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St. Cloud beats Wisconsin 4-1.

I'll take Mike Chambers for 500, Alex. Although I don't think he really portrayed it to be a bad thing. Other than his poor wording in his comment about Smaby perhaps.

After the non goal, the students started chanting bull S***. You should have seen the security guards run up the stairs. Really? And btw, times have changed. For better or worse, the "f word" is used to describe anything from cool to bad things for todays students. So them chanting it isn't anything different than a normal conversation. I was reading UMD's message board and it seems like they have the same issue with the word rape. It's just a part of normal lingo for todays students.

New flash. Goska didn't do crap the next couple of times he was in. It's fine if u think Goska is better and want Landry to sit. I'm not to pleased with the whole situation. But it's another thing to get off to him being benched. That's the difference.

Yup I think I'm going to have to look into the ignore user option. Pretty sad when it's a fellow Sioux fan. Grow up.

Well they can give out game DQ's for a CFB but they are pretty rare. Although Wisc got one earlier this year.

After the SF game, I said I thought this would be the game we would win out of the SUU, Davis, and Poly games. I'm sticking with it. UND 27 Davis 20

I like those numbers but they don't mean jack. Cameron Indoor at Duke holds less than 10 thousand, yet there is demand for much more than that. Florida's does hold 12,000, but Florida is just becoming a basketball school and has no tradition there. Pauley Pavilion at UCLA also holds over 12,000 and UCLA has tradition so this is surprising. Michigans holds over 13,000 but it has not been a relevant basketball school since the early 90's. So while those numbers look good, thats all they are...just numbers that can be spun in any direction.

I can see that being an option too. However, he is the 7th man in, not 8th or 9th. If someone gets hurt, he will get to play. And not that I am hoping for it, but with how deep Chay brings in the puck and how teams like Tech were making sure to get their shots in on him, I don't see him playing every game this season. I think he is going to get nicked up for at least a series. So maybe Fienhage will get some playing time somewhere down the line. He may be waiting for that one last shot to make an impact and if it doesn't happen or doesn't come then leave after the season. Plus, this team is deep. You would hate to bail and then see them go on to do something great.

Sounds good to me.

Exactly. But at some point in time, you need to start looking out for yourself. If he hasn't got playing time against Tech and UAA, its a stretch to think he will see time without an injury. I wouldn't fault him if he jumped ship after the season.

Friday- VV Saturday- Malone

If that doesn't work try 102.5 FM out of DL. I was just back there over the UAA series and I think thats the station it was on.

Iowa and Wisc will play us now and I don't see why they wouldn't if we get the agreement and get off the NCAA's bad list. It remains to be seen what Minnesota would do, however.

The band has been doing it for the last couple of years. Towards the end of last year, some students started doing it as well. And now this year, everyone seems to be doing it. Some gopher fans sitting next to us remarked "I didn't know we were in Madison."

I would have to disagree. It's will happen, its just a matter of when.

He's the new Stalock Stalock.

Would never fly. 1. REA would never go for this. They used to put single game upper bowl tickets on sale a week or 2 before the game. Whatever tickets were not sold went on sale to the general public a couple of days before the game. However, a couple days notice wasn't enough for the public. It resulted in tickets being unsold. REA did not like this (and for good reason). So they then put all student upper bowl tickets on sale on 1 date at the beginning of the year. Students have up to one month before the game to pick them up. Any unsold then go to the general public one month before the game. This has resulted in almost all of the tickets being sold. No way should they go back to a different system that wouldn't allow this to happen. 2. Students do have jobs and other things (labs, studying) that prevent them from attending every sporting event. To force them to attend events they don't want to go to just so they can attend ones they do seems pretty weak. Now if you want to come up with a system that give better seats to students based on their attendance at other events, fine. But to penalize students by not giving them tickets just because they have to work during their college years seems very unfair.

But at least that was just a fourth quarter collapse. The team never even showed up on Sat. Kinda like the SUU game last year. Just went through the motions since we had beat them in Utah the year before. Ended up losing a game that should have been an easy win.

Dang it I had a similar idea but you beat me too it. Actually, the groundwork is already laid for this. On Sat, REA came out and handed blue tickets with numbers on them to students waiting in line. The tickets allowed students to go to the womens game and then get back in line after it was done. It was a great idea, probably the first one ever to come out of that building. If it can be done for that, I think something similar can be done for football. I think the stamp system would work the best. Face it, even if you aren't a football fan, sitting in the AL seems a lot more comfortable than standing outside. Plus, I think its an incentive for students to wake up early. Knowing that in order to get a good seat for hockey that you need to get up for the football game would be a big deal. I think we would see increased student section attendance. If students would have known that they could go to the front of the gopher line without waiting in it just for going to a fb game, I think the student section may have been full. As for attendance for Cal-Poly, I hope for the best. I know it Halloween but I really hope the students show up. The game gets over at 7. Plenty of time to go out after, so there is no excuse not to show.

I think we are going to struggle with SUU. But on the flip side, even after today's disaster, I have a feeling we are going to upset Davis. So maybe its a wash.

I actually thought they were fairly good. I didn't really have much to gripe about. And who would have thought I would have said that about a Shep reffed games just a couple of years ago. He's really improved in the last couple of years.

Care to elaborate on this? How does BU or BC even come into this discussion? They are major eastern powers. Of course they can survive without the WCHA. Nobody ever said college hokcey ran through Minn and Wisc. Western college hockey? Maybe. College hockey in general? No.

Very true. I also don't think UND would be in as bad as shape as other WCHA teams, but I can't imagine how the formation of the BTHC helps or at the very least does not hurt UND. Maybe it would be good for college hockey. Maybe it wouldn't. But there is only downside from UND's point of view.

If I understand the revenue sharing correctly, all first round playoff gates and the Final Five gates are shared between the schools in the league. Minn and UW have the 1st and 3rd largest arenas in the league and normally both host playoff series. If they leave, their spots as hosts will be filled by schools that likely have half of the capacity as those 2 rinks. Revenues will take a hit. Then at the Final Five, there is no doubt that UND and Minn fans make up the majority of attendees. Take Minn away, and I doubt the X would sell out. UND fans travel well as does UMD and to some extent SCSU, but losing a base as big as Minn would affect attendance. Plus you would lose walkup sales of general hockey fans living in the cities that may not be big Minn supporters. This of course is assuming it still stays at the X. DU and CC may push to get it moved to Denver (which I think would make the situation even worse) or Omaha (still not ideal). Either way, revenues would decrease, which could make Tech look for other options. However, I don't think the CCHA would be on much better ground after losing their big dogs as well.