cberkas Posted April 24 Author Posted April 24 41 minutes ago, nascar99 said: Didn’t think they would bring in the NTDP guy next year. Saw that he was going to be #2 maybe #3 1
beastandco Posted April 24 Posted April 24 5 minutes ago, brianvf said: Let's go! What does this mean?
ChetSteadman Posted April 24 Posted April 24 3 hours ago, brianvf said: Yep, four forward spots still available. If the rumors about Gordon, Rickwood, and McMorrow are true, we'd be one high end CHL player away from calling it a complete forward group. Still need a dman or two as well assuming Jax will be carrying 9 D. tUND Fighting Portals 2
cberkas Posted April 24 Author Posted April 24 7 minutes ago, ChetSteadman said: tUND Fighting Portals 🤣 Might as well change their name to that.
Popular Post brianvf Posted April 24 Popular Post Posted April 24 5 minutes ago, ChetSteadman said: tUND Fighting Portals UND has 2 portal players so far this year. The lowest in the NCHC aside from DU and UNO. And of the three players in the quote you mentioned, McMorrow isn't a portal player. At this point, the portal is a requirement to stay relevant in the current age of NCAA hockey. If your team doesn't utilize the portal (and now, moving forward, the CHL), the team will get left behind. 1 4
siouxforce19 Posted April 24 Posted April 24 2 minutes ago, brianvf said: UND has 2 portal players so far this year. The lowest in the NCHC aside from DU and UNO. And of the three players in the quote you mentioned, McMorrow isn't a portal player. At this point, the portal is a requirement to stay relevant in the current age of NCAA hockey. If your team doesn't utilize the portal (and now, moving forward, the CHL), the team will get left behind. Other teams also use the portal way more than UND does but those teams don’t seem to get half the criticism.
skateshattrick Posted April 24 Posted April 24 59 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said: Other teams also use the portal way more than UND does but those teams don’t seem to get half the criticism. Agree. Western MIchigan won a national championship with 6 portal players and 2 decommitted players (Bump and Hampton) who were arguably their 2 best players. 1
ChetSteadman Posted April 24 Posted April 24 1 hour ago, siouxforce19 said: Other teams also use the portal way more than UND does but those teams don’t seem to get half the criticism. Probably because they don’t refer to themselves as a “blue blood”. Blue bloods are supposed to have their own recruits with a couple fill ins from the portal. 1 2
fightingsioux4life Posted April 24 Posted April 24 7 minutes ago, ChetSteadman said: Probably because they don’t refer to themselves as a “blue blood”. Blue bloods are supposed to have their own recruits with a couple fill ins from the portal. You win however you can, especially in this chaotic era of NIL and unlimited transfers. That being said, I do prefer building the program via traditional recruiting.
siouxforce19 Posted April 24 Posted April 24 10 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: You win however you can, especially in this chaotic era of NIL and unlimited transfers. That being said, I do prefer building the program via traditional recruiting. I think everyone prefers traditional recruiting. But currently how things are, transfers are needed to balance out our senior and junior classes so we have space for our recruits in the next couple seasons. IMO, Berry was over reliant on the portal to put a bandaid on recruiting failures. It’s not sustainable long term to keep doing that, but we only return 5 forwards from last years team and we were not going to bring in 10 freshman forwards. 4
scpa0305 Posted April 24 Posted April 24 1 hour ago, brianvf said: UND has 2 portal players so far this year. The lowest in the NCHC aside from DU and UNO. And of the three players in the quote you mentioned, McMorrow isn't a portal player. At this point, the portal is a requirement to stay relevant in the current age of NCAA hockey. If your team doesn't utilize the portal (and now, moving forward, the CHL), the team will get left behind. I saw a stat that the NCHC was at the top for portal entries. Basically Big10, HE and obviously the Ivys were at the bottom. Which I don’t expect to change anytime soon.
tnt Posted April 25 Posted April 25 1 hour ago, siouxforce19 said: I think everyone prefers traditional recruiting. But currently how things are, transfers are needed to balance out our senior and junior classes so we have space for our recruits in the next couple seasons. IMO, Berry was over reliant on the portal to put a bandaid on recruiting failures. It’s not sustainable long term to keep doing that, but we only return 5 forwards from last years team and we were not going to bring in 10 freshman forwards. Yeah, and some time you have your hand forced, as you can’t bring in too many of your own recruits early to replace guys lost like Perron, Boisvert and McLaughlin. Remember a couple weeks ago when people were wringing their hands because we didn’t have portal commits? Some of the guys we are talking about in rumors are far more attractive than many of the guys that were in the portal early on. In fact if all these rumors are true, we might be pretty full in a hurry. I wouldn’t mind having a little wiggle room if someone nice pops up late or if someone like Bump becomes available in the summer.
The Sicatoka Posted April 25 Posted April 25 17 hours ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said: Either you have gas or you know something.
SuhakiYeahYeah Posted April 25 Posted April 25 Just now, The Sicatoka said: Either you have gas or you know something. I was just getting so Sick of waiting 1
sioux24/7 Posted April 25 Posted April 25 7 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said: I was just getting so Sick of waiting I see what you did there…. Clever
SIOUXELEVENS Posted April 25 Posted April 25 16 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said: This is never going to get old. 4
SJHovey Posted April 25 Posted April 25 15 hours ago, scpa0305 said: I saw a stat that the NCHC was at the top for portal entries. Basically Big10, HE and obviously the Ivys were at the bottom. Which I don’t expect to change anytime soon. If BU and Michigan keep stealing our players in the portal it will change.
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