The UND hockey program emulates itself like an NHL program/team if that is the case with all the resources UND has Berry would have been fired a few years ago with the lack of post season success.
The state hockey tournament is the crown jewelry of HS sports in MN. The closest thing ND has is the Class B boys state basketball tournament and that is even debatable now with the 3 class system.
Depressing to get caught in YouTube hell watching older UND post season runs under Hak. Man those teams had such a different vibe than what we see now.
Even if UND were to win you would have to think the attendance will still be down as are UND fans going to watch them play one game and get boat raced by Western?
The empty seats thing doesn't matter as what 75% of the seats are season ticket holders and the money is already in the bank. Now if season ticket sales started to drop drastically that argument could hold.
Omaha in 3 and finally this season is put out of its misery. Berry will end up staying but one of the assistants is gone as someone's head will need to roll and it won't be Berry’s.
I am not sure UND would get that high even winning the Frozen Faceoff. They are in RPI hell and chances they lose one in the next two weeks are pretty good to bury them even more.
PWR is irrelevant at this point. Only chance to get in is win two games next weekend and 2 more the following anything less than that, well the fat lady is getting tuned up right now.