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4 hours ago, nodak651 said:
Zero reason they couldn't all be affiliates. Hockey could theoretically operate with separate books for the most part.
I feel this would be the pathway, besides Fenton being at the Summit may want to bring them in. But I feel like there was a closely affiliated league in the past with the WAC(?) or something of that matter where in some fashions they were considered one entity but in others they were not. MVFC and SL has a semi agreement this way as well. Might be along the lines of giving priority for acceptance to Summit League teams and allow them not to worry about if they started hockey what conference they would be in. Mankato, Bemidji, and Duluth do not want to go D1 outside of hockey. I believe the MN university system forbids any other instate public university from having D1 football in competition with UMN similar to a reason UNO had to drop FB when going D1 to not have affect on Huskers football even if FBS and FCS being different.
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On 4/28/2024 at 12:09 AM, gfNDfan said:
Not rocket science...Sioux Falls is a giant (largely) untapped media market. Imagine if Fargo didn't have NDSU and Bismarck and GF had the "big" colleges in the state. How much could they pull out of Fargo for ad $$? Answer: NOT ENOUGH!
UND Hockey is Midco's cash cow for ad revenue. Highest rates and highest demand. FB and other sports at all schools don't even come close. Midco realizes the future of actually making money off local sports depends on cultivating Augie into a D1 Hockey school to sell the SF Market and that means bringing the entire CCHA league into the mix just to secure Augie as the anchor.
FloSports was an epic disaster. I subscribed for a UND game at Bemidji and I would have rather had my grandma streaming the game on her phone from the cheap seats. It was hideous. Midco just wants to be able to OFFER the games to Sioux Falls businesses. By firing all their talent it means they don't care about the end product. It only means they will be able to sell it on a short term basis. If it's more than 2 cameras and a hack announcer it will be better that what they had. The cautionary note is UND's production level will suffer on many levels from the cuts as they bring up 1 program from nothing and bring down their premiere program to save them some money.
I don't expect to see alot of changes on some of these teams broadcast, unless it becomes mandated. They will be the streaming provider allowing the broadcast to go through their servers and handle the billing but not the direct production most likely. Just like ESPN+ you will have some schools that put out a decent product, and then you will have a 1-2 camera production that may be what is used in-house for replay recording with radio broadcasters simulcasted. I don't doubt that they want to bring the NCHC in as well and have a NCHC/CCHA package with maybe summit league to offer a potential big package for the region. As stated by you and others they buy rights to all the programs with the focus being a select few to hopefully have enough subscribers to offset the others.
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11 hours ago, Green Banner said:
Dr Greek is retiring. He was honored prior to a game this season
now that you mention it, I believe I did see a tweet about that during the season. I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Mann takes this opportunity as well. But I do believe he loved being a part of the team and the residency program.
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Not sure if posted already.
NCAA Regional Attendance
Sioux Falls had a total attendance of 11,804 for the three games with 6,113 fans attending the regional final between Minnesota and Boston University on March 30. According to attendance numbers reported by the four 2024 regional hosting sites, Providence, Rhode Island had an attendance of 12,823 for its two sessions, while Springfield, Massachusetts had a total attendance of 9,659 and Maryland Heights, Missouri had an average attendance of 3,148.
In 2018, when Sioux Falls hosted three Minnesota teams (St. Cloud State, Minnesota-Mankato and Minnesota-Duluth), the combined attendance was 16,007, more than the other three hosting cities.
Sioux Falls will host another college hockey regional in 2026.
Source: Keloland
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Link to the Herald Story: Sanford Health to provide UND athletes with physician services - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports
Starts July 1.
It appears that UND athletics is moving away from Altru as team physicians and official healthcare. Increased coverage in the Grand Forks metro and merging of Valley Bone and Joint has definitely made them a better option then whey they bid before the last 10 year (I believe?) contract with Altru who donated $10 million to the Indoor Performance Center at the time. Will be interesting to see what else comes with this, as I know in Fargo, Bemidji, Vermillion they end up having their name they have athletics facilities named after them and may bring in additional funding for these projects we have in motion.
I haven't followed along recently but I assume the Family Medicine Residency in Grand Forks is still connected to Altru? I know Dr. Mann (Football) and Dr. Greek (Hockey) are part of the Altru FMR program. Will they change to Sanford or will UND transition from their long-time team providers?
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I also think that the Fargo game if it wasn't a overtime winning goal it woud've stood. Shouldn't matter which part of the game but it seems to. Also I am surprised the NCAA doesn't put temporary cameras along the bluelines.
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BU and a offsides goal review. Center ice cam looks like he is still contacting, far end camera the skate blade cant be seen and you see white under the black of the skate boot.
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I wish the score bug had SOGs.
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1 minute ago, jk said:
Having to swap out goalies worked for Duluth.
