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    Fighting Whities of UNC

    in UND Nickname

    Posted

    I think I want one:

    http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%7E458922,00.html

    Wednesday, March 13, 2002  - The Fightin' Whities, an intramural basketball team of American Indians at the University of Northern Colorado, has been flooded with requests for T-shirts since news broke of the team's satirical mascot protest.

    On Tuesday, the student basketball team set up an e-mail account to start taking orders - even though players have not yet figured out exactly how to mass-produce their shirts.

    ...

    Many are clamoring for T-shirts bearing the team mascot - a 1950s-style caricature of a middle-aged white guy - and the phrase "Every thang's gonna be all white!"

    Fighting Whities of UNC

    in UND Nickname

    Posted

    Gotta say, I'm not offended:

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....ities_2

    A bunch of students at Northern Colorado have decided to name their team "fighting whities" in an attempt to offend white people who don't understand how native american names are offensive.

    Personally, I find it demonstrates just the opposite -- I'm not offended at all.  Frankly, "whities" is kind of a stupid name, but I would be similarly unoffended had they gone with a white ethnic group ("Fighting Norskes", "Fighting Irish", etc...).

    Wcha top 50 players

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    I understand putting in single-season players.  The goal, after all, is simply to name the best players who ever played in the WCHA.  One would expect some of them to have left early.  If you start to draw a line, do you disqualify someone who left after 3?

    On a related point -- if there's no bias against single season players, how did CuJo make the list but not Belfour?

    D1&D1AA in all sports@UND

    in Men's Hockey

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    My biggest fear of moving to D-I would be the budget.  UND would clearly have to cut a lot of the negative revenue sports because the costs would go up dramatically and football/hockey/basketball would not be able to subsidize them.

    I think UND is doing the right thing by sitting and waiting.  Let NDSU/SDSU/UNO/etc... dip their toes in the water and see what happens.  If NDSU comes running back to D-II, it will have been an expensive and embarrassing mistake they made.  If all of UND's premier competitors go D-I successfully, then we can more easily and confidently follow.

    TV Coordinates for this weekend??

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    Well, the UND Alumni site simply states:

    This weekend's hockey games will be available on Fox Sports Net-North or on Direct TV Channel 641.

    Makes it seem like there won't be a regular satellite transmission (they usually give the coordinates if there is).

    PREDICT THE OUTCOME.

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    I have to agree.  Whining that the fix is in before the game even begins is a little weak.  To me it looks a lot like he's just preparing to lose, but putting his excuses in place.

    In any game, if you go in on a witchhunt for bad officiating you can usually find something to complain about (in either direction).

    TV Coordinates for this weekend??

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    It actually may not be so easy to catch the games in the Twin Cities:

    Gophers hockey fans might have to be at Mariucci Arena on Friday night if they want to see the team's opening game of the WCHA playoffs against North Dakota.

    The Gophers-Sioux matchup, which will be seen on tape-delay on Fox Sports Net after the Wild-Stars game, also might not be broadcast live on radio.

    If the Gophers men's basketball team wins its opening-round game in the Big Ten tournament Thursday, then WCCO (830 AM) will carry the Gophers-Illinois matchup at 8 p.m. Friday. That would shift the Wild-Stars game to WCCO's sister-station, KCCO (950 AM), and bump the Gophers-Sioux game out of the mix.

    It's likely KCCO would air the Gophers hockey game after the Wild on tape delay.

    http://www.startribune.com/stories/503/1908444.html

    Where will UND finish?

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    I have to agree that looking at Denver's recent games alone can provide a glimmer of hope.  Certainly UMD's 3-3 tie is the biggest cause for hope.  

    The recent losses are pretty tight games against CC/MN/SCSU.

    It's worth noting that Denver also split with MN in their December meeting and that the SCSU series were the first meetings between Denver and SCSU this season.

    Though Denver did drop two to CC recently, the games were tightly fought 2-3/2-4 losses.  In the previous meeting this season, Denver won equally tight games 3-2(ot)/3-2.  I'm not sure the recent string of losses actually reveals a change in the Denver team, rather a really difficult stretch of the schedule.

    That said -- I no absolutely NOTHING about the Denver injury situation which could certainly change things dramatically.

    Belfour

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    Cool.  I'd noticed a discussion in Hockey-L about the trifecta + Hobey, of which the only winner was Broten.

    However, it seemed a little unfair to include the Hobey (an individual honor) and not any of the NHL individual honors a player can win.  Eddie has won a couple of Vezinas and a Calder in the NHL.

    One could argue his merits, but I'm not sure Broten won any individual honors in the NHL.

    Where will UND finish?

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    No, they're certainly not God, but to get more than 2 points off them would require UND's best play of the season and Denver's worst.

    Denver's only conference losses have come against Minnesota, St. Cloud, and CC (though note that Denver doesn't have a losing record against any of those teams).

    Against more UND-like teams (UW, AA, Mankato) they are not only 8-0, but outscored those opponents 37-12 in those games.

    UND facing opponents of Denver's caliber (only SCSU is currently close in points, but I'll throw in Minnesota) is 1-6.

    Having gotten only 2 points off Duluth last weekend, I'm not sure I see what A-game the Sioux are bringing to the Denver games that will overcome those trends and bring about 2 points, let alone more than 2.

    One bright point -- the teams I listed as being "like UND" are very close in conference standings, but UND actually outscores them by about 20%.

    Here's hoping I'm wrong...

    COACHES SHOW

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    I thought multi-year scheduling deals were pretty common.  However, if not, it's entirely likely that the Michigans of the world don't want to bring in UND because it's now a weak team.

    Just as we don't want to play the creampuffs, the Sioux are now a creampuff  :)

    Sioux/MTU

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    I may be best remembered as one of Andy's biggest critics.  After our first loss this year I was commenting how our biggest problem seems to be goaltending -- Andy often doesn't look comfortably positioned and sometimes seemed a little surprised to find himself in the way of the puck.

    That said, I still think he's probably our best goaltender.  It's a tough adjustment coming off years of record-setting Goehring & Schweitzer.

    COACHES SHOW

    in Men's Hockey

    Posted

    Playing the big boys doesn't even seem to lead to extra losses.  This year we swept Michigan and Mich State in the GLI, and swept St Lawrence.

    Without those wins, or with wins against lower tier teams, there would truly be no bright spots to the season.

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