NCAA Tournament 2024

chimpfood · March 31, 2024, 09:04:40 PM

I'm not sure that was worse than the Walsh call, much easier to call it when a stick breaks.

ugarte · March 31, 2024, 09:11:53 PM

Quote from: chimpfoodI'm not sure that was worse than the Walsh call, much easier to call it when a stick breaks.

yeah the stick broke but he was also playing the puck! it was right under the stick.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · March 31, 2024, 09:21:56 PM

Quote from: ERGreat game but the piped on music is awful. Are we at a baseball stadium? Michigan has the best band. Where are they?

Springfield was just as bad. Someone needs to tell these AHL rinks that we want to hear the band(s), not their piped in noise.

dbilmes · March 31, 2024, 09:25:07 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: ERGreat game but the piped on music is awful. Are we at a baseball stadium? Michigan has the best band. Where are they?

Springfield was just as bad. Someone needs to tell these AHL rinks that we want to hear the band(s), not their piped in noise.

It was terrible at Springfield, especially when Maine played Cornell and both teams had their pep bands there. Part of what is supposed to make the NCAA tournament special is the atmosphere, and pep bands are a big part of creating that atmosphere. They kept playing canned crap over the PA system and hardly gave the bands a chance to play.

marty · March 31, 2024, 09:30:08 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: ERGreat game but the piped on music is awful. Are we at a baseball stadium? Michigan has the best band. Where are they?

Springfield was just as bad. Someone needs to tell these AHL rinks that we want to hear the band(s), not their piped in noise.

Tell Denver to send a band, too.

Scersk '97 · March 31, 2024, 09:31:14 PM

Quote from: dbilmes
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: ERGreat game but the piped on music is awful. Are we at a baseball stadium? Michigan has the best band. Where are they?

Springfield was just as bad. Someone needs to tell these AHL rinks that we want to hear the band(s), not their piped in noise.
It was terrible at Springfield, especially when Maine played Cornell and both teams had their pep bands there. Part of what is supposed to make the NCAA tournament special is the atmosphere, and pep bands are a big part of creating that atmosphere. They kept playing canned crap over the PA system and hardly gave the bands a chance to play.

I dashed off an email to their rink staff that made me feel better, but it may be time to start a campaign or association. I'm serious.

Iceberg · March 31, 2024, 10:01:48 PM

Very blue-blood FF this year and half the teams were in it last year with a third having made an appearance in 2022. So much for national parity

Robb · March 31, 2024, 10:04:00 PM

DU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships.

Yawn.

BearLover · March 31, 2024, 10:35:21 PM

Quote from: RobbDU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships.

Yawn.

Take a look at what's going on in the transfer portal right now and you'll see where all the parity went.

Trotsky · March 31, 2024, 11:16:09 PM

Quote from: RobbDU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships.

Yawn.

Minnesota for Denver would be bluer.

Go Pioneers. Least objectionable of the F4, with a fine Cornell history.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · April 01, 2024, 06:35:46 AM

Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: RobbDU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships.

Yawn.
Minnesota for Denver would be bluer.

Go Pioneers. Least objectionable of the F4, with a fine Cornell history.

Yep. That's where I stand, too.

arugula · April 01, 2024, 07:11:58 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: RobbDU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships.

Yawn.
Minnesota for Denver would be bluer.

Go Pioneers. Least objectionable of the F4, with a fine Cornell history.

Yep. That's where I stand, too.

Perplexed by the objection to BC? Can you explain. I hate DU.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · April 01, 2024, 07:53:29 AM

They always had a "Holier than thou" attitude about not recruiting players from Canada.

Trotsky · April 01, 2024, 08:25:54 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82They always had a "Holier than thou" attitude about not recruiting players from Canada.

Why qualify it? Their sanctimony is universal.

arugula · April 01, 2024, 08:51:30 AM

It is? I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. As to not recruiting in Canada, if you have New England, why bother? I don't see that as sanctimony I see it as realpolitik.

I'm more regionally biased. I pretty much hate all the western schools and BU and of course our league rivals.