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Butch said:
Going to the B1G hockey conference definitely will be a downside. The Hockey East is very nice.
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Yep, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan are TERRIBLE hockey schools. That would be a tough pill to swallow...
 
Afroabe224 said:
Yep, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan are TERRIBLE hockey schools. That would be a tough pill to swallow...
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Travel would be a bear for UConn. OTOH a charter jet to Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, and Madison would beat the snot out of a 7 hour bus ride to Orono.;)
 
Afroabe224 said:
Yep, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan are TERRIBLE hockey schools. That would be a tough pill to swallow...
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I think you're missing the point. HE is a bus league. The average must be about 2.5 hours for UConn. It's also a national powerhouse. The B1G has some incredible programs, but aside from PSU, not remotely drivable.
 
Personally, I really do prefer the ACC and Hockey East over the B1G. Notre Dame and Boston College are Hockey East members. We'll see how much they miss us.
 
Afroabe224 said:
Yep, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan are TERRIBLE hockey schools. That would be a tough pill to swallow...
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And we have equally rated and accomplished competition in Hockey East right now between BC, BU, Maine, and UNH, with the added bonus of 8 of our 11 fellow league members being less than two hours from Storrs.

Just that alone is enough to make me prefer Hockey East for hockey.

The upside to playing in the B1G for hockey would be that we're playing in the B1G for football, not for hockey.
 
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kingdobbs said:
And we have equally rated and accomplished competition in Hockey East right now between BC, BU, Maine, and UNH, with the added bonus of 8 of our 11 fellow league members being less than two hours from Storrs.

Just that alone is enough to make me prefer Hockey East for hockey.

The upside to playing in the B1G for hockey would be that we're playing in the B1G for football, not for hockey.
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Exactly. There is no downside.
 
I guess I'd be down with the Moscow Huskies. Or we moving to a Siberian city?
 
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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I was reading that article! Does it sound promising??
 
HuskyDogArt said:
I was reading that article! Does it sound promising??
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He sounds very hopeful and optimistic but quite young? I hope the reporter he spoke with has some "juice" or better wisdom/knowledge than most of us BY posters? Yet I feel a lot like what he said was inevitable about UConn to the B1G sooner rather than later so it rings true to me at least HuskyDogArt !?!
 
Hopefully the person he was talking to wasn't some sophomore writing for Rutgers' school newspaper.
 
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NickyNewark said:
He sounds very hopeful and optimistic but quite young? I hope the reporter he spoke with has some "juice" or better wisdom/knowledge than most of us BY posters? Yet I feel a lot like what he said was inevitable about UConn to the B1G sooner rather than later so it rings true to me at least HuskyDogArt !?!
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The Viking said:
Hopefully the person he was talking to wasn't some sophomore writing for Rutgers' school newspaper.
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It's not like the Daily Campus or other student newspapers reports are given different credentials or segregated from "real" journalists in the press box. There is no reason to believe the "source" was a fellow student reporter from the Daily Targum. Writing for the DC (and I'd imagine other school publications) is just like writing for an actual news source. Many networking contacts develop this way. I am also not surprised Mr. Fontenault concealed his source. At the end of the day it is speculation and it could come back and kick the source in the butt if it does turn real.

Also, I'm, 95% certain that the source wasn't a sophomore from Rutgers. At least at UConn, the football and basketball beats (both men and women) are choice beats and the most true to real life. My college roommate was a Sports Reporter for the DC, he got field hockey as a sophomore.
 
Tim Fontenault is on par with Kevin Duffy covering the football beat...unlike the other 3!
 
husky25, it was 90% joke and 10% serious.
I used to write for the daily campus for a couple of years, and my first story was covering the equestrian team (is there still one at UConn?)
They do make you earn your stripes. Neil Ostrout was my editor, great guy. He even let me cover the final whaler year in 1997 instead of using the AP feed - as long as it didn't interfere with my UConn responsibilities.
 
The Viking said:
husky25, it was 90% joke and 10% serious.
I used to write for the daily campus for a couple of years, and my first story was covering the equestrian team (is there still one at UConn?)
They do make you earn your stripes. Neil Ostrout was my editor, great guy. He even let me cover the final whaler year in 1997 instead of using the AP feed - as long as it didn't interfere with my UConn responsibilities.
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Yes Viking I posted my thoughts goodnaturedly too thinking it sounded credible to me but really wanting it to be more solid than most of the rumors making the blogging rounds! I did'nt intend to sound doubtful and I'm not.
 
