Went to the world juniors thing today. Mooney stood out. He’s such a threat on the PP it’s ridiculous. Not exactly breaking news around here but we got ourselves a gem in LJ.
Went to the world juniors thing today. Mooney stood out. He’s such a threat on the PP it’s ridiculous. Not exactly breaking news around here but we got ourselves a gem in LJ.
But he is not from Canada... 😉
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but we got ourselves a gem in LJ.
Yeah he's cool and all but did you hear about the Mariucci ceiling falling because recruiting has completely collapsed? lol
Roster seems pretty settled at this point, probably looking at something like this?
Brodie Ziemer-Jimmy Clark-Brody Lamb
Tanner Ludtke-Erik Pahlsson-LJ Mooney
Teddy Townsend-Beckett Hendrickson-Mason Moe
Javon Moore-John Mittelstadt-Tate Pritchard
Ex. August Falloon, Graham Harris
Cal Thomas-Leo Gruba
Jacob Rombach-Luke Mittelstadt
John Whipple-Finn McLaughlin
Ex. Axel Begley, Max Rud
Nathan Airey/Luca Di Pasquo
Zach Wiese
No one objects to the fact the university needs to increase revenues, but placing this specific increase on the backs of students who already arguably over-charged is ridiculous. And it doesn't matter that no one supposedly "bats an eye" at other exorbitant fees - both can be wrong at the same time.
On the backs of students? Come on the rhetoric around this is beyond ridiculous.
I would be willing to bet that 99.9% of the students have zero idea what fees they are paying. I would bet the majority of their parents don't either. There are much worse fees on the bill and this is a drop in the bucket to the real things being put "on the backs of the students" and outside of the yearly article in the Daily no one even bats an eye at them.
As I said elsewhere...if the U wasn't forced to disclose this publicly not one person would have noticed because when you have a 38K+ yearly bill this barely counts as a rounding error. Hell lets go back to before tuition got nuts. When I was at the U it was like 6-8k a semester. (or worse QUARTER!) Even then its a .0125% increase per semester and hardly noticeable unless you specifically look for it. (even when I looked at my bills I couldnt have told you what the fees were nor did I really care like most students) Now run the numbers for tuition now...
People are acting like students have to go to the ATM and take out $200 bucks and walk to the registrar and pay it out of pocket after they already paid their bill. No, it is just another line item on a long, way overpriced bill that most people never even look at. I mean if your bill in September goes from $13,100 (right around the cheapest in state no housing tuition before books and such) to $13,200 ($100 per semester) you telling me you are going to be outraged if no one told you it happened? (hell come October none of them will even remember) Yeah right. This is just people looking for reasons to be upset. Hell $200 bucks wouldn't cover the cost of a semesters used books.
I get what you are saying, but this is like saying because my water bill went up $3 a year (roughly the same percentage) that the City of Crystal is putting their projects on my back.
TO BE CLEAR:
The price to go to the University is stupid and I think adding more to it is moronic but an athletic fee doesn't even rank when compared to how dumb housing costs are, books, tuition, food, tickets and probably half the fees being charged are. The U is hardly the worst when it comes to this but they are making it harder and harder for in state people (not to mention out of state) to justify going there. I mean a basic college education should not put you six figures in debt and that is what the U will do if you dont live with your parents for 4 years. That is beyond stupid.
And college sports in general is just ridiculous and looking to kill itself with the money being thrown around and the rules in place. The fans are expected to buy tickets (with licenses) and merch, donate to NIL collectives, give to scholarship funds and so on. This makes the sport professional which means you have fans wanting the Athletic Department to contract so that more resources can be funneled to the Rev Sports...which basically screws hundreds of student athletes out of scholarships and opportunities. I would personally rather a fee go to that to keep them alive than adding to the facilities fee but that is not where we are anymore. And we as hockey fans are going to see how bad this gets, because the sport is too expensive and only a handful of teams can afford to keep it on the books.
I don't think anyone is in disagreement that the U costs too much. The point was made that costs are too high and this is just another addition, granted, not large percentage-wise. You list costs for housing, food, books, tuition as all going up. Those are essential things for every student. What I think is upsetting to a lot of people is that this is a fee for something to benefit a group of students (athletes) that in many cases are already receiving privileges that the rest of the student body don't. And many of the students being asked to pay this fee are not even attending any sporting events. It's not that $200 is exorbitant. Would it be ok to charge a $200 fee of all undergrads to supplement the Law School program, because it is a tiny percentage of what they already pay? (Now if the $200 per student went specifically to buying blue-ribbon hockey recruits only, I'd be all for that. Make it $300!)
Roster seems pretty settled at this point, probably looking at something like this?
Brodie Ziemer-Jimmy Clark-Brody Lamb
Tanner Ludtke-Erik Pahlsson-LJ Mooney
Teddy Townsend-Beckett Hendrickson-Mason Moe
Javon Moore-John Mittelstadt-Tate Pritchard
Ex. August Falloon, Graham Harris
Cal Thomas-Leo Gruba
Jacob Rombach-Luke Mittelstadt
John Whipple-Finn McLaughlin
Ex. Axel Begley, Max Rud
Nathan Airey/Luca Di Pasquo
Zach Wiese
Man, every time I see someone post potential new lineups I keep getting reminded of how much turnover we had. All good though! It’ll be exciting to watch the new guys and how blend with the guys who stuck around. I’ve said it before but, with all due respect to the guys that left, maybe a bit of a fresh start isn’t the worst thing for this team to go through. Also, and I have no idea how this affected the team last year, but hopefully we don’t have another six letters on sweaters this year. Three, four absolute max, is really all you need.
I may get flamed for saying this but I wouldn't mind seeing some growing pains at the beginning of the season and then seeing improvement as the season goes along. Peak later in the season and hopefully keep the injury bug at bay.
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I'm still wondering if Bob will add 1 more player to make it 26 or will Matt Bryant come back as the 26th player and 4th goalie.
I was recently informed by a GPLer that I'm related to Airey
I may get flamed for saying this but I wouldn't mind seeing some growing pains at the beginning of the season and then seeing improvement as the season goes along. Peak later in the season and hopefully keep the injury bug at bay.
As much as growing pains can sometimes be difficult to watch in the moment, I’d rather have that than what we had last season. Started off like gangbusters and then just fizzled out at the end of the year was just so frustrating to watch.
Roster seems pretty settled at this point, probably looking at something like this?
Brodie Ziemer-Jimmy Clark-Brody Lamb
Tanner Ludtke-Erik Pahlsson-LJ Mooney
Teddy Townsend-Beckett Hendrickson-Mason Moe
Javon Moore-John Mittelstadt-Tate Pritchard
Ex. August Falloon, Graham Harris
Cal Thomas-Leo Gruba
Jacob Rombach-Luke Mittelstadt
John Whipple-Finn McLaughlin
Ex. Axel Begley, Max Rud
Nathan Airey/Luca Di Pasquo
Zach Wiese
I think you’re more likely to see Ludtke at center than Hendrickson. He played there exclusively in the USHL and in high school. Moved to the wing because Omaha had 25 year old veteran centers that won draws on command and they weren’t gonna play him bottom 6.
Also Moe is an option at center too, if they think he can handle it as a frosh.