New College Hockey Program?
Posted by scoop85
New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: scoop85 (---.hvc.res.rr.com)
Date: June 16, 2021 08:30AM
Buccigross tweeted last night he’s hearing that Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD is planning on starting a D-1 hockey program in 2023. They don’t even have club hockey right now, but the school is moving from DII to DI in all sports and adding hockey apparently is part of their master plan.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-219-18.myvzw.com)
Date: June 16, 2021 11:34AM
Augustana is practically my backyard. I'm all for it, though I don't know how you start up a division one team out of nothing.
Who do I lobby to get Cornell to come play here?
Who do I lobby to get Cornell to come play here?
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: June 16, 2021 12:33PM
Dafatone
Augustana is practically my backyard. I'm all for it, though I don't know how you start up a division one team out of nothing.
Who do I lobby to get Cornell to come play here?
Coach Schafer - but then also Augustana's head coach, who will be expected to commit to playing at Lynah in exchange.
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Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: June 16, 2021 01:42PM
Is Augustana one of those arts colleges in the frozen Midwest like St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and Hamline?
Edit: No, that's Augsburg.
Edit: No, that's Augsburg.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2021 01:43PM by Trotsky.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: scoop85 (---.nyc.biz.rr.com)
Date: June 16, 2021 03:01PM
Dafatone
Augustana is practically my backyard. I'm all for it, though I don't know how you start up a division one team out of nothing.
Who do I lobby to get Cornell to come play here?
Well LIU announced they were starting a D1 program on 4/30/20 and they did ok with a season that started less than 6 months later.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Dafatone (---.sub-174-219-18.myvzw.com)
Date: June 16, 2021 08:19PM
Trotsky
Is Augustana one of those arts colleges in the frozen Midwest like St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and Hamline?
Edit: No, that's Augsburg.
It's the fancy rich private school for upper crust South Dakotans.
I know how silly that sounds.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: RichH (---.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
Date: June 16, 2021 08:42PM
Dafatone
Augustana is practically my backyard. I'm all for it, though I don't know how you start up a division one team out of nothing.
Cash and corruption.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: June 17, 2021 12:22AM
Coincidentally, Josh Whitman, the athletic director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talked about their potential ice hockey program today.
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Illinois made a splash when it announced in 2017 it was pursuing the development of a varsity ice hockey team.
While Whitman considered the university “in the red zone” toward launching a team in the summer of 2019, the Illini hit some obstacles with fundraising and then paused the project because of the pandemic.
He said he is restarting conversations with donors and developers about beginning a hockey program. Whitman will need to see if previously committed donors are still on board.
“We had walked it so far down the road, we can’t just walk away from it without at least reopening the conversation to see if it continues to make sense,” he said.
Illinois had considered a project that included multiple sports in a downtown Champaign complex. Factors such as facilities and which sports can be included would determine the cost of a program.
Whitman said he doesn’t feel obligated to go beyond conversations, but he can foresee a hockey program becoming the third-highest revenue-producing sport.
“We know where we think the money was,” he said. “We just need to go back and see if it’s still there.”
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net)
Date: June 17, 2021 01:17AM
Sounds like a line out of a John Sandford Lucas
“We know where we think the money was,” he said. “We just need to go back and see if it’s still there.”
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Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: June 17, 2021 08:01AM
billhoward
Sounds like a line out of a John Sandford Lucas Dake police novel, except that's set in Minnesota.
“We know where we think the money was,” he said. “We just need to go back and see if it’s still there.”
Lucas Davenport?
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: June 17, 2021 08:30AM
After watching the NFL grow from six teams to thirty teams I'm convinced that expanding D-1 college hockey will benefit the game - finally put it on a par with baseball, basketball and football.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Scersk '97 (38.81.106.---)
Date: June 17, 2021 02:51PM
osorojo
After watching the NFL grow from six teams to thirty teams I'm convinced that expanding D-1 college hockey will benefit the game - finally put it on a par with baseball, basketball and football.
Selfishly, I prefer that college hockey stays a rather small pond for a long, long time.
