Truthteller
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Every year (or so) I do a Net search for colleges and universities looking to move up to division 1 hockey. Penn State and Arizona State are fairly recent examples. Both went from club hockey to D1 thanks to generous donations from rich benefactors -- PSU Terry Pegula (Buffalo Bills/Sabers). Nonetheless, looks like prospects for D1 hockey expansion are bleak in the near term, with quite a few current D1 programs barely hanging on and Robert Morris (Pittsburgh) actually eliminating hockey. But, can the Nashville Predators help turn the tide?
It's weird, most NHL teams will do anything to raise shekels: Selling every last inch of dasher-board space to companies; tattooing tons of ads (goal-to-goal) to the ice surface; placing virtual TV ads on Plexiglass.....even allowing logos on helmets!
Yet in the name of diversity (or virtue signaling cuckery) it appears the Nashville might've frittered away $1 mill. on a feasibility study to add Division 1 hockey at Tennessee State University. There are a million reason why this (TSU D1 hockey) could never work, but here are some:
** Reality Factor: Perennially, there seem to be few real contenders in college hockey (mostly schools in Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota and U of Wisconsin) and a ton of also rans. Quinnipiac (Connecticut) is a bit of a Cinderella story, but most don't fare that well making the D1 jump.....Also, I assume, being based in Tennessee, TSU would have to go the Independent route (i.e. Arizona State), making competing that much harder?
** Da Money Factor: Every year, it seems, there is a small increase in black NHL prospects. But what makes anyone think that future top black prospects like Quinton Byfield, DeAndre Miller and Jordan Greenway would consider TSU (over top schools), knowing they could make millions playing in the NHL?.....I doubt much lesser black NHL prospects would even consider TSU. HBCU schools, with a "rich tradition" in football, failed to produce 1 NFL draft pick in 2020. What makes a prospect think HBCU sports will give them a better chance in pro hockey (NHL and minors)?
** Uncle Tom Factor: HBCU football and basketball can't compete (in part) because the "proud brotha's" don't want to be part of a student body that has close to a 100% black female population. So can TSU entice a bunch of mostly suburban mulatto's to play/attend a school that is pretty much devoid of "white women'z"? Also, what sane white kid would attend a school with close to 100% black population?
** Attendance Factor: I assume they'd need at least 4,600 to 7,000 per game at TSU to keep things afloat. And I believe that's a low end estimate? Today I was watching mostly white Syracuse at all black Georgetown (BB) and the majority white crowd (loaded with pretty white girls per Fox Sports) in D.C. was rooting hard for their Hoya "super heroes". Does anybody believe black students and TSU alumni would ever root for a majority white hockey team?....If TSU made it to the D1 hockey finals (by miracle) I doubt they could even get 1,000 black fans to pay for tickets. Heck, could they even get 100 blacks to attend?
In conclusion: Nashville Predators handed TSU $1 million to do a feasibility study back in the spring. Findings were supposed to be put forth in the fall. Nothing yet? Starting to look like this might've been an old-fashioned financial shakedown (Jesse Jackson style) of the all-white Preds by blacks city leaders in Nashville. No other way to look it, the whole idea is simply farcical!
It's weird, most NHL teams will do anything to raise shekels: Selling every last inch of dasher-board space to companies; tattooing tons of ads (goal-to-goal) to the ice surface; placing virtual TV ads on Plexiglass.....even allowing logos on helmets!
Yet in the name of diversity (or virtue signaling cuckery) it appears the Nashville might've frittered away $1 mill. on a feasibility study to add Division 1 hockey at Tennessee State University. There are a million reason why this (TSU D1 hockey) could never work, but here are some:
** Reality Factor: Perennially, there seem to be few real contenders in college hockey (mostly schools in Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota and U of Wisconsin) and a ton of also rans. Quinnipiac (Connecticut) is a bit of a Cinderella story, but most don't fare that well making the D1 jump.....Also, I assume, being based in Tennessee, TSU would have to go the Independent route (i.e. Arizona State), making competing that much harder?
** Da Money Factor: Every year, it seems, there is a small increase in black NHL prospects. But what makes anyone think that future top black prospects like Quinton Byfield, DeAndre Miller and Jordan Greenway would consider TSU (over top schools), knowing they could make millions playing in the NHL?.....I doubt much lesser black NHL prospects would even consider TSU. HBCU schools, with a "rich tradition" in football, failed to produce 1 NFL draft pick in 2020. What makes a prospect think HBCU sports will give them a better chance in pro hockey (NHL and minors)?
** Uncle Tom Factor: HBCU football and basketball can't compete (in part) because the "proud brotha's" don't want to be part of a student body that has close to a 100% black female population. So can TSU entice a bunch of mostly suburban mulatto's to play/attend a school that is pretty much devoid of "white women'z"? Also, what sane white kid would attend a school with close to 100% black population?
** Attendance Factor: I assume they'd need at least 4,600 to 7,000 per game at TSU to keep things afloat. And I believe that's a low end estimate? Today I was watching mostly white Syracuse at all black Georgetown (BB) and the majority white crowd (loaded with pretty white girls per Fox Sports) in D.C. was rooting hard for their Hoya "super heroes". Does anybody believe black students and TSU alumni would ever root for a majority white hockey team?....If TSU made it to the D1 hockey finals (by miracle) I doubt they could even get 1,000 black fans to pay for tickets. Heck, could they even get 100 blacks to attend?
In conclusion: Nashville Predators handed TSU $1 million to do a feasibility study back in the spring. Findings were supposed to be put forth in the fall. Nothing yet? Starting to look like this might've been an old-fashioned financial shakedown (Jesse Jackson style) of the all-white Preds by blacks city leaders in Nashville. No other way to look it, the whole idea is simply farcical!
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