Brandon Naurato vs OSU Frozen Fours
I looked up the history of the Frozen Four, including all-time numbers for every team that has went.
As many of you know, Michigan leads all-time with 28 appearances and tied (currently) for national titles at 9.
OSU has been to 2 FFs in the history of their program. So, Brandon Naurato has coached Michigan to as many FFs in one ~1 calendar year as OSU has since 1963. Naurato also has a FF as a player.
Tl;dr - Naurato 3, OSU 2
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To hell with Notre Dame.
Another win over the Buckeyes!
To be fair, hockey is required to be played in cold "weather," so an excuse is kind of built-in.
Do you know that Yost is so cold there's actually a bunch of ice inside?
I do think they need to put a roof over the shoe - sort of like a lid. That way - everything can be "just right"... and, it would really be an ideal setting for that squad.
they're going to need a very large fan to air out the shoe, like, 10,000 hovercrafts and large helicopter fans.
Currently it's like a toilet bowl at a nasty truck stop bathroom, it should have a lid!
Yost might be cold enough for ice to be kept cold enough to play hockey, but that drafty barn the team played in before Yost allowed ice to form on the spectators and drifts to form under the bleachers.
I have not seen flurries inside Yost however
Interesting tidbit, but it seems a bit little brotherish.
A "little brotherish" tidbit would have included a reference to either Walmart or the super-duper-mean TUNNEL. Instead, this post seems more akin to getting #PumpItUpped over Michigan jerseys selling like hotcakes.
Either way, screw them. They're entitled, whiny, Just For Men customers that prefer coolers for pooping.
Remarked on this last week in some bball thread. Outside football, OSU is just another B1G school. OSU hockey in particular does not have my attention.
The rivalry is also extremely mild in hockey. Like it’s still OSU and fuck those guys, but MSU and Minnesota are bigger rivalries and you could make an argument for ND as well. From a strictly hockey standpoint, they’re just another team on the schedule.
In the famous 1998 regional the Yost crowd was heavy for OSU against top seeded Michigan State.
It is interesting that in both of OSU's Frozen Fours, we also made the Frozen Four, winning it in 98...
ND definitely is after the last few years. Those 4 homes games at Yost against them this season were chippy as hell.
I absolutely hate their gold helmets.
Big brotherish, honestly. It’s punching down; OSU isn’t totally irrelevant in hockey, but Michigan is one of the top two programs in college hockey history and OSU just fields an ok program that occasionally has good seasons. Michigan coaches had *better* make more Frozen Fours than their program.
This would be like OSU taunting Bowling Green’s football program. Of course they’re better.
This would be like OSU taunting Bowling Green’s football program. Of course they’re better.
The hilarious thing about your example is that even BG has a better hockey program than OSU. In fewer seasons, BG has more wins, a higher winning percentage, way more regular season and tournament championships (up until the formation of the B1G hockey conference a decade ago, in the same conference (CCHA) as OSU), the same number of NCAA tournament appearances, the same number of Frozen Fours, and a national championship (OSU lost both of their Frozen Four semis).
I hear what you are saying, but the delta to me is incredible. I saw the stat and it made me happy. My interest in it probably is indicative of how shallow of a human I am, and that's cool (shruggie).
Besides all the other stupid shit the NCAA pulls, like playing the hockey regionals in a high school gym when you coulda probably drawn capacity crowds at Midwest NHL arenas - waiting 2 weeks to play the semifinal and final is particularly fuckin dumb.
when you coulda probably drawn capacity crowds at Midwest NHL arenas
Yeah that’s just not true. Regional sites are typically 1/3 full (at best) at AHL/ECHL arenas. There’s no chance you’re getting capacity crowds at NHL arenas.
On the off chance you get situations like this year where UM/MSU are meeting in a regional final, sure the attendance would have been great at somewhere like LCA or Van Andel. But you also can’t predict that is going to happen when regional bids are granted to these arenas. What would attendance have looked like at LCA with a WMU-North Dakota matchup?
It is precisely BECAUSE attendance is so horrible that nobody bids to host regionals in the West/Midwest. The NCAA has a minimum capacity requirement of 5,000 and we just had a regional in a 2,500 capacity arena because nobody else would bid.
There’s no chance you’re getting capacity crowds at NHL arenas.
That really depends on *who* is playing and *where*. Yes, most ncaa regionals have poor turnout... but much of that is from the ncaa organizing it in almost the worst way possible. If done properly (with an eye of maximizing turnout - including with how tickets are packaged/sold), they could easily sellout out some nhl venues in most years.
Sort of, sort of not. The NCAA has made a mess of things, and that directly contributes to sustained bad regionals.
I’ve been banging the drum on this long enough: years ago, before the B1G formed for hockey, the WCHA sold out the X for the Final Five regularly. One year they had a regional at the X the week after. Minnesota and North Dakota, the two biggest WCHA draws, both played in the regional.
And the arena was only half full for the regional, despite the games being substantially more important. Because the NCAA has trained its fans that regionals aren’t worthwhile.
But again, the *who* and *where* isn’t something you can predict when the sites are chosen for the regionals. MSU wasn’t even supposed to MAKE the tournament this year, let alone earn a 1-seed. They don’t just Willy-nilly assign teams to regionals either. Seeding is earned by play on the ice. Michigan was a 3 seed because of math, not because they just decided to do it.
They’ll try to put the 1 seeds at the best geographical region and they avoid inter-conference matchups in the first round. If the “host” makes the tournament, they go to their home regional. That’s it.
But again, the *who* and *where* isn’t something you can predict when the sites are chosen for the regionals.
Again - this is on the ncaa. If they organized it primarily with an eye to making it an attractive event, rather than a "fair" event (think CFP), many of those problems go away (including the backward process of selecting regional locations). Put all regionals in popular destinations (Chicago, NYC, Boston, etc.) and people will come.
Let the #1 seed host. It ain't rocket surgery.
Or brain science.
I'm a rocket surgeon.
Rocket trauma happens more often than you would think.
The smaller schools/conferences keep voting against it. Can’t blame them honestly…
you think RIT wants a road game at Ralph Engelstad Arena with 12,000 screaming North Dakota fans or a 1/3 full ECHL arena? They’re never going to host, so their best bet for an upset is a boring neutral site game in the middle of nowhere.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the 2025 hockey regionals is slated for Toledo, hosted by Miami (NTM).
Yes, Toledo
Hosted by Bowling Green
Why Toledo doesn't host more often is weird to me.
I will be looking at buying tickets whenever they are available.
A lot of the sites just aren’t interested in hosting for the most part. There’s not much money to be made in it and the professional teams are still playing during regionals so schedules have to be accommodated for. Not much to gain for them
Isn’t a calendar year Jan 1 to Dec 31?
Yes. Burn turns into a self burn
If the numbers were reversed, it would be a small sample size and meaningless.
But as they are, the numbers are profoundly meaningful!
As Ryan Day will surely point out, Lou Holtz doesn't have any.
You know OSU women's ice hokey has been to 5 Frozen Fours?
That's because,"they're TOUGH!"
For every team that has went?