudging someone for wanting to thrive in their chosen profession.
I'm not a fan of Kennedy, but I have no doubt he wants UND to thrive and is trying to achieve this result. It would be career suicide for him to want anything else.
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The schedule for April is rough. Great start so far.
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1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:
The current trend for this program is down, down and down some more. If we were a stock, I wouldn't buy it. And if I owned it, I would sell as quickly as possible.
I don't blame people for being frustrated, especially since it looks like Berry is going to Stand Pat with everything.
I’ll let you sell... I’ll bet you a nice chunk of money that the Sioux end the regular season next year higher in the pairwise than they did this year.
Sounds like it should be easy money for you.
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The Twins are the one team I always have irrational confidence in. I'll guess 84 wins and miss WC by a few games. I just hope after 40 games they are .500 or better to make the season more interesting.
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Definitely a log jam next year. 6 returning guys that saw a lot of ice - Poolman, Peske, Bast, Kierstad, Jonny, and JBD. Always some injuries and healthy scratches, but that's a pretty solid group. Outside some long-term injures, I don't see (2) freshman getting 20-25 games each. Seems one more year of juniors for one of them would be more beneficial for their development.
The next year we'll lose Peske, Poolman, and probably a couple early departures.
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6 minutes ago, scpa0305 said:
We'll have to agree to disagree. You can slice and dice the pie to create more parity around the state however all you are doing is watering down the league. Good players like to play with good players, it adds in a layer of creativity and growth. I get that creates problems for the rest of the state. That's the only reason I think they should explore Tier one. So our better players can play better competition and continue to develop. I mean, I would have loved to see central's team play against Edina.
If the issue that needs to be solved is lack of competition for the very top kids, this seems to be the most logical answer. They play better competition, and the remaining teams have more parity.
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2 minutes ago, OgieOgilthorpe said:
So with the higher numbers of players at that age, they're essentially able to have a JV team (B1) and a C squad (B).
Absolutely for the bigger programs. Many just have one or two teams, i.e. Devils Lake had one team and won the B1 division this year.
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For clarification, for ND Bantams there is AA (3) teams, A(11), B1 (12) and B (19). I agree that AA is the only high competition band, with A being solid, but not nearly as many out-of-state games. GF dominates both AA and A at probably a higher level than HS.
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13 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:
Whatever we all feel, it is well beyond time for the vested parties to conveen in VC and at least have the duscussion.
HS coaches, ADs, Superintendents as well as the youth club representatives, USA hockey reps...
All meeting with the silver haired unichs that envision themselves as the keeper of youth sports law.
IF you think the current system is sustainable, that is a fool's road that leads to nowhere, or just are so blatently ignorant that there is no hope.
This stinks of the moronic attitude of wanting your kid to given a spot on a higher team, just for the social status a parent can claim.
Either way your, our I should say our opinions matter not. Everything is in the "capable" ( hahahhahahahahha) hands of the VC kabal.
What is the specific problem that needs fixing? The youth numbers in the West are up as far as number of pee wee and bantam teams. If the problem is development on the top end, the solution is different than it there is declining participation on the bottom end.
West Youth Teams (excluding Bismarck)
2013 - Pee Wee - 14, Bantam 14
2018 - Pee Wee 22, Bantam 17
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6 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:
Watford
Williston
Dickinson
Hazen
Crosby
Bottineau
Langdon
Jamestown
May-Port
Mandan even...
Zero chance to be competative in NDSHS Hockey single class ...Zero. None. Never.
I'm not hearing this push for a divided system from any of these schools. They know that can't compete for a state championship. That isn't their goal.
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38 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:
Howsabout, restructuring a system to mirror how EVERY OTHER SPORT in ND is run.
And yes there are a lot of teams in smaller towns in MN, If those teams had to play EDINA and Duluth East a couple times a year, instead of similar like schools, how long would those kids stick around in the sport?
Noncompetitive is Nonsustainable.
