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Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
Originally posted by davyd83 View PostThey're baaaaaack
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Originally posted by boot_walt_kyle View PostOf Course I am back! This is my time to shine! The rest of the NMU fans are finally understanding that Walt Kyle is a Joe Schmoe coach who can't take NMU to the glory land! People are fed up with NMU's apathetic attitude and are rising up and demanding changes. I am here to once again take up the reigns and lead the movement that was started so many years ago!!! NMU - Where the M stands for MediocrityGo Cats!
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
As if right on cue, BWK is here to tilt windmills thinking that changing the coach will suddenly make this team as awesome and amazing as the University of North Dakota or Boston College.
If the struggles of the football program, basketball programs (plural), volleyball program, and other middling sports at NMU for the better part of twenty years hasn't made the point obvious, nothing will. Changing the coach of the hockey program won't change the attitude of the University towards athletics as a whole.
I understand money is tight for the University and wildly throwing additional money at these programs isn't the best course of action. But there needs to be firm direction given by the University regarding the athletics as a whole. Either keep the status quo, don't ask why when long time donors stop giving, and continue to operate sports as just something we offer just like the other schools in our "like minded" GLIAC conference, or show some balls and commit to running a Division 1 hockey program and figure out how to best run the athletic department.“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”
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Originally posted by noremorse1 View PostI thought it is where N stands for kNOWLEDGE?“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
Seems this "journalistic" piece has brought a bunch of the older posters back to USCHO. All we're missing is MOJO with some smarmy rah-rah-pro-MTU-things-sure-are-different-from-20-years-ago post.
“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
I can all but guarantee that, if NMU makes a change, what you get will be closer to Damon Whitten or Jamie Russell or Matt Thomas than it is to Mel Pearson, Mike Hastings or Chris Bergeron. Then again, those 3 would not likely have taken the jobs at NMU, LSSU or UAA under the same conditions that Kyle, Whitten or Thomas is stuck with.
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Originally posted by RapidsCity View PostI can all but guarantee that, if NMU makes a change, what you get will be closer to Damon Whitten or Jamie Russell or Matt Thomas than it is to Mel Pearson, Mike Hastings or Chris Bergeron. Then again, those 3 would not likely have taken the jobs at NMU, LSSU or UAA under the same conditions that Kyle, Whitten or Thomas is stuck with.
If you think letting Walt go is the answer, then so be it. But the state of the athletic department as a whole since the days of Judy Bailey has to be reworked to promote success.Last edited by NMUFAN; 01-20-2017, 04:15 AM.
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Originally posted by aparch View PostSeems this "journalistic" piece has brought a bunch of the older posters back to USCHO. All we're missing is MOJO with some smarmy rah-rah-pro-MTU-things-sure-are-different-from-20-years-ago post.
Maybe NMU should pursue Tech's athletic director and see if she can turn things around at NMU...
As for changing coaches at NMU. One thing is clear, this community wants change and they aren't coming back until it happens. Don't shoot the messenger...
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Originally posted by RapidsCity View PostYou could dress Alabama-Huntsville up in Michigan sweaters and the only difference most of the fans would notice is that Red's not behind the bench. You would have a huge crowd, many wearing the colors of the visiting team."The top three worst things I've seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform."
—Brett Hull
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Originally posted by eye4talent View PostIf that's the case, you have some clueless hockey fans in Marquette. Apathy has set in. Time for a change."The use of common sense and logic will not be tolerated and may result in fine and/or suspension."- Western Professional Hockey League By-laws. 1999-2000.
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Some interesting stats for you regarding the success of the NMU program in comparison with Tech, since MOJO brought up the idea with the AD suggestion.
Since the NMU program began play in the 1976-77 season, the Wildcats have finished with more overall wins (i.e. not head-to-head) than the Huskies in 28 of the 40 seasons played. The high water mark was unsurprisingly 1990-91 when NMU finished with 38 wins...25 more than MTU's 13 that season. From 1996-97 to 2013-14, Northern finished with more wins in all but one season (that one was in 2006-7). The two teams had an equal 19 wins in the first season of 1976-77, and only once have they both achieved 20 wins in the same season (1980-81).
In the previous two seasons to the current one, Tech has posted 23 more wins than NMU (15 more in 2014-15, 8 more in 2015-16) in the most successful 2 years ever for the Huskies in that regard. Tech had more wins in each season from 1980-81 to 1983-84, but that combined total was only 16 wins. The only other time the Huskies posted more wins than the Wildcats in back to back seasons was 1994-95 and 1995-96.
So in a nutshell - if the success of NMU hockey is measured by how well they stack up against their biggest rival, this is fast approaching the low water mark...if it isn't already there. But if that's the only criteria, I think your priorities may need some adjustment.
Maybe the better question would be WHY is this happening.
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
Originally posted by John J. MacInnes View PostSome interesting stats for you regarding the success of the NMU program in comparison with Tech, since MOJO brought up the idea with the AD suggestion.
Since the NMU program began play in the 1976-77 season, the Wildcats have finished with more overall wins (i.e. not head-to-head) than the Huskies in 28 of the 40 seasons played. The high water mark was unsurprisingly 1990-91 when NMU finished with 38 wins...25 more than MTU's 13 that season. From 1996-97 to 2013-14, Northern finished with more wins in all but one season (that one was in 2006-7). The two teams had an equal 19 wins in the first season of 1976-77, and only once have they both achieved 20 wins in the same season (1980-81).
In the previous two seasons to the current one, Tech has posted 23 more wins than NMU (15 more in 2014-15, 8 more in 2015-16) in the most successful 2 years ever for the Huskies in that regard. Tech had more wins in each season from 1980-81 to 1983-84, but that combined total was only 16 wins. The only other time the Huskies posted more wins than the Wildcats in back to back seasons was 1994-95 and 1995-96.
So in a nutshell - if the success of NMU hockey is measured by how well they stack up against their biggest rival, this is fast approaching the low water mark...if it isn't already there. But if that's the only criteria, I think your priorities may need some adjustment.
Maybe the better question would be WHY is this happening.
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Re: Northern Michigan University Wildcats 2016-17 Season Thread: Gotta Get Up And Try
Originally posted by RapidsCity View PostI can all but guarantee that, if NMU makes a change, what you get will be closer to Damon Whitten or Jamie Russell or Matt Thomas than it is to Mel Pearson, Mike Hastings or Chris Bergeron. Then again, those 3 would not likely have taken the jobs at NMU, LSSU or UAA under the same conditions that Kyle, Whitten or Thomas is stuck with.
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