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woomba said:
Looks like the Big Ten/Hockey East Challenge is officially a thing now :

http://www.uscho.com/2013/09/24/hoc...emendous-opportunity-to-build-a-relationship/

From a UConn perspective I guess you can look at it two ways: on the plus side this means that UConn hockey will be showcased with Big Ten teams regularly but on the negative side this means the Big Ten will have plenty of access to the NE Hockey market without needing to add any additional schools affiliate member or non.
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Eh, these teams already play out here, don't they? They have pre season tourneys and a couple regular season games already every year.
 
upstater said:
Eh, these teams already play out here, don't they? They have pre season tourneys and a couple regular season games already every year.
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To a certain degree you are right. They seem to be formalizing routine match ups. albeit not annual, at this point. But there are still teams left out, esp for Hockey East, because they have more teams. ND will inevitably play against some of the BIG teams, esp former CCHA teams.

I suspect the match ups will increase & perhaps fall more on a given time period. For Minnesota, we absolutely must maintain our rivalries with North D. (UND), Denver, Mn-Duluth, Colorado College & other Mn teams. Thus scheduling will be tricky. The above simply bring more intense, historical rivalries to Minny than any eastern team.

It's a nice start to hopefully greater, cross-regional match ups.

In time, I think Hockey East and BIG fans will take notice of the NCHC, which will be one helluva hockey conference & their members will have healthy resentment towards the BIG, esp, for breaking up decades of history - the classic WCHA - which was simply the most successful athletic conference in all of college sports - by far when it comes to college hockey.
 
upstater said:
Eh, these teams already play out here, don't they? They have pre season tourneys and a couple regular season games already every year.
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There's actually very few pre-season hockey tournaments. Most come either near Thanksgiving or in the week between Christmas and New Years.

And, as it turns out, most of the big programs actually *don't* cross regional lines to play away games all that often.
 
Gfunk said:
To a certain degree you are right. They seem to be formalizing routine match ups. albeit not annual, at this point. But there are still teams left out, esp for Hockey East, because they have more teams. ND will inevitably play against some of the BIG teams, esp former CCHA teams.

I suspect the match ups will increase & perhaps fall more on a given time period. For Minnesota, we absolutely must maintain our rivalries with North D. (UND), Denver, Mn-Duluth, Colorado College & other Mn teams. Thus scheduling will be tricky. The above simply bring more intense, historical rivalries to Minny than any eastern team.

It's a nice start to hopefully greater, cross-regional match ups.

In time, I think Hockey East and BIG fans will take notice of the NCHC, which will be one helluva hockey conference & their members will have healthy resentment towards the BIG, esp, for breaking up decades of history - the classic WCHA - which was simply the most successful athletic conference in all of college sports - by far when it comes to college hockey.
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Ugh, there's a WCHA fan here now too? ;) Let me guess, Goofers?
 
I have never watched a hockey game. I guess spending a lifetime in sunny north Florida influenced that.

We grew up around youth baseball...most cities have youth leagues with beaucoup teams.
 
billybud said:
I have never watched a hockey game. I guess spending a lifetime in sunny north Florida influenced that.

We grew up around youth baseball...most cities have youth leagues with beaucoup teams.
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And I grew-up watching a kid named Brian Leetch play hockey (and baseball) for my high school, which explains why Gary Bettman’s vision of NHL teams down in Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, Phoenix, etc. is so foolish.
 
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Mr. Conehead said:
And I grew-up watching a kid named Brian Leetch play hockey (and baseball) for my high school, which explains why Gary Bettman’s vision of NHL teams down in Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, Phoenix, etc. is so foolish.
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And I played against Don Sutton (Hall of Fame pitcher) in high school..... The only hockey that I have seen is in the movie "Slapshot".
 
Mr. Conehead said:
I am Irish and French and live just West of the Hudson. As for down south, are there a lot of Native Americans there as they are really the only 'real' Americas. The rest of us are just immigrants.
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Funny

I'm sure most of you haven't seen this ... it's on dating sites and some social networks ... but lots & lots of folks use the Term Native Americans. I really think that exclusively is someone with American Indian blood. I don't think being born in Cleveland is what the Term has in mind. We are immigrants; as such, I think we all ought to take pride in how difficult that process was for our forebears.
 
Pudge said:
We are immigrants; as such, I think we all ought to take pride in how difficult that process was for our forebears.
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Amen - those Indians probably put up a hell of a fight.
 
Yep...they put up a fight but were one of the losers in the CR of the past centuries....

It was nip and tuck for a while about who would come out on top in that colonial CR....the French conference had come on strong but were spread out without any population centers north of New Orleans and south of Quebec...the Spanish had Florida and the west coast but lacked the east and the middle...they were in a classic split spare position. The Brits had the SMSA's of the day.
 
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The French and Spanish lacked strategic sense, they gave up all the major TV markets to the English.
 
The English settlers had a centered belief that was the forerunner of Slive and Delaney's core belief......"manifest destiny".
 
