bigmrg74
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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.The number of home dates are limited.Do you want to add someone who may not fill your barn?
(And your home gate revenue > NCAA tourney share.)
That's the concern I'm hearing from DU fans.
Doubt it. Most of the CCHA is accessable to them with just a quick bus ride down I-75 for them.Maybe the WCHA should court LSSU and adopt BSU.The Natural Rivals could be:
UND-UMD (I like the road trip myself)
UM-UW
SCSU-MSU-M
MTU-LSSU (A new rival is born in the UP)
DU-CC
UAA-BSU (sorry new team draws the short straw)
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First thing I would do is go into the principles office and tell them that I don't appreciate their teacher touching my kid.
Then if he doesn't stop I go see the superintendent. Ussually after your parents go to the principle office it should be taken
care of. You can also have your parents file a police report like Omaha suggested. You can also have your parents write the letters of the editor your hometown newspaper as well if the other three steps don't work?
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.
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I like 10, lets keep it as is. No way BSU is getting those 8 votes.
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.
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There's two games that would be just exhibition games. Manitoba and the USDT.that's why i suggested in a previous post that inconvenience home-away series be played on split weekends, just as cc and du did this year.as for somebody saying there's a 36 game max if you go to alaska. didn't we play 38 games this year? maybe there's another rule that allows us to play more games.
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Heh.... short term costs would be HUGE for Canadian teams though. All those ex-MJ players on their rosters... their recruiting column on Heisenberg would dwarf UW and UAF.
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.
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no frickin canadian teams.
I thought North Dakota was a Canadian team??
But yeah, the Canadians are coming......
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i know many people on this forum are against it, but i really think the wcha governing body should increase the intra-conference game schedule to 30 games per team. i don't know if it is a d1 hockey restriction or a wcha restriction that is keeping this from happening, but if whomever is responsible for that decision wants to see d1 college hockey flourish rather than diminish, this is an obvious change that could be made to further that agenda.
a conference anywhere from 11 to 15 members strong could then create balanced, workable schedules, which would eliminate all this ridiculousness over whether the wcha, or any conference for that matter, should expand or allow teams to die. i think all of us, the logical among us anyways, agree that reducing the number of d1 hockey programs is dangerous for the future of college hockey.
as professional sports leagues have expanded, so has the number of regular season games increased within the expanded league. this is not only crucial for scheduling, but it allows the league to take in more money, which allows for further expansion. perhaps we could someday see five conferences of 15 teams each in d1 college hockey. with 75 total teams, the sport might actually start attracting enough attention from participating schools to finally get the coverage we all would love to see.
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.
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CC dropped FB because the administration told CC Athletics they need to cut $8-12 million from the budgets.
There aren't many DIIIs around that region and they were getting killed on travel costs for FB.
CC's solution? See: Western Washington.
CC dropped football because of money, not any NCAA rule.
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.
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No news is good news I guess. I take it the levees are for the moment holding??
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Remember everyone - at one time we were a "Bemidji State" as well. It was 60 years ago when Big 10 universities let us start competing with them in hockey.
If Mich and Minn blow us off 60 years ago, we probably aren't having this conversation.
Right, wasn't it some big win against Michigan that helped get the young Fighting Sioux established as a legit hockey team?
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Clearly I never said that DU would drop down to DIII in hockey. That is out of the question.
The entire point was to get into the exact same situation that Colorado College is in.
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.
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they didn't just beat Cornell, they whooped'em good!!
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??
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This has got to be one of the most messed up brackets in a long time.
I forgot to join, but don't worry... I'd be 0-for-everything.
And I can't for the sake of me understand why some people had Miami beating DU. DU may be slumping, but seriously, Miami has so many similarities to SCSU that even now I couldn't imagine picking them over almost any other team... certainly most teams in the HEA, CCHA, or WCHA. I think Miami could beat a Princeton or a Vermont or a Yale. Up until a few moments ago, I would also have placed BSU in that category. Now, I'm not so certain.
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.
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They planned for that but MN said no, the channel would have went through 100 miles of sugar beet farmland, and put a bridge every 15 miles on the Minnesota said all the way to the border.
Looks like they might want to rethink that idea now.
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My dad is the athletic fundraising director at UMC.He's really dissapointed,we're all pissed off actually.It really was a great program,I'm gonna miss going to the games.Coach Warren worked really hard to build it up.
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.
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Let's get real. There is VERY little topography in the area. In '97, the flood stretched out about 3 miles east from the river banks. If the eastside holds up all along the line, the reverse condemnation would put the waterline out farther at the same levels the river reached in '97. A breach south would create a situation impossible to defend against.
Ringing the city with a dyke would simply be impossible.
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.
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UMC had hockey? *shrugs*
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.
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Are you saying the Wild won't be making a playoff push in 2011!?!
I'm not saying that, I'm just saying the Red Wings organization sees themselves in the playoffs for the near future.
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They would have solved a lot of their problems simply by moving the rest of their Athletic department to D3.
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Your best bet maybe just offer him another hosed to have to make sure he's not dumping it into your property.My house sits a little lower than my neighbor's house. When I went out this afternoon, I noticed that he had his hose (I"m guessing from his sump pump) stuck through his fence onto my property. The water was running onto the dirt next to my driveway and some was running down the driveway toward the street. Is this going to increase the water seepage into my basement? I'm going back to AK in a couple of days so even if I tell him to knock it off, once I'm gone, I have no control over what he's doing. Is there a city ordinance to keep him from doing this?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.
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ridiculous they choose this place as a site for the Frozen Four. Joe Louis Arena...ever heard of it NCAA?
can't wait for 2011 in St. Paul.
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.
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As usual, this is the "soft launch" of the bracket challenge. Message board denizens should go check it out, try to fill it out, and point out any problems. Despite USCHO posting it wrong for a while (as usual), I feel like I got the regions right this year (East plays Northeast and West plays Midwest ).
Assuming no problems are found, I'll throw it open to the world on the front page tomorrow.
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?
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Below is the link to ford field.com Frozen four tickets go on sale April 18th for next years FF. Tickets start at $40 for a seat for all 3 games. Probably nosebleed, but it really looks like they are gonna make an effort to pack about 60,000 people in there.
http://www.fordfield.com/calendar_display....date=04-08-2010
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.
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God I knew I shouldn't have looked. Talk about opening old wounds.
this doesn't make anyone just a little bit sick? I'm am happy for the bulldogs but bitter because we have been so close the past few years and couldn't get by GV. I wonder how good they were this year after loosing their QB. I doubt they had much of challenge going through their conference and probably didn't have a tough game until they played duluth.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.There have been several articles in Minnesota newspapers this past week about UMD running back Isaac Odim, who played a huge role in UMD's turnaround from last year, and in their national championship run. Here's one that was in the Strib yesterday. Interesting reading.
What will happen to the Nickle?
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Doesn't change the fact that GVSU would wipe the floor with NDSU.