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gmartin wrote:I am a BGSU alum, and have spoken with former presidents of BGSU and have spoken to GC one numerous occasions. Just because I don't live on BG doesn't mean I don't know whats going on. I attend 4 home football games and about 3 away games per year. Season ticket holder for both Men's and Women's basketball and my family and I are generous donors. Dont assume if you don't live near BG then you don't know squat. Is GC perfect. Not even close but I don't think BG could do any better witj the deck he is dealing with. His positives outweigh the negatives 2 to 1

If GC somehow defies all expectations and saves hockey from the brink of permanent irrelevancy, your assessment may come true. However, the only fair assessment in the present is that he has maintained some key programs at acceptable levels and made necessary upgrades to facilities in order to maintain competitiveness. If his positives truly outweighed his negatives 2 to 1, we would be a leading MAC and college hockey program, rather than the butt of critical analysis in the Grand Forks Gazette and other losertown rags.
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Michigan Tech AD Suzanne Sanregret told Tech beat writer Stephen Anderson that Bowling Green has been given a flexible deadline to decide on the WCHA invite, perhaps another week.
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Michigan Tech AD Suzanne Sanregret told Tech beat writer Stephen Anderson that Bowling Green has been given a flexible deadline to decide on the WCHA invite, perhaps another week.
Perhaps BG is trying buy time to gather other schools (Alabama-huntsville) and the four out east to create an acceptable league to play in with two divisions within the league. If this statement is true about given more time, its tells me that they are more then likely lobbying with others teams being brought it. Which is a good thing. The WCHA could say DEADLINE IS FRIDAY - DECIDE. Nope that didn't happen, if the above is true, this tells me talks are still going on and this is a good thing. Other schools are more then likely in the discussion along with BG and the WCHA, your guess is as good as mine which schools.

Several of the teams in the CCHA were only D1 in hockey, many D1 hockey programs thats there only D1 sport. I don't see that as a negative. It's their schools big ticket, they travel and go to their games and thats a good thing.

Yes, we are in a crappy spot and we haven't been put in a great position in the past by the higher ups within the university. Seriously, be part of the solution or shut-up. Become a Falcon Club member, go to the games, buy season tickets, buy 50-50 tickets, attend fundraisers, be part of a committee to raise money for the program, sitting on a message board bitching about the AD or past presidents or not winning in so many years isn't solving anything. We ALL want Falcon Hockey to be what it once was, it didn't get like this over night and it aint getting fix over night. HELP FIX THE PROBLEM. If you don't live in BG, donate money buy tickets and donate them, volunteer a group you coach to do something around the arena or parking lot. Those of us that have been around the program and sat in these seats during the so called 'glory years' remember, but I think with positive think and positive people getting things done it will eventually come back. Yes, I did say it will come back, not this or maybe the next, but with persistant people to make it happen it will. I yearn for those days and continually sit in my sit supporting the program year after year because that's what I CAN DO. I do what I can do, if you did what you could do you might be surprised what takes place. I support Coach Bergeron and believe he has the program going in a positive direction and has the knowhow to get us where we all want to be. He has been to the Frozen FOUR before as a coach and I believe he can get us back. I would think he would have the best intestest of the program based on having to talk to recruits and parents and dealing with questions that I'm sure arise within those conversations. If you have ever have talked to Coach Bergeron you take to things way integrity and passion. This man loves what he does and I will bet on it he succeeds here. I'm looking forward to that. I'll have my tickets, Will YOU?

BE POSITIVE, HAVE A LITTLE FAITH IN THE PEOPLE IN THE POSITIION TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS AND SUPPORT YOUR FALCON HOCKEY TEAM.
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Via Twitter: @BGathletics: The WCHA has granted an extension until Oct. 7 for an answer on their invitation to BGSU hockey to join the conference in 2013-14.
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Tricky_Falcon wrote:Via Twitter: @BGathletics: The WCHA has granted an extension until Oct. 7 for an answer on their invitation to BGSU hockey to join the conference in 2013-14.
Wait, does this mean that somebody's statement from earlier that nobody wants us is false? I guess I'm confused. Somebody was wrong?????
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footballguy51 wrote:
Tricky_Falcon wrote:Via Twitter: @BGathletics: The WCHA has granted an extension until Oct. 7 for an answer on their invitation to BGSU hockey to join the conference in 2013-14.
Wait, does this mean that somebody's statement from earlier that nobody wants us is false? I guess I'm confused. Somebody was wrong?????
This is UNPOSSIBLE! The Commish of the WCHA obviously has open disdain for BG with this extension.

Not to mention that having a Div I school in the WCHA helps them. Also not to mention the position GC holds within the CCHA and his due diligence to do everything possible to save the CCHA even in the face of adversity.