Please explain how the teams get split, and how they will set schedules. What does this do to D.L., Jamestown, DIckinson... that are stuck in the lower group? That will encourage growth and development? Those teams want to play the top teams. Sure they get killed, but that's just how it goes. If two classes the top kids from the lower division will jump to the top division schools. It would be a mess.
Hockey cant be compared to football or basketball in ND due to the number of teams.
The easiest solution is have a Tier 1 or similar team for the very top kids. 99% of aspiring HS players aren't going D1.
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2 hours ago, Bajadanny said:
Two class system the only way to proceed
How would this look for game scheduling? If 8 teams in the top division (RR, Central, Davies, FS/Shanley, Bis, Century, Minot, and some other team) would they play each other twice? That would be 14 games. Scheduling other games, outside of games with the lower level teams, would be problematic for many of the teams. I doubt MN teams would burn their limited game allotment making a Western ND swing to play teams potentially well below their level.
The same would be true for the lower level teams.
I'd like to hear the specific problem that needs to be addressed, and an actual proposal to see how this would be set up. I'm all for growing the game, but I don't see an actual proposal that would accomplish this goal.
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There would presumably be 8 teams in the top division, so no regional tournament, and the regular season would just be for seeding for the state tournament. It seems this would essentially revert to the Bantam system. Just removing (2) teams from the top division would do nothing but potentially hurt those two programs.
I don't think the "lesser" teams have any anticipation of winning the state tournament, and I don't think not having a shot to win the state tournament hurts the youth numbers. For those programs their goal is to get to state. Sure an occasional higher end player will bail from a lesser program, but that's gonna happen no matter what. It's no different than a kid going to the USHL for his senior year from a top program.
What's the specific issue that needs to be addressed? I don't know if it's necessary to completely blow up a system because of one outlier that is dominant.
There just isn't the depth of talent in ND. There aren't enough teams to have a legitimate 2 class systems. We aren't MN. The simple answer may be to just have a AAA or junior team in GF to allow the top handful of kids to play a more competitive schedule. The HS league will be more balanced. Honestly, the top handful of kids in the state shouldn't be playing ND HS to develop into potential college athletes.
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2 hours ago, UND1983 said:
Not really. How does Football encourage a kid to play nothing else? Or Basketball? Or Baseball? They offer very little in their off-season's meaning a kid can do something else. BB has AAU ball in April, May and July....that comes close.
With kids that have played/play on many traveling teams, I can tell you 100% that basketball and baseball are the same way for the kids (parents) that think they have the potential to get a scholarship... in that sport. It's the same for hockey. 80% of the squirts do little or nothing in the off-season, but some go crazy.
It would drive me nuts how seriously some parents would take travel baseball for 9 yr olds. Off season work indoors, camps..., were the norm for many even at that age.
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17 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:
Yes. Baseball is very much this way now, as well as basketball and many other sports.
You just don't see it because our region is inhospitable to the year round participation. Southern baseball is absolutely year round in the same fashion as "AAA" hockey (hate that designation). The number of pitches thrown year round by early teens in these regions is scary.... but parents seeing 300 million dollars contracts for little Breydynn are just as fanatical as the hockey parents from Minnedakota.
Any sport that has risen to a mid tier college status.....i.e. ...scholorships.... has resulted in parents... not kids... pushing year round specialization.
Football "specialization" comes in the form of weight room time.
Hockey is absolutely about skating. Kids that spend all summer playing tourneys, improve some, maybe. Kids that spend the summer on specialized skating camps and programs, grow leaps and bounds.
These things can be intertwined with a summer baseball, lacrosse, golf season.
USA Hockey preaches out both sides of the mouth on playing multiple sports but some work better with each other.
I agree 100% I've seen kids 14-16 quit basketball to focus on baseball. These kids would have been very good HS basketball players and previously had done the AAU... stuff. That said, I believe hockey is the sport where there is the most potential benefit from off-season work due to the rather unique skating issue.
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COMMITTED UND Recruits
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That articles references a Roger Bamburak. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable concerning Sioux hockey, but that name was not familiar. Looks like the 14# overall pick in 1963. Played (3) yrs at UND, a handful of years in the EHL, and didn't make it to the NHL.
You learn something every day.