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Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:35 am to nycajun
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I can say with some authority that no chunk of ice has any business being bigger than will fit into a glass of bourbon.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:41 am to 03Champs08
The thought of a sport in the SEC that expects fist fights to break out is an interesting thought.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 9:20 am to Pinchdatail
Will my season tickets go up to pay for a Hockey team and a comparable women's program?
Posted on 7/27/08 at 10:40 am to saderade
I'm convinced that Alleva will push for a men's lacrosse team at LSU. Just a hunch.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 10:51 am to johnfredlsu
Lacrosse would be possible, I would just think they would go after a sport that is established in La high schools. You could recruit just La and Texas and field a great soccer team each year.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 10:57 am to johnfredlsu
quote:
I'm convinced that Alleva will push for a men's lacrosse team at LSU. Just a hunch.
oh yea!Posted on 7/27/08 at 11:00 am to saderade
just a bad joke, man.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 11:28 am to jbs780
A few years ago, I went to a Thrashers game here in ATL, and after the game, UGA and Clemson club hockey teams played. It was actually kind of fun.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 1:52 pm to LSUDav7
Big Time Division 1-A Hockey is very expensive. Most likely after Football the most expensive varisty sport. Even places that pack 6,000 plus arenas are glad if Hockey pays for itself. Minnesota packs 10,000 in Mariucci Arena and they have a waiting list of over 2500 people for example and Michigan State packs in over 6,000 and you need to have a certain level of donor status to get season tickets. It would take a minimum of 20-25 million dollars for an arena that could seat about 3,000 and have the facilities for LSU Hockey to be competitive--not getting blown out by WCHA, CCHA, ECHA or Hockey East schools. The recruiting budget would be astronomical since good hockey players are from Mass. Mich, and Minn and Canada. Plus if you're serious about playing in the NHL the odds of you choosing to play SEC hockey are slim and none. You can get drafted by the NHL and play in college and I doubt any NHL teams will want their prospects playing SEC hockey and any WCHA or CCHA coach would have a field day pointing out the disadvantages of playing SEC hockey. You'd have to convince at least 6 or 7 SEC schools to put 20-25 million dollars into new areans and facilities and go millions of dollars in the red for years and have recruiting budgets second to football for maybe if you're lucky 1,000 people at games.
Are there season ticket and donor bases at SEC schools to be able to require donor status for about 2,000 seats for the season at the minimum? Are there 50 to 100 people who'll pay 25.00 each to be part of a booster club with Wednesday lunches?
If you can do that SEC hockey could be viable.
Gopher Hockey
Michigan State Hockey
Are there season ticket and donor bases at SEC schools to be able to require donor status for about 2,000 seats for the season at the minimum? Are there 50 to 100 people who'll pay 25.00 each to be part of a booster club with Wednesday lunches?
If you can do that SEC hockey could be viable.
Gopher Hockey
Michigan State Hockey
Posted on 7/27/08 at 4:47 pm to Coastie
"I do have an LSU "sweater." Block LSU (in purple outlined in gold) and script Tigers below it and has the name "Geauxlie" on the back!"
where did you get it
where did you get it
Posted on 7/27/08 at 7:31 pm to joe68
I play for the team, and because it's not a NCAA sport, I can say that without getting in trouble haha.
All the kids are on scholarship for academics because most of them are pre-med and engineering majors. Smart kids. We aren't taking any money from the school. Actually we don't get more than 200$ a year. Everything else comes out of our pockets and any fund raising we do. We don't get any money from TAF either so don't sweat it haha.
The kids that play and do well are kids that could have played up north at some college but decided to stick with academics, but there's only like 3 guys that were actually that good.
All and all, come next year, the team will be alot more competitive in comparison to last year. There's a few kids that are waward yanks that found themselves at LSU that are damn good. Also there are a few kids that will be playing that went play juniors and decided to give it up to go to college.
