There's not many midwest and west locations where that kind of scene can be avoided. Saint Paul is probably the only place that can draw a big crowd no matter which teams make it.Green Bay needs to be crossed off the list of tourney venues. Those were some embarrassing optics for college hockey...place was practically empty.
Yeah, I have no idea what the site selection committee was thinking when they awarded that regional. And with a Ferris State-Cornell matchup in the final, I suspect it'll be even worse today. If you're going to put a regional in Wisconsin, it should be Milwaukee or bust. That won't necessarily solve the issue Domer cites, but it's a far more central location and travel hub that's a pretty short drive from the 3rd-largest city in the country. Plus there's so much more for attendees to do in Milwaukee. In Green Bay, you've got the Packer HOF and that's about it. It also offers very little in the way of drinking and dining options.Green Bay needs to be crossed off the list of tourney venues. Those were some embarrassing optics for college hockey...place was practically empty.
Aside from tiny enrollment, hockey is our only D-1 sport so there's not a huge culture of widespread, rabid support for athletics at Union. The strength of the program is pretty new too; they were nowhere near this good three years ago when I graduated. We did have a pretty good showing at Fenway compared to Harvard's fanbase which appeared to be families only.In fairness, I doubt the crowd in Bridgeport will be all that impressive either. Union and UMass-Lowell have undergrad enrollments of 2,194 and 11,276. Even relative proximity to both campuses (~155 miles for each) isn't going to help much.
I'm all for seeing such small schools advance, as even a top seed like Union has that "underdog" factor. But what sucks most about having them in the regional finals is it validates ESPN's decision to relegate nearly every game of the tournament (save the Frozen Four) to ESPNU or ESPN3.
Yup. Brain fart on my end for omitting it.Madison would work just as well as Milwaukee IMO. They hosted the Frozen Four in 2006 IIRC.
In a related note, scallops look really fucking tasty on ESPN3.Stupid lacrosse game. Link to ESPN3: http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/415450/
#1 v. #2Oh fuck me, BC and Air Force are gonna get delayed by a goddamn lacrosse match.
Interestingly, Bill Riley was also the head coach of then D-II U-Lowell (now UML). He was the head coach of their D-II national championship teams, through their rise to D-1 and entry into Hockey East. He was the head coach there for 22 years. He was considered a very good referee and was quite a character at around five feet nothing and tough as nails.However it happened, it took about 10 minutes before order was restored, and then game officials Dino Paniccia and Frank Kelley headed into the referees’ dressing room to meet with the officials from the other semifinal, Medo Martinello and Bill Riley, Harvard coach Bill Cleary, former Boston College coach Snooks Kelley, WCHA head of officials Bob Gilray, NCAA ice hockey committee chair Burt Smith, the NCAA’s Dennis Poppe and both coaches.
He's absolutely lethal with the fake shot. Fools guys all the time with that. Sadly he's probably gone after this year to CAR I believe.I remember going out of my way to see Brian Dumoulin play when he was a sophomore for Biddeford High School. He was totally dominant then - a defenseman who was impossible to get around, never lost a one-on-one battle, and could dangle to boot. I see he's still pretty good.
Oh my was that an awful call to kill Air Force's chances.
Killing off a 5-minute Big Red power play in the 3rd period had a lot to do with it.Ferris St holds on vs Cornell
It's about a ten hour drive for me. My mother lives not that far away from Tampa. I could drive down and stay with my mother and have a ridiculously cheap trip.Start looking for flights from Logan to Tampa...
No because I was at the game. But I did hear during the Air Force game someone asking if Barry Almeida was winking at a teammate or if he had something in his eye.Did anyone else catch Parker Milner being called "Patrick" in the postgame interview?