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All the home ends on contracts along with hosting the icebreak does skew it a little bit. 10 home non-con games is pretty rare. 19-16 is more common, with usually 1 exempt game (HOF) rather than 2 (Ice Breaker).

Bingo

The Prime Time trophy (oops, wrong sport)

UND basketball could use a big toe.

Probably. Circle of Life, baby.

I wonder if a school could put escalators in a contract buyout tied to existing/committed players leaving to the same school as the coach within say 90 days. At least make it hurt a little.

If the tweet is to be believed St. Thomas will suddenly be elevated as a current core Summit League member. At this point, they do not help the strength of the league, nor do they add any new recruiting ground. Part of the benefit of Miami and Western is exposure in new areas, both for recruiting and just the University. Those that always seem to want to add the likes of Mankato, St. Thomas or Bemidji don't seem to realize that. Being at 8 teams is an ideal number because it gives plenty of flexibility for non-conference scheduling, which is helpful in getting teams in the tourney. If this is purely a name change, then I'd agree that it's not necessarily a huge deal.

Yeah it's not like its won more than half of the National Championships and been the clearly strongest conference in that time frame. Makes total sense to blow it up.

I wonder who is driving this. I sure hope it's not a school that isn't even a full DI yet. Summit football with st thomas moving up makes more sense than ruining the NCHC. If st thomas does join, I'd expect ASU to join as well and Western and Miami to leave If the MAC schools leave I could see another reshuffling among CCHA, Atlantic Hockey, Lindenwood and Long Island into 3 leagues, with a possible resurrection of the WCHA name for the third league.

To be fair from a UND perspective if Q scores it, it was going to be pretty be matter how it went in.

Nope, it was real. https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/sports/simon-fraser-university-ceases-its-football-program/

If the tourney weren't one and done I could maybe see that. But too much h has to go right to even get these chances. It's like lightning in a bottle.

That or Close, but no cigar.

1989 redux. Losing in OT makes it such much more painful. BEAUTIFUL.

I hate to say it's only snow, but that will also mean more tornados in the southeast so I'll take white stuff as long as we don't get a quick warm up.

That season ended up OK.

Why?

But he/she should sure as hell be checking with the SID before a stunt like that.

Save it. 2024 Frozen Four is at the X. Long memories.

The NCAA may not care about the money coming in, but you can be sure the IRS does. It's income and Uncle Sam will get his share and rightfully so. Accountants and tax planners will be replacing tutors on athletic department payrolls.

A pretty run down Motel 6

I'm fearful that they will screw up what could be one of the best one with the Bronx Bombers.

Other upshot would be that exhibition games would be legal as long as no NHL signed players were on the CHL team. UND vs Brandon Wheat Kings here we come.

And then the CHL teams just rebrand them as marketing rights stipends and problem goes away.

Not sure campus sites help if NCAA prices tickets out of reach.