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LGR!

edit:  Hmm...  perhaps not.  Still hoping to...

did anyone ask where the seats are located?

Other than the 90's decade, the ECAC has always been a strong competitor in the Frozen Four; in fact, an ECAC team was a national champion or runner up in a good portion of those years.

I just don't see how an honorary "first-round" showing in the NCAA Regionals is beneficial to college hockey.  If one argues that a 15th- or 16th-seed team has no business in the tourney, are you really doing anyone a favor by allowing two other random teams in?  Have any of these teams ever made it past the first round?

Regardless -- if the issue is "let's make NCAA hockey more popular," you need to broadcast it on national television.  Period.  No amount of expansion of college hockey teams is going to make it popular.  Kids grow up watching basketball or football, with the dream of being on TV someday.  Media has a huge influence on the success or failure of sports.  You argue that CHA/AH teams need something to shoot for, but even more fundamentally, the future college hockey stars who are now in elementary school need something to shoot for as well.

With the NHL on break this year and all these new college sports channels sprouting up, there is no reason for the poor media coverage.  Last weekend's games should all have been on pseudo-major channels such as CSTV / ESPN-U, you name it.  The Regionals should be even more televised, on ESPN or another major network.  Come on, Miss America can make it on a national network, but nothing short of the Frozen Four can?  (And the FF still is only on ESPN, not a "standard" network.)

[Q]KeithK Wrote:
Part of the appeal of a 16 team tournament is that you don't have byes. The point of the auto-bids is to give every team in D1 something to play for in terms of the national scene. The road is already hard enough for the AH/CHA teams - why make it harder? ... If you can't get into the top 14 you don't deserve to play for the national championship.[/q]

A #15 or #16 seed doesn't deserve to play for a national championship, but if you're in the bottom 30, just because you won your tournament, you DO???  My little league baseball team won our tournament once.  Why didn't we get to play U.Texas in the College World Series?

According to the KRACH ratings, Mercyhurst has a 1-in-40 chance of beating BC.  Do you honestly think a nationally televised clobbering in NCAA Tournament action is good for the sport?

Allowing AH/CHA teams to participate in NCAA Regionals isn't fooling ANYONE into thinking that these teams can be a contender for a national championship.  You mention that the appeal of a 16-team tourney is so that you don't have byes.  For all intents and purposes, BC and Denver both have byes this year.  At least a #15 or #16 team like Vermont/Dartmouth could shake things up a bit.

If you want national attention for college hockey, focus on broadcasting more regular-season and post-season games.  There is no reason that one should have to search far and wide to be able to see a live broadcast of a Top-5 college hockey team, let alone a lesser team or conference like AH/CHA.

add 8 more rowdy kids to the tally...

4 from Beantown
4 from NYC

Go RED

3-2.  topher scott, 12:00
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i just logged in...  wtf is with this xmi guy announcing his bathroom necessities?

ah.  good point.  that seemed to have slipped my mind (as well as those of the couple people i had traveled with throughout the postseason).

for some reason, we assumed it was in reference to mcrae's absolutely ridiculous shot in D-OT vs. BC (hence we couldn't figure out the parallel to harvard)...   i suppose a goal as amazing as that tends to overshadow the novelty/importance of the GTG in albany...

i guess i have had a tendency to get offensive (defensive?  uppity?  i dunno what the word is)...  now that my beloved old-B-sectioners are gone and we have a new breed, where not only does no one understand anything about our history or opponents (apparently the "stickless" chant was more exciting/meaningful that the "sieve-hyphen-sieve"), but 1/2 the people don't even know the rules of the game ("why did the ref blow his whistle?"  "for the same reason he did the last 35 times there's been an offsides")...

in any case, i stand corrected  :-P



Post Edited (12-07-03 03:11)

what was up with the sign i saw in section A, which said something along the lines of "Hey Harvard, remember McRae?"   ::twitch:: ::rolleyes::

i don't get it...  perhaps a Paolini sign may have been more appropriate.   ::screwy::

QuoteErica wrote:
Bottom line is they had seven chances to win four games. They didn't and the better team won.

in this case, "better" is defined as having 1 1/2 times the payroll?  ::rolleyes::

QuoteCUlater '89 wrote:

Our ticket allotment was sold to season ticket holders only, generally those located in Ithaca, which is about 6 hours closer to Buffalo than UNH's fanbase.  You may be driving 8 hours, but you're not a student (potentially with limited time or financial resources) at UNH.  Just because UNH might not have sold out its allotment of tickets doesn't mean UNH won't be well-represented in the stands.  Their fans tend to travel en masse.

true -- however, we were allotted somewhere on the order of 100 tickets, after hockey families and all the "big guys" got their hands on theirs.  i would assume this is the same for the other four teams.

that said, i would argue that in providence (a 6-hour trek) we were represented by at LEAST 100 student fans (not including the family and boston-area alums), and would have MANY MORE if the frozen four (instead of "only" regionals) were to be held there.

my point being i'd have to agree with John B -- yes, 2-3 hours is a lot less than 8 hours, but as unh is a school with a fanbase purportedly similar to ours, i'm surprised that they weren't able to sell their allotment of tickets.  i know we would have, even given their driving situation.

Not sure if this was brought up recently...  But we've got another chance to grab the Championship Belt, this Thursday!!!  Would it be greedy of me to hope to keep it for the entire offseason?  ::rolleyes::

nor have they lost a non-conference game with Lenny...  :-}

LGR

whoops, apparently you're only allowed to vote once in the entire phase.  so if you haven't yet, make sure you do...

new day, new vote.  make sure he stays up there!