MafiaMan
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Left work early to watch the game...should be a good one!
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To the original aqua? Yes please!
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Has anyone seen the new Miami Dolphins logo?
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FAR AND AWAY is an understatement. That team was LOADED. Sioux83, you asked when has UND ever won a title by not being the 'best team' (on paper, I'm assuming)...well, there's your answer: 1997. Does anyone here REALLY think Minnesota-Duluth was the 'best team' in 2011?
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Ron Mason? Now there's a blast from the past. What a TERRIBLE coach. Michigan State won only ONE national title with him at the helm. He should have been coaching the East Lansing squirt C team, not the Spartans.
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UND vs Michigan in 1998 in REA is a 7-2 blow-out for the Sioux. NoDak wins the next night 5-1. That's a BIG change.
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I agree with watchmaker49 on this one...the 1997 Sioux team had something called 'chemistry'. You can't just throw 15-25 guys together (in any sport) and have the coach tell them 'okay, go create some chemistry.' it just happens - it's either there or it isn't. How many times have you seen a more talented team in any sport lose a championship to a team deemed athletically inferior? It happens more than you think. I think a few folks should go watch 'Miracle' again and see how all-star teams don't work...and then ask yourself after watching it, why is North Dakota at home and Yale in Pittsburgh?
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Doesn't look great? Have you looked at Jerry York's records at Bowling Green other than 1983-1984? He carved out a pretty good run there in the 1980's...
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We are both in agreement that Bowling Green winning in 1984 was nowhere near a miracle...My point with other posters here has been that winning NCAA titles prior to the current format was actually easier than it is today. Bowling Green played a home quarterfinal series in 1984 and advanced to the Frozen Four. That sounds a lot easier for many smaller schools than today's method of going on the road to a 'neutral' or even hostile arena as a higher seed (see also: 1998, Yost, Michigan, Jason Blake) needing to win two games to get to the show.
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For the first time in my entire life, I'm proud to be a Sioux fan?
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Bowling Green record in 1982-1983: 28-8-4 If that was North Dakota's previous season record, you'd say that that was a team primed for a 34-8-2 record and a National Title. But since it's Bowling Green... BTW... 1985-1986: 28-14 1986-1987: 33-10-2 1987-1988: 30-13-2 I'd say Jerry York had build a pretty good thing there at BG, wouldn't you?
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LSSU - NAIA program in 1974...NCAA hockey title in 1988. I'd say that's pretty impressive. YOU'RE joking, right? Harvard - no scholarships...on the road...in St Paul...in OT...against the hometown Gophers and "Minnesota's Pride on Ice"...I'd say that's pretty impressive too.
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That's a stretch given the previous titles North Dakota had in its ledger. You're comparing the Fighting Sioux to Lake Superior State, who went D1 in hockey in 1974, then won 3 titles within 20 years after the jump from NAIA?
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I don't believe there will be any more firings this season. The timing of Maine's dismissal of Whitehead was curious to me because it could have been done immediately after the season...but wasn't. Then Gwoz is let go by Denver and all of a sudden, Maine says 'see ya Tim'? Just makes me wonder if Maine's up to something...
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So, 1985 Rensselaer was another miracle? How aobut 1988, 1992, and 1994 Lake Superior State? 1989 Harvard? 1991 Northern Michigan?
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Nice comeback to ilovedebbies' post...now do you have one for mine?
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My post was half in jest...I don't seriously believe Gwoz would consider being the head coach at Alaska-Anchorage. It would be fun if he did though!
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OK, perhaps for Alaska-Anchorage, I should have said 'put AA on the map' of college hockey, not 'put it back' on the map of college hockey...
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Back on topic, I would love to see Gwoz take on a school like Maine or Alaska-Anchorage (or Lake Superior State, even better) and put them back on the NCAA map.
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Nevermind the different format, 8 teams selected, first round = two games, total goals, etc. The format back then would certainly benefit a cinderella story coming true.
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In 1984? Given the sorry state of some big-name programs back in that era, I would beg to differ.
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I thought he gave it to Siouxman?
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In 7 seasons at Clarkson and 15 at Bowling Green, Jerry York only found 'it' once. Good thing you weren't the AD of Boston College in 1994 when the Eagles coaching vacancy opened up. I'm guessing he wouldn't have been on your short list...
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I like blueberries on my waffles.
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Maine is a program with a solid fan base and its THE game in town, not lost in the Avalanche, Nuggets, and Rockies shuffle...I would bet he's at least willing to listen to offers... The Miami job will be Blasi's for a long time...he's not going anywhere.
