Fightin' Indigenous Person
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I can see the signs now: Go F'hawk Yourselves!
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This kid would be taking generals, lets no kid ourselves college is no longer all that hard (at least the general class and most undergrad classes, especially the majors most elite hockey players take). At least get through the year, then drop out. Don't leave your squad after 5 games. York could have, and would brought in another talented player to add depth. 5 games?
BC is an elite school, a step behind the Ivy's. It's plenty demanding, even the general classes, especially with the demands of a D1 hockey player.
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Obviously Matthews is an extremem longshot for the NCAA, let alone UND; but it would be intersting to know what, if any, conversation UND has had with him recently. With the Visa issues, have there been any new phone calls to him, or are NCAA teams letting it run its course.
This door was slammed shut months ago but, to my surprise, it appears to have re-opened.
https://twitter.com/andystrickland/status/619294889021440000
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UND hockey to B1G...That would essentailly mean the B1G screwed up, and saying to UND, "We need you." Now the hypothetical really expands: Could UND use that to open door for other programs? That is more likely than NDSU going to Big12 football....
Neither one of those things is even close to likely, or even possible. Imagine Texas going to the Fargodome every other year for a football game, or Michigan to the Alerus. . . . The mind boggles.
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Patrick Khodorenko, a '98 from California seems to have put up nice numbers for the national development team, and it doesn't show he's committed yet, but maybe he's contemplating Major Juniors.
He won't commit to any school until the very end, and then only if he isn't projected as a 1st round draft pick.
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Two potential recruits Alexander Chmelevski (10th overall) and Vandy Lodnia (20th overall) were drafted in the first round on the OHL draft. I hope the coaches can land these two.
There is no chance on Lodnia for UND or any other school.
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No. One could argue the east is now producing more talent.
On the BU roster, it has players from Alberta, British Columbia, California, Minnesota & Texas. UND's failures are not related to lack of talent in the West, or from lack of coaching. I believe that it is more about recruiting. Hockey East is more open to smaller, faster, more creative players and it recruits across North America to get them. Those kinds of players don't seem to get a chance out West.
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You're not missing anything other than the obvious implication that there was something else involved. It's total conjecture tho....
All of the top end talent have "advisors", who are really NHL agents. I believe that Jones' advisor is Crosby's agent. Those persons advise the top end players on the different opportunities before them. Jones is probably the 1st or 2nd pick in the next draft. He is on a different level. Those type of kids are steered, without exception, to Major Junior, and while there is some financial incentive to playing Major Junior, implying that money was exchanged under the table is in poor taste.
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But what is exciting about this is the potential this creates for adding big names and population centers. Unlike the NHL which went all the way to the deep south, and is now retrenching, I would think college hockey could have a footprint where hockey at other levels has had a long presence:
* in the Twin Cities: St Thomas, or Concordia-St Paul ....
* Iowa State: long rumored ...
* Chicago: Northwestern, maybe?
* St Louis: Lindenwood will probably be going D1 in "everything" as soon as possible.
* Syracuse: excellent addition to the CHSL.
* even UBC, if that comes to pass.
* or pick a major metro area, with a school that isn't overly wedded to football, and you've got a candidate.
More likely:
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue. All Big 10 schools with money who will now have a conference home and will want to share in Big 10 tv money for hockey broadcasts. Other schools with tiny athletic budgets will have a hard time trying to afford D1 hockey. It's a lot of scholarships, a lot of travel, and ice is expensive.
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He would do what administrators in his position always do: Follow the Benjamins.
Over time, the Benjamins disappear with a Big 10 Hockey conference. Places like Bemidji State, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior, UNO, etc. all dry up if they don't get regular season games versus the big name teams. Once those big name teams form their own conference, the little guys wither away and die, and with them goes college hockey. I've heard that Michigan knows this and has no interest in Big 10 hockey.
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My social studies teacher will not stop insulting The Fighting Sioux. does anyone know of a way to make him stop?
Why do you think you can stop someone from saying something you don't agree with? Accept it and move on.
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Wow, you are clueless. There are not Sub-Sub-Division of FBS, and there are not Sub-Sub-Divisions of FCS. The FBS is the 85 scholarship level, and the FCS 0-63 scholarship level for DI schools only.
A DI school with 85 scholarships for football plays in the FBS sub-division
A DI school with 63 scholarships for football plays in the FCS sub-division
A DI school with 0 scholarships for football plays in the FCS sub-division
A DI school without football is just DI. Without football, it doesn't matter, just DI.
For 63 or 0, they are both FCS, they are not referred to any differently.
Call me clueless and ignore reality. You're charming. . . .
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There are not multiple divisions of DI, there is only DI. When NDSU plays Wisconsin in any sport (including football), it is two DI schools playing. What part of this don't you understand? You should maybe rethink your above post, you kinda missed it as far as the actual facts are concerned.
NCAA Divisions: (That's all folks, just 3 divisions) This is just a cold hard fact, not an opinion to vote on.
DI
DII
DIII
You are technically precise, just not accurate. That is how the NCAA classifies its divisions. Let's talk about classification reality for football:
DI FBS/BCS - 6 conferences play for national championships
DI FBS/non-BCS - many conferences play for the opportunity to play in a low-level bowl game that no one cares about but alumni
DI FCS w/scholarships - plays in a tournament for a national championship
DI FCS w/o scholarships - will never play in a tournament for a national championship
DII - plays in a tournament that will be won by Grand Valley State
DIII - plays in a tournament w/players that don't get scholarships.
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You do realize of course that USC and UCLA are not playing NCAA ice hockey but merely ACHA club ice hockey.
They are playing club hockey. Not NCAA. Club, ... not even junior varsity*.
Quite honestly, cherry-pick the UND intramural league to create a UND club roster and you'll give either (USC, UCLA) way more than they want on the ice.
* JV implies that the school is playing the bill. Club means just that "club", kids paying their own way with the exception of maybe a couple thousand dollars from the Student Senate, the same couple thousand bucks the campus chess club and GLAAD chapter get from the Student Senate. JV = Athletic Department; Club = self-funded.
Don't count on UND intramural beating USC. The ice hockey in CA is played at a very high level. There are far more kids from CA playing D-I college hockey than there are from ND. Playing an exhibition game against USC - even in in CA - would be tremendous for recruiting. Don't forget that the best 15 year old in the country, and possible the world, (McColgan) plays for the Jr. Kings.
College Hockey Expansion
in Men's Hockey
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Within 3 years the PAC12 will have hockey.