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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
I read that the University of Wisconsin Badgers just won the National Hockey Championship. I didn't know until reading the article that the Badgers head coach is former NHL player & Badger Alum Mike Eaves. Eaves was my gym class student teacher when I was in elementary school. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: john/z28jd
Interesting fact David but i already knew that because he mentioned it in the post game press conference.He also mentioned you have a dog named Henry who he couldnt have won without |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: JimB
I don't care at all about hockey (being from Southern California originally), but I did go to grad school at Wisconsin. Go Badgers! |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Julie Vognar
EITHER: |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
You know it's true, because I would have made up a better story than that. If I had said Bobby Orr was the school nurse .... |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Bill Kasel
Being a UW Alumn (95') and still living in Madison it has been very exciting to see both hockey teams win national championships in the same year (men's and women's). It's too dang bad the basketball team tanked. Oh, and thanks to Prop48 we no longer have a baseball team, but do have fencing......whoopdee freaking doo about fencing. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: gregor197
Actually, the University of Wisconsin no longer has fencing either. (See http://www.uwbadgers.com for a list of all Badger intercollegiate sports teams). |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
I beleive the athletic deparment was required to have the same number of women's sports as men's. The UW could have kept baseball if they added a women's sport, but they chose to retire baseball. So retiring baseball was the athletic department's choice not a requirment of Title IX. Interestingly the UW's baseball program was decent. It's not as if it was a perenial loser. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Mike
This is not sports related, but a celeb connection from my youth. When I was 5-6 yrs old I got a harmonica played for me while in Stevie Wonder's bedroom! |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
Title IX requires an equivalent number of male and female athletes, so schools with football teams are already under the gun to make up the 60-80+ players on a football squad. Lots of field hockey and softball teams to get up to that range. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
My opinion is that requiring the same number of men's and women's athletes is more than reasonable, especially considering more women then men attend college (it could be argued there should be more women athletes). While I like sports and root for my favorite college team, I look at colleges as colleges not pro sports farm systems. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Bob
Any year that the Gophers don't win the NCAA championship in hockey is a bad year. As a native Minnesotan, the Badgers winning it makes things even worse |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: jay behrens
sadly, NoDak (7)and Wisc (6) have more hockey titles than MN (5). The thing I find most annoying though is the NCAA ruling that NoDak could no longer host tournement games as long as they remained the Sioux. They jumped thru the same hoops that Florida State did, yet got a different ruling. Tells what the NCAA is really all about. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Bob
But never forget how many of the golden boys from the Miracle on Ice team were Gophers! |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Bill Kasel
Sorry to hear that Bob! I'm born & raised in the Twin Cities for 18 years before heading to Cheeseland. At this point I've still lived more than half my life a Gopher fan, the other 14 years, and till the day I die I bleed Cardinal. I will still cheer for the Ground Squirrels when they aren't playing UW, or have an impact on our standings. Still love the Twins & Vikings though! |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
Top college hockey is comprised of unique variety of teams. Includes big 'football schools' like Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan State; Ivy League schools including Harvard, Brown and Yale; and more obscure schools like Michigan Tech, Lake Superior State and St. Cloud State. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: steve f
Wisconsin ehh. What is a badger anywaze, like a groundhog, a cheese eater? We ain't got them here, but we got this rare mean, wild cat/wolf critter that is called a fisher. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
Badgers and Wolverines (U of Michigan) are related to weasels. The Badger is dangerous (sharp claws), but the wolverine is the biggest and fiercest of the group. Wolverines have been known to kill and eat moose, and amongst local woodmen and farmers they have a famously infamous reputation. If you ever learn about wolverines, you will see that they are like devils on earth. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Joe Jones
I agree with that David! M go Blue! |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: gregor197
Jay Wrote: |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Joe Jones
Central Michigan is actually the Chippewas. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: Bob
Linking Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin as the big hockey schools is like describing Purdue, Illinois and Indiana as the big football schools. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: davidcycleback
Michigan won 7 nation championships, Michigan State won two and was twice runner up. |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: gregor197
"Linking Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin as the big hockey schools is like describing Purdue, Illinois and Indiana as the big football schools." |
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OT: My connection to the 2006 NCAA Hockey Championship
Posted By: jay behrens
6 of 7 Michigans titles were in the first ten years of the tournement. They haven't been much of a power lately, winning just one title. |
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