I am Sicilian, English, Irish and Cherokee Indian, so I take offense at almost every post in this thread. Oh, and to hell with the French and the Germans.
 
Stinger92860 said:
I am Sicilian, English, Irish and Cherokee Indian, so I take offense at almost every post in this thread. Oh, and to hell with the French and the Germans.
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Monsieur...you wound me deeply with your disdain for the Gallic contributions to culture. You should be forever banned from the Big Easy.
 
billybud said:
Monsieur...you wound me deeply with your disdain for the Gallic contributions to culture. You should be forever banned from the Big Easy.
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Can I still go to Brennan's, when it re-opens?
 
Stinger92860 said:
Can I still go to Brennan's, when it re-opens?
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Absolutely...that's where most of the pasty complexioned northern white guys in their plaid shirts over mismatched plaid shorts, wearing sandals with calf high black socks, hang out. It is de riguer for that set (french for "what's that about?).

There is also a second yankee set seen at Brennan's...swarthier in complexion. The "jersey guys". Flashy gold rings, watches the size of canape plates, gold chains right out of the 70's accenting their unbuttoned shirts and gorilla hair chests. They are often seen with drinks that have fruit and little paper umbrellas hanging out of them.
 
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My sixth GG was a full blooded Cherokee woman...

By the by...the Cherokee Nation does not use the blood quantum rule to determine if you are eligible for membership...only documentation of direct descent from an ancestor on the Dawes roll. The eastern band does have a requirement that your ancestor be 1/16 at the time of the 1924 roll.
 
billybud said:
Absolutely...that's where most of the pasty complexioned northern white guys in their plaid shirts over mismatched plaid shorts, wearing sandals with calf high black socks, hang out. It is de riguer for that set (french for "what's that about?).
We don't call them Yankees in AZ we call them Canadians.
Most of the Canadians that invade AZ are from Western Providences. Farmers with oil lease income.


There is also a second yankee set seen at Brennan's...swarthier in complexion. The "jersey guys". Flashy gold rings, watches the size of canape plates, gold chains right out of the 70's accenting their unbuttoned shirts and gorilla hair chests. They are often seen with drinks that have fruit and little paper umbrellas hanging out of them.
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specialisthusky said:
http://www.dailycampus.com/sports/column-selfishly-helplessly-dreaming-b1g-1.3126853?pagereq=1

"Luckily, I am feeling optimistic, thanks to a reporter I was speaking to at the Rutgers game, so I am going to try and put a happy thought in your head.
I will graduate in May 2015, and by that time, the reporter I was speaking to thinks that UConn will be nearing a move to the Big Ten, if it has not happened already."
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It looks like Gordon Gee is heading back to WVU as their interim president and will remain affiliated with Ohio State at the same time. One of the challenges for UConn to the B1G is to find a #16 to go with them as #15 to the B1G. If you are still "helplessly dreaming B1G", then perhaps Gee can press for a UConn and WVU tandem to the B1G?

http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2013/12/0...io-national-higher-education-responsibilities
 
woomba said:
Christ - WVU? No chance.
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Just having some fun since the Gee to WVU news just came out.
I am well aware that WVU would never get a look for academic reasons.
However, UConn definitely an academic fit in the B1G in my opinion and a great addition from a basketball perspective to compete with the ACC and others.
 
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Going to the B1G hockey conference definitely will be a downside. The Hockey East is very nice.
 
CTMike said:
Some day... I will get a notification about this thread... And it will be because we've been invited to the B1G. Some day...
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You know, recently I've become pretty zen about it. For reasons I can't explain--just hunches based off things said and the direction of the school in general--I really do think that the B1G will go to 16 with UConn in the not too distant future. Frankly, though, it is based on getting in the AAU (which, incidentally, praised UConn recently) and turning the football program into something respectable (which, perhaps dumbly, I don't think is too hard with the right coach).
 
tzznandrew said:
You know, recently I've become pretty zen about it. For reasons I can't explain--just hunches based off things said and the direction of the school in general--I really do think that the B1G will go to 16 with UConn in the not too distant future. Frankly, though, it is based on getting in the AAU (which, incidentally, praised UConn recently) and turning the football program into something respectable (which, perhaps dumbly, I don't think is too hard with the right coach).
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I agree and have the same feeling? I think it's more than just any one sport in the CR war's....it's about politic's and money! Locking down the last few valuable school's for there market's for the long haul !! Uconn and maybe 1 more Fla school have to come off the board VERY soon IMO. I've been following CR very closely and can sense it, it'll be a great day here on "that day"!!!
 
tzznandrew said:
You know, recently I've become pretty zen about it. For reasons I can't explain--just hunches based off things said and the direction of the school in general--I really do think that the B1G will go to 16 with UConn in the not too distant future. Frankly, though, it is based on getting in the AAU (which, incidentally, praised UConn recently) and turning the football program into something respectable (which, perhaps dumbly, I don't think is too hard with the right coach).
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Isn't it weird? I'm in the same place. My primary fear with CR is the destruction of the MBB program. With Ollie's performance out of the gate, I feel like we're in good hands. Come what may.
 
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