bigmrg74

Doesn't change the fact that GVSU would wipe the floor with NDSU.

Thats their own problem if they can't get fans to show up for their game. Its a failure of their marketing program. They've got fresh NC banners hanging in their barn. Doubt it. Most of the CCHA is accessable to them with just a quick bus ride down I-75 for them.

Yeah, he laid hands on ya kid, thats a huge no-no! not to mention he removed something of value. tell your parents, tell the principle, and the conseler and file that police report as well.

Thats just pretty short sighted there ya rodent!! College hockey needs to keep some D1 teams around or else they're going to have to go back to 12 team regionals.

There's two games that would be just exhibition games. Manitoba and the USDT.

Well, If I recall correctly, any canadian team that goes D2 for their athletic department and then wants to add hockey would have to go thru an adjustment period, like at least a year where they could only operate as a "D2 hockey team". Thats what I recall from seeing Findlay's early years.

I thought North Dakota was a Canadian team?? But yeah, the Canadians are coming...... Simon Fraser to apply to the NCAA.

Yeah, but you're only allowed 34 games per the NCAA, and 36 if you go up to Alaska. Minnesota and Wisconsin have the Big Ten Challenge with Michigan and Michigan State. along with tournements they have. Michigan Tech has the Great Lakes Invitational, a rivalry series with Northern, and the Superior Showdown with NMU, LSSU, and Duluth. Other teams in the WCHA probably have their usual non-conferce games locked in. And the worst of all of this, if the WCHA teams are only getting 4 or 6 games against non-conference opponents, they're going to have lousey SOS numbers and in turn pairwise numbers as well because throught a conference, your SOS numbers are always going to equal .500.

That, and they're idiots for not deciding to move the rest of their program up to D2 so they're wouldn't be bussing their women's basketball team past several RMAC schools on their way to some other D3 school out in Texas.

No news is good news I guess. I take it the levees are for the moment holding??

Right, wasn't it some big win against Michigan that helped get the young Fighting Sioux established as a legit hockey team?

And just what is so great about the situation that Colorado College is in? A D3 school that had to drop football because of all of the travel cost it has for its league in D3, all the while, bussing right on pass perfectly fine D2 schools in the RMAC. They should have moved up to D2.

Hell, you guys should have seen the looks on the Notre Dame fans Saturday night at the Van Andel as, and I quote, "That damn hick college from BFE, Minnesota is taking them out behind the woodshed and spankin' em." Needless to say, it warmed the cockles of my manufactured heart. Hell of a game they played both nights. Lets Go Beavers!! And of Course..... Who Hates Huntsville??

I sure as heck didn't see it coming. Hell, did anybody here at least pick the Midwest bracket right?? It sure was a wild time in Grand Rapids this weekend.

Looks like they might want to rethink that idea now.

Honestly, Crookston would have been better off droping their whole athletic department down to D3. Then they wouldn't have the problem of not being able to compete for the NCAA's if they were eligiable for the D3 playoffs. That's the reason why the MCHA voted them out of the league this year. They want to get their house in order so that they can pick up an autobid soon for the conference winner. Adrian is a little tired of getting hosed.

How would you not be able to set up a dyke system around both East Grand Forks and Grand Forks? You just have to keep on building around both cities fast enough to keep both of them as dry islands. Then again, I have heard somebody mention that an emergancy channel like what Winnepeg has would take a lot of pressure off of the levees around the cities. More room for more water to head north.

Truthfully they were more like GOONS on ICE. I saw them when they were playing at Adrian, which is pretty close to where I live. They looked like they could have skated for the Syracuse Bulldogs from Slap Shot. Nothing but dirty hockey from those guys. But the rumor was that they were told that weekend before the bus pullled out of town that after the season, they would be folding. I would see that making them rather upset.

I'm not saying that, I'm just saying the Red Wings organization sees themselves in the playoffs for the near future.

They would have solved a lot of their problems simply by moving the rest of their Athletic department to D3.

Your best bet maybe just offer him another hosed to have to make sure he's not dumping it into your property. Also, with the freezing temps. Wouldn't it be better for the dike reinforcements if the sandbags freeze once they're all in place?? If so, it might even be smart to soak the bags a little afterwords just to make them just a little more watertight.

Yeah, the Joe could hold it, but the NCAA is rather Anal about what ads are up in a building when they're there and the Wings would probably be in the playoffs at the time and looking to sell tickets. It would be a pain in the arse for Olympia Entertainment there to cover all of the ads up for a weekend of NCAA stuff. Ford Field has nothing going on and they pretty much have weeks to get ready for it and plenty of time to take it all down as well. The NCAA's can have it all set up just the way they want it, and with a little luck, we won't have those stupid blue boards, which makes following the puck hard to do. I'm sure people bellyached the first time they did the Final Four in a football stadium as well.

wasn't there in the past a button to let you see who was picking whom in the matchups? Or does that not kick in until you lock the brackets when the puck drops?

I doubt they'll get much more than 40,000 there, and thats being generous. I would get those nose bleeds tickets and then move on down to a somewhat better view.

God I knew I shouldn't have looked. Talk about opening old wounds. Yeah, I was sure sick about it. Our idiot coach dumbed down the playbook to about 4 different plays and we still came that close to advancing dispite the worst playcalling I've ever seen from the Lakers. You gotta actually hand off the ball occasionally to make people bite on the play fake so that the fade to the corner will be open chuck!!! Hell, UMD wasn't really all that flashy. Did nothing but run right up the gut with just enough of passing game to keep the Defense honest. They play the way that would make the old Big Ten coaches like Woody and Bo happy to watch. Interesting, Odim was almost a Cardinal. Sure glad they didn't wanna take a chance on him. The boy is a LOAD.