I dig it.
Women play hockey. Our National Women's team is the best in the world.
And if that’s the case it would probably be womens lacrosse. Very little equipment and can be played on a soccer field
Women play hockey??? Who knew?? Next you will tell me they wrestle, shoot, and all sorts of other stuff.
The ice sheet added when PBA was built was in part added to accommodate a women's D-1 hockey team. Osborne was promoting women's hockey but they had a tough time fielding a women's club hockey team. The other political consideration was many didn't want NU hockey competing with UNO's hockey team. The flip side of that of course is that IF we added men's hockey it would elevate hockey as a whole in the state. My son played on the Husker club hockey team for 4 years swhich was allowed to use all of the Husker logos etc but had to self fund. We had the whole team hang out at our house for a day. Fed them venison steaks, chili, brats etc. It was a hoot. Had their team bus with the Husker signage all over it parked in my driveway. They fielded a very competitive team that competed at the D-2 level.
OR it would elevate it in the state's eyes and promote hockey in general. Has Husker basketball destroyed Creighton's nationally relevant basketball program? A Husker hockey team would struggle initially at least but as long as people continued to support Omaha's hockey team it would be a win win for the sport in the state IMO.
Old school, travel Knights teams, turned into Gladiators and Junior Lancers, Iowa High School League. I wish UNO had a team back then, ended up in Minnesota to play in college.
The Dakota schools have beautiful hockey facilities. My son played in Brookings in tournaments. My first cousin was one of the big donors to UND's hockey facility back when they built that. The best seats in the house were standing behind the goalie. If you weren't paying close attention you would have a puck hit the glass next to your or somebody would get checked in to the glass and scare the sh## out of you. A D-1 football coach's son played on my son's high school team during the Callahan years. He was from Wisconsin and knew knew Bill and Kevin Cosgrove. We would be standing behind the goalie and he would get phone calls from other D-1 coaches where they would discuss what jobs were opening up and who was going where. His school had just decided to go up to D-1. He said, yeah it will raise enough money to get me fired.....and it did a few years later. Damned good guy and coach.
We are currently at 9 mens sports and 13 womens sports. In accordance with what we see in the B1G, womens lacrosse and womens field hockey could each be added at relatively little cost if serious about adding mens' ice hockey.
Had a former player of mine and a coach play club there while he was in college, the program of it left club and moved to intercollegiate D1 level, it would be supported here
You asked what female sport Nebraska could add if they added men's hockey. Pretty simple answer if they decided to invest in a D1 men's hockey team.
I really appreciate your response and NU should be a power in hockey. I just don't think the community passed this on
Thanks, my injury happened many, many years ago, spent a few days in ICU and had some work done on my nose (still have scar) and treatment to the throat, it's what happens when you don't keep your head up. 🤪 I've played all the major sports, but Hockey was my favorite football a close second.
UNO could probably field a reasonably good program now that the roster limits have been instituted. The problem for them would be they would almost have to be an FCS level team and would get destroyed by all 4 Dakota schools they were in a conference with before. It would be tough sledding. Cost versus benefit.
part of the problem is that hockey is tough to watch on TV. The puck is tiny and moves so fast that most people can't follow it.
This is definitely the kryptonite of hockey.
Another thing that would help the idea of college hockey is for people to actually go to a game. It's a party with a sporting event conveniently going on in front of you.
They could build a decent roster for sure, especially pulling in kids in the Omaha metro area, like ones that recently have departed the Huskers. They wouldn’t have to play in the Mo Valley football conference, the Pioneer league and Ohio Valley conference have teams not far away
Pioneeer League has teams from California to Florida. They would probably fit in the D2 Great Lakes conference.