I'm not saying I'm happy with the relative silence from our AD, but the more I ponder the situation, the more pragmatic my thinking.
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Unfalconbelievable....Great post! You captured my feelings exactly. I have met coach B and yes he is and will take this program in the right direction. No question in my mind. As fans we need to get behind everything he, his staff and his team does. I recently became a falcon club member and am now considering purchasing season tickets to give them away in the name of my love for this program.
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ffejfalcon wrote:Unfalconbelievable....Great post! You captured my feelings exactly. I have met coach B and yes he is and will take this program in the right direction. No question in my mind. As fans we need to get behind everything he, his staff and his team does. I recently became a falcon club member and am now considering purchasing season tickets to give them away in the name of my love for this program.
Agree with both of your outstanding posts!!! :supz:
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unfalconbel, good job. Good post. Excellent.

No question, if you don't live in BG, you just don't know the real story..................?? Huh???

Don't think so.

It is amazing to me that some of us presume/believe that the AD and leaders are simply unable to accomplish anything positive and have lead us down a path to likely extinction.

A stubbed toe on a group golf outing? That's a reason to dump somebody? We now have individual golf outings/fundraisers again- go to the ones you wish to support. How about completing the Sebo Center which needed extra funding at the end, leading the charge on the Stroh Center with donors (and students) on a building essential for the entire campus and community and changing the face of three sports at BG instantly, bringing in the largest donation in the history of BGSU for men's bball, reformatting Anderson Arena to give us a serious chance in gymnastics, hiring a guy in hockey who might become one of the best in the country IMO, improving our facilities in golf, tennis, track and soccer, hiring a swimming coach who seems to be moving it seriously forward, bringing in a football staff who is serious about academics and has us winning or in games with very very few fourth and fifth year players, help bring NCAA women's bball tourney games to BG, seriously upgrade the Ice Arena, hiring a coach in track/cc who looks like a possible excellent hire and etc etc.

Do we need to win more games etc? Yep. Can we always do better in many areas? Yep. For sure. But to even begin to look at that list and say the last five years have been completely down and not up? Don't see that.

Amazing that the WCHA grants us more time- why? Because they don't respect us? No- because they DO respect us. I have no idea how it will turn out, but we will be playing D 1 hockey in 2014. And playing it better than we did last year in a better facility IMO.

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So if the schools mentioned leave the Atlantic league To join us in the WCHA what becomes of their league? Do they just move forward with lesser number of teams or do they all scramble to go somewhere else? I actually would like to see us pull in RIT and Connecticut instead of Mercy and Morris....
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ffejfalcon is 100% right with the last comment. I give my tickets away to a friend of mine that is still in the Toledo area; great idea I encourage everyone who can do this to consider it (lets fill that arena). My hope is that something like that(pursing RIT and UConn) is going on and that's why we need this extension. Fingers crossed prayer candles lit that we can pull through this in a positive way somehow.

Either way we continue to play hockey at Bowling Green and I like Coach B and his motivation. We need to keep this guy and support him, as well as the players.

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I stand by my original comment...I heard it from someone who works in the athletic department of a current WCHA member. Just because we received an extension doesn't mean they are begging us to join. I personally think BG is trying to form their own league at this point with AH teams.....to save on travel and make it easier to compete.
As far as GC goes, obviously I'm wrong....lol.
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Perhaps this is 'pie in the sky', but I cant help but think that our best interests could be served by rejecting the WCHA bid.

The CCHA is OUR conference, we're the ONLY school that has been a CCHA member throughout its entire history, and we should consider the possibility of carrying the CCHA banner into the next generation. Canisius, Mercyhurst, Niagara and Robt Morris are all interested, Huntsville needs a home...there's a six team conference and an NCAA tourney auto-bid. We save a crapload of $ on travel, and would be the big fish in what would be an admittedly smaller pond.

A compact six team CCHA, with offices relocated to Cleveland or Buffalo leaves room for future growth, and allows us to compete for conference championships and NCAA tourney bids RIGHT AWAY while leaving ample room on our schedule for nc games with our traditional foes. The WCHA of 2013-14 is a mere shadow of its former self, and I dont relish the idea of regular travel to Houghton, Bemedji and Mankato...let along two trips a year to the land of the midnight sun.
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falconfan1-
I certainly wouldn't expect you to say anything other than what you did about our athlectic administration, since you are practically a part of it, and I certainly hope all of those good things you say come to fruition, because that means his resume is really top notch and someone will finally hire him away from BG, because you and I both know he and his family don't want to be in Bowling Green any longer than necessary!
We do appreciate all of your loyalty, hard work and dedicated service, you and your family have put into BGSU, and from this point, I will just agree to disagree with you about GC.
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Pathetic. We have a proud history and are on the brink of flushing it. I just don’t see the athletic department reacting aggressively to these developments. There is a great deal of angst out there about our future and we have no idea how much, if anything is being done to address the situation. Western Michigan seems to have leapfrogged us rather quickly. I can assure you that they deal with the same sort of resource issues that BG does.

I wonder if this "delay" is actually about saving the CCHA. If so, I would tell GC that is a ship that sailed months ago. What the heck is a Mercyhurst or Robert Morris anyway???

By the way, I am a Falcon Club member, and I do not live in BG. That should give me double license to speak my mind on this website. I started enjoying Falcon hockey in the late 1980s and just can't stand to see it go this way. The problem is that if we all let this go without speaking up, nothing will change.
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