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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.

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.

We are officially scheduled for next Wednesday at 9:30pm!

https://gopherpucklive.com/podcast/

https://youtube.com/live/yfPTzHxr4lc

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We are officially scheduled for next Wednesday at 9:30pm!

 

https://gopherpucklive.com/podcast/

https://youtube.com/live/yfPTzHxr4lc

Updated link, they boys are live now:  

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.

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!

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.

Another great podcast and I always like having former players on hearing about their experiences in the program and what they are up to.  I have checked out Carman's podcast with Ben Holden and enjoyed it.  I look forward to that having some more episodes to get some more different experiences of life after sports. 

I still always love to hear stories about that Kato series.  I was there for the Carman goal and it was awesome to walk out that night with a win!  I remember the Tom Pohl injury in the Sunday game, it did change the mood in the building that night for sure.  I was at the Mankato youth hockey stag that following week and Troy Jutting was there as a speaker.  He was very somber when talking about Pohl's injury and how he went over to Rochester to meet with the Pohl family.  Jutting was very concerned for Tom Pohl but also his player that injured Tom who was having to deal with a lot of regret and undue outside criticism from Gopher fans.

I look forward to this week with Angell and Leo!

Angell and Leo for pre-Thanksgiving OT should be epic.

Bump:   Reminder that it's Leo and Angell on as guests tonight

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Bump:   Reminder that it's Leo and Angell on as guests tonight

Should be a good one. Just got back from the local bar and the annual Pre Thanksgiving outing. 

Certainly great while it lasted, but @jupiter cut the festivities short

I was just settling in with another beer. Rats. 😊 

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I was just settling in with another beer. Rats. 😊 

It was after midnight and Leo was gonna fall asleeep soon. Same with Angell.

EPIC and I mean EPIC overtime!

Two words: Erik Westrum

Agreed on the Epic part... just... yaknow.. could've been more epic   😉 

Definitely a great night, and definitely need to get Westrum on, by the sound of it.

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Agreed on the Epic part... just... yaknow.. could've been more epic   😉 

Totally get it... But all good things must come to an end.

Awesome podcast last night! Great to have both Leo and Nick on the pod.  Not to dogpile on Jup but the only person I know that drinks Fox Run is my sister in law who makes us mule a case down to Iowa a couple times a year.  Ha ha!!

@jupiter how’s the head this morning?! 
great show, thanks for getting those guys on! 

A great night indeed!

I feel like my free access and viewing pleasure wasn't totally fulfilled.

While being slightly disappointed it ended when it did at the time, I am thankful for Jup doing it. The first hour or two of today went much smoother because of it. 😃 

Finally got around to watching the Leo and Angell episode and the storytelling was easily the best part. Would be fun to see 2 teammates from the 70’s or 80’s or whatever era come on and do the same.

Loved the story about Woog yelling to Hank get on the ice, referring to Casey Hankinson but Casey  graduated from college the year prior 😂

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Loved the story about Woog yelling to Hank get on the ice, referring to Casey Hankinson but Casey  graduated from college the year prior 😂

yes this made me laugh out loud 

Absolutely fantastic overtime session last podcast.  Leo is hysterical.  He and Angell going back and forth with Craig Flor was priceless.  Truly one for the ages.  Excellent work as always.  

Spotify alerted me that I really like Hockey Podcasts with GPL rounding out the top 5.

Tip of the hat to @eric-vegoe to mention that he worked under former Iowa Hawkeye writer Marc Morehouse.  His coverage for the Cedar Rapids Gazette outdid most articles by writers from the Des Moines Register on Iowa Athletics post Marc Hansen.  I grew up with the Register at our doorstep in North Central Iowa so I didn't discover MM until the internet made his writing accessible. 

Following MM on Twitterville was different after his retirement...much different focus!  It seems he deleted his X account recently.