Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:27 am
It's insane. Not that many years ago UND v UofM would be the hottest ticket in town....they sold out the Xcel and made scalpers rich every time they met in the Final Five. St. Cloud, UMD, Bemidji State, Mankato, CC, Denver....they'd all result in Marriucci being sold out, just packed with rabid fans.
Gophers versus Notre Dame in the B1G conference playoff game....maybe three-hundred people there....Maybe?
It's absolutely insane. Those pics of a near empty Mariuccu for a men's hockey game against a conference rival left me stunned....totally in stunned and in awe of how it's even possible one of the most storied programs not just in college hockey, but college sports overall, was driven into the ground until it died as quickly as it did.
It'd be like seeing Duke basketball playing in front of an empty Fieldhouse, or 'Bama having a few thousand fans in their 80K plus stadium in Tuscaloosa......that shit ain't supposed to ever happen, it's virtually impossible to drive those programs into the ground in five years....the time it took to absolutely destroy Gophers Hockey beyond all recognition.
Only in MN........
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