We might do fine during an explosive period of expansion as our talent remains the same but the "not heading to Ivies" talent gets spread more thinly, but pretty soon there would be too much money and attention flying around for non-scholarship schools to compete, like in other sports, viz., the aforementioned baseball, basketball, and football.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net)
Date: June 18, 2021 10:22AM
Yes, Lucas Davenport. How many of John Sanford / Lucas Davenport's top 100 rock tunes of all time do you agree with? You really have to be on the outer/older edge of Bâby Boomerdom to align fully. Sandford was born in 1943.
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Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: June 18, 2021 03:13PM
billhoward
Yes, Lucas Davenport. How many of John Sanford / Lucas Davenport's top 100 rock tunes of all time do you agree with? You really have to be on the outer/older edge of Bâby Boomerdom to align fully. Sandford was born in 1943.
About a third — I was born a year before Sandford. Just got Ocean Prey from the library with both Davenport and Virgil Flowers.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net)
Date: June 18, 2021 04:56PM
Some authors writing a book series, or series of series, lose it over time. I'm not sure how long Sandford can keep up the pace. I'm learning a lot about driving Minnesota back roads in a Porsche, tho. Daniel Silva's Gabiel Allon series is still well-written, but it starts to seem like the framing of the plot pays homage to previous books. Phillip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series (German detective with a conscience, in the 1930s-50s-50s) has been well written but Kerr died in 2018, so the series ends at 14. Yep, thread drift again. But really, Cornell sports is quiet for another month or two.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: June 18, 2021 05:22PM
To help pass the time, the next Gabriel Allon book, The Cellist, will be available July 13.billhoward
Yep, thread drift again. But really, Cornell sports is quiet for another month or two.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: June 22, 2021 09:33AM
Dafatone
Trotsky
Is Augustana one of those arts colleges in the frozen Midwest like St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and Hamline?
Edit: No, that's Augsburg.
It's the fancy rich private school for upper crust South Dakotans.
I know how silly that sounds.
No trees in the Dakotas so I guess we'll do iron guillotines for them.
Wasn't Fitzgerald from around there? There are rich cockroaches everywhere.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2021 09:34AM by Trotsky.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: dbilmes (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: June 22, 2021 11:18AM
This is interesting. Tennessee State, with support from the Nashville Predators, is seriously pursuing plans to become the first HBUC to have a Division I college hockey program. The Athletic also had coverage, but there's a paywall.
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Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: June 24, 2021 10:29PM
dbilmes
This is interesting. Tennessee State, with support from the Nashville Predators, is seriously pursuing plans to become the first HBUC to have a Division I college hockey program. The Athletic also had coverage, but there's a paywall.
Talk about an unlikely candidate! It would be great if they can pull it off. I wish them luck.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: June 25, 2021 10:34AM
Fantastic for lots of reasons.Swampy
dbilmes
This is interesting. Tennessee State, with support from the Nashville Predators, is seriously pursuing plans to become the first HBUC to have a Division I college hockey program. The Athletic also had coverage, but there's a paywall.
Talk about an unlikely candidate! It would be great if they can pull it off. I wish them luck.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: June 26, 2021 09:12AM
If you build a rink coaching and talent will follow.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Weder (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: June 26, 2021 11:24AM
The Predators and the regional government have built a couple of ice centers in the Nashville area and are working on a third. There’s also been a Thanksgiving tournament with some big DI women’s programs for a few years in Nashville. So there’s a lot going on and it would be great if Tennessee State adds hockey.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: June 27, 2021 05:30PM
osorojo
If you build a rink coaching and talent will follow.
If you build a rink and have considerable money left over...
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Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: marty (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: June 28, 2021 08:25AM
Jim Hyla
osorojo
If you build a rink coaching and talent will follow.
If you build a rink and have considerable money left over...
... and don't hire Seth Appert.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: June 28, 2021 08:44AM
Pick a rink 10+ years old and see if it spawned any Pewee-to-NHL talent. Lynah/Cass Park did.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: June 28, 2021 11:24AM
I felt that burn from here.marty
Jim Hyla
osorojo
If you build a rink coaching and talent will follow.
If you build a rink and have considerable money left over...
... and don't hire Seth Appert.
Re: New College Hockey Program?
Posted by: CU2007 (---.rochester.res.rr.com)
Date: July 15, 2021 09:02PM
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