I honestly don't think the crowd difference between Miami, Denver, and Western Michigan and St Cloud, UNO, and UMD would be all that great.
St Cloud's travel-ability factor is over-rated.
Played our big rival on the last night of the softball season a few years ago...we had already been eliminated from title contention but if they won, they would be league champs. You bet your a$$ we wanted to ruin their whole night...and we did. Playing for pride nothing - Western wanted to ruin North Dakota's whole weekend tonight - mission accomplished.
No Twitter, no Facebook, no SiouxSports.com...just the newspaper the next day telling you if the team won or lost at Northern Michigan or Michigan Tech.
Less national coverage?
It was an hour wait for any other series. My point was that we went to CHEER on UND athletes - whether it was women's basketball or men's hockey. We didn't sit on our hands demanding to be entertained.
Too many fans in the new REA more concerned with their next beer...I've said that since the place opened.
No worries - it's only a matter of time before the chants of "let's go non-offensive vegetarian go-green glittery unicorns" rains down from the rafters of REA...
Sorry, I've seen others use that term here before and wondered if it was an auto-correct issue or if it was indeed a total mis-understanding of the word "definitely."
I stood outside old REA for THREE HOURS in -20 weather to make sure I was among the first of only 3,000 students allowed inside the building for the Sioux/Gopher '88-'89 series. We stood up and cheered for the team before they even took the ice for warm-ups. The team feeds off of the fans, especially the students. Sounds like the team could have used some help tonight from them.
4 (so far), 7, 2, and 6 - the number of goals CC has given up in each of their last four games.
2-0, 1-2, 4-3, and 0-3 - the scores of the four Miami/St Cloud games this season.
Loosely based on enrollment - teams can play AA if they elect to. STA made a mockery of the A level, but it's not the only school that's sand-bagged in A knowing they could compete at the AA level.