bale31
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8 hours ago, MafiaMan said:
I don’t blame you for being salty. I thought Hastings would stay in Mankato too.
I appreciate that. The saltiness is wearing off. I'm not particularly upset with individuals. I just can't handle people that either try to tell me it's not a big deal and "you'll get someone good" when at the same time celebrating what a great hire it is for wisconsin. If it were so easy for us to find someone good, wis onside. Would have done that. It's gonna be a heck of a difficult thing replacing maybe the best head coach and maybe the best assistant coach in the country.
I also take issue with people that basically say that Mankato should just know who they are and don't be upset that someone better can double our coach's salary. We should just be happy that we're a second class citizen in the hockey world. This isn't the cesspool known as college football and personally I don't want it to be. If that's where the sport is headed, count me out. I don't want any part of that.
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19 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Will ... Dane Jackson ... enter the portal.
See the UND season thread for "why".
https://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/34800-2023-24-university-of-north-dakota-hockey-season/page/39/#comment-1304670Admittedly, i know very little about him. Is he someone that is mentioned for openings oftern? Should he be?
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28 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
@bale31is looking at becoming a Michigan Tech fan…but it’s under the hush-hush at the moment.
Naw....ill just commiserate with them. They had a coach sell them for years and fool them into believing in him too. We will all be bitter together.
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Oh, and seriously, people like pat micheletti need to stop trying to position this as anything other than a disaster for Mankato. This is.going reverberate in the fan base and take a ton to recover.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
Todd Knott has turned down the Mankato job.
Someone should check on @bale31
Is he thinking he’ll make more as a UW assistant than Mankato head coach?
There are no words. The two guys that built up the program are destroying it.
11 years of what now feels like lies. The big ten is going to kill college hockey with spending. It's not like football and basketball where there are bottomless pits of money at other schools. This should scare the piss out of everyone that we are losing a guy that should be a head coach to be an assistant.
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39 minutes ago, tnt said:
Do you think some of them left because Hastings made them aware of his plans, or is this something he couldn’t afford to let out ahead of the announcement?
I dont really think so. There was no one that left that really surprised me. It's my understanding that each of the early departuresso far could have left last year. From what I've heard, it was so hush hush that his friends in Kato didn't even know.
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1 minute ago, brianvf said:
Is the MSUM message board blowing up like what happened here yesterday?
50x worse.
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THere is a part of me that says Hasty did this now to help out Knott and Kato. Yes, it's a top 5 job in the country, so it's not the #1,#2,#3,#4 or probably #10 reason, but if he was going to leave at some point this is a good time. We've all been worried abotu Knott leaving just as much as Hastings. This give Kato the opportunity to hire him before he leaves and he's harder to get back. Worst case scenario is that Knott leaves and then Hastings leaves 1 year later. Then we'd really be up a creek. This is the best possible way for him to leave if he is going to. It sucks, but it's the life of a small school.
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What a gut punch of a day for Mankato fans. Top 2 defensemen leave yesterday. Pavel and Borchardt today. And to top it off, Hastings too. I hope to goodness the recruiting pipeline stays stable.
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Well, F***. I had a feeling this day was coming. I don't hold anything against him as I can't blame a guy for taking care of his family. This is just an indictment of college sports and the poison that all the money involved is. He's getting paid double the salary of MSU's president as the hockey coach at Wisconsin. If there is anything that's going to kill college sports it's the money involved.
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I'm not too proud to admit the petty side.of me wants to see qu vs bu in the final just so the big ten bozos have to quiet down a bit.
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OH HELLS YEAH!!!!! Mavericks with another miracle
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7 minutes ago, skateshattrick said:
Maybe, but UMD was very good with Herter, and WMU has improved greatly since Herter was brought on as an assistant coach.
If they don't bring in a proven commodity or at least a B10 assistant, I think their fans will riot. I mean, I'm cheering for that because it would be entertaining. I just don't think it will happen.
