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  1. Eaves and Steve Johnson will be prime candidates, I would think. Heck, I thought Eaves would get the Sioux job when Blais left. I'm kinda wishing he had.........

    Gwoz was a good coach and he'll be missed by DU. Gwoz wins 2 NT's and he gets the boot now? Calling Don Lucia..........

    Do you mean Mike Eaves or Cary Eades? Heck, both would be good candidates. Not sure it would be good to have to go up against Eades. No, pretty sure it would not be good.

  2. No they shouldnt. He wins national championships. Those coaches dont get fired.

    Actually coaches who go to the national tournament every year as a head coach and hold the current standard for the most consecutive NCAA appearances don't get fired either. Doesn't make him a great coach, but it does make him a very good coach or maybe a great recruiter.

  3. So, 10 or 20 years down the road, would the WAC's previous life as a FBS conference be dead and buried or could their name be resurrected as a football conference with FBS credentials?

    This is, of course, assuming that the three tier setup that is being talked about does not come in to existence and the current two tier FBS - FBS doesn't lose the BCS to its own division.

    Under the proposed three tier system, the Big Sky would more than likely be on the same level as the Sun Belt, and Idaho would concievably become full Big Sky members.

  4. "DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED."

    Run the math on that:

    Denver to Manchester is 2000 miles. If DU will travel 400 miles more that means 1600 miles is the baseline for comparison.

    1600 miles / 13 years is an average of 123 miles per year.

    Put that in perspective: Over the last 13 years, on average, what BC has had to travel is the equivalent of Grand Forks to Bemidji.

    To really put that in perspective you also have to remember that in 2011 they traveled to St. Louis where they got pounded by CC. That trip was 1050 miles (by air). So in 12 years they travelled 550 miles or an average of about 45 miles per year. I checked my math twice as that almost seems impossible but that's what it is.

    Agree that this is disgusting, however BC has not been in the NCAA tournament each of the last 13 years. :D. Back to traveling to Bemidji.

  5. I think y'all are selling Penn State short... They have this huge benefactor and no basketball program to speak of. Pennsylvania is not out of the national hockey footprint by any stretch, in fact you might say that they are in the middle of it. The Nittany Lions will be one of the stronger B1G teams sooner rather than later. They may be coming from nowhere, but they are coming in with more cash (and maybe more commitment) than any new program has for decades.

    As for the breakup, I would rather that we went back to the old WCHA from the time I was at UND and that would be UND, UM, UW, Duluth, CC, Denver, Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan Tech and Notre Dame. THAT was a conference! We will never get back there again, so we have to move on. The B1G is one of the most recognizable conferences in college athletics and their members have deep pockets. We will mourn the passing of the old WCHA, some of us mourn the passing of the original version, but life will go on. It's kinda like missing the old rivalries of the NCC, but now preferring to build the new rivalries in the Big Sky.

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  6. Looks like Idaho and New Mexico St. will be invited to the Sun Belt for football only.

    That's a bummer. Was hoping Idaho would be forced to drop football down to FCS.

    New Mexico State, Idaho and Georgia Southern now in play for Sun Belt

    Article is from Nov 2012, but saw a quote from Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson this morning on ESPN.com that NMSU and Idaho are being talked about by Sun Belt presidents.

    http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9099719/idaho-vandals-new-mexico-state-aggies-headed-sun-belt-conference-2014-sources-say

  7. As bad as this is for UND, why do Mami and Notre Dame, the only two teams from the CCHA get put in the same region?

    One way to make sure there is not an all WCHA final is to put all 6 teams into 3 regions and leave Boston all alone.

  8. Question...if SCSU loses to Wisconsis...and the unlikely scenario that Wisc and CCSU play for the WCHA championship..is there an automatic bid into the NCAA tourney for the winner? and if so, does that make UND the odd man out?

    Yes and probably not

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