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We don't know that. The article says that some people at St. Thomas feared that CCHA could kick them up. That could just be projecting after the MIAC booting.

A good one?

I went to Matthews about 15 years ago and it had a very classic feel similar to Fenway. Sounds like maybe since then the goal was to let it fall apart to get a new facility. Watching a game from the balcony was like nothing else in college hockey. It will be missed.

Would guess it depends on who is filing. Not sure a coach could file the Title IX complaint on an individual firing, but team members potential could if there was a pattern of activity that created instability for women's sports that wasn't happening on the mens side. That seems like it could be pretty difficult to prove, but long shot lawsuits are certainly not rare.

Really sad. Thought he had conquered his demons with his comeback this year. Tragic story and painful reminder as mental health awareness month winds down. You never know what someone else is dealing with.

There is still title 9 and I think you start seeing taxpayers really question this at public schools. Pandora's box is now open and we'll see where it goes from here. This combined with the House settlement is earning the power 5 a lot of enemies.

a lot of the electricity goes to cooling. You can open the doors 8 months of the year in GF and accomplish that.

It's a mixed bag. Also a good way to have guys hurt at the end of the year, and if the focus is on tourney, think you need to be judicious and not necessarily jump in front of every shot.

MSU is in D2 for a reason. If they moved up they would certainly drop football a la Omaha as the dollars aren't there. Summit is most likely to pick WAC carcass or be destroyed itself. The number of viable move ups at this point is very small.

What do bemidji and mankato add to the nchc/summit hockey. No thanks. Western is a solid program that adds a good recruiting area. If Miami wants to leave I don't see an issue with negotiating a lower exit fee. Keeping a non competitive program does the league no good.

No, there will just be fewer guys on scholarship who don't play or barely play. This actually makes some sense. No reason for college teams to have rosters twice the size of NFL teams

You want be a pro athlete expect to be treated like one.

So does the Missouri Valley try to grab one of Oral Roberts, Omaha, or Kansas City? If one leaves, maybe there is something to the UNC and Utah school rumors, with the Summit creating a Mountain Time Zone block, that would give you two broadcast windows and more content, but also more schools splitting the pie. UNC and S. Utah would give 6 Summit football schools even without St. Thomas, giving them some time to ramp up. In the current environment, FBS makes no sense and would be creating a further money pit.

T wolves looking like the real deal. Sound defensively and Ant is legit.

They could try to get more at home and see how that goes.

coaches don't make these kind of decisions.

Won't be the last one. Gambling is a huge problem in sports.

The fact that these NIL collectives are needed should tell you that this is pretty much a ponzi scheme. If the players were creating so much revenue there would be money to pay them. But people don't think about the costs of facilities, travel, insurance etc. Sports are becoming a financial drain, with actual students paying a sizable cost and providing minor league sports at the expense of the academic mission of the school. There will be some sort of shock to the system soon, as it simply isn't sustainable

I went to quite a few days of curling in 2002. The curling village was great and you could hang with the teams. We drank with Kevin Martin and his Canadian team a couple nights and I remember one of my colleagues hitting on the Swedish women. Good times.

With the NHL looking like it's coming to town and the 2034 Olympics very likely I wonder if Utah or BYU or maybe both will jump on the college hockey train

Inability to have a homegrown goalie is the one flaw I see the past few years. Bot having that puts pressure on everything else. The other thing, and it's painful to admit, but the Ralph was the end of the blue collar culture of our team and to an extent the fan base. We are now the cake eaters. 7 titles in the 42 seasons prior to its opening One in the 23 since .

distribute them, and they could be pods like mens basketball, so the two brackets at each regional wouldn't necessarily have to be the ones that play each other in the Frozen Four. So using this year as an example, if the Regional sites were say Manchester, N.H. and Des Moines Manchester 1 Th-Sat BC-Michigan Tech and UW-QU Manchester 2 Fri-Sun BU-RIT and Minnesota-Omaha Des Moines 1 Th- Sat Denver-UMass and Maine-Michigan Des Moines 2 Fr-Sun Mich. Sti-Western Michigan and North Dakota-Cornell Frozen Four would be Manchester 1 vs Des Moines 2 and Manchester 2 vs Des Moines 1. I flipped the UND and Maine to spread the top 8 by conference a little better, that's a personal preference that likely wouldn't happen.

They just need to get away from the schools bidding on regionals and have conferences do it. They can then pull from schools that aren't in the tourney for staffing, and you don't have the "host team guaranteed to play somewhere" issue. So say the Big Ten bids for Grand Rapids, the NCHC bids for Fargo, ECAC builds Albany and Hockey East bids Manchester. They could also go with the approach that womens' basketball was taken for Sweet Sixteen and Elite EIght and have 2 sites effectively host 2 regionals each. That would create more festival like atmosphere, allow neutrals to see games four days in a row and two Frozen Four tickets punched. That probably drives better attendance as you can still try to position as many teams as close to home as possible with one location in the east and one in the west, but also maintains the fairness of neutral sites.

They could do that. Long Island University merged their athletic programs, so there is a precedent

Agree. There were times when it felt like guys were just watching and Blake would try to do too much. I think part of the late swoon was that teams had figured out our power play and we didn't adjust quickly enough.