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10 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Long-shot dark horse: NMU HC. (Former Gopher)
I will genuinely be surprised if Hastings doesn't retire at Mankato. Never say never, but he and his wife seem very committed to being in Kato. When it didn't get past the rumbling stage last year with BU, I pretty much thought he'd be with us for the long haul.
As far as Potulny...the NMU teams have underacheived so much under him that I don't think he'd even be a lock for MN. He's having a decent run over the past month and a half, but this season was looking like a disaster for him.
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On 1/8/2023 at 5:21 PM, tnt said:
Second year in a row, where the gopher guy who committed an uncalled penalty against St. Cloud in overtime, scored the game winner on the same shift.
I mean, that cuts both ways. They also won a game against MSU with an obvious hook that caused a turnover and a uncontested shot and goal. And then was named the NCHC play of the week. Bad calls have a way of evening out.
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53 minutes ago, jk said:
Thanks for the update, bale31. Good luck.
This will be one of Hastings best coaching jobs if it turns around this year. He told one of the fundraising groups at the beginning of the year something to the effect of "judge us at the end of the year, not the beginning". We will see. This weekend was as ugly as I've seen since, probably, the Jutting years.
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11 hours ago, jk said:
Mankato swept at home for the first time in seven years, despite outshooting Ferris 73-26 on the weekend. Having trouble moving on from McKay.
I'd argue they are having a much harder time moving on from top end scorers. The goalie has been keeping them in games for the past 3 weekends. I believe 3 of the goals this weekend were.on odd man rushes and one came with a defender sprawled on the ice hurt after blocking g a shot. The top defenseman are taking penalties like no ones business and making bad defensive plays left and right and one of them was out for 3 games.
Injuries are also a killer so far. The top goal scorer, sam morton, was hurt 3 or 4 weeks ago and is going to be out until after Christmas. Bennet Zmolek was on the all-rookie team last year and hasn't played a second this year and I'm hearing he potentially won't play this year. And the top recruit that was supposed to be a goal scorer hasn't played and probably won't until after Christmas.
This is gonna be a season of taking some lumps, but the good news is we are still only 6 pts out of first with 2 games in hand.
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10 hours ago, farce poobah said:
MSU wins 5-4 in OT over BG
preseason CCHA poty Furry with the GWg.
Not sure where you got that score from, but it was 3-2.
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1 hour ago, Tbone said:
Aren’t you worried that you could be Siouxed by Minnkota Power, Minn Kota Motors, Minnkota Windows, Minnkota Recycling, or Minn-kota Ag Products?
Sounds like some great sponsorship opportunities.
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3 minutes ago, N of GF said:
What, are you completely nuts?! What a horrible idea for the name of the tournament. Obviously it should be the Dakminn tournament!
Otherwise, I like it! Very intriguing idea!
Haha...I fear the name would be flipped to the Dikman tournament too easily.
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Hows this for a fun idea? No I haven't heard this from anywhere. No I don't think it's on the horizon. Yes I would love it and think it would be a great idea. Yes I think it would be a success. Lastly and most importantly, I think one of the schools would kill it because it happened with the north star cup, but allowed to dream.
I would love to see a "minndakota" tournament. There are now 8 teams in Minnesota and the Dakotas (UND, MSU, SCSU, UMD,BSU, MN, Augie, and st thomas). It could be set up as an annual tournament seeded by last year's results. The location could be rotated around the region or just be in the twin cities. The tourney could be set up to guarantee everyone 3 games so it wouldn't screw up anyone's schedule and short them of a fame for their season. It would be great for fans. And if its an annual event prople could plan yearly tickets like the old final five. I'm sure the players would love it. It would be greal for recruiting. It would be great for tv. The only problem is it would require 8 schools, 8 head coaches and 8 sets of administrators to buy in.
Thoughts?
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Yeah, I'm not sure I would have done that. I won't argue, but im also not delusional.
Und is a blue blood and doesn't have as much to worry about. I would he shocked to see a coach leave und for a big ten school. Other schools in the nchc definitely have to worry, but not und and most likely not Denver.