Bluebloods Discussion

[atxsioux]

1 hour ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

Especially funny because the CHN podcast previously started with a clip of a radio guy saying how Denver is the greatest program ever. It changed to the radio call of Western winning it, but will likely change back to praise of Denver next season.

From the clip, absolutely loved when Carle says (paraphrasing) "some kids want to go to a school where they can attend a football game on a Saturday twice a year".

Taking a hockey recruit to a football game as a pitch is why there will always be “Michigan kids” and “North Dakota” kids for example 
 

Good luck trying to sell your hockey program like that to a kid from small town Canada that lives and breathes hockey (and granted that pitch does work for Michigan just only for their style of player). Out of context though, showing a recruit that your sport is 3rd/4th fiddle on campus as a selling point is pretty funny. 

[Shawn-O]

7 hours ago, atxsioux said:

Taking a hockey recruit to a football game as a pitch is why there will always be “Michigan kids” and “North Dakota” kids for example 
 

Good luck trying to sell your hockey program like that to a kid from small town Canada that lives and breathes hockey (and granted that pitch does work for Michigan just only for their style of player). Out of context though, showing a recruit that your sport is 3rd/4th fiddle on campus as a selling point is pretty funny. 

This works BOTH ways.   

[yzerman19]

Hmmmm...I think the obvious answer here is that there are different target markets.  I do think UND and DU will continue to have a leg up on small town western Canada recruiting.  Denver has a direct flight and more recent success.  UND has the facilities and amenities. Denver is a huge city.  Grand Forks is a medium sized town.  

 

[hawksfan12]

On 4/17/2026 at 12:30 AM, atxsioux said:

Taking a hockey recruit to a football game as a pitch is why there will always be “Michigan kids” and “North Dakota” kids for example 
 

Good luck trying to sell your hockey program like that to a kid from small town Canada that lives and breathes hockey (and granted that pitch does work for Michigan just only for their style of player). Out of context though, showing a recruit that your sport is 3rd/4th fiddle on campus as a selling point is pretty funny. 

And try selling UND to a kid that grew up in Toronto area when BU and Michigan are also recruiting him. 

That kid 100% is not coming to UND. Every program has draws and drawbacks.

[Shawn-O]

1 hour ago, hawksfan12 said:

And try selling UND to a kid that grew up in Toronto area when BU and Michigan are also recruiting him. 

That kid 100% is not coming to UND. Every program has draws and drawbacks.

Exactly why those Saskatchewan and Alberta prairie kids always fit in so well. 
 

And will now continue to do so with the WHL being up for grabs! 

[ubish]

I still have think titles before 1975 or so shouldn't matter. But that's because I'm in U of country and that's pretty much all they have.  They do make a lot of frozen fours though, I'll give them that. 

[Johnny Five]

On 4/17/2026 at 12:30 AM, atxsioux said:

Taking a hockey recruit to a football game as a pitch is why there will always be “Michigan kids” and “North Dakota” kids for example 
 

Good luck trying to sell your hockey program like that to a kid from small town Canada that lives and breathes hockey (and granted that pitch does work for Michigan just only for their style of player). Out of context though, showing a recruit that your sport is 3rd/4th fiddle on campus as a selling point is pretty funny. 

I'm not sure any college hockey recruit wouldn't have an insane time tailgating and hitting parties after a game at the Big House, Ohio State, Penn State, etc.

[burd]

1 hour ago, Johnny Five said:

I'm not sure any college hockey recruit wouldn't have an insane time tailgating and hitting parties after a game at the Big House, Ohio State, Penn State, etc.

Yeah.  A kid from Kindersley, Sask would get a charge out of gameday FB on the campuses you mention.  Wisconsin or MSU too, for that matter.  

[farce poobah]

On 4/16/2026 at 10:10 PM, .357 said:

The first sentence in Wodon's tweet. 

I actually get what he means.

Look up blue-blood in the dictionary and its "of noble blood, aristocratic".   

Applied to college hockey, which schools have the most money?   Harvard, Yale, Princeton, BC, BU, Notre Dame, Michigan.   I can see that as his definition of blue blood.  And in that context, DU and the rest of the NCHC aren't the big money schools.

I get that in this thread, we're talking about blue bloods as "consistently great in the last 30 years".