Ticket prices aren't steep and the school hasn't stepped in and wanted a piece of the action because, well, quite frankly they don't do anything for us. They give us red tape to jump through, but thats about it. Prices on tickets are 5$. Kids that show up with their LSU ID get in free. The ice we play on is decent at best but it's ice for us guys to play on.
Any support is welcome and very much appreciated.
Ohh, and jerseys are on sale. You might want to put in an order before the season starts because we have to order our's at the same time. We also have T-shirts, hats, pucks with LSU hockey on them and a few other things.
All the kids are on scholarship for academics because most of them are pre-med and engineering majors. Smart kids. We aren't taking any money from the school. Actually we don't get more than 200$ a year. Everything else comes out of our pockets and any fund raising we do. We don't get any money from TAF either so don't sweat it haha.
The kids that play and do well are kids that could have played up north at some college but decided to stick with academics, but there's only like 3 guys that were actually that good.
All and all, come next year, the team will be alot more competitive in comparison to last year. There's a few kids that are waward yanks that found themselves at LSU that are damn good. Also there are a few kids that will be playing that went play juniors and decided to give it up to go to college.
Ticket prices aren't steep and the school hasn't stepped in and wanted a piece of the action because, well, quite frankly they don't do anything for us. They give us red tape to jump through, but thats about it. Prices on tickets are 5$. Kids that show up with their LSU ID get in free. The ice we play on is decent at best but it's ice for us guys to play on.
Any support is welcome and very much appreciated.
Ohh, and jerseys are on sale. You might want to put in an order before the season starts because we have to order our's at the same time. We also have T-shirts, hats, pucks with LSU hockey on them and a few other things.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 7:38 pm to jkehre1
Ohh and by the way, season starts in october, on the road though Ar-kansas haha. But we start practice in mid august. The season goes til mid march and then there's the SEC championship tourney and then if we qualify, the national tourney.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:11 pm to jkehre1
I hear the goalie is one to watch out for!!! 
This post was edited on 7/27/08 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:16 pm to TigerPride10
what happened to the Johns Hopkins med pic? haha
Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:17 pm to jkehre1
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Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:22 pm to TigerPride10
haha
Posted on 7/27/08 at 8:24 pm to TigerPride10
Posted on 7/27/08 at 9:12 pm to Pinchdatail
I have my LSU ice hockey t-shirt. Wear it to the rink all of the time. Hoping my kid will go to LSU in a few years and play for the hockey team.
Posted on 7/27/08 at 9:30 pm to tss22h8
>Doesn't Kentucky have ice hockey? I
>searched ukathletics.com and didn't
>see it.
Ice hockey is generally a "club" sport in the South and usually not an official varsity sport like the sports that are covered on the website that you listed above--UK's club team has a long winning history and even completed in one of the club national title games once back in the 1990's. They outdraw all sports at UK except football and basketball (not too shabby, for a non-varsity sport). UK isn't competing in the new SEC hockey league, because UK is in the ACHA's Division II, but LSU and all the other SEC schools compete in Division III (except Florida, which is also Division II). For what it's worth, I think that the article linked to at the start of this thread has an error--my understanding is that it is actually Florida STATE that is joining the SEC ice hockey league (since UF is in Division II).
>searched ukathletics.com and didn't
>see it.
Ice hockey is generally a "club" sport in the South and usually not an official varsity sport like the sports that are covered on the website that you listed above--UK's club team has a long winning history and even completed in one of the club national title games once back in the 1990's. They outdraw all sports at UK except football and basketball (not too shabby, for a non-varsity sport). UK isn't competing in the new SEC hockey league, because UK is in the ACHA's Division II, but LSU and all the other SEC schools compete in Division III (except Florida, which is also Division II). For what it's worth, I think that the article linked to at the start of this thread has an error--my understanding is that it is actually Florida STATE that is joining the SEC ice hockey league (since UF is in Division II).
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