I don’t understand much of this house settlement stuff but I think either way Noreen wanted to cut down on the number of players we have on the roster. In an interview from the beginning of the season he said 30 (this past season) was going to be the biggest we’ll see and made it seem like that was too many in the first place.
Can we PLEASE just get a commitment from Cameron Korpi? Michigan goalie in the portal and former Tri City dude.
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Looks like he committed to Union College
We could also be looking for goalies outside the transfer portal-there’s still CHL guys that could come in. Plus as bonk said there’s the canadian university kids coming into the NCAA player pool as well. Miami hockey’s Instagram account follows a usports goalie with good numbers…
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We finally have an answer about the lag in CHL commits across the NCAA:
Schlossman today: “Most top-end CHL players haven’t yet seriously entertained the NCAA option and aren’t expected to do so until their major junior season ends.”
The OHL and WHL are wrapping up their conference semifinals. Only seven of 20 teams remaining in each.
Very surprised by this. I know Miami has spent a lot of time recruiting in Canada, and with so many players already committed to NCAA schools from the CHL.
Brad knows his stuff and is also the master of cryptic writing – the read-between-the-lines stuff. He didn’t write that by accident.
I’m leaning toward thinking there are bidding wars going on and high-end kids are entertaining offers.
There are some absolute game-changers in the CHL that could be lured away by big money. I still think we’re going to see a lot of high-quality players are going to come down, I just thought more would’ve committed by now.
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I know Miami usually beat up on CIS schools when they scheduled exhibitions (and I think I recall Noreen saying he wanted to go back to playing them), but some really good players play in Canadian university.
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NIL was established to put schools like Miami at a further competitive disadvantage against P3 teama
Nil isn’t capped yet,right?
Yeah I saw someone tweet that the biggest loser in all of this are the Canadian university teams losing their good players. The University of Alberta reportedly just lost 4 of their top scorers to Omaha. Although some of these teams could be landing spots for portal players that don’t find a new home in d1 replacing some exiting talent I guess.
Quinnipiac won Natty in ‘23 (Ecac).
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The judge sent everyone back to the drawing board on roster sizes. 26 may not be the final number for ice hockey. She seemed rather perturbed at the concept of roster sizes at all.
If I had to place a bet I’d put it all on opting in. “Lurker, do you have any inside scoop you can share?” Nope, other than UMass has said they’re opting in. So has Toledo, Akron (basketball), Buffalo, and Western. I also heard scuttlebutt that BUGS will likely opt in so if the poorest school in the MAC is in, well, do the math. What do we get out of this? I don’t know, you tell me. This whole thing is set up for the B1G and SEC (and the ACC, XII, and Big East), not the MAC.
And it’s becoming clear during this year’s portal season there’s a three-way battle shaping up for the bottom of the standings next year between us, St. Cloud, and Duluth with CC as a possible dark horse contender. When was the last time we were in a race for anything? We still have to play the games, but it looks like we may have turned the corner. And Giampa is a really good get for us.
Back to lurking.
Wait, is the opting in sport-specific? Because if not, Miami has already said they’re opting in… Y’all might need to hang out in some threads other than hockey 
That they made it revenue sharing and not profit sharing was the greatest trick the devil played. The SEC/B1G schools (along with some well heeled outliers like the Ivies and the Bostons) can afford it, and it will be a further means of separation. The Other 2 (sorry, Cincy, you’re not part of The Club you delusional phucks) will fall further and further behind. For the G6, it means more and more subsidies and more and more alienation of students, potential students and their parents. If the backlash against student fees was large in the past, just imagine it when those fees are going straight into the pockets of other “students” who are driving around campus in luxury cars.
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It’s not sport specific but it would be nice if it were, I just couldn’t recall seeing anything difinitive that Miami had said they were opting in.
The only “advantage” I see for Miami opting in is avoiding negative recruiting due to not opting in but then we are just continuing down the road of pretending that we are in the same universe as the power schools. As others have said this system is not built for us, it’s built to further separate us from them and it seems like there could be disadvantages to opting in (limiting rosters).
But wait,we’ll have a $200 million bball complex.
Was there a press release I missed or a public comment from the AD? I’m not saying there isn’t, just that I hadn’t seen anything. I did see the UMass AD go on the record that they were opting in.
Back to lurking.
I don’t pretend to fully understand any of the new NIL stuff, but Noreen told me two weeks ago Miami was not. Thus the roster limit.
But yeah, that’s not set in stone. If it is enforced, I think it’ll change after this season. A 26-man roster means 23 skaters, and with 19 lineup spots for skaters, that means teams are five injuries away from playing shorthanded.
I don’t understand why anyone cares if teams carry a couple extra skaters, especially if they’re not on scholarship.
I think Kyle Decker who is part of our NIL collective said on 1530am radio that we were opting in
I’ll ask Coach next time I talk to him about that. Maybe it changed. He didn’t seem that happy about being limited to 26 players, although as mygrry pointed out, he did say early last season he didn’t want 29-30 again in the future.
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Both Steele and Martin have also mentioned it publicly too.