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Hearing it won't happen for at least 3 weeks and even committing before Christmas is unlikely

Practice is not a game and you can't replicate the experience you get in a game

Not really. Drafted mlb players usually make their way from rookie ball to single a, then double a, AAA, then the majors - nearly universally regardless of their draft position. You don't send a highly drafted nhl player to the echl unless they're a goalie and that's solely so they can play, not because of skill level. Mlb doesn't have the CHL or NCAA where they can develop a draft pick so they can jump to the nhl or ahl at a minimum.

You don't get to see what your backups can do - and give them real game experience- when you're only playing fully competitive games. It's a long season, you need to get those young players and backups experience early so they can be ready for the hard games.

Everyone thought Tim was walking away end of 24-25 season. He didn't win an NCHC award because of his performance that year. It was an end-of-career award. Then, he decided to stick around and put the school in a difficult position by letting them know the day before or day of that he couldn't do a game. Midco also cut several full time staff but brought them back as freelancers. UND is doing the same. North Dakota law allows them to do so and if those freelancers want to do the games then it's their choice. But that also means those freelancers don't get benefits.

You'd see what other offers you could find and if the best offer you could get was 1mil for the patch after negotiating, then you crunch the numbers to see if that will move the needle or if it's selling out. But, apparently if making sound business decisions isn't tenable then I guess telling titan machinery to f off and that you don't want any of their money is one way to go. However, you won't have many advertisers left. Believe it or not, businesses aren't in the business of making random donations just because of passion or fun. They want a return on their investment. For some businesses, that's actually more important than which team they support. Having your logo on a basketball jersey that makes the NCAA tournament is a lot more valuable than a logo on a football jersey of a team with two D1 playoff wins.

Pretty disappointed in this. Berry also won a few random things in his first year and then underperformed through the rest of his contract and extension. I'd like to see a bigger body of work before throwing a ton of money at the staff. They couldn't even win the ncaa tittle in their first year. Very underwhelming.

If he was going gracefully, as some in the athletic department expected, he would have finished out in 2025 after receiving the NCHC Media Excellence Award. It was well known that he was "gracefully" going to leave after the 24-25 season... until he decided he wasn't. That put a lot of strain on the athletic department when multiple times - at the last minute - he couldn't do games and they had to scramble for replacements this season.

Nothing will change... unless Tim isn't retained

Or..... they're trolling and people are taking the bait

Unlike other CHL guys leaving for NCAA, their team knows they're gone after next season so they'll be able to announce earlier.

Medicine Hat coach is 69 year old Willie Desjardins who has been heavily responsible for the Rucks' development. It would be very interesting if he was planning on retiring after next season and the Ruck twins wanted to return for one more go-round.

$5mil to start a dept of dermatology

I think they cut tennis to fund hockey, football, mbb, and wbb in that order.