The Viking said:
husky25, it was 90% joke and 10% serious.
I used to write for the daily campus for a couple of years, and my first story was covering the equestrian team (is there still one at UConn?)
They do make you earn your stripes. Neil Ostrout was my editor, great guy. He even let me cover the final whaler year in 1997 instead of using the AP feed - as long as it didn't interfere with my UConn responsibilities.
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A equestrian team at UConn?? Did they have a polo team? :) Did we win the Big East Equestrian championship ever? :)
 
HuskyDogArt said:
A equestrian team at UConn?? Did they have a polo team? :) Did we win the Big East Equestrian championship ever? :)
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Do we have a polo team?! Do we?!

By God, we have the polo team.

True story - when we ran Husky Blue & White, I met a polo horse. I took a picture of it - had no idea what the hell else to do when meeting a horse.
 
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Fishy said:
Do we have a polo team?! Do we?!

By God, we have the polo team.

True story - when we ran Husky Blue & White, I met a polo horse. I took a picture of it - had no idea what the hell else to do when meeting a horse.
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Wow... I knew UConn had a water skiing team. Just wondering did anyone from UConn's Polo team got drafted into the National Polo League (sponsored by Polo Ralph Lauren)? :)

Do we think we would do better in Polo in the B1G or the ACC? :)
 
HuskyDogArt said:
Wow... I knew UConn had a water skiing team. Just wondering did anyone from UConn's Polo team got drafted into the National Polo League (sponsored by Polo Ralph Lauren)? :)

Do we think we would do better in Polo in the B1G or the ACC? :)
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We can't do better....we win the national championship every year.

I dunno what happened this year, but as of last year, we had four straight titles and ten overall.
 
Fishy said:
We can't do better....we win the national championship every year.

I dunno what happened this year, but as of last year, we had four straight titles and ten overall.
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Well color me surprised.
 
This isn't exactly ground breaking news but I confirmed with a Uconn staff member that the university's number one academic priority is to become a "research one" university which they feel will lead to AAU membership. I asked for a time table to reach this. Hoping to hear its before the B1G contract renews but will post if I hear anything.

#b1gharder
 
huskypantz said:
I think you're missing the point. HE is a bus league. The average must be about 2.5 hours for UConn. It's also a national powerhouse. The B1G has some incredible programs, but aside from PSU, not remotely drivable.
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Once the program is upgraded we can still schedule HE schools as OOC
 
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Stinger92860 said:
Once the program is upgraded we can still schedule HE schools as OOC
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Right now, the Hockey East is a significantly better conference for UConn hockey, all-around. Going against the top of the HE is much easier than going against the top of the B1G. After 2 or 3 championships, then we're good to go in the B1G. If properly planned and run, we have championship potential. We need to cultivate a fanbase in hockey, too, and that is not easy. 3 players on the Olympic men's team are from the state of CT. Long term, the B1G's dollars trump the ACC's dollars.
 
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Butch said:
Right now, the Hockey East is a significantly better conference for UConn hockey, all-around. Going against the top of the HE is much easier than going against the top of the B1G. After 2 or 3 championships, then we're good to go in the B1G.
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You're kidding, right? You've gotta be. Hockey East is the SEC of college hockey...
 
MattMang23 said:
You're kidding, right? You've gotta be. Hockey East is the SEC of college hockey...
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I'll be lynched if I keep saying I'd rather be in the ACC and the Hockey East. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are great programs. Michigan State has 3 championships. Ohio State needs a rink for it's hockey program. Penn State just started but sure did well as a club team in the ACHA. They play each other 4 times a year. In the HE, we'd play each program 2, 3 or 4 times, depending. Our program has been ignored for so long by the administration. Now, it seems the administration wants to place the rink in a very visible spot.

I prefer the rivalries and traditions of the northeast over the midwest, any day. I prefer the HE and ECAC over the B1G. The majority of D1 northeast football traditions are also in the ACC.
 
CL82 said:
Where is that?
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X lot area similar vicinity to where the new rec center is going but closer to hill top than teds. I've got a short pdf presentation from Uconn that was going around about the new master plan.
 
specialisthusky said:
X lot area similar vicinity to where the new rec center is going but closer to hill top than teds. I've got a short pdf presentation from Uconn that was going around about the new master plan.
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Please post.
 
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