I didn't notice this mentioned yet, but there was a question that came up during this past week's Tuesday at the Rink with Michigan's head coach Red Berenson, that was mentioned a while ago when discussing schedules for upcoming seasons.
Bruce (Portland ME): As a Michigan alum and hockey fan who can't easily get back to Ann Arbor, I'd love to see Michigan schedule some out-of-conference games in the East. Any chance of that happening in future seasons?
Coach Berenson: Yes. We don't choose to play a lot of non-conference games away from Yost for financial reasons. But when the right situation arises, we travel. We did play in New Hampshire last spring.
http://www.collegesports.com/chat/030205aaa.html
Here's the original thread where Berenson's commitment to travel came up:
http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,44488,44927
The game in NH was a tournament game. I think Red was saying that a fan in Maine could have gone to see UM at the regional, not trying to pretend that that was the same as scheduling a non-conf game back east.
I have to mention that i asked a more pointed question regarding his lack of scheduling eastern teams in their barns ... the question was subsequently ignored, go figure. who would have thunk he liked softball. Red Berenson is a pansy and a disgrace to Michigan hockey.
Screw BLUE!::flipc::
I think Red was trying to make a joke with the NH comment.
At least he was honest about what they do, I guess. It'd be nice if it wasn't like this, though.
Along the same lines, the last time we played a WCHA team in the RS was like 6 years ago. That just sucks for making this a national sport.
[Q]CrazyLarry Wrote:
Along the same lines, the last time we played a WCHA team in the RS was like 6 years ago. That just sucks for making this a national sport.[/q]
That haves keep playing the other haves. The sorta-haves (like us) get a few scraps here and there. And the have-nots are plum out of luck mostly. At least we can regularly get CCHA teams on our schedule, thanks to Schafer's connections I suppose.
[Q]Will Wrote:
[Q2]CrazyLarry Wrote:
Along the same lines, the last time we played a WCHA team in the RS was like 6 years ago. That just sucks for making this a national sport.[/Q]
That haves keep playing the other haves. The sorta-haves (like us) get a few scraps here and there. And the have-nots are plum out of luck mostly. At least we can regularly get CCHA teams on our schedule, thanks to Schafer's connections I suppose.[/q]
Seems to me North Dakota went to Yale and Princeton a couple of years ago.
[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:
[Q2]Will Wrote:
[Q2]CrazyLarry Wrote:
Along the same lines, the last time we played a WCHA team in the RS was like 6 years ago. That just sucks for making this a national sport.[/Q]
That haves keep playing the other haves. The sorta-haves (like us) get a few scraps here and there. And the have-nots are plum out of luck mostly. At least we can regularly get CCHA teams on our schedule, thanks to Schafer's connections I suppose.[/Q]
Seems to me North Dakota went to Yale and Princeton a couple of years ago.[/q]
Yup. I was at that NoDak-yale game.
Jeez, Ben. Tell us how ya really feel. :-P
Actually, I don't think Berenson was making a joke. He really was trying to say that Michigan's trip to NH for the NC$$ constituted "choosing to travel east." At least he owned up to it being about the revenues they get from playing at home.
[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:
Jeez, Ben. Tell us how ya really feel.
Actually, I don't think Berenson was making a joke. He really was trying to say that Michigan's trip to NH for the NC$$ constituted "choosing to travel east." At least he owned up to it being about the revenues they get from playing at home.
[/q][Post removed because I changed my mind. Red was joking.]
Having "dual citizenship," I can understand Red's point. At a school that fields a lot of scholarship-awarding sports - most of which are not revenue - finances are an obvious issue, even at a place like Michigan that is able to rely on the bankroll from the Big House. It's not good for college hockey, but so it goes. I don't know how the gate is divided in college hockey - if at all - but this might be a factor as well. A game at Lynah is just not going to generate the revenue that a game at someplace like Agganis would. Anybody more familiar with the finances, pls. chime in.