They are keeping him in the game, on the PK, in 2OT.
Looks to be moving okay.
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Just now, cowboys5xsbs said:
Umass with the golden chance
Not sure how they didn't put that in. Denver goalie is being evaluated for injury.
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4 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
ESPN math.
NHL Hitz Golden Puck
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4 minutes ago, ChrisUND1 said:
Ice hasn’t seemed great for DU game and now I switch it to BU game and it looks really bad! Another reason to have regionals in campus rinks that have had ice in all season and have pros taking care of it.
Both Sioux Falls and Springfield have hockey all season, Did Sioux Falls take their ice out with the consecutive wrestling, summit league, and high school basketball? I know other events they just cover it. The issue that I have heard was more related to the NCAA makes them remove advertisements, and other logos from the ice by scrapping layers off, then they repaint and add the NCAA and host logo the week of. Be better if they could just let the rinks keep their ice way of and maybe just add a NCAA/Host badge in a few places like how the NHL now does with the Stanley Cup Playoffs logos along the bluelines?
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2 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
The rink location was decided 3 or 4 years ago. Perhaps bracket integrity should have gone out the window so that UND could play in front of 2,500 fans in a 15,000 seat arena out east? But then we’d be whining about being sent out east. It’s a conundrum.
I think the being sent out east argument would really only be valid if we were the #1 seed. UND also declined to be the bidding host school with the Sioux Falls Sports Authority after the last regional they hosted together and decided to focus on their Fargo bids.
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Camera feels too zoomed in for the Sioux Falls regional, maybe its just after watching the wider angle from the Denver game, or maybe I am just imagining things.
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BU vs RIT is started for those OT intermission viewing pleasures.
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Just now, MafiaMan said:
So we’re in agreement then that it’s primarily UND fans whining and no one else?
I would agree with that. It might be getting echoed wider now because of the reach of UND fans are largest mass in number as well as CHN, GFH, etc posting about the issue with having the largest traveling fanbase that could fill that rink by itself.
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DU getting outworked in OT. But how many times have you seen one team dominate and a puck pops out for a quick turn of events. It just takes 1 shot.
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1 minute ago, cberkas said:
Probably forgot about the day off or Denver picked the earlier game.
Do #1 seeds get choice for the Regional? or is this ESPN choice?
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Just now, MafiaMan said:
And we’re busy whining about our venue’s seating capacity…
Any other teams there no one would've made a fuss. Should there be a 2500 seat rink for regional? No, but beggers cant be choosers either. Not alot of western facilities that can meet the requirements of seating, non host site, etc. Need to develop more western programs, even then you wont have 5 schools within 30 miles like you do out east but would still help, still a north eastern heavy system D1 hockey is.
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One thing I found interesting on this as well was Denver being a 1 seed and being forced to play a 10am game their time.
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5 minutes ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
When was out last OT win in the NCAA tournament? Drawing a blank. The losses are what sticks with you.
Officially? Does anyone remember? Unofficially? Most people think that you can't use the camera on the far end of the ice to call offsides when the multiple closer cameras do not show it.
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43 minutes ago, Benny Baker said:
So this is co-hosted by AIC and UMASS?
If AIC won Atlantic Hockey, who is the 4th seed in this regional?
It is actually AIC home rink. I have not seen anything about AIC being a co-host though, so maybe thats the loophole, you can host at a different teams home venue? We also had the ghost host of Providence in Providence, by having Brown host but still always placed at the Dunkin Donut center, which is their basketball home arena.
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9 minutes ago, Kab said:
Midco, please let us know who in administration positions were cut.
i thought Midco was headed for bigger things but now they suck just like wday does.
soon everyone will be paying for every broadcast of every sport to many different _platforms
what the hell is Fenton doing
i hope UND hockey doesn’t become a summit broadcast
In the regional sports world it seems that you have to adapt to streaming world or falter. It been surprising to me that Midco Sports has stuck around as long as it has and even grown in recent years, which may have also led it down a financial rabbit hole. More and more people are moving away from the cable packages and moving to direct streaming platforms which brings overall subscriber numbers down. And with NCHCTV and MidcoSports Plus there was little incentive to pay for the entire Midco cable package just to watch the sports. Even the Wild and Twins being put on Bally Sports Plus also took away the requirement.
Now are they also struggling with the online subscription service financially like the other big services? Also having all the MVFC games on ESPN+ was a cheaper option then MidcoSports Plus/Cable and ESPN/TNT/ETC are planning a combined sports streaming service for later this year. They must be thinking to adapt or lose out.
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Summit League could take over NCHC to survive?
in NCAA News
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I could see Miami and WMU being on way out or swapping. WMU is decent in the league as a quality program. Miami has been down for a few years after a couple of strong seasons and believe they would like to cut down on travel.