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Zwei fur mich, bitte Und mein lieblingsgetrank ist Dunkel.

Even if it's at the X? I've heard over and over that fans will come out in droves if it moves to St. Paul.

Nein, das is Hefeweissbier auf Deutsch.

And some fans can completely disregard those opinions because their school can do no wrong.

One even strength goal in three games, have never led in the series and just one goal per game won't get you to the second round.

Nice personal attack again.

I'll take that bet 100 times over.

Very surprised an arena built in 2014 doesn't have widescreen video boards especially being less than an hour from Daktronics headquarters.

Next year is an optional year on the contract which the NCHC hasn't picked up yet. I'm hearing if Josh Fenton has plans to go to the X with the FF, it will be next year. Now it's still a matter of working out a contract with the X that is favorable to the NCHC.

Weird, because using USCHO's reported numbers from 2010-11 and CHN's 2016-17 which are both based on reported Box Scores, the numbers are nearly identical: 2010-11 - 9,544 per game. 2016-17 - 9,568 per game Your 13-14 that showed the average at 11,000+ was due to 45,000 showing up to an outdoor game.

Where does your 3,000 average attendance drop for MN come from? They averaged more than 9,000 fans per game last year. Just because people don't show up doesn't mean the tickets aren't sold. In the last year of the WCHA, Minnesota averaged about 9,600 fans. So there are about 500 fewer fans per game buying tickets than in previous years. Based on your numbers, that is $300,000. So, using your arbitrary number of $110,000 "lost" in merchandise and concessions per game, with only 8,000 people in the stands each person would need to spend $2 more per game on concessions. So the cost of a beer just went up $0.50 and that hot dog is now $3.50 instead of $3.

You're massively overestimating the number of UND fans who would watch/travel to B10 games.

Yes but that doesn't mean they correlate. Summit tennis is now at 7 teams. I'm sure they'll gladly welcome in another school that has tennis even as an affiliate school.

In the article you mention, yes he says that UNO "fits the bill" for both MVC and Horizon expansion/replacement however he has no sources that conferences are actually interested. Why would the NCHC sell itself to add newcomer hockey schools? They already turned down ASU due to lack of success and arena issues. The NCHC is not going to add Horizon schools that have no teams at the moment. Omaha and Denver were in the Summit long before UND so why do they suddenly care if UND is in the Summit? Yes, DU and UNO can wreck havoc on the Summit by leaving the conference if they get an invite, but they're not going to do it to spite UND for accepting a non-existent offer from the Big10. Or to prevent UND from taking that non-existent offer. That's a blatant lie. The article doesn't say they're a finalist. It says "Industry sources believe the pool of candidates the league will at least consider for expansion includes the likes of Belmont, Murray State, North Dakota State, Nebraska-Omaha, Northern Kentucky and Valparaiso." That means some random insider thinks those teams will be talked to. Not that they'll request applications or that they're "Finalists." The NDSU football fans that travel do not relate to the NDSU basketball fans that don't travel. That's like saying the Big10 should take UND in all sports because their hockey fans travel so well. Football does not equal basketball, especially at NDSU. This is the second time you have mentioned NDSU opening up a possible Minneapolis contract for the MVC. It wouldn't happen until after the current Midco contract is up which is after the 18-19 season. However, you do all the work for us and in a later post explain why NDSU getting a Minneapolis cable contract is asinine. NDSU FB isn't even top 5 in the MSP area, why would the basketball team be?

Timing with cutting sports recently. Someone run a FOIA request as it could have been signed but not released.

Why is that a reasonable assumption? Drake and Illinois St just showed you can put your men's tennis in the Summit.

It wasn't this UND/BU game, they must have been talking about the one at the Frozen Four in Boston a few years ago. CJ Beaurline was fired from the NCHC after the first year and reffed that game with Marco Hunt.

AF sophomore goalie Shane Starett signed with Edmonton. He is going to finish out the school year.

He could only sign a one year contract.

You said you had never heard of a conference that has had placed many more teams in the men's bb tournament than the MVC. It's not like this is a one year old conference, they've been around for a few years and even had a team win the MBB title in it's first year of existence as a conference. Seven of the teams in the AAC were part of the split with three more coming on in the next year. They're all still there. Sure, some will leave and are looking to be in the P5 conferences but at this point they're the top of the G5.

You need to spend more time following college athletics if you've never heard of the AAC. No, it doesn't have the name recognition of the B10 or any other major conference but the teams in the AAC are much higher profile than the alphabet soup that is the MVC: Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Central Florida or Bradley, Drake, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Loyola-Chicago, Northern Iowa, Missouri State, and Southern Illinois.

World series homeboy

As my good friend SiouxVolley would tell you, you have to have long term vision. Going to the MVC does nothing for any of the Dakota schools in the distant future. Plus, with each of the schools adding men's and women's quidditch as club teams next year, look for the new NQAC (pronounced N quack) to start up. They'll like use their influence to pressure UND men's hockey away from the ACYNHOF (association of colleges you've never heard of).

That Tucker kid is first team West all American