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DJExile posted:yeah The sad part of that is there are high schools in Minnesota with lower enrollment with better arenas (and programs) than some of these colleges. This is even if you exclude Shattuck-St Mary's and not only in the Twin Cities. People sometimes get confused about that, but it really is Canada south up there. It's one of those sports where if it's popular, it's really popular. If it's not, it's just a money sink because they forget to budget for maintaining/replacing expensive cooling systems. It's always disappointing to see it when one closes, but UA-H has been on the ledge for a decade about shutting it, most notably because the University of Alabama gets to control the sports budget. They can actually afford it, but it's not on the main campus and don't want to diversify their sports options because BAMA Football. At least there are still new D-I schools moving up, St. Thomas and Arizona State, but it doesn't fill the void on the east coast.
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More insight into the RMU debacle https://twitter.com/dejan_kovacevic/status/1399608092921319424?s=21 This just after they hosted the Frozen Four and were working with the Pens on a new rink. It should also be noted that Colbert (the guy who quit) is an alum and also the GM of the Steelers.
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Troy Queef posted:More insight into the RMU debacle Holy hell  It seemed out of the blue when I first heard about it but usually by now you hear the program was in trouble or there were big budget issues or something. To surprise literally everyone like that is really something
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Augustana (SD) now with plans to bring their hockey program to D1. The school, who last year announced plans to elevate all sports to D1, was denied acceptance by the Summit League in favor of St. Thomas. It will be interesting to see what conference they try to join for hockey. Now that WCHA's commissioner left for the USHL, I'm not even sure if that league will be around much longer now. https://www.uscho.com/2021/06/16/au...-to-division-i/
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The WCHA hit that decline as soon as Wisconsin and Minnesota announced they were leaving. And then so did all the other big hockey programs. It was a big part of my college hockey experience, but the only team that’s left of note is Mankato (and that’s not saying much). 2013 was basically the end for the conference, which is a bummer and really just okay now. I have a lot of fun memories of hating UND and UM-D. And that will never go away. So it’s about time. Stick a fork in it. I do imagine that it’ll stick around for the women’s programs though. Unless they’re all jumping ship now too, but considering they’re adding STU I don’t think they’re going anywhere.
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WCHA women aren't going anywhere. They are on firm footing with 8 teams and is arguably the best in the nation. As for Augustana, perhaps a new 6 team conference of Augustana, the Alaskas, Arizona State, Huntsville, and Lindenwood? That would at least be based in the western of the country.
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yeah I'd be stunned if the WCHA women's side disbanded anytime soon. E: gonna be asking a lot at this point for the Alaskas to be saved, sadly.
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Yes, but Alabama Huntsville will not be affording travel to Alaska twice a year though. They’d probably have to schedule it back to back weekends and just not go home that week. All these programs are too fringe and don’t really fit together. They’re also small programs that aren’t going to get into a big conference either. There’s really not a good solution for it in D-1 hockey. Aside from getting schools that are closer to add more D-1 programs. This would be the best solution, but not one that’s going to happen. Schedule issues are definitely a thing for these teams, and adding a trip to South Dakota for what’s going to be probably too much of a cake walk isn’t going to entice anyone. So you’re right that they need a new conference of their own, and they need to start building and making phone calls. I’d love to see a new one start up and maybe get some west coast teams to add programs. The timing is good for it with Vegas and now Seattle having teams.
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One of you may know better than I, but has there ever been talk of the Alaska programs running a schedule against CHL teams instead of other NCAA teams? for all I know the NCAA wouldn't allow it but otherwise they are just so isolated, especially Fairbanks, that I can't really see a way for them to work.
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Jhet posted:Yes, but Alabama Huntsville will not be affording travel to Alaska twice a year though. They’d probably have to schedule it back to back weekends and just not go home that week. While I agree that a conference of all those schools may not be practical, Huntsville (or at least a spokesperson) said they were willing to shell out $25k to teams that would travel there so the money is there, at least in the short term. The stipulation with them from leadership was that in order to keep going they had to find a conference for this year. From what I understand travel costs are not necessarily an issue for them. It's getting other schools to go down there that was holding them back.
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Bloopsy posted:While I agree that a conference of all those schools may not be practical, Huntsville (or at least a spokesperson) said they were willing to shell out $25k to teams that would travel there so the money is there, at least in the short term. The stipulation with them from leadership was that in order to keep going they had to find a conference for this year. From what I understand travel costs are not necessarily an issue for them. It's getting other schools to go down there that was holding them back. This was it, yeah. UAH needs a conference in the worst way.
