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Why would they?

UND baseball is one solution, but so is Summit League football. Perhaps the five Summit schools invite Poly and UC-Davis to form a 7 team league. That also gets the Big Sky down to 11 (with Idaho's impending arrival) leaving the door open for New Mexico St. Would give a lot of options for non-conference games between big sky and Summit schools, and the MVFC teams would have non-conference openings as well. If Miami and Western Michigan were to depart the NCHC, even hockey sponsorship could come in to play.

Gotta believe that Midco will like this and means more road games on tv. watch big sky is nice but having more games on actual tv in our media market will be great. And playing games where we actually draw students from will be good marketing as well.

Bartles can throw but when he only gets a chance on obvious passing downs percentage will be low. Clock managment could use some work though.

But oliveira or gordon is and they are still threats to be respected

So why not come up with a couple of plays and formations with Santiago lined up as a receiver. He has the speed and we have the RB depth to allow it. Even as a decoy it at least forces the D to think.

True, but I think you need to when you are already using a backup and are apparently unwilling to play your freshman.

Agree I think Santiago can be successful as a rocket Ismail type get some carries out of the backfield but also catching a lot of balls where he can have more space to operate. Oliveira definitely needs to have a major role too.

MTS centre is rea north.

I want EWU to lose because like a three-year-old I don't want to share. I like the sound of undisputed Big Sky champions. Run the table.

If we win out style points don't matter. Keeping guys healthy needs to be top priority.

What? I'll grant you the first two are possible but football will never be in the black let alone make the money hockey does. Start with a huge and expensive coaching staff, triple the number of scholarships on the cost side and a quarter of the number of games on the revenue side. For those that are so hung up on looking at dollars and cents football has lost more than anything, including women's hockey. But neither is going any place. Women's hockey just needs a Gene Roebuck to breathe new life into the program and expand interest. Idalski doesn't seem to have been a great ambassador for the program in the community.

Yep. Pretty sorry crowd in duluth for a match up of top 5 teams.

You don't get statement wins against 1-4 teams. Also leaving your starter in a blowout when a team can start getting chippy doesn't make a lot of sense.

I don't get it. A short field would have been the perfect opportunity to give Heidelbaugh a shot and maybe even build a little confidence.

Honest question. It's 34-7 in the fourth quarter. Why isn't Heidlebaugh getting a little playing time?

Gave up with the buffering and watching umd dismantle tech and get nchc rpi off to a good start. Alex Heinert aquitted himself well I think. Like how he works with jake

Get the first and let's end this

Up to the D now.

I wouldnt use any team logo. For the conference titles use an image of the macnaughton or Penrose cups (and I guess the broadmoor for 1982) and for the ncaa titles use the Frozen Four logos of that year or the ncaa logo for the older titles. Puts emphasis on the actual hardware.

I've noticed lots of movement at the line by Poly. I think they could be getting lots of penalties.

Bingo! No need to add anyone right now. When ASU gets a permanent home then maybe but really 8 teams is an optimal number

I'm guessing something similar would have been said about women's basketball in 1988. Women's hockey is one of 3 sports that has a realistic possibility of winning a national title and one of two that can produce Olympic athletes. Cutting it would be idiotic. A change in coaching however might be logical, especially to someone with local roots and more charisma. As mentioned football actually loses more money and its presence has required us to be in a conference that a total geographic mismatch with vastly higher travel costs and results in virtually zero revenue from opposing fans. Cutting sports should be the last option. And I think you have to take all the reported budget numbers with a grain of salt. What is undeniable is that marketing and promotion need to improve across the department and that doesn't necessarily require more money. I'd also love to see a lot more transparency from REA regarding budget figures.

Utah is a school to keep an eye on.

Wouldn't bother me as I think 8 is the ideal conference size for schedule purposes under current pair wise and I think NCHC performance has borne that out.