Great season finale with John King. Thanks for another great season of hockey talks throughout the season @jupiter and @eric-vegoe
A side note on the discussion during OT and Jess chimed in, "the future of college hockey is Iowa" Can we not? Yes, the infrastructure is there but the true demand for hockey or more hockey is not there in that state. The idea that either Iowa or Iowa State would elevate their club teams in the near future is just laughable. Iowa State would never do it, that athletic department is on the edge of budget shortfalls annually. Iowa just added women's wrestling so I don't see them messing with their budget for 5-10 years. With the Caitlin Clark effect just ending I see a full court press to keep women's BB going and elevating men's BB as a focus for new AD Beth Goetz. I just don't see her expanding her department into the college hockey realm anytime soon.
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Summer 2024 GPL Podcast coming on Wednesday, July 24th at 9:30pm
I am upgrading to a different streaming/broadcast service this summer and wanted to give it a full live test. So I thought we would do a summer show to test it all out. It should be on your schedule calendar if you are subscribed to it.
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B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
Yeah... I think I will be going back to our previous platform for Streaming. This one is just not doing what we need it to do.
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Yeah... I think I will be going back to our previous platform for Streaming. This one is just not doing what we need it to do.
I have already got the Streamyard account back up and running. I can see having issues during the summer when we first tried Evmux, but problems starting the stream twice in a row and it taking a very long time... I just cannot have that.
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Also... Over the ear wired headphones have been purchased. I always had issues with my old Bose wired earbuds and them staying in. Even more and issue with the Apple ones. So I bought an old school headphones that should help a ton.
I must have messed with the earbuds last night about 500 times!
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Loved the podcast as always last night with Pat the Rat. One discussion you guys had on NIL and the NCAA settlement and what the future looks like made me think about the meeting my boss was a part of since he is on the board of the Maverick Line Change Collective here in Mankato. I mentioned this meeting before but not who they met with. It was a meeting with some people from Opendorse who are do a lot with collectives to help them navigate the NIL world. My boss was telling us that the information that Opendorse gave them was like drinking water from a fire hose.
The Opendorse people said that major colleges are and have already starting hiring GM's to get ahead of this NCAA settlement case where athletic departments who opt in will need a person in that position to take care of the $22M that they will have to distribute to programs. Like Jup said in the podcast that football and basketball will be using 90% of that budget and my boss said that is what Opendorse said in their meeting.
Anyway, all that to get to my point here. I would love to see if you guys could get a rep from Opendorse on the podcast to really demystify this whole NIL and NCAA settlement and the future of NCAA athletics and how it will impact our little world of college hockey.
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Loved the podcast as always last night with Pat the Rat. One discussion you guys had on NIL and the NCAA settlement and what the future looks like made me think about the meeting my boss was a part of since he is on the board of the Maverick Line Change Collective here in Mankato. I mentioned this meeting before but not who they met with. It was a meeting with some people from Opendorse who are do a lot with collectives to help them navigate the NIL world. My boss was telling us that the information that Opendorse gave them was like drinking water from a fire hose.
The Opendorse people said that major colleges are and have already starting hiring GM's to get ahead of this NCAA settlement case where athletic departments who opt in will need a person in that position to take care of the $22M that they will have to distribute to programs. Like Jup said in the podcast that football and basketball will be using 90% of that budget and my boss said that is what Opendorse said in their meeting.
Anyway, all that to get to my point here. I would love to see if you guys could get a rep from Opendorse on the podcast to really demystify this whole NIL and NCAA settlement and the future of NCAA athletics and how it will impact our little world of college hockey.
I have met with the Opendorse folks-- they do a great job of trying to promote student-athletes and helping them build their own brands. They are creating a database of available student-athletes for businesses to engage with, and at the same time, assisting student-athletes with the tools necessary to manage and control those brands itself. Basically, they take those tools off the plate of the colleges having to provide them.
Opendorse is NIL 1.0. We are in NIL 1.5 already with collectives and GMs, and NIL 2.0 likely comes on board next July. The House class-action settlement will shift everything into a new era where colleges can be more involved in NIL directly and create salary "caps" to keep level playing fields. The impact on college hockey is really uncertain, but if the B1G starts offering 26 scholarships for both mens and women's hockey while NCHC and CCHA schools are allowed to only offer 18-- the game changes again naturally.
Then you throw CHL players into the pool and it will be whole new era of college hockey.
One thing I don't get is why the U seems to be at such a disadvantage from donors/alumni than other similar programs.
UM is not a small school - there are thousands of graduates per year. I have to imagine there are just as many high-earning graduates from Carlson, William Mitchell, the med school, engineering school as Wisconsin for instance. Not to mention how many former players have made all kinds of $$ in the NHL, as well as how many go into lucrative careers as agents, finance, investments, etc.
Minnesota per capita the last I looked was something like Top 3 in the country for Fortune 500 companies in the country. There's no lack of wealth on a per capita basis. No obviously it's not Chicago, LA, Boston, but Milwaukee/Madison? North Dakota?
I have to believe that there is a glut of serious networking going on with reaching out to alumni compared with other programs if a U of this size can't compete with NIL. Is part of the program the competition for local $$ because the U is one of the few larges schools that has to compete with 4 pro franchises?
Maybe I'm missing some obvious inhibitors that the U simply can't/won't overcome.