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Bloopsy posted:While I agree that a conference of all those schools may not be practical, Huntsville (or at least a spokesperson) said they were willing to shell out $25k to teams that would travel there so the money is there, at least in the short term. The stipulation with them from leadership was that in order to keep going they had to find a conference for this year. From what I understand travel costs are not necessarily an issue for them. It's getting other schools to go down there that was holding them back. Gotcha. It was travel the other way around. Still a big fan of Huntsville having a program, but being in a conference with Alaska programs would only be a stop gap and not solve their issue of being in a part of the country without hockey programs. But good luck convincing schools in that part of the country to have hockey teams (or anything that isn’t men’s football, baseball, basketball, etc).
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The WCHA men's side is officially dead: https://m.startribune.com/wcha-minnesota-state-mankato-bemidji-state/600074499/ Crazy how much the make-up of college hockey has changed in the last decade.
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https://twitter.com/ShelbyCassesse/status/1415319638519451650 Bobby Mo may have a lifeline
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gently caress YES Now bring back the Three Rivers Classic, it'll already be socially distanced and everything as it has been for the last four years
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https://twitter.com/JessRMyers/status/1419341307403767812 horrible news out of Minnesota 
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/JessRMyers/status/1419341307403767812 That's terrible news. Lake Minnetonka is surrounded in dark and winding roads and that just ruins what was probably a fun day on the lake.
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https://twitter.com/SchlossmanGF/status/1422592473415757827 this uh... seems a bit out of the blue
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the CCHA has a composite schedule out for all their members, and includes OOC games St. Thomas gets welcomed to D1 by playing St. Cloud right out of the gate 
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I'll have to set a reminder for that Mankato v Massachusetts game.
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Yet another program being subsided by fans. Would be great if the people who fund the program could have a say in hiring and firing of the coaching staff.
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maimi women's to d1 when
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Troy Queef posted:https://twitter.com/umichhockey/status/1428851194399690758?s=20 That's definitely going to help but the B1G still runs though Minnesota and Wisconsin. I will say it was a shame they no-contested their tournament game last year because I would have loved to see how they matched up with Duluth. That likely still favored Duluth pretty well but I think it would have been a really fun game. E: oh hey they play Duluth this year in the icebreaker tourney. hell yeah. E2: and a January weekend at home vs. UMass, that's gonna be a blast.
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DJExile posted:preseason poll is out, surprised to see Bemidji that high. It makes me laugh that St Thomas gets too good and needs to go to D1 and they're expected to be the basement team in their new conference. I'm expecting Michigan to be really hard to beat in the Big10, but you never know with Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Gopher roster always feels sparse until the season starts, but it will be interesting to see how Chaz Lucius does on the college level.
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Teemu Pokemon posted:the miami goddamned redhawks were losing to ferris state by 2 and scored 5 unanswered goals to win so i had to check to make sure it wasn't 2007  We’re back, baby!
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A good day for hockey last night: Mavs beat UMass 2-0 and St. Thomas got smoked 12-2 by SCSU. Gonna be a looong season Tommies! Get hosed. repeatedly.
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Only one of those things is actually good. Have I shared with the thread my fellow student at UMN grad school who literally told me that St. Thomas was the Notre Dame of the midwest?
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habeasdorkus posted:Only one of those things is actually good. How does that even work? Notre Dame is in the midwest already. I must admit that it is very funny that they got destroyed, but I can't be happy about it being St Cloud.
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I'm not super happy it was SCSU doing the murder but sometimes you take what you can get. Also, Notre Dame is in the mid east.
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St. Thomas will be fine. Short term, getting blown out each game in most sports is just the cost of doing business going from D3 to D1. Long term looks good. A new “near campus” arena will be announced soon and more scholarships will be added next year (in addition to the 6 left on the table this season). The consensus among fans is that are just happy to be D1 and if beatdowns are part of the process then so be it.
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In other “new or coming soon DI teams” news, Lindenwood went to Denver and actually scored first. They then shipped 9 goals, but still.
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Jhet posted:How does that even work? Notre Dame is in the midwest already. Yep! After a beat he realized what he had said. Just bought my AIC v. UMass tickets for next Friday. Very happy about the Pioneer Valley's current hockey quality.
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